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Stave Invaders

Yes I liked the name too - www.staveinvaders.co.nz .

This web site announced itself on alt.music.classical amongst others this am and for once I was pleasantly surprised and impressed.

They offer some simple and useful MP3s for early music theory - primarily aimed at new guitarists - free of charge. They also offer one of their own recordings for $0.99. However the e-commerce is a bit creaky because PayPal seems to add another dollar. It is nice to see a bit of enterprise emerging on the music scene which is different to the run of the mill and looks really useful.

Constructive criticisms would be that the site needs a bit of work on layout and link presentation. If you are going to try and sell music on line you need to have samples so that people can hear what they are getting before they part with their money. The guitar blues offered free isn't really up to professional standards but has a nice enough atmosphere - I wasn't tempted to buy the one for sale I'm afraid.

Broadband Upgrade Latest: upload speed is great - week's composer update time halved yesterday. Today download appears to be about 3.6M but not very stable - just lost this connection to Blogger - back now though and I'm going to publish while the going is good.

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