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I have several cards by various manufacturers, including Transcend. All of them perform well, none have ever failed and I have seen no difference between comparable cards. The Transcend usually sells for a little less than other brands. Why pay more for the same performance?
Resonans 3 4 Violin

Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1)
I found this book interesting. Contrary to the teachings of The Holy Bible, the author claims that satan is a “myth,” that Jesus was only a great person (no mention of “Savior”), and seemed to imply that the “things written down 2000 years ago” are open to debate. My questions is this: If all these things written 2000 years ago about God and Jesus were true, WHY would God, in “speaking with Mr. Neale Donald Walsch (as he claims)”, suddenly reverse his previous statements about satan, the validity of the Bible, and the absolute sovereignty of Christ?
I am a skeptic, and I like to think I have an open mind. This book was recommended to me by a colleague. However, I could not help but thinking that Mr. Walsch definitely has a “profit motive” in his writings. “If the item sells, continue to write.” Never mind it may be misinformation. Mr. Walsh, I hope you get this “God thing” right- your eternity may depend on it.
Please reference “Evidence that Demands a Verdict,” by Josh McDowell. A professed athiest that became a Christian because of his research. Go figure.
Miniature Violin Small 4

Im really happy with my book, I got it today, great conditions,it didn’t take long and I live at the southest point of South America!!
Thank you very much
Improve Your Scales! Violin

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This rosin works really well, it is far less expensive than what we purchase in music stores and came to our home relatively quickly.
Kafko Light Violin Viola

This book was a fun read. There was a real twist at the end! Loved it!
Dresden 3 4 Violin

Very easy to assemble and use. It did a great job cleaning my carpets! It came with clear, simple instructions, is easy to operate and clean-up was a breeze! Very sturdy yet very lightweight and easy to maneuver. A+++
Koenig Meyer 155 Violin

Yes, I am another one of those suckers that didn’t pay attention to the one star reviews for this item. I wanted to save a few bucks. I got this Transcend SDHC card for a Fuji HS10 camera and took several hundred photos with it. I really wanted to test it. It worked fine. For a while.

Then, at a conference, after I had taken about 300 photos with it, mostly of slide presentations, a major glitch happened. I had accidentally hit the record video button on the camera, and so I moved to delete this unwanted video. Now, I had done this “delete” function a number of times on the HS10 camera, and never had a problem. There is no way on the HS10 to accidentally delete ALL of your photos all at once with this delete button (you can do that only if you go through the main menu and activate the “format” function).

As soon as this video got deleted, this card decided that the rest of the stored photos, some 300 of them, also no longer existed.

Bummer. Fortunately the great Amazon 30-day warranty was still in effect, and I had saved the packaging. I ordered a Sandisk SDHC 30Mb/sec card (which does not run much faster on the HS10, by the way). Yesterday, the Sandisk card arrived, and so I sent this Transcend card back to Amazon today for a refund.

Now, the Sandisk card is about 2.5 times more expensive than this card, so I’ll be REALLY upset if it starts to misbehave also.
VIVA Violin Shoulder Rest

Much as W.H. Auden achieved with his controversial The Age of Anxiety, Salinger’s “Catcher” revealed to a compliant U.S. citizenry that all was not well in America, contrary to President Eisenhower’s subsequent head-patting.

This is the genesis of a series of period tales concerned with the classic “troubled youth” of 1950s America. Most people became even more aware of this cultural rift through the most famous of James Dean’s three significant films: Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition).

“Catcher” was published in 1951 and was immediately banned from numerous school and public libraries. But like Peyton Place, by Grace Metalious, young people still managed to acquire a copy, hiding it under the mattress. By today’s standards there’s nothing particularly earth shattering in the novel, just a few instances of the f-word and some sexual tension. But that was pretty radical stuff back in the early ’50s.

The story’s protagonist is Holden Caulfield, a young man who struggles with the ethics of every situation. Since we live in an imperfect world Holden determines that nearly everyone is a “phony” and, as a consequence of his grim paradigm, he’s perpetually disappointed with the human race in general. He wants to “protect” children (thus he daydreams of being “The Catcher” [of children] in a fantasy-based rye field which borders on a dangerous cliff — once these children fall over life’s cliff [depravity] they are lost, in Holden’s view.) As one might expect, Holden has few positive encounters with prospective girlfriends and his interaction with male peers is usually not all that positive either.

This tale is pretty bleak but it does yield its lighter and more hopeful moments. It’s conveyed from the first person perspective of the protagonist, which was no easy task for Salinger. In any case this is fine American literature of the First Water. It seems like a straightforward read but upon subsequent readings one discovers much more.

If you’re a person
Bellafina Thermoplastic Violin Case

Needed a lower cost option than the entire suite to do limited workload at home. Works great.
Gewa Concerto Double Violin