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The popular Ensemble Stool has now been updated to offer the choice of three different seat options. Select from the standard contoured beech wooden seat, a cushioned polyurethane foam seat or ‘top of the range’ Premier model that enjoys the benefits of a fully padded upholstered seat.

All models feature telescopic legs for height adjustment to set the seated level within a range from 640mm to 840mm. Special “non-marring” leg glides, ensure self-levelling without scratching of the elegant black epoxy powder coated paint finish used on the support structure. The 16 gauge steel legs and foot ring make for a tough, robust construction. For adjustment assistance markings are provided at interval steps within the 200mm adjustment range.

Ensemble stools ship in a single, ready-to-assemble pack and can rapidly be put together using just eight fasteners. Not only are Ensemble Stools designed with ‘green’ credentials, ‘green’ credentials, but Wenger back their confidence in the product with a five-year warranty.

Does your school, music group, band or choir own customised gold blocked music folders with your logo or crest on the cover? The chances are we have your die on file at Black Cat Music. And if you want some more and wondered where they came from or who ordered them, then why not give us a call.

Marketing Manager, Alice Dagger asks, 'Did you know that we keep a library of customers' printing dies?' The gold-blocking team at Black Cat Music takes great pride and care in fulfilling printing orders for customers who opt to have their choral or orchestral folders gold-blocked. Every time that we create a printing die with a customer's school crest or logo, we keep that die stored away carefully for the customer's future use. Since we began gold-blocking folders over 20 years ago, we have built up an impressive store of printing dies. We are conscious that school teaching staff and company employees can change over the years, and we think that there are customers out there who may not be aware that we have their die in stock. Give us a call - we can create beautiful gold-blocked folders with school crests or company logos quickly and inexpensively - and they will look beautiful for years to come.'

Just to make ordering simpler we have recently introduced a new online ordering option. To use the new system simply click on the “Require gold-blocking” check box on the product page and complete the form that opens up.

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Music Education Expo organiser Rhinegold has announced some important dates ahead of the 2015 show which takes place from 12th to 13th March at the Barbican in London. Black Cat Music and sister company MusicPracticeRooms.com are both Platinum Sponsors and will be exhibiting and also participating in the associated conference.

The conference ‘Call for Papers’ is now open and will close 18th September, so now is the time to be putting forward ideas for papers that will be reviewed for possible inclusion in the Conference Programme.

Nominations for Awards meanwhile opens 4th August. There are a number of categories for the Annual Awards which are presented at the Gala Dinner being held at a new venue this year in the Wren Suite of the Grange St Paul’s Hotel. The closing date for nominations is 24th October and finalists will be announced on 21st November.

And finally, make a note that Registration opens 1st September. Don’t forget – it is free to attend.

You can keep in touch with news and announcements for Music Education Expo on all the Black Cat Music and MusicPracticeRooms.com news feeds and social media channels, or visit Music Education Expo

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The Jefferson Connection from Bloomington-Jefferson High School put Wenger StageTek through its paces recently and captured the results on video.

The great thing about StageTek is that it is quick and easy to set up and doesn’t even require any tools to assemble. Follow this link to YouTube now and see for yourself how 16, 4 ft x 8 ft StageTek platforms with 8 inch, 21 inch and 32 inch legs were set up to provide a great performance platform for Jefferson Connection to run through their performance.

Portable staging that is easy to transport and store, yet is strong, safe and configurable into any combination is setting new standards thanks to the Wenger StageTek™ system, available from Black Cat Music. StageTek™ is a refined smart staging system resulting from extensive research, engineering and technical advancements in materials and manufacturing. These technical advances have resulted in a staging system that is 20% lighter, stronger, easier to handle and faster to set up.

Affordably priced, when it comes to stretching investment across multiple needs like seated risers and performance stages, this new system has it all. But there is no compromise on performance, comfortably exceeding required standards on three critical loading capacity measures for uniform load, point load and dynamic load. Plus it is easy to handle, lighter to lift and with nice smooth edges for safety it is really easy to set up too. Anyone can set up StageTek in minutes, all without the need for any tools.

Configurations including single or multi-level stages, thrust stages, choral risers, runways and many more options become possible in both scale and shape facilitated by a selection of different height, ‘plug-in’ legs. These simple to use, economical but strong plug-in legs secured by hand-turned locking knobs make hundreds of configurations possible to meet a wide variety of needs.

When it is time to dismantle, legs can be stored on the underside of the deck and panels quickly loaded on to a storage and transport cart that fits through standard door sizes. Designed to save as much as 50% in storage space compared to other systems, StageTek can be wheeled to a storage place or transported to another venue.

Assembling Wenger 3-Step Choral Risers is a piece of cake thanks to a new explanatory video from Wenger.

In little more than 3 minutes the assembly instructions video steps through the assembly stages right from removing the shipping packaging to the completed system. Mostly a job for one person with a few basic tools, the Signature Risers are lightweight and easy to move around yet offer excellent stability. A back rail gives added safety for performers and it all folds down to a compact 1.8m wide x 0.7m deep x 1.7m high for storage.