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NEW! Metal Wallets with One Line Instruments with Beautiful colors: Blue, Red, Purple, Green, and Orange. One or two for every string family instrument is available.

From Theodore Buchholz, Cello Professor-UA: Last Saturday, the The University of Arizona School of Music was filled with the joyful sounds of gaggles and hoards of string players at the 2024 String Symposium, the Arizona American String Teachers Association Fall...

StringRiffs.com - Karen Koger and Katrina Becker enjoyed boothing across from Southwest Strings - Adan yesterday for AZASTA's Fall Meeting.   Karen's compositions and  Whatnots  drew a lot of attention and interesting discussions. We enjoyed hearing  stories and...

Look for Whatnots where StringRiffs has a booth (National ASTA, AZMEA, VMEA, or NafME Northwest 2024-2025), at AZASTA Fall Meeting in Tucson, ProDev in ABQ (working on this), and Arizona music stores: Valley Violins (Valley of the Sun Violins), Andrew's Fine Violins,...

StringRiffs.com Composer, Cellist, and Teacher, Karen Koger, brings a new line of useful Whatnots to you starting next week.  New products are arriving weekly. Check in to see which products have been posted for a time.  Once a product is gone, another arrives in its...

Presented a session with Lane Champa, current Lead Teacher and Coordinator of Play Us Forward, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra’s educational outreach. Our topic was Inclusion, Multi-Culturalism, and Appreciation via String Education. I was invited to present a session by...

I wish I had pictures, but I was busy presenting!  What a great group of my fellow teachers from MPS ProDev day. Many thanks to Cicely Brazier, Anna Perreta, Christopher Donlon, Karalee Hagen, and the rest of my teachers. Many good bits of teaching philosophy, new...

“Mysh marsh” and StringRiffs.com Flex-Pack piece Hootenanny were played by AZ strings teachers at ASTA-AZ’s Fall Meeting reading session. Such a joyful meeting as we learned from Margaret Selby.

August 15, 2023 StringRiffs.com was represented in a district reading session led by Jo Carriço.  She was hoping that many beginning teachers would meet StringRiffs.com music, as well as the scale sheets, Flex-Packs, and Multi-Level original pieces for young string...