Rob
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Can you ever be over-rehearsed?
Sooner or later everyone in music is going to put on a performance. I’m not talking about playing for family and friends, but for those who don’t know you and are likely to be somewhat critical. But what constitutes a performance? Strutting your stuff in front of 20,000? Getting on stage in front of a…
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Magnetic Pencil Holder
OK, here’s the scene. You’re playing in an orchestra, you’re at rehearsals and the conductor wants to make some changes to your score. You had a pencil on your music stand but the vibrations from the kettle drums has jiggled it off the stand, heading at speed towards the 1st violins and off the edge…
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Konig & Meyer Adjustable Music Stand
One thing that a lot of people make a mistake about are music stands. There are two types: cheap ones and more expensive ones. The main difference is you’ll buy a lot more cheap ones than dear ones because the cheap ones will fail quickly, often when it’s least convenient, while the dear ones will…
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My First Classical Book
Aimed at introducing young children to classical music with information about the composers and their works as well as instruments of the orchestra. Shame it only comes with a CD rather than audio access. Nonetheless with music ranging from Mozarts’ Magic Flute to Williams’ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone there’s a range of music…
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Story Orchestra
A great way of introducing your children to classical music. A range of well known favourites that we at The Music Realm listened to ourselves when we were young…which was, admittedly many years ago, but they are timeless classics for a reason! In this series you’ll find Prokofievs’ Peter and the Wolf, Holsts’ Planets Suite,…
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Vox Pathfinder Amps
I was thinking recently that surely running around in South America is an animal called an Illo. After all if there is an Armoured Illo there must be one without armour, otherwise how could you tell the difference? Well one is definitely armoured so the other one must not be. And thus it is with…
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Roland Cube 10Gx
The Roland Cube amplifier I’ve been using mine for over 10 years now and in that time a lot has changed in the world. I’m no longer out on the road playing gigs, hadn’t been for some time, and I wouldn’t have used this for my bass guitar anyway. Just too small and not enough…