3 sousaphones for rent in NYC middle of October?

[Søren]

The Legoland Brass Band from Billund, Denmark (that I owe most of my playing skills to) is travelling to New York the middle of October. I randomly bumped into their director who asked me if I knew anywhere in New York that would rent the band 3 sousaphones for something like 7-10 days in the middle of October - as this would be much easier than hauling theirs back and forth over the Atlantic. If any of you have a good ideas, please let me know (in a post or by PM) and I will bump them to the director. (The band is a youth band with kids ages 10-20)

[arpthark]

I wonder if you could contact Dillon Music / @Matt Walters in nearby NJ. They'll know if nobody else would.

[Ace]

Rent 3 Sousaphones to a band made up of 10-20 year olds? For 7-10 days? I dunno.

Ace

[2nd tenor]

Do children damage things any more or less than adults? It all depends on the children and the adults but from my experience youngsters can look after things very carefully. Of course good instruction and supervision by suitable adults helps too, but I’d have thought that youth voluntarily in a marching band and on a trip from Europe to the USA would be a quite switched-on, orderly and able group.

NYC is a very big place, surely it has many schools and several instrument repair shops who between them could provide either suitable instruments or a link to them.