With Anne Marie Page and Thomas Green working on the syllabus revision. Oh my goodness, do I ever enjoy playing Steingraebers! Regular Colla...
On the Greatest Challenge of Teaching Piano
Arizona-based piano teacher and music therapist Marijane Nguyen writes about what she finds the most challenging, but ultimately the most re...
Read Classical Singer Magazine Free For This Week Only
Classical Singer is one of the most important magazines and largest communities for emerging singers looking to find information about schoo...
How to Use Evernote to Track Student Progress and Send Lesson Notes
Many of us have heard a litany of complaints regarding forgotten practice assignments: “What do you mean I was supposed to learn this study?...
How to Subscribe to the Collaborative Piano Blog on Flipboard
I got a huge surprise this morning when I opened up Flipboard on my new iPad Air and found that this blog is one of the featured blogs on th...
Viktoriya Yermolyeva Plays Metallica's Master of Puppets
There's nothing like the sound of metal arranged for classical piano on a cold winter's night. Here is Viktoria Yermolyeva playing M...
Ten Ways to Jump-start Your Professional Development
A few months ago, Gillian Cummings at the Royal Conservatory asked me to write an article on the theme of professional development for their...
Black MIDI: A Genre of Unplayable Keyboard Music
Black MIDI is an upcoming genre of keyboard music that uses gaming and MIDI software to create keyboard music so complex, so dense, that the...
Is It Possible To Hack Practicing With The Addicting Properties Of Video Games?
Don't click on this link . Really, don't. The above link goes to Cookie Clicker, one of the simplest, absurdest, and most addi...
Call for Pianists: Canadian Operatic Arts Academy, May 1-25, 2014 in London, Ontario
Kathryn Tremills recently emailed me with info about the upcoming Canadian Operatic Arts Academy to be held from May 1-25, 2014 in London, O...
Art, Silence, and Pesky Cellphone Interruptions
One of the things that sucks about being a classical musician these days is that your performances frequently get interrupted by ringing cel...
Classical Music and Social Media: A Changing Landscape Within a Changing Landscape
I've been reading some interesting thoughts on utilizing social media to build careers from press and blogosphere in the last few days. ...
Call for Submissions: The Royal Conservatory 2015 Piano Syllabus
One of the reasons that I haven't posted in a while is that I'm currently busy with a number of projects, including being on the rev...
Oh no, not another bloody guitar with skulls on it! Enough already!
guitarz.blogspot.com : Just what is the deal with skulls on guitars? As tired old clichés go, it has to be one of the crappiest. I suppose t...
80s-tastic Hondo Model 781 Explorer-style guitar with bizarro graphics
guitarz.blogspot.com : Hondo guitars seem to invoke either a love 'em or loathe 'em response from most guitarists, with some proclai...
Musicvox MI-5 12-string bass in sea foam green
guitarz.blogspot.com : This Musicvox MI-5 12-string bass in a glorious all-over sea foam green finish is one seriously cool bass. It's ...
One-off cast aluminium-bodied guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com : Here's another one-off made aluminium-bodied guitar , although this time instead of the body having been milled o...
Jerry Jones Danelectro Longhorn 6-string bass replica circa 1990-93
guitarz.blogspot.com : Here's a Jerry Jones 6-string bass , circa 1990-93, based on the original Danelectro Bass VI model as orignally i...
Fender TLAC100 Japanese-made hybrid acoustic/electric Thinline Tele
guitarz.blogspot.com : I've quite fancied getting myself a Fender Acoustisonic Telecaster , a hybrid electric/acoustic Telecaster launch...
Another of Höfner's less celebrated guitars, the S3N
guitarz.blogspot.com : Following on from this post , here's another of Höfner's less celebrated guitars. The seller says this Höfner...
Fender Custom Shop Telecaster Bass gets the Deluxe treatment
guitarz.blogspot.com : This Dennis Galuszka masterbuilt Fender Custom Shop re-interpretation of the Fender Telecaster Bass (a model itself ...
Manufacuring a Steinway Piano...in 1929
Back in the 1920's, Steinway was churning out pianos at the absolute height of the piano market without any of the cost-cutting and indu...
The Terminator custom stainless steel electric guitar and illuminating case!
guitarz.blogspot.com : It's probably easiest if I just quote liberally from the eBay listing for this particular custom guitar : Nicknam...
Vintage one-off prototype brass-bodied resonator guitar - possibly by Charles Brasher
guitarz.blogspot.com : Here's a potential interesting piece of history if only it could be conclusively identified. The seller believes ...
Höfner Alpha - one of their less celebrated guitars
guitarz.blogspot.com : The name Höfner conjures up images in the mind's eye of such classic German-made guitars as the Höfner "Beat...
Ian's tribute to Arthur Bianchi's Pioneer Guitars of Australia
guitarz.blogspot.com : Ian writes: Hi Gavin Love your blog Sometime ago you featured a funky triple neck "Pioneer" guitar made by...
First Act Custom Shop Baritone Guitar Prototype
guitarz.blogspot.com : A semi-hollow archtop baritone guitar is what I dream of - I hope to acquire soon a Hagstrom Viking baritone that is...
1970s JHS copy of a Gibson Marauder
guitarz.blogspot.com : This 1970s-era JHS branded guitar is another copy of one of the lesser known - and certainly more unpopular - Gibson...
CMI 1970s Japanese-made Gibson L6S copy
guitarz.blogspot.com : Here's a 1970s Japanese-made guitar bearing the CMI brand (I believe I once read that there were two separate br...
Klira "Jaguar"-stye 1960s vintage West German-made guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com : Here's another Klira guitar for you, and it couldn't be more different than the example that Bertram posted ...
Klira hollow body
guitarz.blogspot.com Unfortunately Klira guitars are poorly documented on the internet, though this West-German company has been making mus...
Century custom acoustic guitar, allegedly built as a wall hanger
guitarz.blogspot.com : This guitar , currently listed on eBay, was allegedly: ordered and designed as a wall hanger, for a wealthy man who ...
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