How I became a Music Director aboard a Cruise Ship: An interview with Anthony Wayne.

What are the duties of a Music Director? Music Directors for Princess Cruises schedule bands, supervise musicians and direct the showband in the theater. The position is called "Bandmaster"...

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Sheet Music Written For Clarinets

Did you know that different types of instruments require different sorts of sheet music? Take the clarinet for example. A clarinet falls in the woodwind family meaning that traditionally it was ma...

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The Medieval Sounds of the Recorder

The recorder is a type of flute that belongs to the woodwind musical instrument family, and is more specifically a fipple flute. The recorder is a long tube with a wide mouth piece that the musician b...

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Creative Outlets Through Musical Instruments

Many rock stars got their start with the purchase of a used musical instrument found through ads in the newspapers available within the locality or the bulletin board at school. The public school syst...

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'Vic Serenading' the Music of Victor Roggio

Roggio Family Music Had you known the Roggio family you would have been warmed by their hospitality and enthusiasm for life. The Roggio's numbered eight boys born to Sicilian-American immigrants. Mo...

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Multi Saxes

I'd seen guys playing more than one horn at a time (two clarinets & two trumpets in an old movie) but never considered trying it myself. But I started playing two saxes together when I was wo...

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Finding Your Ocarina: Top 10 Questions To Ask

You've decided that you are going to buy an ocarina. Now the question is which one to choose. With so many choices, in different shapes and sizes, made of clay or wood or plastic, some with four ho...

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