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yamaha genos
Cool Tools, Products

Yamaha Genos Digital Workstation

Genos is Yamaha’s most advanced digital workstation keyboard to date. It features a sleek, modern design, breathtaking sounds, 550 accompaniment styles, and robust recording. The semi-weighted keyboard provides enhanced touch response. Genos has a 1.8G internal, nonvolatile flash memory and supports WAV, AIFF, SoundFont, and REX for creating voices and drum kits. The main display is a brilliant nine-inch color touchscreen. Six large Gateway Buttons navigate the major modes of operation. Six assignable buttons let the player cue custom actions or changes. Ten registration buttons (with multiple banks) save and recall Genos panel settings. Registrations can be organized into playlists. Multi pads trigger one-shot musical phrases and hits spice up performances, while the keyboard plays the main instrument voices.

www.yamaha.com

fender zuma
New Releases, Products

Fender Zuma Concert Ukulele

New in Fender’s California Coast Series, the Zuma concert ukulele is crafted from sapele with an open-pore finish for a balanced earthy tone that blends well with other instruments. Its easy-play, 16-fret neck extends the range, while the no-tie bridge makes changing strings quick and easy. A striking abalone rosette, bound top, back and fingerboard and 4-in-line Tele headstock stand out.

www.fender.com

vibrophase
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ZVEX Effects Vibrophase

ZVEX Effects Vibrophase, is a five-knob four-stage phaser that creates unique phase and vibrato nuances. The only digital part of the effect, Speed control adjusts from crawl to zip. Vibrato/Phase control adjusts the mix, while Feedback leaks some of the output signal back into the input of the four phase shifters. High Bias sets the highest voltage that can be sent to the LED and Low Limit interacts with High Bias, setting the lowest voltage that is sent to the LED. Vibrophase runs on a 9V battery or DC power supply.

www.zvex.com

the invisible line
Books-Resources, Products

The Invisible Line: When Craft Becomes Art

In The Invisible Line: When Craft Becomes Art, seven West Coast artisans discuss their work and make the case for curatorial inclusion of instruments as art, alongside the finest sculptures and paintings in museums. Conceived and edited by guitar builder and foremost inlay creator Larry Robinson, the book includes seven self-illustrated essays penned by practicing artisans, including luthiers Michihiro Matsuda, Tom Ribbecke, and Ervin Somogyi. Whether you’re a musician, art aficionado, luthier, or woodworker, this volume will awe and inspire.

The Invisible Line: When Craft Becomes Art, edited by Larry Robinson,
Hal Leonard Corporation, www.halleonard.com.

rickenbacker electric bass
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The Rickenbacker Electric Bass: 50 Years as Rock’s Bottom

From the introduction of the 1961 two-pickup 4001, the Rickenbacker bass has been a phenomenon. Because The Beatles’ used Rickenbackers, teens everywhere wanted the instruments so they could achieve the “right” sound. This is the first book to trace the history of the iconic guitar, from its prototypes to use by such bands as Yes, Deep Purple, and Motörhead. With beautiful instrument photos, this second edition has 16 bonus pages with up-to-date information on Rickenbacker’s latest models and more coverage of Rickenbacker artists.

The Rickenbacker Electric Bass: 50 Years as Rock’s Bottom, Second Edition, by Paul D. Boyer, Hal Leonard Corporation, www.halleonard.com.

teach yourself to play accordion
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Teach Yourself to Play Accordion

teach yourself to play accordion

This book is for both beginners with no prior accordion playing and players who haven’t touched their accordion in years. Lessons include a variety of musical styles—polka, bluegrass, Latin, Cajun, zydeco, celtic, and more. It covers basic technique plus practice tips, basic maintenance, the parts of the accordion, and ornaments and embellishments. There’s a complete button reference chart and audio tracks for play-along and practice.

Teach Yourself to Play Accordion,
by Miriam Davidson, Alfred Music, www.alfred.com.

pas de trois
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Ellen Taaffe ZWilich: Pas de Trois for Violin, Cello, and Piano

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio (KLR), Pas de Trois is named after the ballet tradition for which the music was modeled. Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has a long history of collaborations with KLR. Other chamber music for strings by Zwilich includes Quintet for Violin, Cello, Bass, and Piano; Voyage for String Quartet, and Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Pas de Trois for Violin, Cello, and Piano, by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Theodore Presser Company, www.presser.com.

14 charcteristic studies for trombone
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Jean Baptiste Arban: 14 Characteristic Studies for Trombone

Jean Baptiste Arban wrote these studies specifically to test a student’s power of endurance. Also available are Jean Baptiste Arban: 14 Characteristic Studies for Trumpet in Bb, edited by Thomas Hooten and Jennifer Marotta, as well as the original Jean Baptiste Arban 14 Characteristic Studies Trombone and Baritone.

Jean Baptiste Arban: 14 Characteristic Studies for Trombone,
edited by Alan Raph, Carl Fischer, www.carlfischer.com.

movie music favourites
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Movie Music Favourites: Eight Arrangements for Piano Duet

This collection of piano duet arrangements from the movies embraces a wide range of styles. Primo and secondo play-along tracks are provided on the accompanying CD. Among this volume’s tunes are: Gymnopédie No. 1 (E. Satie from The Pallbearer), “The Blue Danube” (J. Strauss II, from 2001: Space Odyssey), “Dance of the Hours” (A. Ponchielli, from Fantasia), “A Time for Us” (N. Rota/L. Kusik/ E. Snyder, from Romeo and Juliet), and Gnossienne No. 1 (E. Satie from Chocolat).

Movie Music Favourites: Eight Arrangements for Piano Duet,
by Mike Cornick, Universal Edition, www.universaledition.com.

punch brothers
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Punch Brothers, All Ashore

Released July 20
Nonesuch Records

The self-produced album All Ashore includes nine originals from the Punch Brothers, a quintet of Local 257 (Nashville, TN) members Chis Thile (mandolin/lead singer), Chris Eldridge (guitar), Paul Kowert (bass), and Noam Pikelny (banjo), and Local 47 (Los Angeles, CA) member Gabe Witcher (fiddle). Thile says the album is “a meditation on committed relationships in the present day, particularly, in the present political climate.” It is the bands’ fourth album. “Going in we knew what we needed it to sound like and I think we had a specific enough vision to make the reality match up with that,” he says. The self-produced album was recorded at United Recording Studios in Hollywood in the same room as their previous release, The Phosphorescent Blues (2015) and Antifogmatic (2010). Punch Brothers began a 36-city tour in July.