Ask The Teacher
 Do you have a question about the piano,
piano lessons, or music generally? You can get it answered here by a real live piano
teacher! We'll pick some of the best questions and provide the answers here. We'll even
show your name and the city you live in so you can tell your friends! Just
send us your
first name only, age, city, state, and country (if you live outside the U.S.) and
we'll do the rest.
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A Note for Parents
 Because the Internet is in constant flux by nature and standards vary from
individual to individual, the content of the sites linked in the
Cool Places section cannot be guaranteed to be
appropriate for your children. We have examined all these sites and found them to be
generally wholesome and educational for most kids. We advise all parents to look at the
sites linked if they have any questions. Please
let
us know by e-mail if you find any of these links to be inappropriate and why you find
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Tip of the Month - Psst! Don't tell your piano
teacher we said this!
Music is great, isn’t it? But learning the piano can be hard work. You want
to do it, of course, but sometimes … (sigh) ... you need a break. I know
how you feel! Have you ever thought of teaching yourself another
instrument? A really easy instrument you can play just for fun—no having to
practise scales, no having to learn hard classical music that makes your
brain tired sometimes. Ask Mum or Dad if they would buy you a recorder, an
ocarina, a tin whistle, a xylophone/glockenspiel or a second hand guitar
next time they’re looking at buying you a gift. Better still, save your
pocket money to buy one of these cheap, easy instruments yourself. Most of
these instruments come with fingering charts, and are easy enough to play
right from the beginning. The guitar is a little harder, but if you buy a
chord book and persevere with developing calluses (ouch!), you can accompany
yourself singing. Sometimes a break from all our serious hard work is
refreshing. And then we can get back to the ‘real’ stuff with new
enthusiasm!
 These
are places with neat pictures and sounds or they might be just plain weird! Check it out!
Got a report to write on the piano? Want to learn a little more about it? Need to find
out who Charles Tomlinson Griffes (or almost any other composer) was? We have a whole
shelf full of free articles that should help:
Lots of Piano Music and Cool Sounds
Like piano music? Want to hear some? Well,
The Audition Room has
hundreds and hundreds of files of famous (and not so famous)
composers' piano music. Jump over there and take a listen. You'll be
glad you did!
Take Your Own Trip with Dr. Who
If you like the sounds of the TARDIS and the Doctor in our
Meet the Composer interviews, you
can download your own sounds for free and play them on your own
computer. These come from the
BBC series, Doctor Who, and span many
of the Doctor's regenerations.
Go get 'em for free!
The Taz Speaks! (Sort of)
 From the Warner Bros. cartoon series
Taz-mania,
Taz grunts it like it is! If your browser doesn't let you play sound
directly, you can get the files by turning on your browser's Load to Disk or Save to Disk
function and then play them offline later in the Windows Media Player or similar player
program. These make fun Windows sounds, too. Just download 'em, go to
your Windows Control Panel, Click Sounds and then set these
to play. They're way cool!
Greetings from Taz (108K WAV)
Taz takes a piano lesson (37 K WAV)
Taz tells you what he thinks about piano lessons (41K WAV)
Taz does the classics (65K WAV)
Free collection of over 30 great Taz sounds, including all the ones above! (993K self-extracting archive - This file is BIG, so be patient!)
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