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If you have never seen the movie The Music Box with Laurel and Hardy you could probably youtube it and find this episode with them moving a piano, it is hilarious. In the film ‘The Music Box’ Laurel and Hardy take a lot of trouble carrying a piano up, seemingly endless steps, leading to a… Continue reading Piano Moving & Care, Plus Piano’s in Hollywood

Are you moving to a new home and worried about moving your piano? Or do you need to relocate a piano to a new location? Whatever the reason you need to relocate your prized piano, this suddenly creates a huge hassle and worry for you. Whether you are moving your piano across town or across… Continue reading Piano’s on the Move

The first electric pianos from the late 1920s used metal strings with a magnetic pickup, an amplifier and a loudspeaker. The electric pianos that became most popular in pop and rock music in the 1960s and 1970s, such as the Fender Rhodes use metal tines in place of strings and use electromagnetic pickups similar to… Continue reading The Many Types of Keyboards

Just glancing through a google page on moving a piano there are titles like, “How to Move a Piano and live to tell of it”, and another was, “How to Move a Piano without Injuring your back” or “Do’s and Don’ts of Moving your Piano” what! Is this what you want to do, learn the… Continue reading The Art of Moving a Piano

First suggestion is, get a professional: Why: The smallest grand piano starts at 54 inches long (which is equivalent to a 54 inch high upright) with a weight of 5 – 600 lbs. Grand pianos can extend out to 108 inches long for a 9′ concert grand topping out at 1000-1200 lbs. Large upright pianos… Continue reading Moving a Piano

Keyboard instruments belong to two basic groups, those that simply trigger or pluck a note like the harpsichord and organ, and those that are responsive to the strength of the musician’s touch on the keys like the piano, clavinet and clavichord. Pianos are built with pedals which sustain or mute notes by moving and striking… Continue reading Music for the Joy of It

Moving a piano requires planning and effort. Pianos are extremely heavy and their finishes are very vulnerable to scratches, nicks and dents. Even a small upright piano can weigh more than 350 pounds (0.1588 metric tons). Grand pianos can easily weigh over 1,000 pounds (0.4536 metric tons), and older upright pianos tend to be top… Continue reading The Sensitive Nature of the Piano

Part II Mass media Until not so long ago, music was something only played live by musicians in front of audiences. With the appearance of audio recording technology, the concept of the recording artist was born. Suddenly it was no longer just about the live performance, but rather about content that can be distributed globally,… Continue reading Keeping with The Melody

Part 1: When melody, harmony and rhythm interact in a meaningful way, it is powerful and magical. It can ignite emotion and provoke thought. When all of those together, interact with lyrics in a meaningful way, it can help shape the way people view the world and their perception of their own lives. Such meaningful… Continue reading Is It All About the Melody

At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at… Continue reading Music is the Universal Language at any Age