Can you believe that we’re less than 10 weeks away from Christmas 2011?!

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 So, at Ryson’s, we’ve begin to prepare for the Christmas Season.  We’ve got exciting new musical instruments, accessories, and sheet music arriving daily.  Plus, we’ve already begun offering some special deals.

 A Ryson’s Gift Card is a great Christmas gift for your favorite musician.  You can use the Gift Card for musical instruments,

musical instrumentaccessories, music books and sheet music, music instrument repairs, and music lessons.  We’ll also put your chosen gift on Layaway if you wish.

Check out this new MK962 Electronic Keyboard complete with 61 keys, fully digital with 100 rhythms – 8 demonstration songs – Rhythm programming – record/playback – LED Digital Display and many more great features.  To top it off, add our exclusive Ryson’s 2 year warranty.

From “Love Me Do” to “Revolution”, and “Yellow Submarine”, you guessed it…The Beatles!  We’ve got 10% off Beatles guitar straps, perfect for your little Beatle guitar player.  We have a large supply of Beatle Books as well.

Your Little Drummer Boy will love finding the new Typhoon Electric Drum Kit on Christmas morning.  This great little set has got to be seen to be believed.  This set is the perfect solution for “quiet practice” at home.

Christmas Music has arrived; Reader’s Digest Christmas, Glee Christmas. Christmas Pop, Season Greeting, Elvis Christmas, and many more with all of your Christmas Favourites.

Looking for a great deal on a guitar?  We’ve got awesome Typhoon packages from Daddario  including; Guitar, Amp. Strap. Cord, Picks, Bag- and our 2 year warranty.  These great guitars have arrived in all colours  red-blue-black and sunburst.  These are a terrific price thanks to our very own Santa Larry at Daddario.

Ever heard of  Beavercreek guitars?  If you’ve been around Ryson’s for awhile you have.  Well now you can get your favorite guitar player a great guitar at a very reasonable price. They all come with our 2 year warranty.  The Elves at Santa Larry’s workshop are busy making all the Beaver Creek Travelling guitars…a great gift for all ages .

Is your favorite guitar player a young lady?  Well in that case you’re going to want to check out our great selection of Daisy Rock Guitars .for Christmas.   You simply must see the Daisy,The Star, The Heart Guitar and all the new products.

Hey… Santa helpers have just dropped off a  sleigh full of great brass and woodwind musical instruments; flutes, saxophones, trumpets, trombones,and lots more at terrific prices and a great warranty.

Music Lessons are a great gift for Christmas. It is the gift that keep on giving for a lifetime.  Interviews are always available.  Our music lessons are Accredited and we do provide Tax Receipts.

This year our Ryson’s Christmas Concert will be on Dec.18th  Please Call 905 682-6832 for information or drop in at the Studio  5 Court St. St. Catharines.

At Ryson’s, we are a large, musical family we’d love to have you join us in the future!  Christmas is a Homemade Holiday It is the most wonderful time of the year with homemade cookies, gift giving, birth of our Lord, relatives and friends  and the enjoyment of music.

 We hope you’ll come visit us at Ryson’s. In the meantime we wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.

 Anne.

Well once again it’s beginnig to look a lot like Christmas.

Not much in the way of winter weather,  but the specials are arriving on the Santa Express at Ryson’s.  Twinkling  Christmas decorations are up,  students are playing the sound of good cheer and our staff are in a holly jolly mood.

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Looking for that special musical instrument? Or perhaps rare piece of music for your favorite musician?  Order now to fulfill your musical gift list for Christmas.

This year Santa’s brought some terrific holiday specials including; Typhoon Electric Guitar Amplifier bag strap and guitar, with picks and our exclusive Rysons 2 year warranty.

Everything you need to be a rock star for $225.00.

Rudolph and the gang are prancing over the specials on all brass and woodwind instruments. “Look Santa they even have jingle bells, drums sets, hand drums, celtic drums, bass guitars and amplifiers as well as mandolins, violin with cases and bows sets, all at super Holiday Savings!

Christmas Elvs are reminding us not to forget all the great accessories for your favorite musician; strings, picks, reeds,  pedals, drum sticks, metronomes, tuners and much more.

Mrs. Claus is having a great time in the music book section with all the new Christmas books from “White Christmas”, “Readers Digest Christmas”, “Hilarious Christmas Books” , even Taylor Swift and Hanna Montana.  Other books to make great gifts include  Frank Sinatra, Beatles, Rock, Pop, Blues  and many more.  “Santa this is a large book store”, says Mrs. Claus.

This year’s annual Christmas Concert at Silver Spire Dec. 20  at 1:00 in the afternoon. All proceeds go to Silver Spire “Out  Of The Cold”.   Just $10.00 per family and if you would like to bring a toy for the needy that would be gratefully appreciated.

The short story; “The Day the Welland Canal Monster met Santa”,  is a Child’s delight and available at Ryson’s Studios . It is a great book during the festive season, written by local author Frank Proctor who can also be found on AM740 Toronto.  Join Tiny, Clarence, and the Welland Canal in a must read story for the holiday season.

Lots of stuff going on with our teaching staff;

• First, we’d like to welcome back Matthew Therrian who has joined our teaching staff as a piano instructor. Matthew is also acting as the Music Director at Silver Spire. As a Music Graduate from Brock University Matthew received his BA in Music, he also earned his Accredited Registered Certified Teacher certificate, (A.R.C.T.), at a early age.

• Danielle Oegema, one of our violin teachers has just released a new Cd called ‘Zusters” with all original music.

• Lauren Gasbarini one of our voice instructors is arranging several of our students in a choir for the Christmas concert.  Lauren will also be finishing her broadcasting course at Niagara this year, and will be hosting the Santa Claus parade in Niagara Falls for Niagara College on November 28 airing on Cogeco.

• Dave Tufford, Torry Doyle, Jordan Phelan and Tim Popek will be putting band groups together for our Christmas concert.

If you’re looking for some great music for your Holiday Season event The Golden Hammers and The Rockin Daisies are available for your music needs. Call Anne at 905 682-6832

A large shipment of Beaver Creek guitars arrived today including the backpackers guitars, a great Christmas gift.

Speaking of great gifts,  music lessons are a gift, that last a lifetime.
Our Rysons Gift Cards are available in all amounts and can be redeemed for musical instruments, instrument repairs, or music lessons and books.

Ryson’s Studio of Music is open Monday to Friday 9 to 9 Saturday 9 to 5.

If I can be of service please give me a call at 905 682-6832 or anne@rysonsmusic.com

Best Wishes,
Anne.

P.S.
Ryson’s is Home of the 2 year Warranty…don’t take chances on your new musical instrument.

“The Richest Child is Poor Without a Musical Education”

Christmas gift giving is believed by many people to have originated with Jesus’ birth.

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The Three Wisemen brought gifts of gold, frankencense and myrrh which at the time were all ordinary gifts for a king.  No one was really giving elaborate gifts until late in the 1800s.  The Santa Claus story, growing retailing, decorative settings and children writing request to Santa made gift giving a central part of Christmas tradition.

Gift giving should be done with consideration of the individual, cost and need; not just for the sake of buying.  Gift giving should come with best wishes and a warm and fuzzy feeling for the person receiving them for the Christmas Blessing.  They should be left knowing that you cared enough to honour them with a thoughtful gift.  Remember it’s the most wonderful time of the year with the kids jingle belling, people singing and playing Christmas carols and everyone telling you to be of good cheer.  To all repeat the sounding joy and wondrous love and gift of hope for the coming year.

Shopping for the perfect Christmas gift can be  tedious taks.

May I offer the suggestion of music?
Music is a lasting gift that can have a life changing impact and is a gift that keeps on giving.  There are countless music related presents and sugar plums for beginners, intermediate and professionals alike.

Musical Instruments such as:

Guitars, (electric or accoustic), drums,string instruments, (violin, viola, cello, bass, and mandolin) brass and woodwinds (flutes saxophones, clarinets, trombones, trumpets, trombones, oboe, bassoon and french horns) and all percussion.  For the budding musician, these could represent the perfect Christmas gift.

Then there is a plethora of Accessories for the chosen instruments.

Musical instrument accessories such as:
Straps, drum sticks, cymbals, mouthpieces, pitch pipes, pedals, piano lamps, amplifiers, cables, slides, lyres, strings for all instruments and cleaning supplies.
Santa gets many request for metronomes from teachers for their students to keep time to the music.  Santa also gets request for music lessons which is a great gift that last a lifetime and brings pleasure and education to many people.

Then there are even more gift ideas that you may not have considered.

A great gift would be to restore a instrument that belonged to a love one for a grandchild or for sentimental reasons to have as a keepsake.  This is a wonderful gift that will be appreciated for a lifetime.
Read more about musical instrument repair and restoration here.

Santa has suggestions for stocking stuffers such as reeds, cleaning rods, guitar stings, violin strings, electrical musical instrument or microphone cords, musical instrument cases, drums stick, slides, capos, tuners and electronic pedals.

For that young guitar and bass student who wants to have a electric guitar we have many of the electronic pedals in stock such as triple wah, shift daddy, chorus, echo, heavy metal, egg salad, chili dog and many more pedals.

Gifts for Violin, Cello and Bass students might be bows, cases, rosin, a new set of strings and a variety of sheet music.

Piano requests on Santa’s list are usually piano lamps, piano benches, metronomes and a variety of music.  Brass and Woodwind students request from Santa either a new instrumtent, reeds, cases, music stands, cleaning rods, metronomes and music books of classical music or popular music.

If you simply can’t decide, don’t forget about our Ryson’s Gift Card.  We’re offering a Christmas Special on our gift card.  Click on Rysons Christmas Gift Card to read about it.

Rysons Studios is all decorated for the Christmas Season. Students are singing Christmas carols, playing instruments and preparing for Rysons United Studios 70 year Christmas Concert on Dec. 21st.
Call for details or email website for more information.

Our store hours for the holidays are:

Monday to Friday 9:00am-9:00pm,

Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm

Sunday (in December) ll:00am-4:00pm.

MAY ALL THE MAGIC OF THIS SEASON BE YOURs AND MAY YOU BE FILLED WITH LOVE AND JOY AS YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR.

If you just can’t decide on the perfect musical gift for Christmas, here’s an idea you might not have considered.

Have you got an old musical instrument stored away?  Perhaps a family heirloom, maybe a vintage guitar, or grampa’s old banjo?

Well, your perfect gift may be closer than you think.

Many old musical instruments that might look like they’ll never be played again can in fact be restored to their original beauty and playability.  In fact, some instruments may play better than they did when they were brand new.

As many of you know, Don, at Ryson’s, has decades of experience in the fine art of musical instrument repair.  What you might not know is that he’s also very skilled at bringing those old vintage musical instruments back to life.  Who knows, you might even have a very valuable instrument in your attic.

What a great Christmas gift this could be for your children or grandchildren.  Christmas is a time of reflection of past Christmas memories.  Imagine how appreciated grampa’s old banjo, looking like new, and playing even better could be.  Truly a gift that would last a lifetime.

Here are some other musical Christmas Gift Ideas.

If you’d like to have your vintage musical instrument assessed, or value appraised, give Don a call at Ryson’s.

Our store hours for the holidays are:

Monday to Friday 9:00am-9:00pm,

Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm

Sunday (in December) ll:00am-4:00pm.

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the musician in your life?

How about Christmas sheet music or music book?

Here at Ryson’s we have a great selection of Christmas music.  Many fine artists young and old from all genres (rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, country)  If we don’t have what you’re looking for, there’s a good chance we can still get it before Christmas.

Music books are available in all skill levels from beginners to experts, for all instruments.

Let nothing you dismay; even the newest student can play Christmas Carols such as ”Jolly Old St. Nicholas,” “Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer” and the favourite, “Silent Night.”

We also have a great selection of Traditional Christmas books such as: “The Readers Digest Merry Christmas Songbook,” “A Family Christmas around the Piano,” “Key for the Kingdom,” and “Handel’s Messiah” just to name a few.

There are some hilarious holiday songs as well: “Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake,” “Grandpa’s going to sue the pants off Santa,” “The Chipmunk Song,” “Santa Claus on De Coconut Tree” and many more.

Come on in, or give us a call to see if we have your favorite Christmas sheet music or music book in stock.

Our store hours for the holidays are:

Monday to Friday 9:00am-9:00pm,

Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm

Sunday (in December) ll:00am-4:00pm.

MAY ALL THE MAGIC OF THIS SEASON BE YOURs AND MAY YOU BE FILLED WITH LOVE AND JOY AS YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR.

If you still haven’t decided on a musical Christmas gift for the musician in your life.

A Ryson’s Gift card can bring tidings of comfort and joy.
Our Ryson’s Gift Card can be used to purchase music lessons, musical instrument repairs, musical instruments, musical instrument accessories or a new music book.

Ryson’s Gift Cards are available in all denomations.  A great idea for that collection of guru music book that your son wanted all year long; now you can give him the card to purchase his dream.

As a Christmas Special: Your Ryson’s Gift Card will be redeemable for 10% more than you pay for it.  All that you need to do is sign up for our Ryson’s newsletter, “The Rysons Reflections” which will be offered in January at Santa’s request.
Simply provide us with your first name and valid email address to qualify.

A Ryson’s Gift Card is a great Christmas gift idea for any musician.

Our store hours for the holidays are:

Monday to Friday 9:00am-9:00pm,

Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm

Sunday (in December) ll:00am-4:00pm.

MAY ALL THE MAGIC OF THIS SEASON BE YOURS AND MAY YOU BE FILLED WITH LOVE AND JOY AS YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW
YEAR.

We have just recieved our new supply of Ryson’s Gift Cards.

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This is a terrific musical gift that any Music Student or Musician will appreciate.

Ryson’s Gift Cards can be loaded for any dollar amount you wish, and can be redeemed anytime at Ryson’s toward the cost of Musical Instruments, Musical Instrument Accessories, Musical Instrument Repair, Music Books, or Music Lessons.

The card can also be reloaded with additional funds anytime. There is no expiry date on the card so the recipeint can use the funds at Ryson’s anytime.

For more information, give us a call or email, or drop in and see us.

Anne.