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Many of us are used to plugging a few keywords into Google, Yahoo, or another engine for our searches. The trouble is, results are increasingly influenced by advertisers buying "AdWords" to push their listings higher onto search results. Sometimes, too, your keyword choice pulls a page from deep within a site and you have to reverse navigate your way to the main page. Blogs, chats, and usergroups all have their benefits, but the links below are ones that will take you directly to the main sites of most of our suppliers.
We've also included links to some local artists & groups (including those of our faculty members), local resources like photographers and recording studios that we're familiar with enough to recommend, plus artists we enjoy that may be a bit off the mainstream--not necessarily links you'll find on every fanpage you stumble upon.
We feel that Music Advocacy is important to everyone, not just band booster members, so we've included links to a number of organizations that help you support the arts, and particularly music education in your community.
Finally, we're not vintage experts, despite a modest knowledge and great interest in historical instruments. Don't ask us for a valuation on grandpa's Gibson mandolin, what year your Albert System Clarinet was made, or where you can get parts for an old Gretsch drumset. Truly, we don't know without looking, and you can get an answer faster doing your own research! We offer a few links to get you started, and wish you luck in your quest.
If you have links that you've found that would be helpful in these categories, email the information to our webmaster and we'll check them out. If you find any of these links have gone dead, please let us know as well.
You can find more links (including many graphic arts related and non-music links) on Dan's links page in the Funhouse.
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