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Band For Today has been providing Chicago area schools with band and piano programs for twenty five years. Band For Today teachers have instructed more than twenty thousand students during that time. We offer schools a full range of music education services including band lessons, concerts, solo contests, honors ensembles, jazz ensembles, field trips, and… Click here to continue reading.
How Its Made – Instruments From the hit TV show, How Its Made, check out these videos of how your instrument is made from start to finish.
Flute
Clarinet
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Snare Drum Head, Shell and Cymbals
Rico Reeds
Handmade Flutes Workshop
Saxophone Factory Tour
Trumpet Factory Tour
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Music Enhances Mental Power MIND AND MUSIC
New Studies Suggest Music Enhances Mental Power
Mozart’s music can raise your IQ… at least temporarily, according to research published in the British science journal Nature. Thirty six college students listened to 10 minutes of Mozart’s Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, 10 minutes of a relaxation tape and 10 minutes of silence. They took different tests of abstract reasoning after each listening, and the average… Click here to continue reading.
Flute Overview and History of the Flute
The flute is the oldest of the woodwinds dating back 800 years in Western Europe and North America. It is also unique because it is the only non-reed woodwind instrument. By the 17th and 18th centuries, the flute became a standard classical instrument through such composers as Vivaldi, Mozart, Brahms, and other famous composers of that era. The flute came into its… Click here to continue reading.
