Category archives: Featured Articles

Teaching Beginner Piano Lessons Tips and Techniques

Teaching beginner piano lessons can be really fun. Here are some of the important elements that I think go into the beginner lessons. Beginners start piano lessons with a lot of[...]

PianoNotes Special: Sohmer Grand Piano

If you're looking for a high-quality, American-built baby grand piano in great shape, your search is over! Sohmer practically invented the baby grand, and for over 100 years built [...]

The Concert-Grand Elephant in the Living Room By Pamela Fiori

IT MEASURES 7 FEET long and 5 feet wide, weighs 1,182 pounds (roughly the same as a 6-month-old baby elephant) and eats up valuable space in my living room. I use it, if I'm being [...]

Sergei Rachmaninoff plays his Piano Concerto No. 2

Her Way: Hélène Grimaud's Life as a Concert Pianist - The New Yorker

One day in July, Hélène Grimaud was practicing the piano in a hotel room in Munich. The Palace, where she was staying, is near the Prinzregententheater, and is unusually accomm[...]

The 10 Greatest Pianists of All Time - Limelight Magazine

10. Artur Schnabel (1882-1951) Who was he? An Austrian pianist who specialised in core German composers and made the first complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas. What mak[...]

March Sheet Music

This month's sheet music theme centers around March. "The month?" you ask. Yes, but also the musical term. Musically, a march is "a composition in regularly accented, usually duple[...]

Early Music Lessons Have Longtime Benefits

When children learn to play a musical instrument, they strengthen a range of auditory skills. Recent studies suggest that these benefits extend all through life, at least for those[...]

Inventions: The Piano That Tunes Itself

Tuning a piano, unlike other instruments, is a job for professionals. But what if it could tune itself? Most musicians can tune their instruments whenever they like. The excepti[...]

The History of Valentine's Day

The Legend of St. Valentine The history of Valentine's Day--and the story of its patron saint--is shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated as a month[...]