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Moving House? Consider Your Piano It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of moving house! However, it’s important you consider your piano. Pianos are delicate instruments with hundreds of moving parts, but they’re also extremely heavy! To ensure your beloved piano arrives at your new home in one piece, you’ll need to do… Continue reading Moving House? Consider Your Piano

Purchasing a Silent Piano A silent piano combines the feel and style of an acoustic instrument with the convenience of a digital piano. Silent pianos can be played with headphones, making them very useful for people who want to practise in private or without disturbing others. But silent pianos still look and feel exactly like… Continue reading Purchasing a Silent Piano

The Best Piano Tunes for Christmas If there’s something we all love about Christmas, it has to be the music. Everyone loves singing along to a Christmas carol or belting out their favourite festive song on the piano. If someone in your household plays the acoustic or electric piano, why not host a family Christmas… Continue reading The Best Piano Tunes for Christmas

Learning to Sing While Playing Piano   Singing while playing the piano is a fantastic skill for any musician to learn. You can impress friends and family, expand your repertoire, and perform solo. But singing while you play is a challenge, especially when you’re first learning. We’ve listed some great tips to help you become… Continue reading Learning to Sing While Playing Piano

How Often Should You Play The Piano? Like any new skill, the more you practice, the better you’ll get, and the better you are the more, you’ll enjoy doing it. No one likes to be a beginner at anything, but we all have to start somewhere, and learning to play the piano is a lifelong… Continue reading How Often Should You Play Piano?

When Should You Start Learning to Play Piano? There is no ‘right time’ to start learning to play the piano. Anyone at any age can learn; they just need to have enough reason to be motivated and committed enough to put in the time and energy to practice every day.

What is a Self-Playing Piano? Also known as player pianos or Pianolas, older style self-playing pianos uses a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism to play pre-programmed music on your piano using perforated paper or metallic rolls. The keys would move up and down as if the piano were playing by itself.

Using Headphones to Make the Most of Your Piano Learning to play the piano takes time, and those first few months of practice with the repetition of badly-played pieces can strain even the best relationships with those that have to listen to you play every day.

The Mental Health Benefits of Learning the Piano Learning to play the piano has a whole host of benefits that you won’t even see, but you’ll certainly feel them from the first time you start playing. Your brain loves a challenge, and it loves to be rewarded with feel good chemicals when you feel a… Continue reading The Mental Health Benefits of Learning the Piano