Welcome to Balboa Magnet Orchestra's new website! (We appreciate your patience as we build this site.)
 Remember, Orchestra is on Monday! so bring your instrument and music book! Honor Orchestra students must practice extra.
Honor's Orchestra: If you are in one of the advanced classes, you've already been invited to audition to be part of this great group. Have you started practicing yet? If so, then Farandole should sound sort of familiar...it's a famous song. Listen to it on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMno11NXsXk. And practice, practice, practice! While we organize, here are some links you may find useful:
To tune your violin (when you don't have a tuner), try this website: http://www.get-tuned.com/violin_tuner.php
To tune your cello (when you don't have a tuner), try this website: http://www.get-tuned.com/cello_tuner.php.
And here is an important tip regarding tuning for any string instrument (from www.get-tuned.com):
Tune from being Flat, up ALWAYS TUNE UP TO THE NOTE. ALWAYS. When you tune down, some invisible slack will often remain above the 'nut' (the '0' fret), and with a few strums, the slack works its way over the nut to the rest of the string. When you tune, go "down or flat" below the note, and then tune up. If you over-tighten and make the pitch too high, go below the note again and make another attempt. This is the first rule I learned from my guitar teacher in High School. It really makes a difference, and it applies equally to other instruments. |
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