The Grosse Pointe Music Academy will open up it’s new location at 19443 Mack Ave. on Monday April 16th. I was in checking in on the progress and took a few photos to share. I am excited to begin a new era of Grosse Pointe Music Academy in out new space. I […]
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Grosse Pointe Music Academy is Moving!
Grosse Pointe Music Academy which is currently located at the corner of Mack and Cadieux in Grosse Pointe Park will be moving at the end of March. Beginning on April 16th we will be conducting all of our classes and operations from 19443 Mack Ave in Grosse Pointe Woods. Grosse Pointe Music Academy was originally […]
Social Network for written music
Check out noteflight.com. Noteflight allows you to write music and share it easily on the internet. Noteflight is a free software that gives you high power music scoring tools on the internet for free. Score music for virtually any instrument and share it easily by emailing links or embedding into your web pages or blogs. […]
What are frets, and when should I have them replaced?
Frets are metal strips (usually nickel alloy) embedded along the fretboard (also called fingerboard) and located at exact points that divide the scale length in accordance with a specific mathematical formula. When a player presses a string against a fret it shortens the vibrating length of the string, thus […]
Five Ways Piano Lessons Benefit Children
Two years ago, my wife and I started our oldest daughter, then six years old, in piano lessons. Both of us being musically oriented, we feel that music instruction is just as important as enrolling her in soccer, gymnastics or ballet. But, when practice begins and the sound of scales badly played reverberates through the […]
Grosse Pointe Symphony Orchestra Summer Concert August 7th
August 7 Summer Concert St. John Hospital, 3 p.m., Cafeteria St. John, Free Concert Guest Soloists: Don Baker, principal oboe, Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Laurie Landers Goldman, violin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Oboe Concerto No. 3 in g minor by Handel Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major by J.S. Bach Violin and Oboe Concerto, […]