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“Opening” from Glassworks by Philip Glass – Corrected Score
I was under the impression that the Sheet Music Plus company was a reputable source of musical scores when I bought a PDF copy of Philip Glass’ Opening from them. I was wrong! The score had at least 6 mistakes! I struggled for months with it, until I listened to Glass play it (many, many…
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The Zhaltar at Makers Day
The Zhaltar won for Best Thing That Makes Sound on Makers Day at the Hillsdale Public Library!
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Customized Sax Case
Sometimes the case you have is not optimal for the sax that needs to fit in it: the case could be too generic, it could be old and in need of repair. It could be a low-A bari case that your Bb bari is swimming around in. The example I am using is creating a…
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Swabbing out a bari sax
And they said it couldn’t be done!
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Homemade Leak Light
For occasional home use, it’s handy for a sax player to be able to check for pad leaks. Here’s one I built for just a few dollars, it’s long enough to check my bari and skinny enough I don’t have to remove any pads to use it. I started with a coat-hanger, straightened it out…
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Official Facebook plugin for WordPress – SSL Error Solved
This took a day to get working, mainly because of a badly worded Facebook error message. After installing the Facebook plugin on a site, an error message appeared at the top of every Dashboard page: “SSL must be enabled on your server for Facebook Social Publisher to work.” Seems clear enough doesn’t it? This WP…
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New Music Concert Series
Early-onset dementia? Hereditary insanity? Whatever the cause, I am hosting a new music series starting this September. The Ivanhoe Artists of Paterson are allowing me to use the Ivanhoe Wheelhouse, a 19th century mill building with excellent acoustics. All concerts take place on the 3rd Sunday of the month at 1pm. The focus for this…
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M-Audio NRV-10 – machine gun sound, bad caps
I’ve had my M-Audio NRV-10 Firewire interface for over 4 years. It’s a combination mixer and audio interface, which I find quit handy. Last time I went to plug it in, I heard a loud repeating percussive static coming from the monitors. My first thought was that the AC-DC adaptor was bad. It’s 12VDC 3500mA,…
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Mirror of VL1 patch site added
Ken Berry has been maintaining a page of patches for the VL1/VL1m since 1995. He has very graciously allowed me to mirror this part of his site, ensuring better availablity of these patches to VL1 users. VL1 Patch Mirror
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Tedesco Studios
My band ArtCrime recorded a new album for the Unseen Rain label this week and the sessions were at Tedesco Studios in Paramus. Tom Tedesco has been running this homey place for 20 years. I recommend it for several reasons. He has a really nice selection of choice instruments. A very good Steinway, a Hammond…