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General sites - The piano as instrument - Repertoire guides to piano music - Printed music, online - Pianists - Learning to play

General sites

Piano Technicians Guild: Resources Links for pianists, teachers, and piano owners on a broad range of topics, including buying pianos, piano makers and dealers, piano care, piano movers, magazines and periodicals, competitions, publishers, and other topics. From the Piano Technicians Guild, a membership organization for piano service professionals.
Piano world Information about pianos, piano lessons, tuners, dealers, teachers, and movers. Also links to piano MIDIs, concert schedules, competitions, and information on player pianos.

The piano as instrument
Piano Technicians Guild: piano care Articles on tuning, voicing, action regulation, rebuilding, humidity control, and how to buy a piano.

Piano makers Links to major piano makers, worldwide.

Repertoire guides to piano music: Music Library books on...
Music for solo piano and piano ensemble ca. 20 detailed guides to the classical repertoire.
Music for piano in chamber music
Music for piano and orchestra
Accompanying singers, soloists, ballet

Printed music, online
Free scores free online printed music for piano, covering a wide variety of genres: classical, jazz, folk, blues, wedding music, national anthems, and others.
Chopin early editions over 400 first and early printed editions by Frédéric Chopin, from the University of Chicago Library.

Pianists
Classical Pianist Links links to official and unofficial sites for classical pianists.
Pianists links to sites for pianists in many genres: classical, jazz, new age, ragtime, blues, funk, contemporary, flamenco, easy listening, and etc.

Learning to play
Piano on the Net free online piano lessons, from a "film composer and jazz musician."
Jazz piano chords and scales
an interactive page on jazz scales, modes, chords, chord progressions, improvisation, and applied jazz theory in general.

Assistance
Need help finding recordings and scores? Want to know which online resources to use?
Contact Pamela Bristah by email or phone, 781-283-2076, or stop by the Music Library.

 

 

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