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Links to interesting music sites Links to other various musical sites My favorite software Other interesting web sites |
Brilliant poetry! Unforgettable images! |
Links to sheet music sites:
- Piano Today Magazine ...the magazine you can play!
- SheetMusicDigital.com Over 120,000 digital files to choose from, the largest on the web, in the amazing Scorch and Solero free software which lets you view, play, customize and print scores on the Internet.
- 8notes.com Free sheet music, riffs, lessons and tools for musicians who play.
- music-scores.com Download free classical sheet music, listen to midi files, discussion board, classified ads, sell your instrument, look for a teacher. Buy sheet music, musical instruments, cds, books and accessories.
- bbrunoo.free.fr Extraordinaire! This French music website is responsible for more traffic to www.nedgerhart.com than any other!
- francepianos.com France pianos vous propose une liste de site d'editeurs de partitions
- PianoFiles.com The internet free piano sheet music resource. 6563 traders sharing 121974 piano sheets! Go and play...
- FreeSheetMusic.net Locate free sheet music downloads, free sheet music lessons, free sheet music tips, and free sheet music articles.
- FindFreeSheetMusic.com Locate even more free sheet music downloads....
- Free-Piano-Music.com Free Piano Sheet Music - piano, organ, accordion, etc. Find piano information, free sheet music, classical, contemporary, jazz, lessons, etc.
- Free-Scores.com Very extensive list of resources in several languages: Partitions gratuites pour tous les instruments : vents, cordes, chorales, orchestre, piano.
- All Piano Sheet Music Subscribers have instant access to over 600 classical piano sheet music files in high quality Adobe PDF format. Also free piano sheet music.
- MusicaViva.com The Internet center for free sheet music downloads and more.
- www.PianoBleu.com French site for piano hobbyists: Site pour les amateurs de piano : informations sur les pianistes, compositeurs, partitions...
- www.guitares.org Partitions gratuites pour guitare classique et piano (liens). English version also!
Other various musical sites:
- Concert Pitch Online Piano Services Piano Information Services Online: Piano Appraisals, Piano Retail Price Lists, Discover the Age of Your Piano, Sell Your Piano, Buy Piano Accessories and more.
- The Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory provides the infrastructure and support needed to carry out scientific research on learning to play the piano...
- Chinook Winds The double woodwind quintet with a heart.
- Historic American Sheet Music Digital library full of Grandma's kind of music.
- I Hear America Singing Fantastic Library of Congress resource for historic song sheets through 1920.
- The Piano Education Page A one-stop resource for parents, students, teachers and fans of the piano, with over 800 pages of ad-free, non-commercial information.
- Music Educators Marketplace Music education enrichment materials-theory, history, camps, games, software, books.
- Music Education Resource Directory The Business and Educational Resource for All Music Teachers.
My favorite software:
- MakeMusic, Inc. Makers of Finale, the music notation software that has changed my life.
- HTML-Kit Standards-compliant, full-featured and multi-purpose development environment for editing HTML and other Web-related file types. And it's free!
- CutePDF Writer Free utility that creates a PDF document when you print it. Very handy for distributing sheet music digitally.
- BBFlashBack Windows screen recording utility. This allows you to make a movie out of what you do with your Windows desktop, or a portion of it. You can export the movie you record to the ubiquitous Flash format, so anyone can view it without having BBFlashBack themselves. Very easy to use.
- IrfanView Amazingly complete and full featured freeware graphics viewer/editor. Supports every image type, and lets you easily edit or convert formats of images. I'm very impressed by this software...way more useful than Google's Picassa, easier than Photoshop, not to mention any Microsoft graphics product, or anything else I have ever used, and it's flippin' free! Please make a donation after test-driving this guy's product, or offer to bear his children!
- Wondershare Flash Slideshow Builder Use this program to take your digital photos and turn them in to Flash slideshows, adding special effects, captions, and music. This is the way to archive all those family photos! Very simple to use.
- Audacity Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together, change the speed or pitch of a recording....and more!
- FireFox Web Browser ...it just works.
- Process Explorer Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. Outstanding freeware!
- Attachmate Corporation "Leverage existing legacy assets to serve new business initiatives with programmatic integration and realize immediate ROI."
- Convert text to Unicode numeric character references Notice you can read (or at least see) the Russian text on my About page...IE and Firefox can display any character in any language if you provide the numeric code for the letter or symbol...this utility takes your text from places like Word and converts it to this numeric format that browsers like.
Other interesting links:
- The Russian Context My mother's book-promoting website. ISBN: 089357287X
- UW Libraries My wife is a bibliographic goddess at University of Washington Libraries. She is also the curator of a website purported to be the most complete bibliography of double wind quintet music anywhere.
- Dreams of Kitchens The culinary journal of a young man, trying to become a chef. My son rambles on here about recipes and the newness of life as an adult...
- Viola Jokes No jokes are funnier than viola jokes.
- StrongBad Amusing internet cartoon show.
- Sea Catch by McMillan Design, Inc., a quick release hook offering multi-directional releasing, hitch pin safety lock, 100% stainless steel, models to 500 ton SWL.
- Satellite view of my residence. My house is on the third lot north of the intersection, on the east side of the street.
Poetry
Can't understand why The New Yorker wasn't interested!
I want to be a poet
I want to be a poet
and all day play with verse -
If it were a row, I'd hoe it,
and sprouting rhymes I'd nurse.
Seeds of thought I'll gently sow
in reader's fallow minds -
They'll eat the fruit they came to know,
then throw away the rinds!
My plow is like a windmill,
My team, a wit sardonic,
My little shack upon the hill...
please bring me gin and tonic.
I want to be a poet
and play all day this way.
Should I take a chance and go-it
despite what my wife may say?
©2005 Ned Gerhart
Snoring
I pace
the floors -
my wife,
she snores.
Each breath
she takes,
the house,
it shakes!
The cat
is gone,
our dog,
withdrawn,
our kids
(two boys)
can't stand
the noise.
Next door
they shout,
THEY WANT
US OUT!
The rain,
it pours,
my wife,
she snores,
the dream
I keep:
tonight,
to sleep.
©2006 Ned Gerhart
Unforgettable images
My cousin, Franken-hand - don't let carpal tunnel syndrome happen to you!
