The old axiom is penny wise and dollar foolish. I don't think that there is any place that can be more applicable than your child's music...

We are now dealers for the internationally famous Krutz Strings company out of Kansas City, Kansas. We are very impressed by their...

Special guest blog by Neil Nguyen Learning an instrument, especially the violin early gives your children many decisive benefits, both...

We finally got our basses in from backorder. We have a great selection of Uprights for you to choose from: Great playing student model...

The number one question that parents have when they come us is, ”what do we do when our child outgrows this instrument.” Many advancing...

One of the joys of my job is finding out that a young person who obtained an instrument from our shop did something very special with it....

Roxanne and I were able to attend the 2Cellos concert at the Moda Center, Theater of the Clouds last Thursday. I had not seen them live...

The sun is out and the clouds are gone. Hooray! This is the summertime creed of Oregon kids who have to run between raindrops for most of...

(I have updated and reposted this blog piece from a few years ago because I think it is good information to review) That is because a...

I like the people who do business with us to also know a little about us. Roxanne and I have been musicians for most of our lives. We...

“She has been bugging me for a year to get a violin and lessons. I wanted to make sure that she was serious but she hasn’t let up.” I...

It is the first week in January. We are just far enough into the new year to either be grateful that the holidays are over or be a little...

Currently we have an inventory in excess of 100 instruments available for sale and most are also available for rent. If you check our...

I often hear the same questions or comments repeated by many of our customers so I thought that I would dedicate a blog entry to address...

I had a call from a young lady the other day. She was having trouble keeping her brand new violin in tune. I asked if we had sold it to...

Here in the greater Portland metro area we have some excellent resources for string players. I will also list some links to the best of...

I grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s. There were not 70 different Billboard music charts like there are today – Adult Alternative, Hot...

I usually try to find tidbits of information for this blog that you might find interesting but I thought that this time I would mention...

I recently received a text from a customer. We had shipped them one of our Scott Cao student violins. They paid for it in advance but...

Occasionally, I will find a video that I think will be of some real interest or usefulness to our customers and teachers. I found one...