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Guitars, Supplies, Sheet Music, Recordings If you’re looking for quality hand crafted guitars, I highly recommend Armin Kelly of Guitars International in Shaker Heights. I’ve sent my students to him for years, and he’s always treated them well. Many of the best players in the greater Cleveland area have bought their guitars from Armin. The reason is simple: he carries the best. Looking for a wide variety of strings at a good price? Try Strings by Mail. Need sheet music, and can’t find it in town? Try Guitar Solo Publications in San Francisco. For a dizzyingly rich source of classical guitar music, books, CDs, and videos, see Guitare Diffusion. If you’re looking for a free online archive of classical guitar music, try la bibliothèque royale danoise. It has over 1,200 listings of public domain guitar music, much of it from the 19th century. You’ll find, for example, the guitar works of Aguado, Carcassi, Coste, Giuliani, Mertz, Regondi, Sor, and many others. It’s a bit unwieldly for casual browsing, but if you know what you’re looking for, it’s a good place to start. Another excellent source of 19th century guitar music is Tecla’s Hebe Online, founded by guitar scholar Dr. Brian Jeffery. Not all the music here is free—you can buy scores individually or subscribe for unlimited downloads—but some of it is. Online Sites of Interest Cleveland Classical Guitar Society Classical Guitarist Web Portal Hosted by Tony Morris, Classical Guitar Alive! is a radio program devoted entirely to the classical guitar. This program isn’t carried by Cleveland area stations, but you can find broadcast times and connect online via the Allegro! web site. For a large selection of online classical guitar videos, see this section of YouTube. One of the best concert guitarists in the world, Jason Vieaux, lives in the Cleveland area. To stay informed on what he’s up to, visit his website. Proving that lightning can strike twice in the same place, Robert Gruca is another virtuoso guitarist living in the greater Cleveland area. If you’re a guitarist suffering from playing related injury, look into Paul Marxhausen’s Musicians and Injuries web site. For an excellent source of online classical guitar articles, see Guitar Forum, edited by Jonathan Leathwood. Musicianship http://www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php?v=1. Not as thorough as the site below, but very easy to use. It offers immediate audio playback of whatever chord you select. http://www.activeguitar.com/basics/chords.asp. Very thorough, and you can set it to display chords with either left hand fingering numbers or scale degrees. No audio playback. http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id90_en.html. Here’s a site for training your ability to recognize musical intervals by ear. http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id92_en.html. Here’s a site for training your ability to recognize chords by ear. Just for Fun Here’s a review spoof—“A Humid Recital Stirs Bangkok”—that’s been making the rounds for almost forty years. Almost every professional musician has giggled over this review, and I hope you’ll enjoy it too. |
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phone: (216) 691-5949—e-mail: augustineregal@yahoo.com
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