Category archives: Articles

White House Museum of Pianos

White House Piano The custom Steinway piano at Christmas, 2002 Maestro-in-Chief Pianos have been popular musical instruments almost since their invention ove[...]

History of the Piano

The story of the piano begins in Padua, Italy in 1709, in the shop of a harpsichord maker named Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori (1655-1731). Many other stringed and keyboard ins[...]

Featured Piano: Young Chang G213 Grand Piano

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 [...]

June Sheet Music

Some sheet music from our featured composer, Robert Schumann! The Wild Horsemen Soldier's March Three Piano Sonatas Scenes fro[...]

Famous Works of Robert Schumann

Here is a collection of Robert Schumann's most famous compositions!

How to Make Piano Practice Fun: 10 Tips

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 instrumen[...]

Composer's Corner: Robert Schumann

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 t[...]

Learning and Teaching Tools

Can you find the word in the maze?

QRS Player Systems

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,[...]

One-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy ‘an inspiration’

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 h[...]