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...the Flowerfield/Gyrodyne Industrial Park. On your right is Building Seven, one of the original factory buildings of the Gyrodyne Helicopter Company. The helicopters are long gone, replaced by dozens of modest little businesses like Coyote Music. Pass by this building on your right...

...and you'll come to this brief incline. Be sure to observe the stop sign, then make a left turn...

...onto this lovely sun-dappled boulevard. On your right is Flowerfield's Building #1. Keep driving, we're at the far end of the building...

...beneath the last blue awning, with a herd of gentle School Buses grazing in the distance. Don't blow your horn - you might scare them! You can drive s-l-o-w-l-y into their parking lot, though, find a space, and double back to the door that currently says...

..."Coyote Music, Inc." and "Donna Siani Music Studio." This is an older picture, and I've added my sign to the door since this was taken. But taking a new photo of my front door is a low-priority issue at the moment. So don't be fooled - the old Coyote is in there, too...

...as you can tell by the warm glow of Tesla-driven illumination and the abundance of guitar accessories lining the walls...

On the left you can see Every Guitar Magazine That Ever Was, neatly sorted by issue and year. We've catalogued every song that's ever been published in these periodicals, just for your learning ease. On the right are shelves and shelves of guitar and music texts. Hiding behind the Black Chair of Illusory Comfort and the Music Stand of Totemic Musicianship is the legendary Row of Books Yet to Be Published. Hiding in plain sight on the Music Stand of Musical Cryptography, right next to the "Just Standards Real Book," is the infamous Formal Red Hard-Cover Coyote Practice Diary, begun in January of 2006. When I practice...

...I often plug into one of these delicious Room-Warming Tube Amplifiers. Up top on the left is my Music Man 112 RD Fifty, to it's right is the versatile Aslin Dane AB-30 solid state bass amp, which clearly snuck in whilst the tube counters were asleep, and top right is the current state of my looping gear (Boss GT-3, two DD-20s, and a Digitech Whammy). The middle shelf holds, at left, boxes and boxes of cables and stomp boxes (boxes within boxes...). The wooden beauty at center is an Acoustic G-100-T, a lawsuit copy of a Mesa Boogie Mark II, which I purchased from Mike Cummings back in 19-whatever. Center right is a Fender Pro Reverb, once owned by David Noyes.At bottom left is the newest addition, the Crate V3 plugged into the Vai Legacy 2 x 12 cabinet. The yardstick helps to measure just how far you were blown back when you accidentally plugged into the V3 with the Master volume on 4-1/2. The file cabinets contain - what else? - sheet music! - which is cataloged along with the periodicals in the funky little gray-and-brown index card box you see on the left. If you were to turn still further left...

...you would see me magically appear, ready to start our lesson. Frequent guests will recognize the Korg D1600mkII recording workstation behind my left arm, along with the ever-present cup of cawfeey (as we say in New Yawk). Dig the lava lamp percolating away, a gift from the Elk and Lobster on Father's Day.