Mar 25, 2019 | Purchasing a Piano, Simple Blog
Fazioli pianos… Too good to be true? I’m sure many of you have experienced the “too good to be true” feeling. The little voice in the back of your head that says, this simply can’t be true. It’s way too good. Way too perfect. When I first played a Fazioli piano, I...
Nov 24, 2014 | News, Piano Maintenance, Purchasing a Piano, Simple Blog
Here are some quotes and anecdotes that I’ve found. I will start with one of my own. Our Gospel singing group was scheduled to play at a fair put on by a local monastery in the San Gabriel mountains of California. This was back before everyone had digital pianos to...
Oct 13, 2014 | News, Piano Lessons, Purchasing a Piano, Simple Blog
If you’ve missed the first four (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) award-winning parts of this series (well, I awarded myself some Oreos for my good work if that counts) we are discussing the tremendous value of a musical education to children and how we can help our...
Oct 3, 2014 | News, Piano Lessons, Purchasing a Piano, Simple Blog
I am going to give you some tools today to help you give your child one of the best leg-ups you can in life, that is, learning to play a musical instrument. Before we start let’s take a quick look at some of the benefits we have seen so far in a musical education for...
Jul 4, 2014 | News, Piano Lessons, Purchasing a Piano, Simple Blog
How many times have we heard the phrase “A great gift idea.”? This is a tag line that warms the heart of every retailer and every suit on Madison Ave. If we are honest many of these great gifts we were talked into buying wind up stuffed in a drawer somewhere and...
Jul 2, 2014 | News, Purchasing a Piano, Simple Blog
Just a quick note before the post. I taught Portland Piano Company’s first live “How to REALLY buy a piano” seminar at the shop this last Saturday with the help of our institutional rep. Bill Lewis. I think things went quite well and the plan is to hold one of these...