Links | Resources

Here are some resources that we find helpful. Please let us know if a link is not working, or if you have recommendations to add!

Instrument Tuner/Technician/Sales

Piano

• Yun Swanson, RPT, Gloucester MA
  yunwang0826@yahoo.com
  978-810-5410
•  Williams Piano Shop
  • This shop, in business for three generations, is excellent for rentals and finances purchases through the store! Family owned and operated. The Yamaha T118 and C1X pianos in our studios are from Williams Piano Shop!

Guitar/Strings

• https://electrictreesguitars.com/
  • Custom made guitars and repairs
• Woods and Strings Music Center
  • 493 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA

Music Stores

• Prima Music
  • We order most of our books from here and they are always super helpful!
• Musicnotes
  • Printable sheet music
• Woods and Strings Music Center
  • 493 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA

Sight-reading/Ear-training

• Music Theory website
  • Theory lessons and Tenuto app
• Beginner Intervals Practice 
  • Flashcard style, gets progressively harder
• My Note Games iPad and iPhone app
  • Beginner notes, we recommend “tap that note” for beginning note-reading

Other

• ClassicFM
  • Listen to and learn about the Greats
• IMSLP
  • Petrucci Music Library, public domain music (sheet and audio)
• ABRSM
  • Instrumental and theory exams, also have helpful resources and apps
• Composer Facts
• Clavier’s Piano Explorer Magazine
• Music for Music Teachers
  • Free sheet music and useful resources
• 8notes
  • Free graded sheet music (some arrangements are better than others)

Piano Information

• Piano Care Info – Piano Technicians Guild website
• Buying a Piano – Larry Fine’s The Piano Book
• Steinway’s Buying Guide