We are please to announce that we are now Yamaha Clavinova dealers. A small selection will be available in our Brighton shop, but importantly, we can now supply any Clavinova from the complete range available. Until March 2014 we are offering a free 5 year warranty on the complete range. They also come with a matching stool.
As this is a heavy item, we can only supply within a 50 mile radius of one of our shops. We deliver and set-up your Clavinova in your home free of charge.
Kay Tucker is launching the new edition of Stringbabies for cello and violin at our Hove shop on Tuesday 14th May at 12.30pm till 1pm. All interested teachers and parents are invited to attend.
A music recital with a difference, starring three ‘Stringbabies’ musicians aged three, four and five, will launch the latest in a ground-breaking series of books that prove you can teach children to read music before they learn to read words.
Devised by West Sussex cellist Kay Tucker for her pupils, the Stringbabies technique is now being adopted all over the world to teach school tots barely bigger than a full-sized violin.
There will be an introduction to the ground-breaking way of teaching music to children barely able to read which is transforming lessons across the UK. Kay will explain the principles behind the techniques and some of her star Stringbabies, who started learning at age three, will demonstrate this unique learning method.
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At last the Buffet Divine A Clarinet has come into stock. When we enquired where ours was last year, we were told that they had only made 2 so far!
Our one is “Artist Selected” at the Buffet factory. This is something that we request on some of our top of the range clarinets.
Here is a link to the Divine A Clarinet
Chris Stanbury came to our Hove and Brighton shops today, to give our staff some detailed training on the new range of Casio Celviano pianos. We learnt about quite a few new features on these fantastic models, and Chris was able to demonstrate them all to us. Hopefully after this training, we will be able to pass this information on to interested customers.
Some of the new and interesting features that are better understood by us now are detailed below:-
The NEW Celviano 450 from Casio is now available in our Brighton store.
Features to note on this new model are 2 x 20watt speakers and the simulated Ebony and Ivory keys. It also has a newly developed open-lid function (shown open in the photo). This simulates an open lid on a grand-piano.
This is the only piano in our range that features 256 note polyphony. Polyphony is the number of sounds that can play at the same time without “cut-out”. These notes can soon mount up if you think of playing multiple notes with effects and the sustain pedal. Casio is the only manufacturer (to our knowledge) who feature this number.
With it’s 256 note polyphony and many other features, this is a quality piano worth taking a look at.
