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Pick Holiday Gifts That Strike the Right Chord
All the musical instruments, gear, and equipment you could ever need. They make great holiday gifts, and you can always get a gift for yourself.
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Making Music magazine encourages recreational musicians to become more engaged in playing their instruments and to participate in the larger music making community.
5 Perfect Music Gifts for Children
They’re simply, fun, and will give them the great gift of all: music. So check out these 5 perfect music gifts for children and let us know
24 Years Ago Today Paul McCartney Entered Into The Guinness Book of World Records
24 Years Ago Today Paul McCartney Entered Into The Guinness Book of World Records “for being the best-selling songwriter in the history of recorded music,
KoAloha: Changing the World One Uke at a Time
When it comes to family run businesses KoAloha ukuleles may be one of the most familial of them all. Even the employees who are not biologically related to Alvin “Pops” and Pat “Moms” Okami soon end up part of the family. The series of fortuitous events and coincidences that led Alvin to discover his true calling, building ukuleles, is almost as inspirational as the family itself.
O’ahu: An Exploration of Musical Culture and Traditions
A visit to O’ahu is a chance to experience an amazing musical culture and learn techniques unique to Hawaiian styles of music. Live performances abound on the island, from strummers hanging out on Waikiki beach, to performances in a wide variety of venues featuring Hawaii’s best talents. Music makers are friendly and always willing to talk and answer questions about their music.
The Guitarlele
Kala Brand Music’s new hybrid instrument, the Guitarlele, will delight guitar players looking for the perfect travel guitar, as well as ukulele players exploring guitar for the first time.
Make Music Day
Make Music Day is the one day a year we celebrate the central role of music in our lives and our country through free, open and accessible events throughout the U.S. and the World.
Sneaky Instruments
Google and Converse challenged the UK company Technology Will Save Us, which specializes in supplying DIY kits, to modify a pair of Converse sneakers with its DIY Speakers Kit. Technology Will Save Us rose to the challenge creating what may be the world’s first guitar shoe, using the laces for strings, then creating a microphone, contrabass, and feedback synth, and using the kit’s box to create an amp. They then brought the challenge to a set of London workshops where participants created everything from a sneaker that “walked” when bass-heavy music played to a sneaker ukulele.