Ukulele For Beginners: Buyer’s Guide & Top Picks
The ukulele’s great advantage over guitar for a beginner is physical: nylon strings under low...
Musical Instruments
Drum Sticks: Kits, Pads & Sticks Compared
Drumsticks feel like a commodity until you play two pairs back to back. The same...
8 Best Ukuleles: Buyer’s Guide & Top Picks
Ukulele has a reputation for being the easy instrument, and that reputation causes most of...
Concert Ukulele: Buyer’s Guide & Top Picks
Concert is the size most adults should have bought first. A soprano’s scale is around...
Beginner Drum Set: Kits, Pads & Sticks Compared
Here is the advice most drum teachers give and most beginners ignore: your first purchase...
Violin Case: Sizes, Setup & Sound
A violin case is not luggage. It is a climate-controlled box whose job is to...
Violin Strings: Sizes, Setup & Sound
Violin strings divide almost entirely along one line: what the core is made of. Steel...
Sustain Pedal: Keys, Action & Sound Compared
The most common sustain pedal complaint is that it works backwards — press it and...
Beginner Violin: Sizes, Setup & Sound
Violin is the instrument where buying the wrong size does the most damage. A child...
8 Best Violins For Beginners: Sizes, Setup & Sound
Every violin teacher has the same conversation with new parents: rent or buy? Renting makes...