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The ISBA conference currently taking place in Torquay is proving to be extremely busy, with the Black Cat Music and Acoustics team delighted to be part of it all.

Reporting from the English seaside resort that provides a lovely setting for this event, Black Cat Music manager, Teresa Rogers highlights the great interest shown in our acoustic solutions and sound-isolating, modular music practice rooms.

Teresa says: "We are really pleased that our Music Practice Rooms are receiving such a positive response with school bursars. There is no doubt that our modular, re-locatable sound pods offer a flexible and cost-effective solution for managing space and controlling noise in school music departments, and these advantages are clearly not lost on school bursars."

Martin Loft adds: "Our structured payment options are also proving popular with school bursars, as structured payments enable schools to purchase the equipment they need, while spreading payments over 1 to 5 years and making significant savings."

In addition to acoustic solutions and sound-isolating, modular Music Practice Rooms from www.musicpracticerooms.com, Black Cat is displaying a wide range of quality music performance equipment, from music stands and posture chairs to staging, choral risers and elegant instrument storage solutions for school music departments.

The 2013 ISBA annual conference at the Riviera International Conference Centre (RICC) in Torquay is an annual members only two-day event, held in selected locations throughout the UK that attracts some 400 bursars and senior management staff from member schools and around 100 exhibitors.

If you are signed up as a delegate to the MMA Conference next week make sure you call on Black Cat Music to collect your free Conductor’s Baton.

Marketing Manager, Alice Dagger said, “We look forward to the MMA Conference this year especially, as we're local and love visiting Canterbury!” Canterbury’s Cathedral School will welcome members to the 2013 MMA Conference (17-19th May) when a diverse and comprehensive programme to inspire music teachers and practitioners is promised.

Further details are on the MMA web site.

Whether it is an order for a single item or one hundred, it seems Black Cat Music customers are delighted with the service they receive.

The team at Black cat Music apppreciate all the feedback as yet another satisfied customer testifies to the service provided.

“Thank you very much indeed for your prompt attention to my small order. It arrived on Tuesday at mid-day and I am delighted with the clip-on music-stand light. No wonder my friend recommended your company! Kind regards, C. Love.”

We can also recommend the latest addition to the line up of music stand lights from Black Cat Music - a dual-headed, bright white LED light that simply clips on to any music stand to provide even illumination of sheet music. The adjustable twin goose-neck lighting heads pack the illuminating power of 4 bright white LEDs that thanks to economic operation give extra long battery life. Supplied complete with 3 x AAA batteries the stand light is ready to use straight out of the box. And there is also the alternative option of using the included USB power cable supplied in the pack.

A new fixed-term structured payment system which enables customers to spread payments over 1 to 5 years will be announced at next week’s ISBA Conference.

Marketing Manager, Alice Dagger, said, “we anticipate that our Structure Payment Options will be of real interest to independent school bursars looking to make savings for their school.” The Black Cat Music team will be attending the Independent Schools’ Bursars Association Annual Conference at Torquay next week. Conference delegates are invited to drop by the Black Cat Music exhibition stand where examples from their comprehensive range of music education and performance equipment will be on display and to learn more about the new Structured Payments Scheme.

The 2013 ISBA annual conference will take place at the Riviera International Conference Centre (RICC) in Torquay from Wednesday 8th May - Thursday 9th May. The ISBA hosts an annual members only two-day conference every year in May. The event, which is held in selected locations throughout the UK, attracts some 400 bursars and senior management staff from member schools and around 100 exhibitors.

Musikschulkongress in Bamberg last week was a great success for Black Cat Music.

Dietmar Auris, Black Cat Music’s agent in Germany who represented the company reflected on the event, saying, "It was a busy and enjoyable conference. It was great to have the chance to talk to lots of music teachers from music schools and conservatoires across Germany. We got to see quite a few familiar faces as well as some new ones. Bamberg was a very pleasant location for the conference."

It was also interesting to see how popular the Black Cat Music conductor's baton offer proved to be with German music teachers.

Musikschulkongress is an annual event that provides the occasion for representatives from over 950 German music schools to meet and share ideas on best practice in Music Education. As a supporting member of the VDM - Verband Deutscher Musikschulen - Black Cat Music has been attending Musikschulkongress since 2009. It is a conference that never fails to be interesting and enjoyable and is a great opportunity for German music teachers to see and try out Black Cat’s music stands, ergonomic posture chairs, choir folders, staging and conductor’s equipment.

Based in the UK, Black Cat Music is Master Distributor for Wenger in Europe and Russia. Wenger music equipment is world-renowned for its quality and longevity, and all Wenger products come with a minimum 5-year guarantee.

During May Black Cat Music has a special package deal with a 10 per cent discount for purchasers of ten Classic 50s complete with a compatible small Move and Store Cart.

The Classic 50 Music Stand is tough enough to handle the hardships of regular classroom use thanks to a formula of advanced polymers offering inherent tensile strength that will not bend or dent like metal stands. Its elegant design makes it quiet and rattle-free during performances. And the scratch resistant desk surface also incorporates a unique recess for keeping pencils in place. The patented one-hand height adjustment of the music desk is simplicity itself, requiring no screw or locking collar adjustments. The small move and Store Cart provides easy, stable transport and compact storage for ten Classic 50 Music Stands.

Full details of how to participate in this offer are published on the Black Cat Music web site.

Wenger Corporation created a buzz with their recent video competition, won by Klamath Chorale with their entry – “Wenger Style.”

Black Cat Music, long established master distributor of Wenger product in the UK, Europe and Russia, explained that Wenger was looking for the most creative video illustrating "Here's what we would do on a Wenger StageTek stage." With the winner receiving $10,000 worth of StageTek staging and accessories.

The winning video, plus some of the runners up, can be viewed on YouTube.