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Introducing Our Newest Music Clip! Plus, Other Solutions for Keeping Pesky Music Books Open!

4/6/2022

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Here are some solutions!

First of all, they really are a pain...

We teach with and practice with hard-to-open music books too. It has been so difficult to keep them open that we have never stopped searching for different book clips and solutions to the problem.
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The bends:

There's the student "too tired to clip the book so I'll just whack the page with the bow" move. There's the "responsible adult" careful bend open at the spine, lengthwise. There's the frustrated "Cassia-in-a-hurry-in-a-lesson" bend: halfway down the book, perpendicular to the spine, bending as if to break the spine. That one works really well! 
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Why can't all of our books be spiral?

  • It's too expensive. The costs for printing and storing our catalog as spiral books would be well over a million dollars. This would necessitate doubling or tripling the current costs of the books. 
  • Not enough availability. Our books are printed all around the world and shipped to retail stores and customers in the countries in which they are printed. These services are not available for spiral books right now and making the books available outside the US would cause shipping costs to exceed the cost of the book in nearly all cases. 

However!

We are working to offer some of the thickest books in spiral editions on this website. If there's a book you teach with a lot that you'd like to see in a spiral edition, let us know and we'll put it on the spiral list!

The first clip

The first clip we found was through our grandmother. She somehow came across these clips and gave them to us for Christmas one year. They worked really well for us!

Several years ago, we started carrying them on the website. 

Some (minor) problems with these clips are...

Our students really have trouble figuring out how they work. I mean, straight-A, top-of-their-class, amazing-cello-playing students can't seem to remember that the outer spikes of the clip should be on the outside of the book, facing them. 
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In addition, the clips are harder to use on very thick books and they need two hands to put on, at least most of the time. 

SO, We've Kept Looking for Solutions!

Introducing the newest page holder clip:
'The Mini'!

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These Mini clips we've found are working well so far! Students can figure them out, which is a good sign. They work best when the book has been bent open a little. Thankfully, the book binding for this type of book is quite strong and can hold up to quite a bit of bending. 
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    Cassia Harvey can't ever find or play enough exercises. She searches for rare and out-of-print studies and etudes in her free time. If you know of any, please let her know. Seriously; it's an obsession.

    Myanna Harvey's teacher assigned her piles of exercises when she was growing up but whenever her mother stopped listening, Myanna would quickly break away from the Sevcik to play a bit of Brahms or Beethoven she had heard on the radio. Now she practices with exercises and assigns them to students but her greatest passion is playing chamber music. 

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  • Home
  • Violin, Viola, Cello, & Bass Books
    • Cello Books >
      • Beginning Cello Books
      • Early-Intermediate Cello Books
      • Late-Intermediate Cello Books
      • Early-Advanced Cello Books
      • Late-Advanced Cello Books
      • Popper
      • Cello Repertoire Study Books
      • Cello Downloads
      • Free Cello Sheet Music
    • Violin >
      • Beginning and First Position Violin Books
      • Intermediate and Advanced Violin Books
    • Viola >
      • Beginning and First-Position Viola Books
      • Intermediate and Advanced Viola Books
    • Bass
    • Books by Subject
    • String Class
    • Piano Accompaniments
    • Gift Certificates
    • Christmas Store: Music and Gifts for Strings
  • Accessories
  • Tools
    • Violin Study Maps
    • A Complete Study of Fourth Position
    • Cello scale books: a guide
    • Beginning Violin Technique
    • Problem Solving
    • Choosing books for your level
    • How to use technique
    • Using technique in the cello lesson
  • About the Company
    • New Releases!
    • Better String Playing Blog
    • Where to buy the books!
    • Publishing Blog
    • What Teachers Say
    • Ordering/Shipping
    • About the Authors
    • Dealer Information
    • Related Sites
    • C. Harvey Publications Review Club
    • Contact