This year, Sam's Strings has been honored to have several of our young adult customers be accepted as music performance majors at renowned music programs across the country.  We just found out that Jacob Resendez a Winston Churchill High School graduate from San Antonio, Texas, will pursue a bachelor degree in cello performance at Western Mich...

Robert Rosenfeld, a 4 time Region player and graduate from Cy-Woods High School in Cypress, TX, is currently pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Cello Performance at the University of Houston.

The use of carbon fiber in violin bows is not new either - what is new, is the concept to develop a carbon fiber bow that is not based on a traditional wood bow, but one redeveloped, utilizing the unique characteristics of the construction material to the medium being performed on!

We are proud to give a shout out to Kyle Victor, senior at Klein High School, who was a 1st prize winner in the Houston Youth Symphony's annual Concerto Competition!

I first became acquainted with New Harmony endpins around the year 2004 or so, when I was completing my masters and upgrading my then personal cello's endpin.  It was simple beauty then, and remains so today, all at a very reasonable price.    Over the past decade and a half, they have solidified their place as a mainstay for h...

Back during my undergraduate degree at the Peabody Conservatory, I was not the most adventurous soul in the types of music that I played.  Beethoven - sure, Mozart - of course, Brahms - daily.  However, when it came to more advant garde music from the 20th century, I was a bit of a stick in the mud.  Since then, I would like to think that I have...