Vintage PA: Happy Little Trees
One evening, while my class piano students were working on their improvs for the midterm, I suddenly found myself saying, “You don’t need to apologize! Maybe in your world there’s…
IKEA Practicing: 5 Steps To Improve Learning
Can the way you put together a piece of IKEA furniture say something about the way you might approach other tasks? L J Sedgwick thinks so and advocates using the…
Piano Maker’s Corner: Hammers From Recycled Flipflops
Welcome to another update from Kigali Keys, a project to build pianos in Rwanda. We’re still working on forging a decent string frame. We’ve made a couple of attempts which…
Materials for a New Year: 7 Things to Keep in Mind
It’s back to piano again. For me the start of a new semester can be both exciting and overwhelming. There are new students to get to know and ongoing students…
Artist Portrait: Catherine Gordeladze
I'm very pleased to bring you this interview with pianist Catherine Gordeladze. Her newest album, Dance Fantasies takes the listener on a journey from the Baroque to the 20th Century and is…
Vintage PA: Fireworks!
Some American pianistic fireworks in honor of The Glorious 4th! These are the best kind of fireworks for us in Arizona since our state has mostly been on fire lately.…
Piano Maker’s Corner: Partners in Full Potential
When I started having piano lessons, aged seven, I liked the idea of being a concert pianist. Sitting in front of a big, shiny piano in front of thousands of…
Giving Your Best Guess
My favorite quote about guessing comes from a Star Trek movie. No, I haven’t finally lost it. Please bear with me. Here’s the full text from IMDB. How do we get…