Check out our review of the Peak SMS-20, SMS-32, and SMS-50 music stands! | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLJ8MTGqC5w
From our loyal customer Steve Damico: "Don't be afraid to mix and match your strings. It went against my grain but for the first time I swapped out my Dominant A and E for Obligato's. Wow, what a smooth difference. They Knock it right out of the park. That gold E is amazing. The Dominant G and D Work perfect as always. My Master Series Carlo Lamberti now sings with no scratch baby. "
Stay away, tide. Stay away.
Photo: Stay away, tide. Stay away.
We review Dominant, Helicore, Infeld Red and Blue, Obligato, Evah Pirazzi, and Larsen Virtuoso strings | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPaOamFJ634&list=PLGT7Z3rt5Mwt6732ccWAjZfIyXKBvhRO-&index=1
"The nature of tying this to the Brahms' Requiem, which is what I assume the protesters had in mind when they decided to do this, and then tying the Requiem to the 'Requiem for Mike Brown,' which is what was on the flyer that they passed ar...ound — I think it would have been a healing experience for them to have stayed for the Brahms' Requiem."

Maybe, but it's perhaps a little more complicated. We're also reminded of something Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney said, "Poetry [art] has never stopped a tank." Music can heal but real change has to happen too.
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Flyer from Carolina Performing Arts at UNC.
Photo: Flyer from Carolina Performing Arts at UNC.
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Friday's comic from NPR!
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Just added "Taylor Swift" as a composer to our website. You have Hal Leonard to blame. Or thank.
TEACHER TIP OF THE DAY: Roger C. of Minnesota, a long-time customer and all around nice guy, called to place an order for some strings and our SP100 (a microphone for tuners). He says that he also uses the SP100 clipped to his students’ 1/16 size violin scrolls. He then plugs them into an amplifier to “make their tiny violins sound like real violins.” It adds volume, and it's an empowering experience for the student. Thanks, Roger!
I just have to say, following Itzhak Perlman has been one of the best decisions of my life.
"Villagers and musicians from Epirus believe that a unique body of melodies, played principally with the clarinet and violin, give psychological healing to all those who listen to them: a harmonic panacea." | What a beautiful meditation on ...the nearly lost work of the Greek violinist Alexis Zoumbas. | "Epirotika Mirologi," the song shared at the top of the article, will indeed bring tears to your eyes -- the longing is that intense. See More
"So why are we musical misfits even in the orchestra at all? The short answer is that we're there because you'd miss us if we were gone. Every time a full string chord explodes into the air and just seems to shimmer from the inside out, that's us. Whenever the cellos are playing a beautiful melody, but it sounds to you like they're somehow singing along with themselves, that's because we're doubling them."