Newsletter - Piano Showcase, Inc.

"Five Ways Piano Lessons Benefit Children"
http://piano-lesson-software-review.toptenreviews.com/five-ways-piano-lessons-benefit-children.html

"Benefits of Piano Lessons for a Beginner"
http://www.essortment.com/all/pianolessonsbe_rbrw.htm

"The Benefits of Having Your Child Take Piano Lessons">
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-benefits-of-having-your-child-take-piano-lessons.html

"How Piano Lessons Benefit Young Children"
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Piano-Lessons-Benefit-Young-Children&id=38953

"Seven Benefits of a Child Learning to Play Piano"
http://www.the-middle-c.com/7-benefits-of-a-child-learning-to-play-the-piano.htm

Newsweek an Other Articles (Good Model for Our Website Section)
http://www.pianoiseasy2.com/articles.html

How Piano Lessons Benefit Young Children (The Creativity Institute)
http://www.pianoiseasy2.com/articles.html

A Revolutionary Product that allows you to play the piano in hours.

West Palm Beach, Florida - August 18, 2009 -- Rubato Productions Inc. announces the release of Concert HandsTM, the future of piano learning. This innovative product enables anyone and everyone to play their favorite songs on the piano. The traditional way of learning normally takes years of training. With this new product you can begin playing beautiful songs in a matter of days.

Concert Hands incorporates Augmented Musical Instrument Technology with an easy-to-use software program, giving you the most exciting piano playing experience possible. The four main components are the software, controller box, ten finger sleeves, and two wrist pilots. The software takes the midi song file and coverts it to a proprietary file system where the controller box distributes this signal to the wrists pilots and finger sleeves. The Finger Sleeves are placed on all fingers of both hands and the user's wrists lay gently on the wrist pilots. When the music begins the wrists pilots guide your hands across the piano to a specific location and the finger sleeves receive a pulse to indicate which key to press. The idea is after a period of time the repetitive motions and signals will develop muscle memory within the end user and enable him or her to play their favorite songs on their own.

Concert Hands is currently available for purchase through the company website.
A PDF user's manual and a library of songs come with each unit.

The great thing about Concert Hands is that it enables anyone who has ever dreamed of playing the piano, but just never had the patience to take years of lessons, to now achieve that dream. Concert Hands has been tested on people from ages 8-80 with incredible results. "It's a wonderful way to introduce children to music", said Rob McGregor, of Rubato Productions Inc. This patented and trademarked windows based product is fun for the whole family.

In the near future Rubato Productions will be extending Concert Hands to various commercial applications.

Media

The media is invited to demo The Concert Hands 'Haptic Technology'.

For additional information contact Rob McGregor at Media@concerthands.com

Top ten parenting tips for successful piano lessons:

1. Find a good piano teacher. Keep in mind that each child has different needs. For some children a friendly piano teacher is the most important. For others a strict teacher is best.

2. Invest in a piano. You can not expect to get successful results from piano lessons if you are not willing to provide a quality piano for your child to practice on.

3. Make practice time a priority. These days it is hard to find time to practice, but without practice there can be no progress.

4. Take away any distractions during practice time. When your child is practicing make sure they are not distracted by siblings, friends, cell phones, or televisions.

5. Check your child's assignment. Most students will try to avoid practicing songs they don't like. It is your job as a parent to make sure the student is practicing all of their assigned songs. Also make sure your child is making all of the corrections the teacher suggested at the prior lesson.

6. Help your child practice. Many children don't know how to practice. Explain to your child that practice means working slowly through songs until they are able to play through the songs without mistakes.

7. Bring all of the lesson materials to the lesson. Children will often "forget" a book if they don't want to play a song for their piano teacher. Be sure you check to see that all of their music, theory and assignment books are brought to each lesson.

8. Limit after-school activities. Many parents make the mistake of over-scheduling their child. Piano lessons are more than a half hour commitment each week. Students should be committed to practicing at least a half-hour every day.

9. Keep the communication lines open with your piano teacher. If there are any circumstances which are making piano lessons difficult for your child, let your piano teacher know. Perhaps there is a divorce or death in the family, or maybe your child dislikes their method book. Surprisingly many children will not offer this type of information during the lesson.

10. Expect to have good and bad times. It is normal for a student to feel excited about piano one day, and dread it the next. Try to work through the bad times by purchasing piano pieces the student is passionate about such as popular, jazz or Broadway tunes.

Musical Piano Stairs Motivate Walkers
Updated: Friday, 09 Oct 2009, 11:20 AM EDT
Published : Friday, 09 Oct 2009, 11:19 AM EDT

By FRANK CARNEVALE

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - As part of its new campaign "The Fun Theory," Volkswagen in Sweden transformed a staircase at a subway station into a giant piano. The aim was to get more people to use the stairs and have fun. And it seems to have worked. (Watch the clip below)

A team installed pressure sensors on a flight of stairs at the Odenplan subway in Stockholm, Sweden. They then covered the stairs in black and white. The sensors were connected to speakers that played musical notes as people stepped on each stair or key.

The company claims that use of the stairs rose 66 percent after they were converted into musical steps.

" The Fun Theory " projects try to make common practices more fun. Another project, "the world's deepest dustbin," rigged a trash receptacle in a park with speakers that played a sound that mimicked an object falling hundreds of feet followed by an impact (think Wile E. Coyote falling of a cliff).

"Fun can obviously change behavior for the better," a company spokesman said to The Daily Mail .

Not everyone thinks it's a great idea, TechCrunch wrote that a flat keyboard people could play is one thing, but a keyboard on a staircase is "really an invitation for people to fall on their faces. Want to play a chord? Try not to die." The post also complained that if there are too many people on the staircase, the keyboard sound could be "the most hideous cacophony."

In January 2007 Special K cereals covered a staircases in Penn Station in New York City and Harvard Station near Boston , with a huge advertisement for a new campaign. The staircases were plastered in red with a giant image of cereal.

The CDC has promoted the use of stairwells as a way to better well being. The agency's " StairWELL to Better Health " program actually upgraded the appearance of a stairwell, added music and attempted to make stairwells more appealing to users and encourage them to seek out the stairs as a quick way to add exercise to their day.

There is no doubt that Yamaha has done a tremendous job branding their name. However,
Are All Yamahas Created Equal?
A simple way to answer this question is with a question. Is an entry level Chrysler the same as a luxury model Mercedes Benz? They are made by the same company but you certainly wouldn’t be easily convinced that the two are the same, so why do many consumers assume that all Yamaha lines are created equally when in actuality they are not?

Many people see celebrities like Elton John playing a Yamaha piano and somehow draw the conclusion that inexpensive Yamaha grand or vertical upright pianos are constructed the same way. This is exactly what Yamaha wants you to think.

Some technicians and even teachers have been influenced by the barrage of advertising; marketing and name branding that companies like Yamaha have focused on. Naturally, the enormous cost of these marketing efforts (i.e. paying professional musicians to endorse their pianos) is reflected in the price of their products and ultimately paid for by you the customer. It is usually easier to simply rely on a name that is known instead of taking the time to learn more about that which is not, but that may be a better value. After all, many name brand pianos are produced in the very same manufacturing plants that lesser known names are. Same materials go in and different name pianos come out; their selling price being the greatest differentiating quality.

Increasingly top quality pianos produced in China are competing with more established names like Yamaha, who as a result of these drastic improvements have themselves moved operations to China (or to other Asian nations like Indonesia). It is now possible, for example to buy a piano containing Japanese or American parts that follow a true Japanese or American scale design. These pianos can be precisely assembled by computers at a fraction of the cost of the Japanese or American pianos being copied.

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