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cellofreak1286
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(5/10/01 7:45:27
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string
magazines
I am looking for some good string magazines to subscribe to. Does
anyone have some suggestions, I mean anything about strings, cello,
violin, anything. And where could I subscribe to them?
Thanks.
-rmb
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Ellen
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(5/10/01 8:01:48 pm)
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Re: string
magazines
Two of the main ones you can investigate on-line through websites
and see if they interest you.
www.stringsmagazine.com gives
you access to some articles, though sometimes the little tidbits
that aren't posted are the most useful to the player. Instrument
maintenance, test driving of new products, etc. The bios and that
type of thing are usually on line. In my experience Strings is sort
of slow in starting delivery and getting back issues to you.
Strad is available through a site I posted in another post.
Orpheus something or other. This one is quite a bit more expensive
than Strings, and some say a little more uneven in quality of
writing. I am not qualified to give an opinion one way or the other.
Just telling you they're available.
I find in general that a
magazine I pick up for fun has great articles in it.... right up
until the time I subscribe to it!!!! E
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TerryM
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(5/10/01 9:10:40 pm)
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Re: string
magazines Subscriptions
Ellen, you are so right about getting Strings Magazine to deliver
the first copy. I have been trying since last November to get a
subscription going with them. I waited until late January for my
first copy to arrive and then I got a letter in the mail with my
name on it, no street or city address and only Canada and my postal
code. To the credit of our postal people they found me. The card
informed me that my payment was past due. I then contacted them by
phone to tell them that if they expected the post office to deliver
their magazine they might consider putting the street address and
perhaps at least the city so that the post office might have a clue
of where it was supposed to be going.
I then waited for
another couple of months and finally e-mailed them. No answer back,
so I tried again a month later. I finally got a reply with great
apologies for the whole mess. Still no magazines. Then I get another
past due notice in the mail advising me that they could no longer
send me the magazine because I had not paid. I called them again.
They apologized again, but told me their computer was in the middle
of a big job of some sort, so they could not access my file and to
call back the following day. I did and they still could not access
the computer. I think I am about to give up on the whole mess and
just buy it at the local newsstand. The difference in savings
between the newsstand and subscription price has probably been eaten
up in phone calls any way. Seven months is more than fair on my
part. I guess it was not meant to be.
Terry
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bridge
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(5/11/01 9:35:59 am)
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Re: string
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I used to have subscriptions to both. Now I have subscriptions to
neither. I plan on restarting my Strings subscription. I find the
Strad too snooty for my taste.
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SW
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(5/11/01 9:58:38 am)
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Re: string
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We get both Strings and Strad at our house and enjoy both. If you
are near a Borders or Barnes and Noble or some other bookstore that
has a wide variety of magazines, you should find them there--or at
least Strad. Buy issues for a few months to test them out. Another
thought...Do you live near a university that has a music dept. with
a music library? The music library should have a huge variety of
current periodicals to read...or maybe a very large public library
would also (but that's more iffy). At Stony Brook the music library
subscribes to everything (or it just looks that way).
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Len
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(5/11/01 2:25:38 pm)
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Re: string
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Terry, I hear you about Strings and their not getting the mag to
you in a timely fashion. They sure have the billing part down good
though! While I do like the magazine, and some of the ads are nice
to have, there is way too many of them, and not enough
articles!
Len
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