Aaron Rosenberg is 51 and still playing with toys. He does it so well that organizers recently invited the music department adjunct faculty member perform his “The Crail Family, 1910” composition at ...
When I first visited Phyllis Chen‘s Queens apartment it slightly resembled the lab of a mad scientist, if you were to replace the bubbling beakers with toppling toy pianos. At times several of the ...
Janice E. Kelsh held four pewter pianos the size of Monopoly tokens in the palm of her hand. “I call these the babies of the bunch,” Kelsh said while standing in a room filled with hundreds of ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There is an enchanting YouTube video of Margaret Leng Tan seated on a 20cm stool at one of her beloved toy pianos wearing a plastic ...
It’s a big show of little keys! An evening of music created for teeny-tiny pianos will plink its way onto a Boerum Hill stage this month. The Uncaged Toy Piano festival, at Roulette on Dec. 13, will ...
Which toy pianos are best? Who said that the elegance of a grand piano was only for adults? These days, parents want to teach their children how to play music at a much younger age, and many want to ...
QUESTION: Please tell me about my toy Schoenhut piano. It has the original stool and music book. I inherited it from my father who was born in 1908. I believe that it is in fair condition. — B.A.
This tiny grand piano from Sega Toys is only about a foot long, and each of its 88 miniature keys are only 4mm wide. But when you press down on a key with, say, a toothpick, it plays that note through ...
It started as a call for help. On an otherwise ordinary day in 1999, University of California San Diego’s Geisel Library lost its help-desk service bell. Fortunately, library exhibits and events ...
More than 300 miniature instruments are on display in the newly-opened Toy Piano Gallery in Wrocław, south-western Poland. It is the brainchild of Paweł Romańczuk, who started collecting toy pianos ...