We test-fly our own planes
Well, not really — we don’t have any planes — but here’s the point:
Unlike many manufacturers, we regularly use our own product — a sheet music songbook of more than 300 old favorites that we take three times a week to singalongs at local nursing homes and senior residences. And we continue to improve it.
Because like our customers, we’re also new users of the songbook. The songs are the same ones that our little family band (we call ourselves the Hat Band because we all wear hats) has sung for the past two decades, but the book itself is new to us, too.
Our old songbook was a stiff-sided heavy binder that was stuffed haphazardly with hand-punched sheet music, much of it handwritten, and that always threatened to fall off the music stand. Our new songbook, Sing along with ease, is a collection of professional sheet music, done on a computer and arranged alphabetically, that sits in a sleek binder of soft-sided, durable vinyl.
It’s a great improvement, but that slick new binder has one annoying characteristic — the soft vinyl has an electrostatic attraction to the first and last pages in the book, trapping them in the binder rings when the book is closed and eventually causing those pages to tear. So we came up with a simple fix:
The songbook now has front and back fly leaves of cardboard-like paper that is heavy enough to ignore the soft vinyl’s electrostatic attraction. The book now opens and closes just as slick as it looks, with all the pages under control.
The fly leaves are green, reflecting their recycled content, and we’ve mailed a set to all the customers who’ve bought the book so far.
So get your new and even more improved Sing along with ease songbook today, and get out there and start singing along (or stay inside with the family — or just by yourself — and do the same thing).
We may be a tiny company that can’t fly its own planes, but we’ve fly-leafed our own songbooks.
– Sid Leavitt
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Ideal for singalongs at nursing homes, senior residences or just at your own home. Bound in a loose-leaf binder of durable vinyl, unsnaps for access to pages. (To see a photo of the book, click
Our new songbook, Sing along with ease, isn’t guaranteed to get you there, but it will help you practice, practice, practice.
Orders for our new songbook, Sing along with ease, are now coming in, and I thought we should explain some of our sales philosophy and procedures.
Our little band has experimented for years with ways to provide song sheets for the audiences at our singalongs, and now we’ve come up with an effective and inexpensive method to do just that.
The purpose of our new singalong songbook, Sing along with ease, is to make music, well, easier. And a lot cheaper.
Our little family band has been using a slick new version of the songbook we use for singalongs we lead three times a week at local nursing homes and senior residences.
The songbook is a great help to amateurs like us who enjoy getting together and singing along. It shows lyrics, simple one-note melody lines and chord progressions that can be played — or learned — by the most basic guitarists or pianists.
Singalong songbooks. I’m now producing and selling them. Cheap.
Our songbook is simple — single-note melody lines with chords shown above and lyrics below, all in ‘easy’ keys — mostly C and G — that we’ve found most guitarists and pianists can play and, more important, most people can sing comfortably. That’s why we’ve titled the book Sing along with ease.
