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Shop talk time!? Advice needed..

Hello all – I'm sure this topic is not very interesting for those who know that the musician makes the music, (for the most part) but I'm in a position to buy a second vibraphone...(I got approved for 0% – but don't want to go into hugh debt so the budget is tight) do not want to go past 4500 bucks – keeping that in mind.

Knowing that an instrument is a personal choice and most have limited budgets. I will be using this instrument for practice, (most of my practicing is on the second floor with a very tight stairway) special concerts and doing some personal recordings..

Vibraphonissimo

Hey Everyone,
Do you remember me badgering you for your birth years so I could include your names chronologically in a "poem"? Well, the book in which that will be published is ready for printing. It's called Free Verse and Photos in the Key of Jazz. There are 36 verses and all but one is made up of only jazz song titles, the shortest with four and the longest, "My Little Brown Book," with 73! The verse "Vibraphonissimo," breaks the mold as a list of 104 vibes players resting upon the two who pioneered the instrument.

Good Vibes Radio update November '15

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Hi Everyone,
Here's the line-up for November:
Dave Hagedorn opens with "Friar Monk." Then it's Ted, Nick, David F, Dany, Jason, Milt, Hendrik, Doug and David B, Cecilia, Behn, Christian, Tom, Roy, Warren, Steve, Thomas, Mitch, Joe, Bryan, and Jim Hart closes with a sweet version of "The More I See You" from the Jazz For Babies vibraphone album. Whew!

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best to you,
gloria

Gloria Krolak
Jersey Jazz, "On the Road" columnist
Monthly journal of the New Jersey Jazz Society
"The Club Car" column at allaboutjazz.com