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Artisan Goodtime banjos
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Artisan Goodtime banjos

In celebration of 20 years of Goodtime banjo success, Deering Banjo Company has launched the Artisan Goodtime banjos. These banjos, priced from $729, offer stunning aesthetics normally reserved for higher price banjos. A rich dark brown hard maple neck features elegant, eye-catching artisan inlays, while the peghead is adorned with a beautiful carved scroll design that allows the maple color to shine through. A three-ply grade maple rim enhances the Artisan banjos’ full, rich, sparkling tone. The Artisan Goodtime banjos come in all standard styles—four-string plectrum, 19-fret five-string parlor banjos, and 22-fret five-string banjos. All are available both with and without resonators and tone rings.

www.deeringbanjos.com

Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player
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A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player

DICTIONARY-FOR-MODERN-TRUMPET_CDesigned for both the novice and advanced musician, scholar and performer, Elisa Koehler has created a key reference that addresses all instruments in the high brass family. The book includes detailed illustrations, biographies of prominent performers, composers and instrument makers, and entries on historical instruments, like the cornetto, keyed bugle, and slide trumpet. Appendixes show a timeline of trumpet history, a survey of valve mechanisms, and a list of excerpts from orchestral and operatic repertoire.

A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player, by Elisa Koehler, Rowman & Littlefield, www.rowman.com.

Ray Brown Legendary Jazz Bassist
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Ray Brown Legendary Jazz Bassist

Ray Brown Legendary Jazz BassistWritten as a tribute to Ray Brown, Ray Brown Legendary Jazz Bassist, includes 18 transcriptions by Matthew Rybicki of Local 802 (New York City). There are performance notes, photos, and a foreword by Local 802 member and bassist Christian McBride. Transcriptions include: “Autumn in New York,” “Custard Puff,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Easy Does It,” “Gravy Waltz,” “Have You Met Miss Jones?” “How High the Moon,” “I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande),” “I’m Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People),” “Killer Joe,” “Love Is Here to Stay,” “Mack the Knife,” “Minor Mystery,” “Moten Swing,” “Night Train,” “Sometimes I’m Happy,” “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top,” and “Tune Up.”

Ray Brown Legendary Jazz Bassist, transcribed by Matthew Rybicki, Hal Leonard Corporation, www.halleonard.com

The First Genesis Memoir
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The First Genesis Memoir: The Living Years

The First Genesis MemoirThe story of Genesis is the stuff of rock legends: how a humble schoolboy band evolved into a group of superstars. Founding member (with Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel) Mike Rutherford played lead guitar, was the backing vocalist, and penned some of their greatest hits. He also delves into his conflicted relationship with his father, a naval captain. The book is twofold: a chronicle of a band’s rise to stardom and a more personal story of the complex relationship between a father and son, amid the seismic social and cultural shifts of the 20th century.   

The Living Years: The First Genesis Memoir, by Mike Rutherford, Thomas Dunne Books, www.thomasdunnebooks.com.

Harman’s Whammy Ricochet
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Tonebone Bumper

Harman’s Whammy RicochetDesigned specifically for anyone who has to quickly change instruments on stage, the Tonebone Bumper by Radial Engineering, Ltd., is a compact instrument selector that lets you connect up to four instruments to a single amp and easily toggle between them using a footswitch. Bright LEDs let you know which input is ready for use. Bumper fits easily on any pedal board and automatically configures to the number of instruments connected. Its Drag control load correction can be tailored to compensate for the buffer and replicate the tone and feel, as if connected directly to the amp. Trim control allows sensitivity adjustment for quick changeovers.

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Harman’s Whammy Ricochet
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Harman’s Whammy Ricochet

Harman’s Whammy RicochetHarman’s Whammy Ricochet takes the popular whammy pitch shifting effect and places it in a small footprint pedal. Instead of using a foot treadle, it bends the pitch of the incoming note at a rate determined by shift and return controls. This allows guitarists to bounce their sound up or down in pitch in controlled or crazy shifts. Whammy Ricochet provides seven pitch selections—2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, octave, double octave, and octave+ dry. A toggle selects up or down for the chosen pitch, while an LED ladder displays shift trajectory times. The pedal has two modes of operation: Classic Whammy algorithm for single note soloing and Chords for pitch shifting of full chords.

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How to Voice Standards
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How to Voice Standards at the Piano: The Menu

How to Voice StandardsJazz pianist Mark Levine of Local 424 (Berkeley, CA) provides an easy-to-learn method for playing the melodies of favorite jazz standards, using hip voicings as played by Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock of Local 802 (New York City), McCoy Tyner, and Kenny Barron of Local 802. Author of The Jazz Piano Book, Levine has created a “Menu,” a succinct guide to learning a multitude of voicings so performers can harmonize melodies on the spot. Using two standards and a bebop melody as examples, he breaks up each tune into four-bar sections and shows the best voicings to use on each chord. Once learned, musicians can spontaneously create a personal style of playing, based on the masters of the art form.

How to Voice Standards at the Piano: The Menu, by Mark Levine, Sher Music Co., shermusic.com.

Miles Davis Omnibook for C Instruments
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Miles Davis Omnibook for C Instruments: Transcribed Exactly from His Recorded Solos

Miles-Davis-OmnibookThis book contains 50 note-for-note transcriptions of many of Miles Davis’s famous solos, dutifully representing acknowledged classics, but also the variety and different phases of his storied career. Tunes include traditional standards, like “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” “If I Were a Bell,” “Stella by Starlight,” “All Blues,” “Milestones,” and “So What.” Among the instruction materials are easy-to-read notations, chord symbols, rehearsal letters, rhythmic styles, and metronome marks.

Miles Davis Omnibook for C Instruments, Hal Leonard, halleonard.com.

MEL9 Tape Relay Machine
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MEL9 Tape Relay Machine

CT-EHX-Mel9The Eletro-Harmonix (EHX) MEL9 Tape Relay Machine emulates classic Mellotron sounds—
orchestra, cello, strings, flute, clarinet, saxophone, brass, low and high choir, and more. It is designed to work on any guitar without modifications, special pickups, or MIDI implementation, and will also work with bass and keyboards. You can select your sound choice via a rotary switch. Independent effect and dry volume controls let you create the perfect mix, and attack controls set the volume swell speed. Sustain control adjusts the release time after a sound is stopped. The MEL9 Tape Relay Machine comes with an EHX 9.6DC 200mA power supply.

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Holstein Plowden

Holstein-PlowdenHolstein violins, violas, and cellos are artfully crafted reincarnations of famous violins. The Holstein Plowden features aged Russian spruce and select German maple, dried over 20 years. It’s finished with antiqued Italian oil varnish plus the highest quality Hill-style boxwood fittings. It has a quality ebony fingerboard and deluxe Aubert Mirecourt French-made bridge.

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