I’ve seen some videos on the internet that are more like old school slideshow powerpoint presentations with a narrator (your’s truly) and a simple transcription of the text onscreen.  I’m thinking that it could be useful for certain topics but not for others.  Let me know if you think this

  Pretty cool!  I was on a local piano & violin holiday art show gig here in Gainesville Florida today, and got gifted this hunk of Civil War rosin from 1863!  The man who gave it to me was one of the artists in the show who specializes in wooden

Check it out!  I just heard the Elvis Presley tune “Jailhouse Rock” on a retail store’s music system and realized that it is nearly identical to Charlie Daniels “The South’s Gonna Do it Again!” Different words of course and a different market and era but… Elvis: “Spider Murphy playing on

Yes, surprising to the newbee… your violin’s soundpost, the wooden dowel inside your violin body that connects the vibrations of the top and back to make it louder and fuller (hopefully) is NOT glued in place!  Sometimes it can become dislodged from it proper positioning and rattle around the inside

The iconic “South’s Gonna Do it Again” by the Charlie Daniels Band!  I just jammed this tune at a neighborhood Halloween party.  It used to be a stale for me back in my more rockin’ bar-band days.  I hadn’t thought of it in a while, but then thought