Showing posts with label wind instruments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wind instruments. Show all posts

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Brass Sax


Brass Sax shirt
Brass Sax by chmayer
More Chm T-Shirts

Dang, I had forgotten that I never had my Brass Sax stuff in my Zazzle store. Well, I do now.


Friday, November 20, 2009

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

WindsDay - Blue Brass & Sax (on Sale, too)

Blue Brass & Sax shirt
Blue Brass & Sax by chmayer
design your own shirt on Zazzle

Blue Brass & Sax = Blue Tuba, Trumpet, Trombone, and Saxophone

Note that all Zazzle T-shirts are $3 off this week. Use Coupon Code BTSSHIRTS09

Please visit Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle and @ CafePress

Thursday, August 13, 2009

WindsDay - Brass & Sax & Other Winds

Pictured here: Brass & Sax - Tuba, Trumpet, Trombone, and a Saxophone
And for more Brass, Sax, and other Wind Instruments...

@ CafePress
@ Zazzle

Please visit Music Stuff & More @ CafePress and @ Zazzle

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Tootsday - Do You Kazoo?

Do You Kazoo? magnet
Do You Kazoo? by rattlebrained
Make a personalized magnet on zazzle.com
No doubt, you have, or do. And then there's the, um, amateur version... Surely you've done the tissue on a comb, or the aluminum wrap on the empty cardboard paper roll, attached by a rubber band? If you have not, well, get up and do it right now! Get everyone around you to do the same, create a band. There aren't too many musical instruments any cheaper, whether store-bought or not.

A friend once taught me how to play "2001: A Space Odyssey" on piano and kazoo. I'll have to get that out, try it again, and share it around... Kazoo!

Find "regular" Wind Instrument graphics on merchandise at Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle and @ CafePress

Friday, July 31, 2009

Music TGIF - Bad Music Joke of the Week, Cheap Version

FRUGALHORN: A sensible and inexpensive brass instrument

For merchandise with graphics of more conventional brass instruments than the aforementioned Frugalhorn, please visit the Brass in Music Stuff & More @ CafePress

For frugal merchandise of all kinds, visit the "Bernanke Bargain Bin" featuring merchandise priced under $10 at Music Stuff & More @ CafePress
Please visit Music Stuff & More @ CafePress and @ Zazzle

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Procrastination Thursday - Toot/Winds: Harmonica

"Procrastination Thursday"? This is when you haven't gotten around to "TootsDay", and not even "WindsDay", and lump them altogether the very next day (obviously, Thursday).

Think Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, et al.... It's the Harmonica, it's the Blues Harp!

(Pictured: Harmonica/Blues Harp Magnet)
Featuring The Harmonica, also known as the "Blues Harp" for those of us fond of The Blues.
Find lots more Harmonica/Blues Harp merchandise at Music Stuff & More @ CafePress

Please visit Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle as well.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Music TGIF - Bad Music Joke of the Week

FLUTE: A sophisticated pea shooter with a range of up to 500 yards, blown transversely to confuse the enemy.
Red Flute Blue Flute shirt

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

WindsDay! - Pick a Piccolo

Piccolo Top 10 shirt
Piccolo Top 10 by MarchingBand
Browse more Band T-Shirts

Pick a Piccolo - the cuter flute?

Obviously, I'm still on the Piccolo thing where I left off on the 4th of July (Remember Sousa and "The Stars and Stripes Forever" piccolo solo, etc.?)

Please visit Music Stuff & More
@ CafePress
@ Zazzle

Friday, July 03, 2009

Music TGIF - 4th of July Version - Piccolo

It's Bad Music Joke of the Week - the 4th of July Version.

In a 4th-of-July mood and thinking about the piccolo solo (or piccoli soli if the band is lucky enough to have more than one good piccolo player).

Do you remember the words from your childhood that go with this piccolo/piccoli section of "Stars and Stripes Forever"? As I recall them...

Be kind to your web-footed friends
for a duck may be somebody's mother.
Be kind to your friends in the swamp
where the weather is very, very damp.
Well, you may think that this is the end,
but it's not!

Now that that is firmly stuck in your head, repeating itself:

DILL PICCOLO: A small wind instrument which only plays sour notes.

And, one more time, and this is not a joke:

John Phillip Sousa "Stars and Stripes Forever" ♫ http://twt.fm/188169

Happy 4th of July, Independence Day!

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

WindsDay - Sousa - Tubas & the 4th of July

A Salute to Sousaphones, as well as to John Phillip Sousa, with the 4th of July coming up.

John Phillip Sousa "Stars and Stripes Forever" ♫ http://twt.fm/188169

Please visit "Wind Instruments"
@ Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle
@ Music Stuff & More @ CafePress


Tuesday, June 30, 2009

TootsDay - Trumpet & More

American Band Nerds bag
American Band Nerds by MarchingBand
Design Personalized Bags at zazzle

Look, see, there is something to toot - the farmer is holding a trumpet. Looks like a rather nice trumpet, too. (If that picture looks rather familiar it is a parody of the painting "American Gothic" by Grant Wood, in the Art Institute in Chicago.) The farmer's wife is holding drum sticks, wonder if she's any good? (Picturing in my mind this lady surrounded by a drum kit... ) Hey, why not? You go, "Girl"!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Windsday - Tubas of a different color

Find tubas in bright blue (royal blue as pictured here), in red, and in purple at Music Stuff & More @ CafePress (shirt pictured here) and @ Zazzle (no red or purple tubas yet, look for them soon) Find "Wind Instruments" at Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle

Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known

Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known - Yahoo! News (from AP)

Just very interesting music news.

Don't forget the music-and-science show on PBS (KCET, for one) on at 9 pm Pacific Time (shortly).

And, please visit Music Stuff & More @ CafePress and @ Zazzle

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

(Tweets?) Toots Day - Bird Song

Okay, this is quite a stretch, but that's okay. It's TweetsDay TootsDay?

You might consider this Part 2 to "Music Monday." I found the website for this PBS show "The Music Instinct" about music and science I mentioned on "Music Monday." I thought there might be some good online content, and I was right. Lots of good online content - check it out @ www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct

And, what about Toots and Tweets? This TV program and its website linked in the above paragraph discuss bird song. Do birds toot? Um, again, kinda of a stretch, but you could argue so. A voice, whether bird, or humans, for that matter, have similar construction to a wind instrument. Think about it - a very flexible and fleshy wind instrument, but...sure... I'm an alto wind instrument - or actually tenor (I have a low vocal range for a woman.). How about you? And, think about this the next you hear a bird song.

Please visit Music Stuff & More @ CafePress and @ Zazzle

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

It's "Toot" Tuesday! The Clarinet

Clarinet Top 10 shirt
Clarinet Top 10 by MarchingBand
View other Band T-Shirts
(Visit the store this shirt came from to better read the Clarinet Top 10 List)

And, of course, my own Clarinet merchandise at Music Stuff & More @ CafePress

Please visit also Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle

Friday, June 12, 2009

Music TGIF - Bad Music Joke of the Week



The Fermata: A chance for the conductor to catch his breath while attempting to make his wind players pass out.


For the All-Black "Hold Me" : CHM Design Store - Music Stuff & More - find all kinds of "Fermata (Hold) Me" Wears and Wares for all genders and ages.

And, this graphic is coming soon to Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

It's WindsDay! - Blowing in the Wind [Instrument]

It's WindsDay - this graphic shows a bunch of old-timey musicians trying (succeeding? who knows?) to play a giant, strange, tuba-like big brass wind instrument. Looks as if they have their work cut out for them here. I wonder what that big brass thing would sound like? {{((BBWWWAAAAHH!!!))}} No, more bass... More sub-woofer like. More earthquake, sonic boom, shuttle-landing, explosion, thunder like...? Hmmm... Major rumbling.

Anyway, lots of this graphic on Zazzle at Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle and @ CafePress (with an additional variation of this graphic at Music Stuff & More @ CafePress )