A Piano Teacher’s Worst Nightmare!

In a routine Yahoo e mail search for a Kawai USA technician I had spoken with a year ago, I stumbled upon a document that I had drafted out of sheer desperation. It related to the decline of my sustain pedal which had been mercilessly pounded by a student who had serious impulse control problems.…

In the Hot Zone!

When I prepare for a you tube posting, I climb the walls. Not only am I in the hot seat when the camcorder is rolling, but I have to worry about the neighbors to my right suddenly deciding to have a slap down, bang out fight. Last night was a perfect example of recording on…

Under the spell of Vladimir Horowitz

Claudia S., one of my hard-working piano students, paused during a recital rehearsal to sample a collection of Steinway grands housed in the parlor of the Fresno Piano store on Ashlan. The instruments on display ranged from the model "M," about 5'7" in dimension to the "L," nearly 6.' A particular piano was a facsimile…