About Studio 46

The Studio 46 Music Study Center is located in Hackettstown, New Jersey. After renovating an old movie theatre and building studio rehearsal units, we first opened our doors in 1987, with only two instructors and a few dozen students. Since then, we have grown to the size of one of the largest and most respected music schools in the Northwest New Jersey and Delaware Water Gap areas, currently, with sixteen professional instructors and an annual roster of over 300 students.

We are the first music school in the area to be founded as a school system, not as an addendum to a retail music dealership, and we remain  different from a retail music store with "lessons" in several key areas! Music education has always been and will always remain our primary goal. We offer a wide variety of study programs on most instruments and voice. Our instructors are among the finest in the area; many with over twenty years teaching experience! And our staff is united in one key way: Our love of teaching the Music Arts.

As our school developed, we soon realized that support for our student body in key areas such as printed music, musical accessories sales, and even eventually, computerized music publication, copyright preparation and most recently (2006) even the art of recording were in demand. Because we care about our students and their music education, we actively pursued these requests.

Within two years, we expanded the school by adding a retail department for musical accessories, printed sheet music, and band instrument rentals. We have a large selection of popular and classical music and methodologies. We also have accessories for wind, brass, string instruments at deeply discount prices that students can afford!  What we do NOT have is a large amount of heavy equipment. We kept our focus on the requests for a retail department that supported the needs of a student body. Our experience and commitment to focus on music education, rather than retail sales has paid off over the years because our students know they are getting quality music education without a hitch for sale concerns. They know they can trust us for the best prices on musical accessories and for honest referrals to local retailers when it comes to equipment purchases.

In 1992 we began to offer copyist and transcription services to first, our student body, and eventually, to the community. We have prepared scores for our students, prepared photo-ready scores for local musicians that have made their way to various publishers and popular magazines, and have worked with composers who are members of ASCAP, all, originally in hand produced manuscript. That department expanded as technology expanded. Our staff now includes experts in popular programs such as Finale^®, Sibelius^® and other popular computer notation programs, but we still do manual copy graph as well.

Most recently, we have again expanded to offer courses in recording technology. Our new courses in Recording Engineering will start soon (Fall 2006). Additional, we have created an online forum (using the popular YaBB software) for the local community and our students.

We have answered these popular requests from our student body!

We hope that you will enjoy our efforts to bring our enthusiasm for the Music Arts to the Web, and invite you to explore our Web Pages!

Bob Pomicter, Jr.

Proprietor: Studio 46 Music Study Center