PLAYER PIANOS: “The Life of the Party”!

Whether you want the nostalgia of an old roll-style player piano or the versatility of a modern player piano, Mid-America Piano can meet your needs! Bring back the good ol’ days, toss out your StairMaster, and pump the pedals of this roll player piano. Over 40 rolls included by Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, Anne Murray, Barry Manilow, Glen Campbell, The Oak Ridge Boys, Barbara Mandrell, Floyd Cramer, and more. Christmas […]

 

Sounds of the Season Piano Sale!

 

Learning and Teaching Tools

 

December Sheet Music

Try your hand at some festive music for the holidays! The First Noel Good King Wenceslas Jingle Bells Jolly Old St. Nicholas Up on the Housetop Joy to the World Silent Night 12 Days of Christmas O Christmas Tree  

 

Seahawks’ DeShawn Shead working hard on field, at piano

RENTON — DeShawn Shead is standing in the Seahawks’ locker room, humming wedding music and wiggling his fingers across an imaginary keyboard. Shead, a defensive back, is not crazy. He is trying to demonstrate a point. He is trying to show how he taught himself the piano in the past year. “You’d be really surprised by what I can play now,” he says. “When the Saints Go Marching In.” “Beautiful […]

 

Composer's Corner: Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius, original name Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (born Dec. 8, 1865, Hämeenlinna, Fin.—died Sept. 20, 1957, Järvenpää), Finnish composer, the most noted symphonic composer of Scandinavia. Sibelius studied at the Finnish Normal School, the first Finnish-speaking school in Russian-held Finland, where he came into contact with Finnish literature and in particular with the Kalevala, the mythological epic of Finland, which remained for him a constant source of inspiration. (Many of his symphonic […]

 

 
 
 

Rudolph - Merry Christmas - ThePianoGuys

 

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November Sheet Music

Enjoy some sheet music from our featured composer and some music for Thanksgiving! Simple Gifts Ching-a-Ring Chaw Fanfare for the Common Man Hoe-down Thankful – Josh Groban Give Thanks – Henry Smith

 

Composer's Corner: Aaron Copland

For nearly four decades, American composer Aaron Copland achieved a distinctive musical characterization of American themes in an expressive modern style. He is known for works like Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man, among many others. Synopsis Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900, in Brooklyn, New York, going on to study piano and composition and studying in Europe for some time. He became one of the […]