Baumeister Piano Company: First US Woman Piano Maker Suffers Through Fires...
Charles Baumeister was an experienced piano maker who was born in 1844 in Frankfurt, Germany who had moved to the United States around 1867 with his wife Ida. In 1884 he partners with Augustus Baus (a...
View ArticleGive Your Electric Guitar A Performance Upgrade
If you happen to be a keen guitar player and treasure your particular axe of choice, you’ll no doubt at some stage have contemplated the most effective way to offer your guitar a performance upgrade....
View ArticleWhich Is Harder To Master, Classical or Jazz Piano?
Classical pianists are faced with the rigorous task of sight reading. Sight reading includes being completely fluent in reading rhythm as well as melody. Reading sheet music is probably one of the...
View ArticleThe Recorder: A Brief History
The recorder is a small and unique woodwind instrument, designed to utilize the player’s airflow to produce a multitude of notes and sounds. Like most woodwind instruments, the recorder has several...
View ArticleStultz and Bauer: The Tale of Two Piano Makers
This is a short story of two entrepreneur piano makers Henry Stultz and Frederick Bauer. Stultz seemed to have one hardship after another, while Bauer seemed to be stable throughout his career and...
View ArticleMaking a Native American Style Flute
I know that there are many of you who would like to make a Native American style flute. That’s how I got started. My thought was ‘I’m a woodworker, why spend the money if I can make one myself’. This...
View ArticlePopular Brands of Electric Guitars
Are you an guitar freak? Do you want to know about the popular brands of electric guitars? Then here is the just what you want. There is a long list of popular electric guitar brands. Information about...
View ArticlePiano Tabs: Learn To Play Happy Birthday To You
Piano tab notation will help you learn melodies without knowing sheet music. In this piano lesson you will learn to read easy piano tabs. You will also learn to play Happy Birthday To You! If you do...
View ArticleAll About Electric Guitar
Generally people at some stage start like to learn a musical instrument. Many leave it from the mid life while other does keep on playing throughout their life. Music become passion, hobby, and even...
View ArticlePiano Chords- More than a Group of Notes
If we talk about the basic definition of piano chords, it states that it is a group of three or more notes and the combination of which sets the mood as happy, sad, powerful, soulful, etc. After...
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