Schoenhut Toy Pianos | Quality and Learning System
August 7, 2009
Musical exploration and discovery are important parts of a young child’s creative development. And toy pianos can bring out musical talent at early ages. If you are interested in bringing a quality early music experience to your children, Schoenhut offers a series of toy pianos that includes spinets, grands and toy pianos for children of all ages.
“Schoenhut® toy pianos have delighted children, collectors, and professional musicians for decades. Since the company’s founding in 1872 by German emigrant Albert Schoenhut, the keyboard’s magical overtones, hypnotic charm, and unique sound have matured from novelty toy pianos to fine musical instruments. Unsurpassed in quality, pitch, and durability, each traditional model is still crafted entirely by hand and individually tuned.”
Read more about Schoenhut® Toy Pianos on TheCreativityInstitute.com
“Schoenhut’s play-by-color teaching method is designed to make playing fun and easy for starting out on the toy piano. A removable color strip fits behind the keys to guide small fingers from chord to chord. The chart also works on adult keyboards, since keys on all Schoenhut® toy pianos are of corresponding width. This teaches children proper “finger stretch” from the very beginning. The accompanying Songbook contains a collection of familiar tunes. This Learning System has been specially designed to build a child’s confidence and develop basic playing skills.”
Read more about Schoenhut® Toy Pianos on TheCreativityInstitute.com
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“Meet the Orchestra” Scavenger Hunt Worksheets
August 6, 2009
“Meet the Orchestra” Scavenger Hunt Worksheets
Check out the “Meet the Orchestra” Scavenger Hunt worksheets on MakingMusicFun.net. You can print the worksheet and bop around the site to answer the questions.
Questions include:
Which brass instrument other than the trombone was once made with a slide? _________________
Which brass instrument is built with rotary valves (the lever thingies) rather than piston valves (the button thingies)? _________________
Which stringed instrument was once made so large that it required two people to play it; one to finger the notes and another to hold the bow? _________________
Fantastic Music Education Resources on About.com
June 24, 2009
Every article on About.com is composed by a real person you can talk to. Your guide in Music Education is Espie Estrella, a pianist and songwriter.
Espie says:
“Music is all around us; it touches everyone regardless of culture and age. As your guide to music education, it is my goal to introduce you to topics relating to music. From music history to types of musical instruments and other relevant subjects, I hope this web site will be of help to you. Nobody is too young or too old for music, that’s why I wish you the inspiration to pursue your musical dream.”
In my many visits to Espie’s content on About.com I have been pleased to find well planned, and well written articles.
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