Some Important Information About Vintage Music Gear

By admin on January 6, 2011

Music History

What are music gear and why do you need to know about the vintage music gear? Music gear can be a stage speaker, any kind of sound equipment, DJ equipment, recording equipment, amplifiers, microphones, speakers, digital effects, you name it. So what is the use of knowing about those objects that already are obsolete and sent to the vintage category?


Vintage music gear are a form of beautiful visual art, an important chunk of the musical history, scientific marvels of the time, acoustical marvels, and a grand investment.


Age is not the only factor by which we can term an instrument vintage. All the gear have some criteria to make them vintage such as the manufacturer, structural and aesthetic design, importance in history, uncommonness, sound, and playability.


The collectors will want to see all the elements, along with the enjoyment factor of course, before taking the musical gear and instruments in their possession. Collectors of vintage music gear are found not only in the US but in U.K, Japan and Western Europe as well, making the market a truly global one.


Some Important Names Of The Vintage Stuff


Mutron Bi phaser, Mutron Phaser II, EMU Proteas, Apt Holman Stereo Pre Amplifier, Technies SL 1300, Fisher Price Record Player, JVC Hi Fi turntable, 1968 Vintage Analog Electronic Drum Module, Vaccum Tube Bass Tone Generator, Voice of Music 726, Hammond A 100 B3, Hammond M 100, Panasonic SV 3200 DAT Deck, Wollensak 3M Stereo Reel to Reel Tape Deck, are some of the music gear of the yesteryears. Yahama, JVC, Panasonic, and Sony were some important manufactures.  Read more...

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Why Every Musical Instrument Is Important And Has It’s Place

By admin on December 31, 2010

Music Instrument

Since times of yore, man has been associated with music. It is the expression of the heart. History tells us that Neanderthal man used bone flute. Evidence also exists that percussive instruments might have been used.

Defining a musical instrument: anything that produces sound can be called a musical instrument. The term usually is reserved for instruments that have a particular function in an orchestra. The academic study of musical instruments is known as organology.

Instruments can be identified by the way they are played and the tone they generate. Wind instruments, using power of the lungs, String instruments where strumming is required and electronic instruments that play automatic by touch of keys. Even the human voice can be termed an instrument as the singer generates the voice through the effort of his lungs and vocal cords acting together.

Wind instruments can be either built of wood or brass. A good example of the former could be the flute while trumpet is an excellent example of the latter. These instruments play when the musician blows into a tube. There are holes which one can open and close with the fingers to produce different kinds of sound.

String instruments are completely opposite. They are played by strumming on the cords. A good example would be the guitar. Some well known guitarist’s were the Beatles and Dire straits  Read more...

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What are Music Terms and Why are They Important?

By admin on December 20, 2010

Music Reference

 

Music Mini Course:  Part II

Musical Terms

Music is a language in itself. It is very much like learning to speak and read a foreign language because each musical symbol stands for a very specific musical meaning. Take the time to carefully read through the music terms in this article to prepare you for music training on any instrument, including the human voice!

Begin your musical study by becoming familiar with these very important musical terms:

BAR LINE – A vertical line which separates notes into groups

DOUBLE BAR LINE – A set of two (2) vertical lines which stand for the end of a piece of music

REPEAT SIGN – Double bar with two dots at the end of a section or piece of music which indicates that section will be played twice.

MEASURE – The distance between two bar lines.

TREBLE CLEF – The S-shaped symbol which stands for notes played with the right hand. This is also referred to as the G cleff since this inner curve of the symbol rests on the G line.

BASS CLEF – The reversed C-shaped symbol which stand for notes played with the left hand. This clef is also referred to as the F cleff since the two dots beside the clef surround the F line.

STAFF – The five lines and four spaces of both the bass and treble clefs.  Read more...

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Why Are Music History Lesson Plans So Important?

By admin on November 17, 2010

Just like any other subject, while learning music, you need to be clear about the history. Knowing the history lays the foundation to understanding a subject well so that you can appreciate and learn it. A lesson plan usually consists of a roadmap which tells the reader about the course. It also helps a person know the formation of the course, and discover what kind of chapters and topics are to be taught. Hence, it is very important for all teachers to submit their session plans.

Sometimes, the plans are uploaded to the website of the institution, that enables soon-to-be students know what they can anticipate from a course. They can then decide whether they would like to enroll or not. Thus, it is tremendously important that you make a very interesting and wonderfully varied session plan. Music History Lesson Plans are among one of the most tricky to create plans. These plans preferably tell students about the things they will learn about music history.

Most of the people who enroll in courses for music have utterly no interest in history. They just don’t see the need for taking the course, when all they want is a career-based on playing music. But if you take a sometime and interest, you can actually understand why Music History Lesson Plans are so important. It will help to inspire the students to take the class.  Read more...

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Music as an Important Part of our Culture

By admin on August 10, 2010

For generations in the United States our culture has been firmly founded on music. Some of this resource comes from our various heritages, but there is always an under current of changes that occur from one generation to the next. A large part of our musical heritage has arrived from the classical music originating in Europe over the past three to four centuries. Most of these classical music composers were intelectually superior. They were also blessed with a gift from our creator that most of us don’t have that being perfect pitch and the ability to create melodies that they heard in their minds

Some of the early music originating in the United States came from Irish and Scotch immigrants many of whom settled in the Applacian Mountains. These early songs were “memory” sings that they remembered from the country of their origin.Many of them settled in isolated homesteads. with little or no other human contact. Because of this isolation, their inherited music began to change. Early on most of the songs were families stories remembered from one genertion to the next. Each line of the song would end with a raising of the musical note much like a question mark. Perhaps this was asking the listener to approve of the story.With  time there was less emphasis on the family story line and the story telling songs became more univeral in content.Today, we enjoy these story telling songs in our country western music.

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