As many of The Musician's Laboratory Blog readers have noted, it's been a while since our last post. Far be it from me to be unwilling to respond to the will of the people, so herewith is yet another post, filled with letters and punctuation in myriad combinations intended to express more or less complete thoughts.
A lot has been happening at The Laboratory, most significantly in the area of staffing. As of this month, we now have some new faces on hand, which are attached to individual bodies with feet and hands, to facilitate moving about and interacting with things. Many readers will already know these bright young folks, since they have already been staffing the Laboratory's music school.
Joe Lauricella, the wildly popular Guitar Medic, who has become a major presence at our store due to his growing clientele of guitarists and bassists, can now also be seen working at The Laboratory as a regular staffer. If you are here to look at guitars, who better than the area's premier setup expert to let you know just what makes your next axe the right one for you?
Ray Gallagher has been teaching drum set with us, and now joins the staff several nights a week. Ray's knowledge of all things music is well rounded: in addition to playing drums, he also plays guitar, bass, and keyboard, and is at present studying recording. Ray's hobbies are popping out from behind boxes and offering explanations to scientific questions which involve the behavior of drinking straws in varying pressures and gravitational effects.
Trevor Knauss, known to his Vulcan associates simply as Trevork, is our vocal instructor, and he also has expertise in violin and tuba. Yes tuba. Trevor plays guitar as well, so basically he's one of those guys. Recently he joined up with rock band Axis, which features the next person I'm going to write about. Namely:
Stefan Hojnacki is very tall. And he has long red hair. He has stupefyingly massive guitar chops. So when you see him, make sure you ask lots of questions about aardvarks. Stefan is on the showroom floor sparsely, since he stays quite busy bringing up the next generation of shred kings.
Please join us in warmly welcoming these four lads to the fold. We're a better shop for them.
But wait there's more! For example:
Orange Crush guitar packs. It's a cool Orange (the brand, not the color) guitar and Orange (the brand and also the color) Crush amplifier. It's a box of all that a potential rocker needs to realize their rock potential. And it's $239. A vote for Orange is a vote for Rock. On that matter there is little debate.
Showing posts with label Orange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orange. Show all posts
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The Laboratory Journal 2
More Lessons = More Rock
We are starting to sign up students for bass, drums, voice, and of course guitar. Keyboards are coming soon. We've extended our crazy free lesson promo through march: Sign up for your first month of music lessons, and The Laboratory pays for the first lesson. Our newly renovated lesson rooms are clean, well-lit, and cheerily painted.
Illusionary Doors
The front door that has traditionally led into and out of our store is slated to be decommissioned. In the near future, you will enter through the door leading into our newly added additional showroom. You will ogle at the dense armada of drum sets, then make your way into our original confines to be treated to the usual vast assortment of guitars, basses, keyboards, as well as recording and live sound equipment. We have already begun arranging things over in the new space, so feel free to stop by to see the progress. It's somewhat exciting!
Lotsa Drums
Our expanded showroom, to which I've alluded several times above, is very nearly complete, and has lots of drum kits set up for your enjoyment. You thought the Yamaha Absolute Maple kit was nice stacked up on a shelf? That was nothing. We've literally put them on a pedestal for all to see. Nearby, the Mapex M Birch five piece (with a free 8'!) is set up and tuned for action. Alongside those, the throaty roar of Sonor's Force 2007 awaits.
Crouching Teacher, Hidden Guitar Medic
Joe the Guitar Medic has been transplanted from his familiar perch at the back of the store. At present, he is holed up in what will be a lesson room. The endgame is to have him set up in a prominent area on the floor, for all to gaze upon his wizardry. Customers who are accustomed to walking to the back to see if The Guitar Medic is in will now be greeted by our ergonomic and well stocked shipping desk. Much less exciting to witness, but our shipping guys all think it's tops.
New Products:
New in the Amps department is a frightening display of compact and portable tone that kicks monstrous amounts of butt: The Orange Tiny Terror. This thing is the size of a small toolbox, and is a class A, all tube guitar amplifier with prodigious tone! It is switchable from 7 to 15 watts, and don't let that fool you into thinking that this thing can't drive a 4x12 cabinet. It's sound is just astonishing. You should come by and crank it up. And the price? Very affordable.
Also, after many requests, we've begun stocking Vocal Spray. Originally I though this was a defense product used to ward off approaching singers, but alas it is in fact a substance made to make their jobs even easier. Can you believe that? You can hardly be bothered to carry your own microphone to the gig, and somebody invents a tasty and refreshing spray pump to sooth your voice? Amazing. You singers know we're kidding, right? We still love you.
Lastly but not leastestly, stop by our web site, which continues to swell with options. You can find us at www.laboratorymusic.com
Doctor Claw approves of this message for cats and mankind alike.
We are starting to sign up students for bass, drums, voice, and of course guitar. Keyboards are coming soon. We've extended our crazy free lesson promo through march: Sign up for your first month of music lessons, and The Laboratory pays for the first lesson. Our newly renovated lesson rooms are clean, well-lit, and cheerily painted.
Illusionary Doors
The front door that has traditionally led into and out of our store is slated to be decommissioned. In the near future, you will enter through the door leading into our newly added additional showroom. You will ogle at the dense armada of drum sets, then make your way into our original confines to be treated to the usual vast assortment of guitars, basses, keyboards, as well as recording and live sound equipment. We have already begun arranging things over in the new space, so feel free to stop by to see the progress. It's somewhat exciting!
Lotsa Drums
Our expanded showroom, to which I've alluded several times above, is very nearly complete, and has lots of drum kits set up for your enjoyment. You thought the Yamaha Absolute Maple kit was nice stacked up on a shelf? That was nothing. We've literally put them on a pedestal for all to see. Nearby, the Mapex M Birch five piece (with a free 8'!) is set up and tuned for action. Alongside those, the throaty roar of Sonor's Force 2007 awaits.
Crouching Teacher, Hidden Guitar Medic
Joe the Guitar Medic has been transplanted from his familiar perch at the back of the store. At present, he is holed up in what will be a lesson room. The endgame is to have him set up in a prominent area on the floor, for all to gaze upon his wizardry. Customers who are accustomed to walking to the back to see if The Guitar Medic is in will now be greeted by our ergonomic and well stocked shipping desk. Much less exciting to witness, but our shipping guys all think it's tops.
New Products:
New in the Amps department is a frightening display of compact and portable tone that kicks monstrous amounts of butt: The Orange Tiny Terror. This thing is the size of a small toolbox, and is a class A, all tube guitar amplifier with prodigious tone! It is switchable from 7 to 15 watts, and don't let that fool you into thinking that this thing can't drive a 4x12 cabinet. It's sound is just astonishing. You should come by and crank it up. And the price? Very affordable.
Also, after many requests, we've begun stocking Vocal Spray. Originally I though this was a defense product used to ward off approaching singers, but alas it is in fact a substance made to make their jobs even easier. Can you believe that? You can hardly be bothered to carry your own microphone to the gig, and somebody invents a tasty and refreshing spray pump to sooth your voice? Amazing. You singers know we're kidding, right? We still love you.
Lastly but not leastestly, stop by our web site, which continues to swell with options. You can find us at www.laboratorymusic.com
Doctor Claw approves of this message for cats and mankind alike.
Friday, February 29, 2008
The Continuum
Today is the day after February 28th. Normally, we would be welcoming the lion's roar of March's early days. And yet... no March.
Similarly, there is a rather large hole in the wall of The Laboratory.
Where there was once March, now there is more February. Where there was a wall... now there is more Laboratory.
I have some concern as to the whereabouts of March, but I am certain that it has something to do with bigger Laboratorys needing bigger months.
I have attached some low quality camera phone shots of the progress. It is no accident that the gorgeously dynamic Orange Rockerverb 100 is front and center in the photos. You should consider coming by to give it a test-rock. Just watch out for wormholes in the space-time continuum. That's what we'll be doing.
The intrepid Larry toils at his craft
The dust shield down, you can now see the existing showroom from the new expanded territory
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Laboratory Journal 1
This is no ordinary blog post! In fact, it is the text from an email we sent out. That's right! We at the laboratory have created a blog post from an email! Conservation of mass and energy being a key factor in this transformation, we have kept careful watch of the energy spent in creating that additional e-matter. Now on with the Paste Function:
Valentine's Day: Cupid Aims for our Price Tags
Valentine's Day is tomorrow. So The Laboratory is doing a little something for our sweethearts, the terrific customers who have made us what we are. We were going to give out little boxes of candy hearts, but we couldn't agree on the little phrases to be inscribed on those sugary tomes. Instead, we decided to offer a 10% discount off the marked price for anything we sell. This is good through tomorrow, the 14th. Nothing says "Kiss me" like a new harmonica. Or an Audio Technica PRO 24 stereo condenser mic, for the truly sentimental. XOXO!
The Guitar Medic Goes Bonkers
Joe the Guitar Medic has fallen on his head or something, and says he wants to do twice as much work. So we're offering a special on guitar set ups. Now brace yourselves - especially you hollow bodies out there: Get one guitar setup, get another half price. It doesn't even matter if it's your bassist's axe and yours. If you bring us two guitars to be set up, you get half off the second. We asked Joe how he thinks he can do this, and using an Aldis lamp he replied "Volume! Volume!"
The Great Lesson Enrollment Offer Thingamajig
One thing we love during February is lesson sign-ups. So, we're offering new sign ups one free lesson. Here's how it works: Sign up a new student for a month of lessons, and we'll pay for the first one for you. We're so sure that our excellent teachers will charm you with their outgoing personalities and outstanding grasp of their craft, that we want to make it easier to get hooked on learning how to play an instrument. There are still open time slots available, so call us or stop by to get enrolled.
New Stuff at The Laboratory
Oh, right. New stuff. I'm always like "they know we're always getting new stuff," but the others said I don't get a lunch break today if I don't mention the rock solid Orange amp we just got in. It has two things: Warm, creamy, lush, all tube tone...., and Orangeness.
Hmmm, let's see.... I want to make this totally thorough, because this is a comfy chair I'm sitting on.... Hmmmm.....
Oh yeah. We've got a bargain bin. It had to happen sooner or later, right? We've eyed up our shelves for stuff that's been passed over. And out the door they must go! There is too little space to waste some on stuff people aren't grabbing up. So at the front of the store is a bin full of perfectly good, new stuff. It's been marked down - in many cases below our cost - to make room for the zillions of other things we want to try putting out there for musicians to try. So come by and see if there's any overlooked gold in there - maybe this is your moment to replace that rusty multiclamp holding up your splash, or something even more thematically exciting!
So that's the story so far. That and the usual dedication to an expansive array of enticing musical whatnots from our inventory, and state of the art expertise and suaveness from our staff.
Valentine's Day: Cupid Aims for our Price Tags
Valentine's Day is tomorrow. So The Laboratory is doing a little something for our sweethearts, the terrific customers who have made us what we are. We were going to give out little boxes of candy hearts, but we couldn't agree on the little phrases to be inscribed on those sugary tomes. Instead, we decided to offer a 10% discount off the marked price for anything we sell. This is good through tomorrow, the 14th. Nothing says "Kiss me" like a new harmonica. Or an Audio Technica PRO 24 stereo condenser mic, for the truly sentimental. XOXO!
The Guitar Medic Goes Bonkers
Joe the Guitar Medic has fallen on his head or something, and says he wants to do twice as much work. So we're offering a special on guitar set ups. Now brace yourselves - especially you hollow bodies out there: Get one guitar setup, get another half price. It doesn't even matter if it's your bassist's axe and yours. If you bring us two guitars to be set up, you get half off the second. We asked Joe how he thinks he can do this, and using an Aldis lamp he replied "Volume! Volume!"
The Great Lesson Enrollment Offer Thingamajig
One thing we love during February is lesson sign-ups. So, we're offering new sign ups one free lesson. Here's how it works: Sign up a new student for a month of lessons, and we'll pay for the first one for you. We're so sure that our excellent teachers will charm you with their outgoing personalities and outstanding grasp of their craft, that we want to make it easier to get hooked on learning how to play an instrument. There are still open time slots available, so call us or stop by to get enrolled.
New Stuff at The Laboratory
Oh, right. New stuff. I'm always like "they know we're always getting new stuff," but the others said I don't get a lunch break today if I don't mention the rock solid Orange amp we just got in. It has two things: Warm, creamy, lush, all tube tone...., and Orangeness.
Hmmm, let's see.... I want to make this totally thorough, because this is a comfy chair I'm sitting on.... Hmmmm.....
Oh yeah. We've got a bargain bin. It had to happen sooner or later, right? We've eyed up our shelves for stuff that's been passed over. And out the door they must go! There is too little space to waste some on stuff people aren't grabbing up. So at the front of the store is a bin full of perfectly good, new stuff. It's been marked down - in many cases below our cost - to make room for the zillions of other things we want to try putting out there for musicians to try. So come by and see if there's any overlooked gold in there - maybe this is your moment to replace that rusty multiclamp holding up your splash, or something even more thematically exciting!
So that's the story so far. That and the usual dedication to an expansive array of enticing musical whatnots from our inventory, and state of the art expertise and suaveness from our staff.
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