All you have to do to become a master guitar player is to kill yourself practicing, right? Wrong, at least according to a sizeable pantheon of Zen masters and guitar virtuosos.
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, and bassoon. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments (otherwise called reed pipes). Bagpipes are also a woodwind instrument.
How can a dip in temperature cause damage to your wood instrument?
Wood is a material that expands while in hot temperatures and high humidity and shrinks in cold temperatures and low humidity. Usually crafted out of several types of wood, this shrinking and swelling can occur in different parts of the instrument. Cold and dry conditions during winter can have a variety of consequences for your musical instrument.
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When it comes time to select a music teacher, you will need to consider whether you’d rather have your child take in-home lessons or lessons at a music academy. There are numerous benefits in enrolling your student an academy. One of the primary advantages is that your child will be surrounded by other excited students, which works as a valuable source of inspiration.
Additionally, your child will benefit from hearing other instruments and having the opportunity to touch, hold, and feel other instruments.
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Giving an adult or child music student the opportunity to perform on stage every six months is extremely beneficial to the learning process.
These performances can play a big role in their self-confidence later in life when they will need to make presentations in front of a real audience. It is a chance to take a moment and realize that your student is improving and learning in their lessons. It can be a fun family event also. At Golden Music, we take a pause out of our busy lives to enjoy the community and music!
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Have any astronauts ever played any musical instruments in space in a spacecraft? Is it possible to play any instruments that you blow in in space or is it not possible because of zero gravity?
Astronauts do indeed play musical instruments in space--according to one story I found, it is a popular Saturday pastime aboard the space station! Instruments should work just fine in zero gravity. The space-bound musician would only run into trouble if she tried to play outside of the shuttle or space station. Sounds waves need air to travel through, so even though the string of a violin would vibrate properly in the near-vacuum of space, it wouldn't produce any sound. Brass instruments would also fall silent: they produce sound because of air vibrating inside their metals bodies, so without air, there would be no sound!
NASA has some neat pictures of astronauts playing their musical instruments here:
-I don’t have time to research instruments or find out what’s best. I need this taken care of for me but I want to trust that my child is getting a good quality instrument and the things we need to give the best start to this endeavor...
Rent-to-Own with Golden Music has these time saving features:
1. The best quality instrument - we take time to find the best instruments to offer. For band instruments, we only carry Yamaha and Buffet. For strings, we hand select our workshops and it always ends up being family teams that are trained in the art of building violins, violas, cellos and basses.
-A quality instrument costs more but it saves money in the long run and it will make you practice more because the sound and feel of holding it is more pleasurable.
If you’re buying an instrument for a child, you can pick a cheap one but if you want a better sound and more of a chance for the child to want to practice everyday, you want something better.
Sound "quality" or "timbre" describes those characteristics of sound which allow the ear to distinguish sounds which have the same pitch and loudness. While a cheap instruments is making the same "note" as the quality instruments, the timbre can be screechy, harsh, not pleasing.
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