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Information on pianos:
Our piano age and history service:
We will provide the year that your piano was made,
where it was made, and a history of the manufacturer.

Our piano appraisal service:
We will provide an appraisal of your piano's current market value.

Wikipedia Encyclopedia:
Good general history of the piano, descriptions
of a piano's working parts, links to other info

The Piano Book and Supplement:
If you are interested in learning more about pianos, this is a
good introductory text on most all aspects relating to pianos.

The Piano
Fully illustrated history of the piano.

Treatise on the Art of Pianoforte Construction
Comprehensive details on designing and building a piano.

Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding, Second Edition
Comprehensive details on many of the technical skills that
you need to learn if you want to become a piano technician.

Piano Resource Directory
A mutual link that we share with this commercial site which lists
technicians by state but look no further if you are in Michigan.
We provide statewide piano service for all requirements.

Audiomastermind.com
An extensive listing of audio links relating to pianos and other instruments.

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Finding piano teachers and musicians in your state and city:
Music Teachers National Association
Enter your state and "piano" in this search engine to find nationally
certified piano teachers in your area. The results provide members by
city with their telephone number and home address.

Michigan Music Teachers Association
From the type of lessons menu, select piano.
Then select your Michigan location, rather than
entering a zip code, as it does not work sometimes.
Note: Detroit is listed as the Metropolitan Detroit Musicians League.

Suzuki Association of the Americas
The Suzuki method is gaining popularity among teachers and students.
Follow this teacher locator link to find Suzuki teachers in your area.

Music lessons in the USA:
Superpages.com - music lessons
You can narrow search by state and city,
in text box at top of page.

Music colleges in the USA by state:
EdRef College Search Directory
See the "Contacting the School" section of each page, as you have
to copy and paste the WWW url to get to the college's home page

Finding musicians in your state and city:
Worldwide Local Music Directory
Michigan Music Artists

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Music resources for children:
Children's Music Web:
This is an excellent site with a format easily accessible by children;
also see the links there for parents which provide many resources.

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I.Q. benefits of music for children:
Music and brain research:
extensive listing of various studies

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Piano lessons for children and adults:
lead sheets vs. sheet music
For most children and adults, learning to play the piano by first
learning to read traditional sheet music, is tedious and boring.

The result is that they soon lose interest.

The solution realized by only a few music teachers, is that
the most enjoyable and easiest way to learn to play piano,
is by learning to read music lead sheets, not sheet music,
further explained below in the next section on tutorials.

Lead sheets not only make learning to play the piano much easier
but also, allows one to explore their own music creativity which
nurtures the love of music necessary to later pursue if desired,
the discipline of learning to read traditional sheet music.

Finding a teacher who teaches piano with lead sheets, is not easy,
as most teachers still adamantly rely upon traditional sheet music
but with some diligence, you will find a teacher who makes playing
the piano a very enjoyable and much easier learning experience.

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Lead sheet tutorials for children and adults:
Here are some beginning books and videos on easily learning how
to play the piano in any music genre: classical, jazz, blues, etc., by
reading simplified lead sheets, rather than traditional sheet music.

Play piano in a flash, by Scott Houston
For both children and adults, his tutorials and videos provide a
simple, painless introduction to playing the piano with lead sheets.

How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons, by Ward Cannel.
A more advanced introduction to lead sheets for adults and precocious children
who have some previous musical training or have completed the above tutorials.

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Finding lead sheets (fake books):
Lead sheets are also called "fake books" when they are a
collection and that is a misleading terminology, as many
professional musicians also use various kinds of fake books

The term "fake" evolved from the simplicity of the lead sheet format which
lends itself to improvisation and such improvisations were then termed faking
the music but that is a misnomer, as a high level of musical skill is required
for jazz and blues performances which are intrinsically improvisational and
also, classical performances in a jazz mode, where the musician wishes to
build upon an original composition, rather than render it strictly as written.

Here is a good selection of fake books for children and adults:
Fake book page at Piano in a Flash
This is a different link than the above tutorial link
and it provides many additional types of fake books.

Fake books are also now called real books:
The term "real books" was coined in order to differentiate them from some
earlier fake books which were illegal, as the composers received no royalties.

Here is an excellent index of legal fake books and real books:
This index is searchable to find music and song titles.
The Fake Book Index

Search links to find many more fake books and real books:
Google advanced search for exact phrase: "fake book"
Google advanced search for exact phrase: "real book"

Refined searches by simply adding a keyword to advanced search:
piano "fake book"       children "fake book"       adult "fake book"
classical "fake book"       jazz "fake book"       blues "fake book"

To do your own keyword search:
use this google advanced search link.
In the exact phrase section, type either: fake book or real book.
In the all of the words section, type whatever specific word(s) you want.

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Finding traditional sheet music:
If you or your children have chosen to master the rigors of
fluently reading traditional sheet music, practically everything
ever written in every music genre, is now available online:
8notes.com-sheet music page
good selection of free sheet music; also rates the music in
terms of difficulty and lists other sites with free sheet music
sheetmusicplus.com
excellent commercial site with over 411,000 sheet music titles

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Educational sites:
edu-cyberpg.com and 8notes.com-extras page
many excellent free learning tools and other resources
Teoria Music Theory Web
basic theory pages, references, and free exercises
Piano Education Page:
links to various educational resources
PracticeSpot:
more free learning tools

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Extensive indexes of music resources:
excellent sites for all aspects of music:
Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University)
Internet Public Library-Entertainment-Music (University of Michigan)
Internet Public Library-Fine Arts-Music (University of Michigan)
Librarians' Internet Index - Music (UC Berkeley)
Music Resource Guides (Saint Louis University.)

Yahoo-Entertainment-Music
www's biggest commercial index:

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Specifically classical resources:
Classical.net
good information and reviews
Classical.net-their more links page
excellent listing of various classical sites
WWW Virtual Library
mega list of classical resources
Classical MIDI Archives
recordings to download
Guide to free classical sheet music
listing of the best free www sites
Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire, by Maurice Hinson
most comprehensive guide to solo classical piano music.

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Guides to recorded music:
Allmusic.com
all music genres: classical, jazz, blues, etc.
Music Selection Resources on the WWW
in addition to recorded music guides for all music
genres, excellent guides to many more resources

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Guides to particular record labels:
Allrecordlabels.com and Rlabels.com
sorted by music genre, format, country

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Free recorded music:
edu-cyberpg.com
many links to various sites

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Buy recorded music:
pricing at amazon.com is always very competitive
and their service is excellent with prompt shipping;
Amazon.com-jazz, blues, and other popular music genres
search by artist, album title, song title, label name
Amazon.com-classical music
see bottom of this search page to search by album title or work title, composer,
performer, conductor, ensemble, label name, catalog number, format
Arkivmusic.com
another excellent site devoted solely to classical music

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Discussion forums on the www:
listings relating to pianos and music in general:
Yahoo music groups
Google music groups

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