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Where To Find Piano Sheet Music?

Published on June 26, 2009 By Mickys-Blog

Piano sheet music question Where is the best place to buy piano sheet music? I know there are lots of free sheet music sites but they don’t have the latest chart songs and you end up trawling through pages and pages and never finding what you want. Any recommendations appreciated. Mikes answer Your right about [...]

The Christmas Sound of the Clavichord

Published on June 3, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

Many will have heard of the clavichord, though there are a good portion of those people who don’t really know what a clavichord is. It will often be mentioned in the books that are based in that time, or will have been an instrument mentioned in history class when studying some of the famous musicians [...]

The Foundation Of A Band, The Acoustic Bass Guitar

Published on May 26, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

It seems a little backwards, but the acoustic bass guitar was not created until quite a few years after the electric bass guitar. The reasoning was that if there could be an electric bass guitar, why couldn’t there be an acoustic bass guitar? The acoustic bass guitar would be better suited for playing alongside the [...]

The Revolutionary Sound of the Fife

Published on May 7, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

The fife is a type of flute that is fairly similar to the piccolo. It is a transverse flute that emits a high pitched sound that is louder than the piccolo because of its design. It has a narrower bore that causes the higher pitch. This flute was most often used in marching bands and [...]