A good sense of beat and rhythm are one of the most important gifts you can give your child.  Why? Because this helps develop graceful motor flow, by building connections between the rhythms that we [...]

  Music can bring so much joy to a child’s life that it is a wonderful gift just by itself.  Music also has the most “fringe benefits” of all the art forms and activities that [...]

The guitar is a member of the lute family. The Oldest Instruments The oldest known member of the lute family dates from about 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia … an instrument called the Theorbo which [...]

  We don’t usually think of playing a musical instrument as a dangerous activity, but like any other repetitive, asymmetrical action, it can lead to injury if not done properly. Common Injuries Violin players are [...]

While it’s true that you can begin to learn on pretty much any instrument, and while it’s also true that you need to get pretty good before you can truly tell the difference in quality [...]

  The choice of whether or not to send our kids back to school could be one of the hardest decisions that we, as parents, will ever have to make.  Some of our children, like [...]