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A Bees’ Nest and a Smelly Old Baritone

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A Bees’ Nest and a Smelly Old Baritone

Below is a delightful band director story written by Robert Storms.  Mr Storms is a composer and many of his works are available on PDF Band Music.  His background includes many years of teaching music in the western Washington area of the United States. This post and many other short stories by Robert Storms are available on Lulu Press.  The title of his book is "School Stories." While teaching at Custer during the early 1960s, I was told that some band paraphernalia had been found in the old gym and it was all going to the dump. The principal allowed...

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Two Mysteries Solved

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Two Mysteries Solved

Below is a delightful band director story written by Robert Storms.  Mr Storms is a composer and many of his works are available on PDF Band Music.  His background includes many years of teaching music in the western Washington area of the United States. This post and many other short stories by Robert Storms are available on Lulu Press.  The title of his book is "School Stories." During my first ten years of teaching in Ferndale, I split my day between team teaching band and choir with Al Carr at the high school, and teaching band at the middle school...

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Custer's Bees

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Custer's Bees

Below is a delightful band director story written by Robert Storms.  Mr Storms is a composer and many of his works are available on PDF Band Music.  His background includes many years of teaching music in the western Washington area of the United States. This post and many other short stories by Robert Storms are available on Lulu Press.  The title of his book is "School Stories." The week before school started in 1962, the principal informed me, “You have your choice of any of five empty classrooms.” That was because Custer had just changed to a middle school format...

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The Navy Hymn arranged by Tom Tucker

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The Navy Hymn arranged by Tom Tucker

The Navy Hymn by Tom Tucker is a beautiful arrangement suitable for bands playing grade 2 music.  The mature setting is also appropriate for more advanced bands.

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USING PDF FILES

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What is a PDF file? PDF stands for "portable document format".  It was introduced to ease the sharing of documents between computers and across operating system platforms when you need to save files that cannot be modified but still need to be easily shared and printed.  Today almost everyone has a version of Adobe Reader or other program on their computer that can read a PDF file. All files from PDF Band Music are in the "PDF" format.  You can easily open and print whatever you need for your particular band. What do I get when I order a title from PDF Band Music? After...

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