From the category archives:

Piano

An Interview with Miranda Bourgeois

by Lia ZitoApril 14, 2012

How’d you get started playing your instrument? My mom made me start lessons when I was 7. Admittedly it was not a self-motivated desire to start playing the piano but I became hooked instantly. I loved the challenge in reading music, using my brain and moving my fingers. I still can’t shake that desire; precision [...]

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Pianos vs. Keyboards

by David McCormickJanuary 1, 2011

Parents and adult beginners often ask whether it’s necessary to invest in an acoustic piano before starting lessons. In our experience, the answer is definitely not. True, nothing beats the sound quality and expressiveness of a good baby grand piano. I know – I used to own one. But I got tired of having to [...]

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One Click to Your New Blues Nickname

by KevinSeptember 14, 2009

Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Lightning Hopkins, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Blind Willie McTell … you may be eating their dust when you try to play the blues, but you don’t have to suffer the added indignity of having a name that nobody will remember after the open mike is [...]

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