So your family just purchased a piano or keyboard – congratulations! Now you’re wondering how to keep it looking (and feeling) as beautiful as it did when it first arrived. Which part of the keyboard needs the most cleaning? If you guessed the keyboard, you’re right. Sure, you might want to give the top of […]

Pedals on a piano are pressed with the feet and used to change the sound produced by the instrument. In acoustic pianos this action leads to a change in the mechanism within the instrument while in digital pianos this effect is emulated. The pedal effects are used to add character to the sound by connecting […]

Many kids take piano lessons growing up, but very few continue into their late teens and onward.  One reason the piano dominates as the instrument kids learn first is the ease at which a pleasant note can be played.  Asking a beginner to strum a guitar 3 times will most likely produce 3 completely different […]

Memorizing music can be one of the more difficult aspects of playing the piano. How are musicians supposed to commit such long pieces to memory? There are so many different variables to consider, from key changes to dynamics changes, that it may seem like memorizing an entire piano piece requires superhuman powers. Fortunately, this is […]