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I first registered this domain many years ago when I thought one of my daughters would teach piano lessons as a way to earn money to pay for college.  As it turned out, she went in a different direction.  However, I have been reluctant to let the domain expire.

If I were a music teacher I would use a website to keep parents up to date with my schedule, rates and openings.  If I got sick I could post a message on the website instead of having to call to cancel appointments.

From what i have seen, most music teachers are also involved in school events, local musical productions, informal groups and church events; all part of the struggle to make ends meet.  Since the web can be reached by anyone from anyplace at anytime it seems like the ideal  place for people with a hectic and erratic schedule to meet.

The web is also cheap.  This site was built in a few minutes using free software.  The annual cost of renewing the domain name and hosting the site is less than $15.00.  This is affordable.  If you have 20 students and mail them your schedule twice a year by USPS mail you will spend more than that.

I have been exploring the whole web 2.0 idea in other contexts and got to wondering how it could apply to musical notes.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, web 2.0 refers to new technologies which make the user experience more interactive.  For example google mail uses these techniques to make the user experience easier and more intuitive.

It has been over sold to some extent with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists building sites completely around these techniques.  That may or may not be a good idea.  However, in my mind, there is a real place for some of this technology to add valuable functions to existing web pages.

How does this relate to musical notes?   I think a site could be built where a music teacher could build lessons from an administrative section which would be customized for each student.  The students would view a web page and be able to drag and drop notes onto a blank score.  Their palate of notes would be chosen by the teacher to be appropriate for their skill level.

For young fingers who are just learning to use paper and pencil the ability to move notes and change things by just dragging with the mouse might be very empowering.

When I have seen pictures of the scores produced in the old days, with corrections, and other last minute changes I have always though that automation which let the composer focus on the music and  not the techniqe would be helpful.

Maybe that day is coming.  Until that timehowever, here is the Ebay idea of Musical Notes.