Volume 31 Number 1 A Quarterly Publication of Quinlan & Fabish Music Company Fall 2017

Summer Reading Sessions

Hit the Mark! Dozens of educators invested a morning to read through a lot of new music for string orchestra and young band. The event was held at Plymouth HS in July. A special thanks to Bryan Ames & Lisa Wallyn for hosting this event. Hal Leonard provided two outstanding

clinicians for the event. Noted composer and conductor, Johnnie Vinson led the band reading session and David Eccles of VanderCook College of Music conducted the orchestra! This year also featured two local composers and their new music. Onsby Rose conduct-

ed his piece “Heroes from the Sea” and Heather Hoefle of Parker JHS in Floss-moor, IL conducted two of her pieces published by Kjos. The folks from Pbuzz, maker of the Pbone debuted their new-est product for pre-band ac-tivities. At the end of the ses-sions, a raffle allowed each participant to select a piece from the collection played that day and a Free Pbuzz! Everyone left with a prize! “Thank you...I always enjoy this day and particularly enjoy meeting the

guest composers” Susan Walker-LaSalle Academy

“Really enjoyed Johnnie Vinson”

Bret Deardorff Elkhart Christian Academy

Celebrating Doc’s 90th Birthday at Midwest Clinic

The “one and only” legendary Trumpet Artist, Doc Severinsen will perform the opening evening concert on Wednesday, December 20th at the Midwest Clinic. The Elmhurst College Jazz Band, under the direction of Doug Beach, has been invited to perform with Doc as he cele-brates his 90th birthday with his first performance at this event in many, many years. QF proudly will join Shires Custom Brass Division of Eastman Music Com-pany to sponsor this special appearance. Doc performed a special concert in No-

Class of 2017 Michiana Outstanding

Music Educator Awards

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vember of 2015 with the QF All-Star Concert Band, under the direction of Charles Staley followed by a set with the Faculty Jazz Band composed of some of Chicago’s finest musician/Jazz Educators. Since then, Doc has been constantly “on the road” performing and most recently, celebrated his 90th birth-day on July7th. Doc teamed with legendary brass crafts-man, Steve Shires a few years ago to develop the Destino III trumpets. He says “I had a hiatus making horns be-cause of a lack of somebody who shared my dreams and ambitions, and then a good friend recommended Steve Shires – someone who shares my ideals about what a really fine trumpet should be and can be. In his factory are about 25 craftsmen who are also professional, working brass players who totally un-derstand what is involved in making great brass instruments. The horns are completely made there – no outsourc-ing. I have never asked for something to be done and met with an excuse or rea-son why it couldn’t be done. Instead, complete enthusiasm and a desire to get it right. I truly love this horn and it loves me back. I feel that if I am willing to practice there is no limit to what I can accomplish on this horn.”

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recognized in this outstanding group of retail-ers. We are humbled.

Congratulations to Kevin Rouch, repair manager at QF-Mishawaka, winner of the “Lewie Award” for exceptional team spirit in our repair division and to QF-VP

Ken Partyka, winner of the “Dale Award” for outstanding cus-tomer service

support. These special honors and mile-stone awards were bestowed at our annu-al company outing.

We are excited to offer “encore” MECA-Continuing Education courses from VanderCook College of Music this se-mester. The same courses were offered last year and were very successful. Please see Page Ten for details. Stu-dents in the percussion repair class with Professor Jim Yakas gained valuable

“hands-on” experi-ence replac-ing and tuning drum

heads, learned how to tie the cymbal knot correctly, timpani adjustments, etc.. The MS Band session with Keith Ozsvath & Greg Scappilato was simp-ly awesome.

FB changes “Back to School”

George Quinlan, Jr.

As a B.Fb. (before Facebook) QF road rep veteran, I remember how exciting it was to renew relationships with those you have-n’t seen for a few months. We would share stories about travel adventures, con-tinuing education progress, family and friends updates, etc. In the world of Facebook, some of the excitement of the “Back to School” ritual has been displaced. Now, instead of learning of these exciting life events, the conversation centers around exploring more details about these events, since we already know what has happened. We learn now why and how these things hap-pened. Not better. Not worse. Just differ-ent. Part of me longs to return to those earlier exciting conversations and part of me loves learning about these significant life events digitally—almost in real time. Anyway, as you probably have seen on Facebook, we hosted my favorite horn section in August. The Tower of Power horns performed and held a “meet and greet” session at QF-Arlington Hts. fol-lowing our Back to School reading ses-sion. The result? About 50 excited fans LOVED seeing and hearing the TOP horns perform their “hits” live in a small session. THEN...IT WENT VIRAL! As QN goes to press, the video of the horns jamming on “Soul Vaccination” has been viewed over 121,000 times around the world. This video has reached over 320,000 people. Fascinating…

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You may have seen this on FB too, Band-Source of Downers Grove, IL. merged with QF in June. Former owner, Pete Biedron has joined the QF staff of road reps and will continue to provide outstand-ing service to former BandSource custom-ers from our Burr Ridge location.

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Music Trades magazine produces an annu-al listing of the Top 200 Music Retailers in the US. Our company was ranked in the Top 20 in the USA and as the leading family-owned school music specialist in the US. NAMM honors the Top 100 deal-ers in the nation at the annual Summer NAMM show in Nashville. QF was again

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Stork Report…Sarah Staub (Angola MS) and her husband, Jared had a baby! Cooper Robert Michael Staub was born

August 18th...Congratulations! Wedding bells…Congratulations to Ja-cob Grabill & Ariana Blake. They were married July 7th 2017. Jacob is the band director at Northwood MS. Brooke & John Hess were married this summer. Brooke is the orchestra director at Mishawaka HS and John Young MS. Best Wishes to the happy couple! Congratulations to Brandon Dinkins & Laura Smeltzer as they “tied-the-knot” over Memorial Day Weekend. Brandon teaches in the Kankakee Valley Schools and Laura teaches in the Merrillville Schools. David Iwaniec & Jenna Thurston cele-brated their wedding on July 8th followed by a honeymoon in Las Vegas. David is the band director at Navarre Intermediate and Jenna is the art teacher at Bremen Schools. Grissom MS Band Director, Heather Marshall married Huntington North HS Choir Director, Dan Baker in January. Congratulations Mr.& Mrs. Baker! New faces, new places…Congrats to Chris Paulson, as he steps into his new position as head band director at Lafa-yette Jefferson HS. DJ Landoll has joined the staff at Penn HS as Assistant Band Director. DJ is a

graduate of Duquesne University and James Madison University and a French horn player. Welcome DJ! Katie Safa, now directing the Barker MS Band, joins us after moving up from Kentucky. Best wishes on your new position! Samantha (Sammi) Bessey is a recent graduate of Valparaiso University, stu-dent taught at Willowcreek, and was recently named as the new Band Direc-tor at Wheeler! Good luck to her on her first position! Matthew Hibbets has accepted the band position at Eggers MS in Ham-mond where he will resume teaching instrumental music to kids that have not had that opportunity there in ap-proximately six years. Congrats!! Clinton Community School, Clinton, MI recently named Aubrey Salety as the new director of bands. She former-ly taught in the Waldron Community Schools in Hillsdale County, MI. Wel-come Aubrey! Mitch Freeman accepted the position of 5 and 6th grade general music teacher at Riverside Intermediate. He also as-sists Lisa Wallyn & Bryan Ames with the Plymouth HS marching band. Kyle Pitcher has joined Goshen Com-munity Schools as their Orchestra Di-rector for 5th & 6th Grades. Kyle gradu-ated from Western Michigan Universi-ty and is a bass player. Welcome Kyle! Frank Gast has been selected as the new director of bands at Michigan City HS. He's excited to get things going with the marching band and taking the Michigan City program to the next lev-el. Amanda Malone graduated from IUSB, is a flute player, and has accept-ed the position of General Music Teacher at Success Academy. John VanPatten is the new director of bands at the Whitko Schools. The Whitko HS Marching Pride competed at the ISSMA Summer Showcase Marching Band Contest on August 19th. The band received a gold rating for their performance. Hannah Adams is the new director at

Send news about your school music program for our next issue to info@qandf.com

By Mike Edwards We have certainly had a busy spring and summer! In May, we were fortunate to have Steve Shires visit the store. In addition to training sessions with our staff and repair techs, Steve presented a clinic for the students at Neuqua Valley HS hosted by directors Andy Seidel & Johnathan Lauff. While the students hung on every word from Steve, the real treat was get-ting to play a selection of trumpets and trombones that we brought along. Our “Pick a Shires with Shires” event allowed many students (and a few “kids at heart”) to work with Steve to select their own custom Shires instrument. We also convened our QF Brass Adviso-ry Board to meet with Steve to provide feedback on his various models. One educator/pro, Chuck Parrish liked the Destino III trum-pet so much, he be-came a Shires endors-ing art-ist! All agreed that the new Q-Series instruments, available on our exclusive 1st Chair plan represented the highest quality and affordability for students.

Located at QF-Montgomery

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Butler University graduate. Welcome Jack! A change of scenery...Zach Myers has been named as the Orchestra Director at Clay HS and Brown Intermediate Center. He was head band director at John Adams in previous years and is looking forward to be conducting the orchestras. Good Luck to Mike Baum, former direc-tor at Boone Grove who has decided to return to school to earn his psychology degree in hopes of landing a job as a coun-selor. Best wishes to Katelyn Leonard-White, former director at Wheeler as she has gone back to school to earn a degree in music therapy. Paul Belleville, new director of the Boone Grove Band, joins us from Crawfordsville, where he taught last. He was thrilled to find out he lives directly across the street from the Valpo location. His last music vendor was an hour and a half away! Welcome Steffani Ronfeldt as the new Head Band Director at John Adams HS.

Kidder MS in the North-west School Corporation near Jackson, MI. Han-nah is a Michigan State grad and has been teach-ing band in the state of Washington. She spent

this summer as a staff member at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. She will be working with Bryan Mangiavel-lano. Best of Luck Hannah! Braden McCloskey is the new band di-rector at Lakeland Schools. He is origi-nally from Ohio and a graduate of Kent State. He most recently was a band di-rector in Fargo, North Dakota. Braden plays the oboe and will be directing both MS and HS bands. Congratulations to Zac Coudret, who has joined Penn HS as their new assistant orchestra director. Zac formerly taught in South Bend and Goshen Schools. Zac replaces Liz Cravens who left for anoth-er teaching position. Welcome Zac! Jack Hinkle has joined Concord Com-munity Schools as their new assistant music director. Jack is a Concord HS and

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Steffani graduated from Ohio State Uni-versity where she was a four year mem-ber of the marching band. She started playing violin and trombone at age elev-en and cello at nineteen. Steffani enjoys running and will be in the marine corp marathon this year supporting her mom in her first marathon. Nathanael Sudduth has returned to Northern Indiana after accepting the position of Head Band Director at John Glenn HS. He was the band director at LaVille HS for many years and most recently the director at Brown County HS the last two years. Welcome back Nathanael! Ed Schoendorff will be joining the Manchester Band Department in Man-chester, MI. Ed is the elementary music teacher at Klager Elementary, and will be the band director for the 5th and 6th grade band students this fall. Jared Throneberry will continue to direct the MS and HS bands at Manchester.

Valparaiso Store Gets “Makeover”

Join us for the

GRAND RE-OPENING Saturday, October 14 - Customer

Appreciation Sale Day Sunday, October 15 - DIRECTOR DAY

Details available from your QF Rep

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CLASS OF 2017

Michiana Outstanding Music Educator Award Winners

Wayne Coil Valparaiso

Susan Jehl Summit MS

Bryan Ames Plymouth HS

Not Pictured - Terry Fisher - Dekalb HS (retired)

Jennifer Hollandsworth Watervliet HS

Kyle Miller Pierre Moran MS

Susan Walker LaSalle Academy

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Welcome to Katie Zolvinski as the new assistant band director at John Adams HS. She plays oboe and English Horn and is originally from LaPorte, IN. Katie

is a graduate of Ball State and most re-cently the Assistant Director of Bands at Ed W. Clark HS in Las Vegas, NV. She has also played Oboe and English Horn for the College of Southern Nevada Or-chestra, The Southern Indiana Wind Ensemble, and The Bloomington Sym-phony Orchestra. Let’s welcome Aaron Alexander as the new director of Bands in Griffith. Aaron previously taught in Clarksville, IN. Brittany Hibbs is the new elementary music teacher and beginning band direc-tor at Eel River Elementary in the North-west Allen County Schools near Fort Wayne, IN. Brittany graduated from Ball State University. Welcome Britta-ny! Bill Murray is the new director at the Morenci Area Schools in the MSBOA District 8 region. Congratulations to Bill and Best of Luck! Jeremy Wall has joined Goshen Com-munity Schools as their new Percussion Director. Jeremy is a graduate of the University of Illinois. Welcome Jeremy. Just like Michael Jordan...Pete Foster retired from retirement this fall and ac-cepted the position of Band and Choir director at Argos Schools. Pete retired two years ago from Triton Schools and is enjoying getting back to teaching. Welcome back Pete! After 10 years as the director of the IUSB Jazz ensemble, bass player and composer, Darrel Tidaback has decid-ed it’s time for the group to have a re-gime change. Dennis Gamble, band director at Mishawaka HS has accepted the position. Dennis has played trumpet in the ensemble since the 1980’s and will now have the opportunity to lead the group. Congratulations Dennis! Adams Central Schools had hired Brett Latman as their new Band Director. Best Wishes! Please welcome Megan Gauler as the new Band and Choir Director at Kouts

Please join us in thanking the 2017 sponsors of the Maury Rhodes Classic golf outing at Swan Lake Golf Club in Plymouth following our Summer Reading Sessions. Together, we were able to raise over $12,000 to benefit the Rhodes Music Library at VanderCook College of Music. American Way, Anthem Musical Instruments, Arcos Brasil-String Instru-ments, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co-Insurance Plans Agency, Backun Musi-cal Services, Ltd, Buffet Musical Inst., Cannonball Musical Instruments, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, Conn-Selmer, D'Addario, DANSR, Devries Roof-ing, Douglas Commons Partners/Dolan & Murphy, Eastman Strings & Winds, Gemeinhardt, GIA Publishing, Grasso Graphics, Hal Leonard, Harris-Teller, Howard Core, Jupiter, Mike Balter Mallets, NMGI, Park Ridge Stationers, Pearl Corporation, Remo, Scribes, St. Louis Music, The Music People, VanderCook Alumni Association, Wealth Enhancement Group, West Suburban Bank, Woodcreek Builders & Yamaha

Congratulations to Cameron Bradley of Concord JHS-Elkhart, IN for the winning entry in our Facebook contest. To enter, directors recognized their QF rep by com-pleting this thought…I Like My QF Rep Because…

Cameron was immortalized with

his QF Rep, Lloyd Kirkpatrick of Mishawaka as a tandem bobble-head. Cameron & Lloyd each received a bobble-head set and one was installed in the QF Bobble-Head Hall of Fame! Be sure to check out Cameron’s award winning video on our FB page!

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Jr/Sr HS. She is a recent graduate of Valparaiso University where she studied under Dr. Jef-frey Doebler. Good Luck Megan!

Two New in Dekalb...Dekalb HS an-nounced Shanna Lank as their new Band Director and Dekalb MS hired Michelle Henry as their new Band Di-rector. Congrats! Sean Diller has joined Elkhart Commu-nity Schools as their assistant orchestra director at Memorial HS and North Side MS. Sean formerly taught at CPS and Goshen Schools. He is a graduate of Elkhart Memorial HS, Ball State Univer-sity, Vandercook College and is a viola player. Welcome Sean! On the Road Again…Woodlan Jr/Sr HS, led by Robert Slattery traveled to Washington DC to perform for the Na-tions July 4th celebration. The Jackson HS Band traveled to Adrian College this July for band camp. The band will have 235 students participating in various ensembles this fall! The band is under the direction of Joel Shaner & Nathen Heim. The Northwest HS band traveled to the Interlochen Center For the Arts Camp in Northern Michigan for their annual band camp and performed their show for the parents at the end of the week. Many of the students’ families camp next door to Interlochen so they can watch the band’s show develop thru the week! The band is directed by Bryan Mangiavellano. East Noble HS Band, directed by Bryan Munoz, will be traveling to Disney in October to perform. James Wasmundt, Assistant Band Di-rector at River Forest Jr/Sr HS traveled to Uganda in June. While in Uganda he helped to train teachers at a village school as part of the Every Child Minis-tries. Honors and Recognition…Congratulations to Craige Phipps, Dar-ren Day, and the Knox Community Schools on being named one of the NAMM Best Communities for Music Education in 2017. Way to go! Benjamin Leonard-White (Highland

Orchestras) along with his wife, Katelyn started Regional Performing Arts Com-pany a theatre that supports Porter Coun-ty Youth Theatre Arts. In addition, Ben still runs Del Segno Studios based in Portage. Sounds like he's not bored much... The Elkhart County Symphony opens its season Saturday September 16th at the beautiful Lerner Theatre with the Power of Brass featuring the Artisans in Brass. Congratulations to the following jazz ensembles who performed at this year’s Elkhart Jazz Festival: Jake Robaska Memorial HS, Kathy Baughman Jimtown HS, David Elliot Elkhart Cen-tral HS, Tom Cox Goshen HS, Steve Peterson Concord HS, Aaron Griesser Penn HS and Sean Patrick and the Go-shen HS Red Strings. Dawn Forsythe presented “Teaching technology in Music Education” at the 2nd annual Edtech in the Bend E-Learning Conference at Riley High School on August 4th. Bryce Cone and his band “Nevilles Dia-ry" performed at Barnes & Noble at the end of July. Bryce is the director at Northridge MS and assists Brad Zook with the HS Band. Marching Band News...Tom Cox, Josh Kaufmann and the Goshen HS Crimson Command marched in this year’s Indy 500 Parade. Glenn Northern and the Penn HS Marching Kingsmen will present their 27th annual Carnival of Bands Septem-ber 23rd. Snider HS, directed by Kevin Klee, is hosting a marching band invitational Saturday Sept. 16th on the campus of St Francis University. Bryan Munoz and the East Noble HS Band is hosting their annual marching invitational Saturday Oct. 21st Bridget Flory, James Wasmundt, and

the River Forest HS Marching Band per-formed in Independ-ence Day Parades in Lake Station and Ho-bart.

Dekalb HS Band led by Shanna Lank is hosting their annual marching invita-

tional Saturday Sept. 16th The Kouts HS Marching Band, directed by Megan Gauler, will be participating in the Kouts Pork Festival and Valparai-so Popcorn Festival Parades later this fall. The band will also be traveling to West Lafayette to participate in the Pur-due University Band Day. Scott Spradling and the Concord HS Marching Minutemen will present their 36th annual Marching Invitational Sep-tember 17th. The North Judson-San Pierre HS Band performed in the Mint Festival Pa-rade. The band is directed by Sarah Flores. Bluffton HS and Jim Bueter are hosting their annual marching invitational Satur-day Sept. 9th

The world and the music community

lost an amazing person, teacher, and

friend this summer. Dan Fortlander,

beloved band director at John Glenn

Schools passed away unexpectedly June

10th. He began teaching at John Glenn

in 1985 and led his program to numer-

ous awards including marching band

state contests. He was a friend to all

and has left a legacy behind no one will

ever forget. He touched literally thou-

sands of lives over these 32 years. Rest

in Peace Dan, you will be

missed immensely.

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Scott Lang presented an Educator Workshop

at our Burr Ridge location on June 28th

Be Part of the Music Scott is an in-demand motivational speaker who specializes in ideas to help improve recruiting and retaining music students. To an enthusiastic audience of Music Educators, Scott shared great ideas you can implement for FREE us-ing the innovative letters, videos, and other tools on his website. To Learn More About These FREE Educator Tools visit:

www.BePartOfTheMusic.org

Windy City Flutes has had a busy sum-mer! In July, we visited Credo Flute Camp at Elmhurst College, hosted by Jennie Brown, and got to work with some amazing flute students. We also visited Dr. Cate’s Flute Camp at our Montgomery IL location, and had a lot of fun with the kids trying step up flutes! Christina Cobas & Steve Rorie of Powell Flutes visited for three days

of staff training, and a session with the QF Flute Advisory Board. We are excited to announce that we are

carrying LeFreque in our Windy City Flutes showroom! If you haven’t heard of this yet, check it out at

www.lefreque.com. Contact Jenn at WindyCityFlute@QandF.com anytime to schedule an appointment for this or to try out any of our professional flutes- we hope to see you soon!

@QF-Burr Ridge

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Homestead HS will host two marching band events this fall. On September 30th, The Spartans will host their annual Fall fes-tival Of Bands Marching Band Invitational. Over

twenty bands will be in attendance. The 280 member Spartan Alliance Band will be marching in exhibition at the end of the festival. They will also be hosting the ISSMA Scholastic Marching Band Pre-lims/Open Class Marching Band Festival on Saturday, October 7th. The band is under the direction of Brad Wadkins & Bryen Warfield. Bryan Mangiavellano and the North-west HS in Jackson, MI will be hosting the MSBOA District 8 Marching Band Festival. The festival will be held on the evening of October 21st. The South Central HS Marching Band has a busy parade schedule this fall. The band, directed by Mike Scheck, will be performing in the Hanna Festival Parade, the Mill Pond Festival Parade, and the Scarecrow Festival Parade. Kurt Weimer and the Elkhart Memorial Crimson Chargers will present their an-nual Marching Invitational October 7th. The North White HS Marching Band will be participating in the Purdue University Band Day and the Ball State University Band Day later this fall. The director is Lindsay Knee. Tom Cox, Josh Kaufman and the Go-shen HS Crimson Command will present

their annual Marching Invitational Sep-tember 9th. Heather Straus and the West Central HS Marching Band will be performing in the Francesville Fall Festival Parade later in September. The North Newton HS Marching Band, under the direction of Craig Redlin, performed in the Morocco Homecoming Parade over Memorial Day Week-end. This performance marks the first time the band has participated in a pa-rade in over a decade. Way to go!! Marching Strings??...Tom Reed and the Crown Point HS Orchestra per-formed in the Crown Point Independence Day Parade while riding on a float. The Valparaiso HS Marching Band will be participating in the annual Popcorn Fest Parade in early September. The

directors are Miguel Rosario, Wayne Coil, Andria Kessler & Sarah DeRossi. Mishawaka HS Band. Directors Dennis Gamble & Kaleb Chamberlain held an unusual fund-raising event at QF-Mishawaka this summer - a CAR WASH!! Let’s plan a few more next summer—that was fun!!

BANDTOOL

Now available at all QF stores!

A Must for your Emergency

Repair Kit!!

Ask your QF rep!!

Summer Technology Workshop at QF

In August, John Mlynczak, presented a workshop at QF-Burr Ridge entitled "Embracing Technology” for Educators. John is an accom-plished musician, former band director, and currently mar-keting director at Noteflight. John presented a variety of tools and ideas that make it easy for Music Educators to

embrace technology tools, particularly recording devices, software, and assessment tools.

This session was sponsored by Hal Leonard.

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On Saturday August 12th the Shokunin Se-lect store in Arlington Heights hosted the per-fect kick-off to the school year when we

hosted the horn section from the legendary Tower of Power! It was standing room only as we enjoyed a medley of TOP’s greatest hits, and the band members took time to answer questions from the audi-ence. TOP horn section FB Video goes Viral!!

The video of the event was posted to the Q&F Facebook page, and so far has been viewed over 121,000 times and has been shared almost 2,000 times!

*************** A selection of new and special instruments is now on display at the Arlington Heights Shokunin location. Yamaha recently cele-brated the 50th Anniversary of the intro-duction of their band instruments in Amer-ica. To commemorate the occasion, Yama-ha has produced a limited number of Cus-tom instruments. Currently available in AH is the YAS82ZII Anniversary alto sax and the 50th Anniversary trumpet. Be sure to come by and check out these one-of-a-kind instruments. We are also pleased to announce we have the new YHR671 dou-ble horn available as well. This “Geyer” style instrument replaces the earlier YHR667 and has received great reviews.

Jim Fuller

Summer Reading Session Highlights Sponosored by Hal Leonard

Plymouth HS - July 13, 2017

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Lloyd Palmiter, our String Specialist, brings extensive knowledge to our company stemming from his twenty years experience teaching orchestra and cello, serving as clinician and consultant for musical instrument and educational organizations, and countless hours of working with students and parents to assist in selecting the best instrument for their needs. He visits all store locations regularly and is available by appointment to individually help you and your students find just the right instru-ment. You’ll see Lloyd at conferences of IMEA, MENC, ASTA, Violin Society of America, and at the International Exhibition of violinmakers in Cremona, Italy, where he will be scouting to bring you the best quality instruments available from all over the world! Travels to the countries of origin and hand selecting the instruments and bows to be included in our showrooms make our instruments among the best

available today. We maintain a vigilant effort to assure our customers that Quinlan and Fabish Strings are always known for their value and quality.

Q&F

On one evening for a few hours, we bring dozens of instruments to your school and set up a display ready for parents to arrive with their student to find their new step-up instrument. With the student, teacher, and parents all in one location with a large se-lection of instruments and bows, the parent is comforted with all the help present. Check with your QF Rep soon to schedule a date. Maybe it’s more convenient to simply schedule a night to meet at one of our stores? Increasingly popular, a store Opus 24 step up event might fit your needs. Easy, fun, exciting, rewarding!

Violas need our help! No joke!

I review the stats. Together, I know we can do better. Parents need to be educated. Help to keep the info flowing to them. Too many viola students rent too long. Because kids grow, viola parents are warry of purchasing a step-up viola until the child is ready for a large size of viola. What happens is that they get in the habit of waiting and “all of a sudden” the child is a senior in high school playing their graduation concert on a rental viola. It makes me want to cry – for the kids’ sake. After renting for a couple years, there is enough rental credit available to purchase a Pietro Germino Viola and a Coda NX bow. As they grow, our purchase program al-lows full trade-in value toward a larger size instrument with no loss. There is simply no good reason for a senior in high school to be playing a rental when, for LESS MONEY, they could have purchased a better viola years ago. No joke!

Thoughts on a summer journey

Whilst driving through the Pennsylvania countryside this summer, I was preparing myself for the Chicago Lyric Opera sea-son by listening to Die Walkure. There is nothing like the moment when all the sisters gather for a good ole Hojotoho Heiaha! I thought what an individual had to do back in the day when 78 rpm rec-ords were the latest. Given the four plus hours of that opera, I’m not so sure I’d be that driven to change records often enough to catch the entire opera in one sitting. It was tough enough going to the record library at the music school to lis-ten to 33rpm records preparing for a “drop the needle” test. iPhones! Do kids today understand how good they got it? And, now about auto tune!!!

Ready, Set, Go!

What a great summer. Not too hot and lots of sunshine. While we were all en-joying it, a plethora of beautiful new vio-lins, violas, cellos, and basses found their way through our string techs hands ( great work QF techs! You all are the

BEST!) and into our showrooms. The selec-tion is strong and deep. Sales having been strong all summer and even stronger as

we now go into school season. Maybe someone in your group stepped-up this summer and now improves the tonal quality of their section in your orchestra! Yeah!

Schedule your Opus 24 Event!

School step up events are popular! Each year more and more schools are schedul-ing one of our Opus 24 Step-up nights.

Johnny one note…. While on the topic, we rent too many full sized violins too. Keep this formu-

la in mind, after about two years of renting, there is enough rental cred-it to purchase a Pietro Germino Violin and Coda NX bow. They will end up paying less than if they rent through senior year of high school.

String recycling program

D’Addario Company has begun a string-recycling program to which QF

will be a partner. Stay tuned to the news as we work out the logistics with D’Addario. I do not yet

know how they are going to separate the different materials and metals but I want to learn. Though this isn’t what anyone expects will happen, can you imagine how much fun your elemen-tary string kids would have pulling the winding off the inner core of strings? Do not do it! There are not enough Band-Aids.

At the summer new music reading sessions in Indiana and in Illinois, I get

a feeling from you all about the trends for the new year. This year I am par-

ticular encouraged as I learned of many plans and new events on the

horizon. Collectively, we are among one of the strongest group of string teachers in the United States. You do

great work and it is a pleasure to serve you.

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6827 High Grove Blvd. Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527

Thank you Yamaha for supporting our Annual B&O Recruiting Poster Contest. Kaitlyn Z. and Sofia S. each won Yamaha HPH-M82 Professional Headphones (compliments of Yamaha). Our contest entries numbered over 50 and hundreds of votes

were placed to determine the winners.

Be sure to get some FREE Recruiting Posters from your friendly QF Rep now!!

Pictured (left photo) is our Orchestra Poster winner, Kaitlyn Z of Greg-ory MS (Naperville, IL with QF-Montgomery store manager, Mike Ed-wards. Band Poster winner, Sofia S. of Concord JHS (Elkhart, IN) with QF-Mishawaka store manager, Kristi Noble.