SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Blogging & blogs’
See the complete archive.Feed Readers and Shared Items
Sharing is caring. In looking for inspiration and materials to blog upon, I subscribe to a number of blogs using a feed reader. For the uninitiated, a feed reader is an aggregate means to read many blogs at once in a single place. If one were to Google on “feed reader” a variety of results [...]
Student Horn Related Blogs
A sampling of students getting their blog on. Blogging can have many benefits, both personal and altruistic. I pondered on these benefits for myself last January. It is an avenue to share experiences and engage in a discourse, and blogging has become an integral part of my total creative output. For students and non-professionals — [...]
The Growing Horn Blogosphere
An encouraging trend. In updating my links and blogroll page a few weeks ago, I noticed a promising trend that seems to be emerging. More and more music professionals are getting bitten by the blogging bug and are sharing their experiences and thoughts online. This is a great thing for the musician community. Never before [...]
Review: Two New Horn-Related Blogs
Jonathan West and Bruce Richards get their bloggity-blog on. Two new and noteworthy horn-related blogs have appeared on the radar that are worth pointing out. The first is called Horn Thoughts and is authored by Jonathan West. The description in the title describes it best: One of my passions is music, I play the french [...]
Reviews: The Expanding Blogo-horno-verse
Newly discovered blogs of note. The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thought and finds no other inspiration. Pearl S. Buck-American Novelist 1892-1973 I subscribe [...]
Why Write and Post Articles Online?
On and off for a few years now, I have been blogging. Sometimes it feels like I am writing into a void so I need to remind myself why I do it. Actually, with a few word changes this logic can apply to all my creative activities. A joy of creative writing. Since I was [...]
Blogging & blogs
Professors who Blog
Today in the Arizona Republic one of the front page articles is on professors who blog, “Professors braving frontiers of Web to expand class reach.” I was actually contacted by the reporter as a part of her research. I believe this blog was not quite what she was looking for as an example as it [...]
Random Articles
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The "N" Words: Narcissism: Music, the arts and the Internet attract narcissists like a moth to a flame.Narcissism -- the hope being that professionals (in any field - ar...
Recent sale Items
- Conn 8D Elkhart Double
by: wichitaband
January 27, 2012 - 13:23 - Syst. Prof. Döhler 1 mouthpiece
by: John Ericson
January 20, 2012 - 11:35 - Herco mouthpiece
by: John Ericson
January 20, 2012 - 11:33 - Getzen model 10C mouthpiece
by: John Ericson
January 20, 2012 - 11:32 - H. Schindler Milwaukee mouthpiece
by: John Ericson
January 20, 2012 - 11:30 - Sansone mouthpiece, vintage
by: John Ericson
January 20, 2012 - 11:29 - Houser San Francisco 3-#2 Stainless
by: Derek Wright
January 8, 2012 - 00:33 - Atkinson NY 200
by: Stuart
January 2, 2012 - 08:22 - 1011 Bach Single in F
by: Stephanie Diebel
January 1, 2012 - 12:37 - Conn 8D
by: betsyk
December 5, 2011 - 17:50 - Schilke 31
by: Edlock
December 4, 2011 - 11:24
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