Guitar Gear To Help Bring The Music Back To The People Of The Gulf Coast Region
Written by Guitar Gear Heads
Friday, 14 October 2005
Guitar Gear Heads ( GuitarGearHeads.com) is proud to announce a partnership with had Kelly and Mark Williams from PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc. to help those guitar players from New Orleans who lost all their instruments and equipment in the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina. In the last week, Guitar Gear Heads has acquired guitars and related gear from manufacturers such as Alesis, Greg Bennett Guitars, Dean Markley Strings, Takamine Guitars, G&L Guitars, LR-Baggs, Ice Pix, and Evidence Audio.
President and Director of Development at Guitar Gear Heads, Gary Allen had this to say about the program. "We believe that music can be a very healing outlet of creativity for those who have gone through this crisis. The rich culture of music that has come from New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta area is something that must be allowed to live on during these trying times. We are extremely proud to be a small part of the efforts to help keep this music alive in people's hearts."
Chad Kelly lives and works in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and has seen the effects of the hurricane first hand. Many of his musician friends lived in New Orleans and are coming back to a total loss. "I'm glad to work directly beside Guitar Gear Heads in the effort to bring a little music relief to the many folks who lost their gear in this flood. I know what it's like to lose all of my gear and have to start over, that's what a lot of folks are dealing with now" said Chad.
Chad Kelly and Mark Williams from PreSonus Audio, Inc. are working on their own as the point men to find people in need of instruments and distributing them for Guitar Gear Heads. "Their location in the Baton Rouge area makes both Chad and Mark great assets to this cause" said Gary. "We are very grateful for their efforts and we could not pull this off without them or the support of the manufacturers who are donating these guitars and gear. They are the real heroes!"
Any companies that would like to be involved in our efforts can contact Gary Allen at
or Chad Kelly at
and they will be happy to coordinate with you.
Guitar Gear Heads is asking all involved parties that are giving or planning to give to the Red Cross ( RedCross.org) or other such agencies, to please not short that contribution to be a part of our program. We feel that the services rendered by these types of organizations are far more important than what we are striving to achieve. Participation in our program should be above and beyond any planned contributions to aforementioned groups.
We would also like to encourage people to look into giving to the "Mr Hollands Opus Foundation" to help get instruments into the hands of students. Please visit NAMM ( NAMM.com) for more information on this great organization they are supporting by matching contributions.
Guitar Gear Heads is a division of Allen & Halberg Publishing, Inc.
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A system for dividing an octave into 12 pitch steps, each of 100 cents. This has the effect of making all semitones equal in size. This became necessary once keyboard and fretted instruments became popular. It should be understood that the note A which appears in F# minor should have a slightly different frequency from the note A which appears in C major (this fine distinction is one of the reasons that pitch and frequency are not quite synonymous). This would normally be dealt with automatically by a proficient player on an instrument with continuous pitching such as a violin. A keyboard instrument would properly have to be tuned to a particular key, if music was then played in a different key, some or many of the intervals sounded would be flat or sharp. However since it was not convenient to retune these types of instruments correctly whenever a new key was required, various compromises were attempted. Equal temperament was one such compromise whereby the error was distributed equally between all the notes. This made the performance of music in different keys possible on the same instrument without retuning, in celebration of which J. S. Bach wrote not one, but two books, each of 24 preludes and fugues (a prelude and fugue in both the major and minor forms of 12 keys).
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