by Sonja Lynne | Oct 1, 2020 |
When most people think of the Yamaha Disklavier, they think of a player piano or home entertainment instrument. What most folks don’t know is that the world’s premier player piano was designed to be (first and foremost) an educational tool. Introduced in 1982 as the...
by James Harding | Jul 1, 2020 |
In 2009, Apple informed us that – no matter what we want to do – “There’s an app for that.” …and WOW were they right! Today almost every product has its own accompanying APPlication. Kids can scan their Happy Meal toys and...
by Gary Gordon | Apr 1, 2020 |
One of the truly exciting parts of my job is showing people how much fun they can have with a digital piano. Not only do most digital pianos have many different sounds and rhythms – as well as a built-in recorder – but some models can also make use of...
by James Harding | Jan 16, 2020 |
As a music industry professional, clinician, and national trades columnist, one of my great passions is sharing new techniques and teaching tools with progressive educators all over the world. Since we all share the same goal (making more music makers), we are all...
by Gary Gordon | Jan 2, 2020 |
As a salesperson who works a ton of outside sales events, I often have the opportunity to hear people of all ages play the piano and it’s never a surprise when someone tells me “I taught myself.” I took many years of “formal” piano...
by James Harding | Oct 1, 2019 |
Audio files are exactly what you think they might be: a collection of sounds. For example, if you purchase a song from iTunes and play it on your phone, your phone will produce sound. Songs from iTunes, Pandora, Spotify and similar services are stored as audio files....