Chord Colors!!

I've recently discovered an excellent new software product for music notation that (I think) competes favorably with the expensive packages like Sibelius and Finale. It's called Muse Score and it is distributed as a free download. You can find it here: Muse Score.

The interface is logical and seems to be well thought out. You can save your files in a variety of formats including .pdf and .xml. As far as I can tell this product will work for anything you want to create, from a simple lead sheet to a full orchestral score.

This is the lady to whom we are eternally grateful, Karyn Posner-Mullen from the American Embassy here in Ireland, she has been so good to us for the past two years and came to our vibe hang and loved it. She is pictured here with her husband Doug. On behalf of us all at vibesworkshop.com..Karyn...a big thank you

John and Tony

Tony worked real hard when he was here........this is a well known watering hole as we say..

John

These are some of the pics from the workshop and as Doug has requested these I am putting some of his first on the list....enjoy

John

Life has gotten in the way of my music interests but I still try to get to my music room a couple of times a week.

Found a very nice M55 about a half hour from home, so I am selling my Jencos.

The particulars: 3 octave, non-graduated bars, one speed motor with the three pulleys for three speeds of vibrato. The felt is ok to adequate, all of the bars are muted when the damper is up.

Upper register is a little glock-y, lower register is a little thin, middle register is actually kind of sweet.

Everything works.

It ain't a beauty, but it's alright.

$850 OBO, I will deliver anywhere within an hour of Salem MA.

The major scale, circle of fourths/fifths.

Well, apparently I led a good life because the only explanation for the performance I've just seen is that I've died and gone to heaven :-). I'm just back from seeing Ed Saindon and Joe Locke perform in duo, and I'm blown away. Going with two vibraphones instead of vibes and marimba, they both got to play to their full and considerable expressiveness.

It was great to finally meet Joe in real life, and to catch up with Ed and his wife Pam. I'm really glad I could make it to the performance.

Tom P.