Contest Season Is Right Around The Corner – Is Your Instrument Ready?

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 No Comments

 

It’s not too late, but time is running out. Contest Season is almost here!

January through April is a really busy time of year for school music students. Many of the annual contests and festivals happen during this time of the year. These include:

  • Solo & Ensemble Contest
  • Jazz Band Festival
  • Junior/Middle School Organizational Festivals
  • High School Organizational Festivals

Your performance level and the success of your organization depend on a properly playing instrument. If your instrument has not been looked over by a technician in the last 6 months you may be overdue.

Send your instrument in for proper maintenance to help avoid small problems from turning into something larger at an inappropriate time. It could help you get to the next level during the upcoming contest season.

If you’d like to send your instrument in for us to check, we have a step-by-step guide on how to do that right here.

As always, please give us a call if you have any questions.

1-800-382-1099

Musically Trained Students Perform Better On Memory Tests

Monday, December 12, 2016 No Comments

Musically trained children performed better in a memory test that is correlated with general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, visuospatial processing, mathematics, and IQ.

~ Dr. Laurel Trainor, Prof. of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior at McMaster University, 2006

Children Who Take Music Lessons Show Different Brain Development

Thursday, December 8, 2016 No Comments

Young Children who take music lessons show different brain development and improved memory over the course of a year, compared to children who do not receive musical training.

~ Dr. Laurel Trainor, Prof. of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior at McMaster University, 2006

2016 Yamaha Trunk Sale at Paige’s Music

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 No Comments

Yamaha Trunk Sale at Paige's Music

If you’ve had your eye on some of Yamaha’s best brass and woodwind instruments, don’t hesitate to stop in on Saturday, December 10th for our annual Yamaha “Trunk Sale”! This is a great opportunity to bundle extra savings with the best Yamaha has to offer!

BEAT THE TAX: SAVE AT LEAST 7%

All instruments purchased during the Trunk Sale will save at least an extra 7% (in stock items only). The savings are better at Paige’s Music!

HUGE SELECTION

Paige’s Music will have a wider selection of Yamaha brass and woodwind instruments available with big discounts. Choose from several intermediate to professional flutes, piccolos, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, French horns, and more! All with extra savings!

DOUBLE YAMAHA REBATES

Earn double rebates! Rent or purchase any qualified Yamaha intermediate level band instrument between now and December 31st, 2016 and receive a $50 mail-in rebate. On Saturday, December 10th, this rebate will double to $100.

Purchase any qualified Yamaha professional or custom level instrument between now and December 31st and receive a $100 mail-in rebate. On Saturday, December 10th, this rebate will double to $200!

Paige’s Music is proud to partner with Yamaha to bring you these extra holiday savings!

Teens See Music Teachers As Trusted Friends

Monday, December 5, 2016 No Comments

Teens Described their music teachers as encouraging, motivating and acting as both role models and friends that can be trusted for listening and giving advice.

~ Shehan Campbell, Patricia. Adolescents’ Expressed Meanings of Music In and Out of School

Arts Motivate Students

Thursday, December 1, 2016 No Comments

Students indicate that arts participation motivates them to stay in school, and that the arts create a supportive environment that promotes constructive acceptance of criticism and one in which it is safe to take risks.

~ (Source: Barry N., Taylor K., and K. Walls Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, AEP, 2002)

Brad Rubin – Staff Spotlight

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 1 Comment

Our Staff Spotlight this month is on one of our woodwind repair technicians, Brad Rubin. Brad has a ton of experience both as an educator and as an instrument tech. Learn more about Brad in the video below!

 

Music And Perseverance

Monday, November 28, 2016 No Comments

“When a child picks up a violin for the first time, she/he knows that playing Bach right away is not an option; however, when that child practices, learns the skills and techniques and doesn’t give up, that Bach concerto is that much closer. In an increasingly competitive world, where people are being asked to continually develop new skills, perseverance is essential to achieving success.”

~ Lisa Phillips, “The artistic edge: 7 skills children need to succeed in an increasingly right brain world,” ARTSblog, Americans for the Arts, 2013.