Talk about a GREAT piano for the money! This 1989 Young Chang 7 foot grand is in mint condition and will be the perfect addition to any church, school, auditorium…or your living room! The long bass strings and large soundboard give you a rich, robust sound evocative of a much pricier concert grand piano! Thanks to the responsive action and spotless cabinet, this is the kind of used piano that usually […]
Some sheet music from our featured composer, Robert Schumann! The Wild Horsemen Soldier’s March Three Piano Sonatas Scenes from Childhood: Of Foreign Land and Peoples Scenes from Childhood: Dreaming
Here is a collection of Robert Schumann’s most famous compositions!
Time flies when you’re having fun. That’s the rumor. But practice? Fun? Isn’t this an oxymoron? And you could say the same for guitar, or any other instrument. The fact is, making practice fun is not easy. Practice is hard work, involving repetitious drills and dogged pursuit of accuracy. And, of course, a student must deal with multiple aspects of music (rhythm, notes, technique, dynamics), so often a student who is on […]
Can you find the word in the maze?
Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was the arch-Romantic composer, thoroughly committed intellectually and emotionally to the idea of music being composed to register the feelings, thoughts and impressions garnered by a sensitive spirit on its journey through life. Schumann was born into a devoted family based in Zwickau, 40 miles south of Leipzig. His musical and literary leanings were encouraged by his father who secured […]
QRS was founded in 1900 by Melville Clark (of Story & Clark piano fame) who developed the player piano as we know it today. QRS supplied music rolls to the player piano market, with production peaking in 1927, when QRS Music Company sold 10 million rolls. The player piano”s heyday lasted from 1900 until the Great Depression in the 1930s. The poverty of the Great Depression, along with the […]
Sir Edward Elgar’s famous piece, Pomp and Circumstance!
As a teenager seeking his first place at a school for young pianists, Nicholas McCarthy was refused an audition and told he would never succeed. Having one hand, the head teacher told him, would always hold him back and it was better not to waste his and other people’s time. While some might have given up, Mr McCarthy went on to become the first one-handed pianist known to have […]
One of the pre-eminent musical figures of his time, Edward William Elgar (1857-1934) bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the finest English composer since the days of Handel and Purcell. Elgar’s father owned a music shop and was a church organist who taught his son piano, organ, and violin; apart from this instruction, Elgar was basically self-taught as a musician. At the age of 16, the composer became a […]
