ALL
ABOUT YOUR
INSTRUMENT
Not sure how to look after your
instrument? Want to find out more about how your instrument works?
Have you ever considered how your instrument is made? Musicate.Org
has compiled a directory of links to sites which it believes are
not only interesting and educational, but also fun and enjoyable to
visit on a regular basis:
HOW TO LOOK
AFTER STRING INSTRUMENTS: This is a great website to learn
how to look after your instrument and bow in such a way as to get
the best from them while avoiding the expense of unnecessary
deterioration and damage.
BUYING, LEARNING AND
LOOKING AFTER YOUR INSTRUMENT This site provides a whole
range of interesting information about the issues to do with
buying, learning and looking after a musical instrument.
VIOLIN
MAKING BY HANS JOHANNSSON
An exciting website devoted to violin-making.
BRETT BAKER'S TROMBONE
SITE Visit the homepage of one of the UK'S leading
trombonists, Brett Baker. On the site, Brett offers his expert
advice on a number of brass-playing issues, from basic and advanced
playing techniques to how to cope with nerves on-stage. Brett
recently did a workshop at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where
brass players from our orchestra attended.