Musician's Tools

Metronome/Tuner

• Metronome Online
• WebMetronome
• Violin Tuner
• Viola Tuner
• Cello Tuner
• Metronome App: Clockwork ($0.99)
• Tuner App: ClearTune ($3.99)

Blank Manuscript Paper

• Blank Sheet Music
• 8notes

Music Theory

• Dolmetsch (very comprehensive)
• MusicTheory (includes Lessons and Trainers)
• 8notes

Sheet Music

• SheetMusicPlus
• SheetMusicDirect

Music Notation (software)

• Sibelius (the world’s leading music notation software, for good reason) 
• Finale (harder to learn, less intuitive, less powerful than Sibelius)

String Accessories, Cases, etc.

• Michael Becker Fine Violins (Park Ridge, IL)
• Seman Violins (Skokie)
• Shar Music (Ann Arbor, MI)
• Fiedler Cases (Germany)

Instrument sites

• Violinist
• TheViolinSite
• Viola
• Cello

Wikipedia articles

• Violin    Viola    Cello    Bow    Other instruments
• Music Theory
• Music History
• Music Education
• Music and Math

Area Youth Orchestras

• Midwest Young Artists (MYA)
• Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (CYSO)

String Communities

• American String Teachers Assn. (ASTA)
• Suzuki Assn. of the Americas (SAA)

Our Endorsements

• Yamaha (electric violin, viola, cello, digital piano)
• Sibelius (music notation)
• Scorch (iPad Sibelius file viewer/player)
• forScore (iPad sheet music app)
• Apple
• ClassicalTV
• Wenger (music stands, cello chair)