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This website contains blogs, newsletters, information on workshops, instrument-specific resources, and reviews regarding music and music education. The blog contains useful information for both teachers and students.

The purpose of this blog is to collaborate with other musicians about issues dealing with performance, creativity, developing ones career, and (most importantly) technology. There are blogs that allow readers to interact with each with the objective being to gain perspective on other musicians point of views. The blogs includes monthly newsletters, different tags for information such as performance anxiety and music career guidance, benefits on recording music, how to practice with a positive mental attitude, and how to talk to audiences as well as how to not talk to them. This information is for the public to view and gain insight on their goal towards becoming a better musician and educator.

This is a great site for finding music clip art to use for newsletters, flyers, or emails to parents. This clip art can be used in advertising and for programs like recitals as well.

Digital Trombone is an excellent resource for trombonists and teachers. The purpose of the site is to provide lessons, tips, recordings, and newsletters for trombonists as well as other brass instrumentalists. The site also contains a variety of recordings by trombone soloists, jazz bands, and trombone quartets. The site could serve as a resource for students seeking professional recordings as well as instructional information. 

The Yellow Brick Road website contains a blog full of free, well-designed, standard-based lesson plans as well as links to her store on www.teacherspayteachers.com. You can sign up for a newsletter on the website to get additional resources emailed to you. This site is geared towards K-6 general music.

For a Northern perspective on music education, the Canadian Music Educators Association is the authority here in Canada. They release journals, blogs, newsletters and share many other materials that promote the ideals of music education to be used all music teachers in this country.

The home of IKS: this website includes overviews of Zoltan Kodaly's life and work as a composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator. Members can receive publications and newsletters and connect to Kodaly music educators around the world.

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How Many Keys Are There On A Piano? is an interesting article about the history of the piano. It talks about the different varieties of pianos and the number of keys on them. It's a very interesting quick read through the development of the piano in history.