by Lisa Canning | Jun 26, 2026 | Tips
There’s a story the music industry tells itself about growth, and I think it’s been quietly wrong for about twenty years. The story goes: scale up, distribute wider, cut overhead, sell into more markets, get bigger before someone else does. It’s the...
by Lisa Canning | Nov 13, 2023 | Tips
At Lisa’s Clarinet Shop we believe the best way to buy a new instrument is to sell the one you have and use it as a down payment toward a new one. In recent years, professional woodwind instruments have tremendously gone up in price, making it less accessible for many...
by Lisa Canning | Oct 26, 2023 | Tips
As a performer or a music educator, the number of years it took for you to become proficient, let alone exceptional at playing a musical instrument, is considerable. Private lessons and, the thousands of hours of investment you have made practicing your instrument,...
by Lisa Canning | Oct 26, 2023 | Tips
While it may seem obvious, an instrument that is not in the best possible playing condition will handicap the abilities of the musician using it to improve faster. Unfortunately, many musicians fail to take seriously the need to have their instrument adjusted at...
by Lisa Canning | Oct 26, 2023 | Tips
If you play the clarinet, saxophone, flute or oboe professionally, you know how challenging your instrument can be to play if it is not in proper adjustment. Your tolerance for it having mechanical issues when it does need service work, as a professional musician,...