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Schoenhut Toy Piano Video
One of our customers, Lucía Jurado Bautista playing a Schoenhut Toy Piano
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Help MENC Win $50,000 for Music Education

MusicFriends, We Need Your Help!

Support Music Education through America's Giving Challenge
America's Giving Challenge, organized by Causes, The Case Foundation, and Parade Magazine encourages people to leverage social networks to support nonprofits. It rewards the nonprofit Cause that receives the most unique donations from October 7 through November 6 with a $50,000 award from the Case Foundation. The goal is not to raise the most money, but to build collective action in support of a cause.

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Getting internet access and celular phone service while on holiday in Spain

wifi-logo.jpgI'm not exactly on holiday. I'm on a business trip to Spain, to inspect the workshops of some of the best guitar luthiers in the world. Natrually, i need to have regular and reliable phone and email communication with my home office in Carlsbad, California and i will also need to have a phone to call hotels, car rental, business associates and other people and services within Spain while traveling.  It would also be great to use the GPS and map service built into my iPhone as well as the email and web browser, in addition to the email and web browser on my laptop computer.  Of course I want to do this as cost effectively as possible. So i will tell you how I am doing it. Read on.....

 

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What Happens After You Unlock Your iPhone?
I wanted to know exactly what happens after you jailbreak and unlock your iPhone. I mean, what exactly happens to your songs, your apps, your compatibility with itunes, your ATT phone service, everything? I couldn't find the answer anywhere. So i unlocked my iPhone and i'm going to tell you.
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Lacie Big Disk Clicking After Power Outage

We had a power outage. Power cable back on and My Lacie Big Diskhd_bigdisk.jpg wouldn't mount. It was just clicking. It was attached to My Mac Pro via USB. it powered up and made but when you attached the USB cable it made a hard clicking sound.  Exactly like the first soundfile on this page of failed hard drives . I thought i lost everything, but I'm happy to say, all is well. read on for how i got it working again.

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