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Price discount on Condutor’s Stand

During June Black Cat Music are offering the Wenger Preface Conductor’s music stand at a 10% discount compared to the usual price.

Already affordably priced thanks to elegant design and clever engineering, the Preface Conductor’s stand still benefits from plenty of useful features. This stylish conductor's stand enjoys a large desk, a sleek, non-scratch black surface, and dual posts offering superb stability and strength. Although robust it's also extremely lightweight and easy to use and store. The tilting desk permits easy angle adjustment while integrated storage keeps all the conductor's needs nearby and out-of-sight. In fact, it's been exquisitely fine-tuned to give conductors more stand for less money. Plus each stand comes with a 5-year warranty.

For full details of the Preface Conductor’s stand and to take advantage of this special offer visit the Black Cat Music web site.



Brigitte helps review Wenger’s new French catalogue

Customers who have contacted Black Cat Music are probably already aware of the team’s linguistic capabilities, in addition to their knowledgeable product advice of course.

So it is no surprise that Wenger Corporation turned to Brigitte Downs when it came to a final check of their new catalogue in French. Brigitte explained, "I have lived in England for over 30 years, but French is still my mother tongue. I have a keen eye for spelling and grammar, and I am always happy to give the Wenger catalogue a final proofread to ensure the quality of the catalogue reflects the superb quality of the Wenger product offering."

Wenger added, “thanks to Brigitte Downs of Black Cat Music for translation and “proofing” work on our French language catalog. The French music education catalogue is now available on our website in electronic version or via CD-Rom. Merci beaucoup.”



Busy time installing Sound Isolation Rooms

We’ve had a very busy few months at MusicPracticeRooms.com – so busy in fact that we haven’t had a chance to share our latest installation photos with you! Here are a couple of pictures from some of our recent installs. We’re proud of the results. In addition to the University of West London and Farnham College rooms pictured below, we have successfully completed installations at the following companies and institutions:

Goldsmiths University – a suite of Music Practice Rooms in addition to a diverse acoustic treatments in the music department.

Eton College – a dedicated sound-isolation room for bagpipe practice.

WCM, Essex – an isolation booth for testing industrial components for installation in luxury cars.

Spirophoto Photography Studio – we installed a sound-isolating Music Practice Room in the studio to enable the professional photographer to use the studio as a multi-purpose space.

Surrey University – a suite of isolation booths for the psychology department to run psychometric testing.

Surrey Arts – a Music Practice Room for use by arts and music organisations across Surrey.

FSC certified green option for Wenger Storage Products

Black Cat Music, distributor of Wenger products, are pleased to announce that many Instrument Storage cabinets can now be supplied to schools, certified with green credentials.

Wenger introduced the FSC certification - Forest Stewardship Council – as a new core option for instrument storage cabinets in 2011. The Forest Stewardship Council ( www.fsc.org ) certifies that wood products have been harvested responsibly. Many Wenger storage products can be FSC certified if schools specify these “green initiative” requirements. Wenger can certify to customers that we have used specially harvested wood.



Customers In Action - Winchester Cathedral Choir

Black Cat Music are very proud to present another one of our customers, Winchester Cathedral Choir.

We will be using our Friday morning blog to showcase our customers in action and promote some of our customers upcoming events and services. If you would like us to be promoting your events or showcasing your work, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Inspirational Music - Edward Elgar

This morning, in celebration of Edward Elgar's birthday, we are sharing an amazing video featuring one of his performances, enjoy!

If you have something that you find particularly productive, we would love to hear about that.

Music Folders quick delivery impresses School’s Director of Music

We recently asked our customers to imagine the visual impact created by a set of smart new matching music folders to give a great identity to their orchestra, chorus, band or choir.

Iain Donald, Director of Music at Hampton School not only turned that imagination into reality, but thanks to the team at Black Cat Music, they took the waiting out of wanting as well. Iain told us, “I put in an order for 155 choral folders in three different colours, with three different set of gold blocking at 4.30pm on Friday evening. I was immensely impressed when the folders were delivered the following Wednesday. Such an impressive service, thank you very much.” Iain added, ”The senior boys are very happy with their new 'Voice of Lions' folder by the way.”

But wait. There is more good news. Black Cat Music are offering a 10 per cent discount for the whole of May on music folders. But hurry, the offer must close at the end of the month, so go to our web site now to place your order.



Customers In Action - Bristol Cathedral School

Black Cat Music are very proud to present another one of our customers, Bristol Cathedral School.

We will be using our Friday morning blog to showcase our customers in action and promote some of our customers upcoming events and services. If you would like us to be promoting your events or showcasing your work, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Inspirational Music - William Bolcom

This morning, in celebration of William Bolcom's birthday, we are sharing an amazing video featuring one of his performances, enjoy!

If you have something that you find particularly productive, we would love to hear about that.

Music Education Expo Awards night moves to new venue

The Awards dinner associated with the Music Education Expo show will be held in the Wren Suite of the Grange St Paul’s Hotel, in 2015.

Black Cat Music and sister company MusicPracticeRooms.com have been quick to sign up once again as sponsors of the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’.

Previous winners of the Black Cat Music sponsored award were Christine Crowshaw and Vivienne Price in 2014 and Peter Dunkley in 2013.