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Musician's Tools

Metronome/Tuner
  • Metronome Online
  • Tuner/Metronome App (iOS): Practice+

Blank Manuscript Paper
  • Blank Sheet Music
  • 8notes

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

Sheet Music
  • StringLibrary.com
  • 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)
  • MuseScore

String Accessories, Cases, etc.
  • Seman Violins (Skokie)
  • Shar Music (Ann Arbor, MI)​


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)
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