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Foundation started by Cole’s youngest daughters donates musical instruments to local middle school.

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Nat King Cole group donates instruments (WPTV West Palm Beach)

Polka Dot! the clown, along with drummer Pete “Percussion Petey” Abazia visited F.N. Brown School to talk with students about playing musical instruments. The children were also invited to a family night concert which will be held at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Jan

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Clown and drummer visit Verona school (Cedar Grove/Verona Observers)

Dozens of children were treated to a unique performance on Tuesday. The Canadian group Scrap Arts Music livened up in the atrium at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, using instruments made from recycled materials found at construction sites and scrap yards.

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Musical Performance Scrapped, Audience Loved It (WOWT Omaha)

Adern is proud to announce the release of an exciting new plug-in pack for the Scope platform. Adern’s Music Pack consists of three plugins which are designed to behave in an exceptionally musical manner:

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Adern Announces "Music Pack" Musical Mixing Tools for the Scope Platform (Harmony Central)

“[The] gallery of musical instruments at the [Victoria & Albert] Museum looks certain to close next month in order to make way for an expanded display of the museum’s fashion and costume holdings.

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V&A Museum To Close Musical Instrument Gallery (Arts Journal)

eJamming Inc. and Fender Musical Instruments Corporation are proud to announce an exclusive long-term agreement to jointly market and co-brand each others’ products and services. The agreement is highlighted by eJamming®AUDiiO, eJamming Inc.’s breakthrough software technology.

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eJamming Inc. and Fender Musical Instruments Corporation Announce Joint Marketing and Co-Branding Agreement (Harmony Central)

Move over, Tomorrowland. Step aside, Fantasyland. The future is already here, with a dazzling array of innovative musical instruments that will be on store shelves soon

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New musical instruments attuned with innovation (San Diego Union-Tribune)

SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire – January 4, 2010) – GAMBRIDGE founders Harvey Starr and Stan Gafner today announced the formation of the company and their plans to launch the Z-Line of hybrid digital musical instruments and game controllers.

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GAMBRIDGE Announces Plans for Hybrid Digital Musical Instruments and Game Controllers (Marketwire)

SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire – 01/04/10) – GAMBRIDGE founders Harvey Starr and Stan Gafner today announced the formation of the company and their plans to launch the Z-Line of hybrid digital musical instruments and game controllers. The Company’s initial product, the Z-1, is a game controller and digital guitar which is revolutionizing the world of music video games and music education. Gamers …

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GAMBRIDGE Announces Plans for Hybrid Digital Musical Instruments and Game Controllers (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

The Ampersand recently asked a select number of Canadian music critics, bloggers and mega-fans to answer this question: If you were buying stock on Canadian music, which up and coming Canadian musical act would you invest in?

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Canadian Futures: The Canadian musical acts trading high in 2010 (National Post)

NEW BEDFORD — The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and New Bedford Public Schools are continuing their “Instruments for Kids” program to provide instruments to children wishing to take lessons but who do not have access to musical instruments.

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‘Instruments for Kids’ program fills need for instruments in New Bedford schools (The Standard-Times)

Pocket musicians, rejoice: The ensemble of instruments available at your fingertips is set to expand. On Wednesday, Smule , the software company behind applications that turn the iPhone into imaginative instruments, announced that it had secured $8 million in additional financing.

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Smule Raises Cash to Expand Its Musical App Lineup (New York Times)

PITTSBURGH…InventHelp®, America’s leading inventor service company, announces that one of its clients from North Carolina has signed a licensing agreement with the toy company Kidz™ Toyz, Inc. Since 1995, Kidz™ Toyz, Inc.

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InventHelp® Client Signs Licensing Agreement for Children’s Musical Instruments (PRWeb)

PITTSBURGH…InventHelp®, America’s leading inventor service company, announces that one of its clients from North Carolina has signed a licensing agreement with the toy company Kidz™ Toyz, Inc. Since 1995, Kidz™ Toyz, Inc.

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InventHelp® Client Signs Licensing Agreement for Children’s Musical Instruments (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

I’ve been casting around other peoples’ blogs and thought I’d write out the pick of the crop, as it were, about editing. First though, I found this project called ‘For Every Year’ that belongs to the supertastic Crispin Best, and it deserves a look if you want to try something new (I always want to try something new). Anyway, here’s some things that people say about editing: Make sure that the cover at least looks good.

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Editing and Exercises

Here’s some of the things I’ve read in blogs or various articles about getting your novel published: Choose your market first and zero in on it Find an editor who publishes that kind of stuff Study your genre and internalise everything about it so that it becomes part of your normal thought patterns Join a critique group either online or at home ….and on and on ad nauseum. Apart from the last one, (because I’ve just done an MA in Writing) in the words of Tony Stark, I respectfully disagree .

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To Do Or Not To Do

BURNHAM – Local residents gathered their old baseball cards, coins and instruments, and brought them to the Great Treasure Hunt Road Show on Tuesday, which will be stationed until Saturday at the Quality Inn in Burnham. Michael Matney, buyer and cashier with the road show, said the business is comprised of five different teams that travel around the country.

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Community members gather old collectibles for appraisal (The Lewistown Sentinel)

Sometime just after seven in the morning, there is a grinding noise of strings being mistuned. “Brring!” goes the doorbell as the teacher arrives, “clomp” go the instruments being dragged around, and “wail” is the sound of an exam piece being tortured into shape by two medium-sized boys. I stagger downstairs and look at small faces still in cereal-smeared pyjamas and my first words are “Bow …

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Life & Style (Evening Standard)

var nopreviewimage = “1″; if (nopreviewimage == “”){ document.write(‘ ‘); } var new_intro = new String(” At a time when everyone is watching the bottom line, one artist is being paid to “play.” For the last five weeks, Michael Brolly has been turning things into instruments. And it’s all thanks to a grant from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation

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Artist Makes Musical Instruments Out Of Some Unusual Things (WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey)

Quality work can stand alone and speak for itself. However, to fully appreciate the depth of this year’s winners of the Ateneo Art Awards (AAA), dubbed The Next Wave — Jan Leeroy New’s polymer aliens, Patricia Eustaquio’s carved leather instruments, and Kiri Dalena’s pre-Martial Law protest imagery — a word must be said about the original context of each installation.

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Arts & Leisure: Out of context (BusinessWorld Online)

She used science to try to recreate the qualities of a Stradivarius and other fine old Italian instruments. Carleen Hutchins, a violin maker who crafted some of the finest instruments of her time, invented new ones and, through science, came as close as anyone ever has to reproducing the venerated sound of the Stradivarius, died Aug. 7 at her home in Wolfeboro, N.H.

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Carleen Hutchins dies at 98; master violin maker (Los Angeles Times)

Anyone with an MP3 device — just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems — has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.But musical training should not be seen simply as stuff of the soul — a frill that has to go when school budgets dry up, according to a new Northwestern University study.The study shows that musicians — …

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Taking Up Music So You Can Hear (redOrbit)

( Northwestern University ) Anyone with an MP3 device has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination. But musical training should not be seen simply as stuff of the soul — a frill that has to go when school budgets dry up, according to a new Northwestern University study. It is the first demonstration of musical training offsetting the deleterious …

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Taking up music so you can hear (EurekAlert!)

Randy Parsons, of Seattle’s Parsons Guitars, makes handcrafted instruments for rock stars such as Jimmy Page, Jack White and the bands Death Cab for Cutie and Modest Mouse. Reporter Ted Fry talks to him on the eve of the release of a rock documentary in which he appears, “It Might Get Loud,” directed by Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”).

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Minimalist guitar-craftsman Randy Parsons rocks out in new documentary (Seattle Times)