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All morning we have been listening to the thoughts of our guest editors.

Moira, Anne, Alan and Andrew, four members of the Dunbartonshire concert band based in Beersden outside Glasgow.

Now, this morning, they wanted to look at the contribution community music makes to society.

They were very keen to hear from the violinist Nicola Benedetti.

Not only is she a world-aclaimed virtuoso violinist, but she's also campaigned for years

for better music provision, especially for children from underprivileged backgrounds.

She's also the big sister to a social change and music education programme called The Big Noise that provides

free music tuition alongside free childcare and healthy food. The charity supports 3,500 children

across Scotland. These young people are part of a big noise orchestra in Raplock and Sterling.

Big noise is the thing that I leave the house for every day.

I see all my friends and it's also growing my confidence playing in an orchestra.

Obviously we learn musical instruments here and we learn about music viewing,

but we also learn important life skills that we take with us to school

and getting jobs.

I get to play at concerts, go to countries which without big noise there's very little chance I would have ended up going to.

Big noise has really changed the community now where it's just normal for everyone in the

community to play an instrument or know about big noise. That's from Raplock and Stirling. My

apologies to the citizens of Bearsden for calling it Beersden. It's Bearsden. But I spoke to Nicola

Benedetti and put some of our guest editors questions to her. I began by asking her why making music is such a valuable thing to do.

Well, I think it's an instinct that's as old as time, really.

When it comes to sound, especially when it's sound without words,

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