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​The Sad Guitar

6/28/2016

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​The Sad Guitar
 
This lady brought a guitar in to be fixed today.  It looked really sad and Jake told her it was time to take it to the guitar graveyard.  She wasn’t very happy but seemed to understand.
 
She said someone in her neighborhood told her they would teach her five year old little boy how to play guitar.  That’s totally awesome, to learn about music and how to play an instrument…wait, that isn’t the story.  She didn’t want to spend a lot on a guitar for her son, after all he’s only five, so she went to a big department store and bought something that said guitar on the box.  She didn’t realize that most of those guitars are really just toys.
 
Her son played the guitar for a few days and broke a string.  The guy in her neighborhood restrung the guitar for her, but he put real strings on the toy guitar.  It didn’t take long before the strings ripped the bridge right off the guitar.  (Jake  says there’s 110 pounds of pressure per string in a “real” guitar and the guitar they had just wasn’t built to withstand that.  What are pounds of pressure, anyway.)
 
So the sad little boy’s guitar was broke forever.  At least Jake was able to help them find a new guitar that would last a long, long time!
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​Baseball with Grandpa

6/22/2016

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​Baseball with Grandpa
 
Today was almost very exciting.  Grandpa Schlea had tickets to a Braves baseball game.  He was going with Dad and some guy from his work.  I thought it was going to be a normal day for me and Roxanne until Dad got ready to leave from work.  He got our leashes and told us it was time to go.
 
I was so excited!  A baseball game!  It must be Bark in the Park or something and I was going to get to go!  All I could think about on the drive home was all the other dogs I’d get to meet and that maybe I’d get some of Dad’s hot dog.
 
We got home and Dad fed us, took us to the backyard, and then put Roxanne in her house.  I didn’t think much about that because Roxanne doesn’t like to go do things.  I thought she was going to stay home with the cat.  But then he pointed at my bed and said, “Freddy, go to bed.”
 
I walked real slow.  I rolled over and wagged my tail.  But Dad still made me go to bed.  I guess it wasn’t Bark in the Park after all.
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Local Music Students Experience the Music Industry Up Close and Personal

6/16/2016

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Local Music Students Experience the Music Industry Up Close and Personal


June 16, 2016


Cumming, Georgia – Two local music students will experience the music industry up close and personal this month as they travel to Nashville for the NAMM Show.  Jake Lanni and Christian Strandquist, students at Music Authority located in Cumming, will attend the music industry convention as part of Music Authority’s educational Showcase Band program.
Both students will arrive in Nashville on Thursday, June 23, to network with industry professionals.  They will be able to look at new products, talk to regional and international products vendors, take part in educational offerings, and maybe even make time to listen to some live music.

“The NAMM Show is closed to the public on Thursday and Friday, the days most business is done,” explains Music Authority owner, Melissa Loggins, “It’s a special opportunity for these two students to have access to and experience how business is done.”
There will be plenty to see in Nashville.  Vendors like Taylor Guitars, Yamaha, G&L, Mapex, and more will be there demonstrating their products.  Artists will be giving demonstrations and product managers will be available to answer questions.
“I’m very excited to be going to Nashville,” Jake Lanni says.  “It’s a great opportunity to learn how that side of the industry works, to learn how to communicate better, to network, and to meet some interesting people.”
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Jake Lanni and Christian Strandquist are a part of Music Authority’s Showcase Band program.  Jake, the lead guitarist for Music Authority’s Rise, has been a student at Music Authority since 2009.  Christian Strandquist is the drummer for Music Authority’s Eclipse and has been a student at Music Authority since 2011.  Both young men plan on pursuing careers in the music industry after high school.

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​Piano Lessons 

6/14/2016

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​Piano Lessons
 
Mom’s teaching piano lessons today.  I hate it when she teaches.  It’s okay for a while, but then I get lonely or bored, or worse I have to go to the yard, and she’s not there.  Nope, she’s back in her studio teaching Jordan-Paige or Lindsay or someone.  Doesn’t matter who.  The important part is she’s not in the office when I want her.
 
Sometimes I try to get Jake’s attention, but that seems to just make Dad mad.  I don’t know why.  But then a lot things make Dad mad.
 
Except baseball.  Dad’s really happy when we watch baseball together.  Especially when then Braves win or the Cardinals lose.
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Rock Camp started at Music Authority this week

6/8/2016

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​Rock Camp started at Music Authority this week.  Mom’s a camp counselor, so we have to get there early.  Really early.  No, I mean really, REALLY early.  Like seven in the morning early.  I should still be sleeping on the living room chair that early, not listening to kids make lots of noise banging on drums and playing guitar.
 
Seriously, what human thought it would be a good idea to get kids up early in the summer and send them off to a camp that starts early?  Whoever that was obviously didn’t have a dog.  Because a dog would have stopped that craziness.  It’s summertime, sleep in.  Don’t do too much work, it’s hot outside.  Just relax.
 
But when was the last time I saw a human relax?  I don’t know. 
 
The humans I’m around keep using this word practice.  I think practice means “don’t sleep.”
 
On the first day of camp Mom brought us donuts.  Techincally, she brought the camp counselors donuts.  One might have accidentally made it under her desk…well, she doesn’t need to know about that.  But if she brought donuts every day it might be better.
 
I think I’m going to sneak into Dad’s new office tomorrow and sleep on his sofa.  He probably has donuts hidden in his desk, too.
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