Musipedia added to Orchestra Toolbar

We've added a new resource to the SEK Symphony Toolbar. Click on the toolbar "links", then "Practice Helps" to find the Musipedia melody search page. Along with the online tuner and metronome sites, the Musipedia will help you with your studies by allowing you to pin down those melodies you can't identify.

You may use your mouse with a piano keyboard interface, or using the "Parsons code", you may locate a melody using the melodic contour.

Other features? Search by rhythmic contour by tapping them out at the computer keyboard, play into your computer's microphone, or use the mouse to draw notes on a staff.

There is also a link on their page to a site called "Melodyhound" which you should also try. Experiment and let us know which ones you like the best!

New features on the SEKSO Toolbar

A couple of new features have been added to the SEK Symphony Browser Toolbar (follow the heading link if you'd like to install). We've added links to two sites, the first an online metronome and A440 tuner, the other a tuning web site utilizing a five-octave keyboard. There are also settings for the string pickers. Selecting "viola/tenor banjo" gives you C G D A buttons, etc., and you can loop through the open strings while tuning. You may also select the timbre of pitches, vary pitch by cents, or transpose by semitones.

The web sites open in a new tab/window, so you don't leave a page you may be on at the time.

So, if you have a laptop, and have it handy while you practice or study, consider the toolbar. It's similar to a Google or Yahoo toolbar, but specific to music study and the web site. It even has a great online radio player, but we've padded it with Classical radio stations.

And where on earth is the tenor banjo section, anyway?

New SEKSO Browser Toolbar Available!

A new browser toolbar is available for anyone that frequents our website. You may download it on our Toolbar page. This feature is very similar to a Google or Yahoo toolbar, with links to the major areas of our website and links to our blog, contains a Google search feature, etc.

One element of the toolbar that we find very interesting is the streaming radio. There are several stations pre-loaded that play 24x7 (or close to it) classical streams, so you'll have something to listen to between concerts. It is editable, so you may add radio streams to it if you know of others.

Other sections of the toolbar may be configured by clicking on the drop list on the left hand side and selecting "Toolbar Options". Elements may be added or hidden.

Please let us know if you have any trouble, or if there are links you'd like to have added.

Hope you enjoy it!!