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THIS WEEK:

Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand Virtual Piano

From MakeMusic, Inc., a world leader in music technology, comes this groundbreaking new virtual piano software instrument to inspire your creative experience. The magnificent Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano was placed in Abbey Road Studios’ legendary Studio One, where award-winning engineers used the world’s greatest microphones and equipment to create this truly stunning virtual instrument. Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand features three discrete perspectives: Classic—captures the natural tonal character, clarity, and nuance of the instrument; Contemporary—produces a bright and brilliant sound with definitive attack from the hammers; Player—delivers the unique experience of playing from the piano bench in Studio One. Every facet of this project—the instrument, the room, the engineers, and the microphones—reflects the perfection only the most passionate can produce.

Company info: Alfred Music is the world’s largest educational music publisher. Alfred Music produces educational, reference, pop, and performance materials for teachers, students, professionals, and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument, style, and difficulty level. Alfred Music’s home office is located in Los Angeles, with domestic offices in Miami, Nashville, and New York as well as offices around the world including Australia, Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

Since 1922, Alfred Music has been dedicated to helping people learn, teach, and play music. Alfred Music currently has over 150,000 active titles. Alfred Music represents a wide range of well-known publications—from methods like Alfred’s Basic Guitar, Alfred’s Basic Piano Library, Premier Piano Course, Sound Innovations, and Suzuki, to artists like Bruce Springsteen, Bruno Mars, Cole Porter, fun., George and Ira Gershwin, John Lennon, Katy Perry, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, to brands like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, Rolling Stone magazine, and Billboard.

Alfred Music owns a wide range of imprints including Belwin, Highland/Etling, Kalmus, and Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. In addition to its own titles, Alfred Music distributes products from over 50 companies, including Daisy Rock Girl Guitars, Dover Publications, Drum Channel, Faber Music, MakeMusic, Inc., Penguin, and WEA.

• Price: $299.95

• Link for more information: http://www.alfred.com/garritan