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Instrument Buying On eBay PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Chad Criswell   

Is Your Auction Instrument a Lemon?Buying on eBay is an extremely simple affair. Simply enter your credit card and other personal info and make a bid on anything from a band instrument to a full sized car. While millions of transactions have taken place over the years on eBay, the one caveat that has always remained is that you are often buying something based solely on photographs that may or may not show you the whole story. 

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Paradise Burning PDF Print E-mail
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Avalon Harbor on Catalina IslandI hadn't intended to post a blog article today. In fact, today marked the opening day of the annual Iowa Bandmaster's Convention in Des Moines and I had hoped to let the next few days recharge my mental batteries and return with a renewed stack of ideas to share with all of you. Things changed a bit as I listened to the news on the way home.
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Patriotic Sheet Music Available PDF Print E-mail
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American FlagThe Fourth Of July is just around the corner, and with it come thoughts of the patriotic music that we have all grown up with to celebrate the birth of our country. Over the past several months I have been working to create a series of sheet music collections to allow music students on any instrument to play the most often requested of these patriotic standards. All of these pieces of traditional patriotic music are written to be playable by any musician, including beginners. Parts are included in Adobe PDF and in Sibelius SIB formats. For each of the pieces you can view a copy of the full conductor's score and listen to it as well using the free Sibelius Scorch plug-in.

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No More Practice. No More Homework. PDF Print E-mail
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Clarinet Want Better Students?  Get Rid Of The Homework!

Read this posting with an open mind.  The ideas that I am throwing out here may seem downright absurd.  Some of the thoughts I have spelled out here scare even me.  But what if they are right?

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MENC Offers Free Advocacy Webinar Registrations PDF Print E-mail
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Music Educator's National Conference LogoI recently received an email from the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) speaking of an upcoming web based music advocacy seminar titled "Working with Allies -- Associations and Businesses." This webinar is to be shown on May 24th, and MENC is providing free registrations to the first 200 MENC members that sign up.

 

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