Sustain Magazine is a magazine for luthiers (builders of stringed musical instruments).

Canada’s Prince Edward Island is home to one of the oldest and most vibrant fiddling traditions in North America. First established by Scottish immigrants in the late eighteenth century, it incorporated the influence of a later wave of Irish immigrants as well as the unique rhythmic sensibilities of the Acadian French, the Island’s first European inhabitants. In Couldn’t Have a Wedding without the Fiddler, renowned musician and folklorist Ken Perlman combines oral history, ethnography, and musical insight to present a captivating portrait of Prince Edward Island fiddling and its longstanding importance to community life. Couldn’t Have a Wedding without the Fiddler draws heavily on interviews conducted with 150 fiddlers and other “Islanders”—including singers, dancers, music instructors, community leaders, and event organizers—whose memories span decades. The book thus colorfully brings to life a time not so very long ago when virtually any occasion—a wedding, harvest, house warming, holiday, or the need to raise money for local institutions such as schools and churchs—was sufficient excuse to hold a dance, with the fiddle player at the center of the celebration. Perlman explores how fiddling skills and traditions were learned and passed down through the generations and how individual fiddlers honed their distinctive playing styles. He also examines the Island’s history and material culture, fiddlers’ values and attitudes, the role of radio and recordings, the fiddlers’ repertoire, fiddling contests, and the ebb and flow of the fiddling tradition, including efforts over the last few decades to keep the music alive in the face of modernization and the passing of “old-timers.” Rounding out the book is a rich array of photographs, musical examples, dance diagrams, and a discography. The inaugural volume in the Charles K. Wolfe American Music Series, Couldn’t Have a Wedding without the Fiddler is, in the words of series editor Ted Olson, “clearly among the more significant studies of a local North American music tradition to be published in recent years.”

This book shall provide you with the basis and the knowledge to build your own electric guitar. It has been created for beginners and for advanced practitioners, focusing on the essential. To build a guitar on your own, you should enjoy working with wood, sawing, sanding, refining, soldering, assembling and adjusting your masterwork.

Bach 2-Part Inventions for Electric Guitar features the complete set of 15 Inventions by J.S.Bach transcribed for 6 and 7-string electric guitar in standard music notation and guitar tablature. All pieces are presented in their original key and octave, and keyboard ornamentation has been preserved to every extent possible. This collection of unprecedented musical studies offers a treasure-trove of musical wealth to guitar students and is a welcome addition to the repertoire of electric guitarists of all levels.

This books for children ensemble. Six different songs playable together. These songs are Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Lightly Row, Long Long Ago, Song of the Wind, Ode to Joy and Lullaby. Instruments are two violin, piano and violoncello. Enjoy

Guitalele belongs to new music instruments. So far very few sheets were written for this instrument. I decided to fill a gap in the market. You will find 15 known songs in the book. Each song is recorded twice, whether you have any more to play with. As the guitalele tuned A2 D3 G3 C4 E4 A4," the guitar with a capo on the fifth fret or Requinto can play from these notes. In the end I added double page with most used chords. The are in the book songs without text. Check out samples from book: http: //osos.sweb.cz/Sarek-Guitar-and-Guitalele-preview.pdf Songs: Good King Wenceslas; Greensleeves; Home In That Rock; I Can't Feel at Home; I Saw Three Ships; Let Us Break Bread Together; London's Burning; Mary Had A Little Lamb; O Christmas Tree; Oh, My Darling Clementine; Peace Like A River; Silent Night; Ten Little Indians; The Streets of Laredo; The Three Ravens

Guitalele belongs to new music instruments. So far very few sheets were written for this instrument. I decided to fill a gap in the market. You will find 15 known songs in the book. Each song is recorded twice, whether you have any more to play with. As the guitalele tuned A2 D3 G3 C4 E4 A4," the guitar with a capo on the fifth fret or Requinto can play from these notes. In the end I added double page with most used chords. Songs: Adeste Fideles; Aura Lee; Brother John; Come And Go With Me; Deck the Hall; Go Tell Aunt Rhody; He Arose; Iroquois Lullaby; Jesus Loves Me; London Bridge; On Top of Old Smokey; Row, Row, Row Your Boat; The First Noel; Vent Frais; Wade in the Water The are in the book songs without text. Check out samples from book: http: //osos.sweb.cz/Sarek-Guitar-and-Guitalele-preview.pdf