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	Toy piano
		The toy piano is a musical instrument, made as a child's toy, but which has also been used in more serious musical contexts.
		Toy pianos ostensibly use the same musical scale as full size pianos, although their tuning in all but the most expensive models is usually very approximate.
		A pioneer of the toy piano is the german composer and pianist Bernd Wiesemann (*1938).
	www.infoweb.co.nz /toy-piano (468 words)

	Toy piano
		The first toy pianos were made in the mid-19th century and were typically uprights, although most toy pianos made today are models of grands.
		Rather than hammers hitting strings as on a standard piano, the toy piano sounds by way of hammers hitting metal bars or rods which are fixed at one end.
		Toy pianos ostensibly use the same musical scale as full size pianos, although their tuning in all but the most expensive models is usually very approximate.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/to/Toy_piano.html (346 words)

	Info and facts on 'Toy piano' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The first toy pianos were made in the mid-19th century (additional info and facts about 19th century) and were typically uprights, although many toy pianos made today are models of grands.
		Rather than hammers hitting strings as on a standard piano, the toy piano sounds by way of hammers hitting metal (Any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.) bars or rods which are fixed at one end.
		Toy pianos ostensibly use the same musical scale ((music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)) as full size pianos, although their tuning in all but the most expensive models is usually very approximate.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/toy_piano.htm (541 words)

	MiniPianos.com - Miniature Piano Figurines and Collectibles
		The Schoenhut Piano Company is one of the oldest and best-known makers of toy pianos, continuing a tradition begun in Philadelphia in 1872 by German immigrant Albert Schoenhut.
		Each piano is chromatically tuned, which educates the ear of the young performer to the true values of musical notes and their combinations.
		This toy piano is called a "pianino." It is all fl wood, with three fl plastic legs that screw on and off.
	www.minipianos.com /museum7.html (2070 words)

	Toy piano Article, Toypiano Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The toy piano is a musical instrument, madeas a child's toy, but which has also been used in more serious musical contexts.
		The first toy pianos were made in the mid- 19th century and were typically uprights, although many toy pianos made today are models of grands.
		Toy pianos ostensibly use the same musical scale as full size pianos,although their tuning in all but the most expensive models is usually very approximate.
	www.anoca.org /pianos/musical/toy_piano.html (567 words)

	toy piano recital
		featured this year is new work for multiple toy pianos by arun chandra, several short performances by local musicians exploring a wide variety of musical styles and techniques, and a new short film by emily linders about toy pianos in olympia.
		Musicians may either bring their own toy pianos, or use the selection of toy pianos that will be provided for the event.
		toy pianos will be given away to people in the order of how many tokens they have.
	www.toypiano.org /recital (488 words)

	Rummage Through The Crevices: Toy Music Archives
		She also has a number of toy piano renditions of Christmas songs that can be heard on her website.
		They’re called “toys” primarily because they are designed to be simple enough for a child to use, but powerful enough to render fully-fledged orchestral works and because they look quite cute.
		The Toy Symphony web-site has a selection of mp3s of performances which don’t sound terribly “toy”-like But the videos of their workshops are pretty cool in a chaotic playtime kind of way.
	www.filmcement.org /rummage/archives/cat_toy_music.html (742 words)

	Schoenhut Toy Piano Company - Over 130 years
		The unique chime-like notes of Schoenhut® toy pianos are produced by little hammers striking metal bars, versus conventional taut wires used in full-sized models.
		Schoenhut® toy pianos, designed for children and built to endure active play, are appropriate for young and old alike.
		The chart adapts perfectly to full-sized pianos because keys on Schoenhut® toy pianos are of corresponding width ~ thus teaching children proper "finger stretch" from the very beginning and making the transition to a large piano easy.
	toypiano.com /profile.htm (370 words)

	Toy Piano
		She began playing the toy piano in 1978 when she performed the “real” piano, as well as the toy piano, in George Crumb’s “Ancient Voices of Children”.
		She composed her own “Suite for Toy Piano” in 1983 to enable her to perform in venues which did not have a piano.
		Her two new toy piano pieces are Mandala for Toy Piano in 5 movements and Music for Toy Piano(s) and Hamster(s) for 4’33” (formerly titled “Sonatina for Toy Piano and Hamster(s)).
	www.wendymae.com /toy_piano.html (261 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Art of the Toy Piano / Margaret Leng Tan at Epinions.com
		Probably, it was one of those toys your parents would prefer banished to the other room - the sound is typically jarring to those over the age of 4.
		After playing on a variety of thrift store toy pianos (of a more professional caliber than Fisher-Price), she had her own toy grand piano made for her in 1995.
		That sort of carnival-esque quality of the toy piano is at first amusing, but soon becomes irritating and difficult to get a grasp on.
	www.epinions.com /content_137029193348 (1112 words)

	Seattle Weekly - music: Toy Piano Man
		For me, embracing the toy piano was a way of flipping the bird to my parents and instructors for all those fruitless years spent chained to the bench practicing scales and arpeggios and Chopin études because it was supposed to refine my musical character.
		Toy pianos, which produce tones by striking metal rods, not wires, with a hammer, can't be tuned.
		The tinkling music of the toy piano evokes the uneasy balance between childhood and grown-up concerns, the carefree abandon of the nursery versus the regimented discipline of the parlor.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/9945/two-reighley.shtml (757 words)

	ELITE BABY GRAND TOY PIANO WITH BENCH
		Schoenhut has taken the concept of toy pianos for the young a step further with this new three-octave elite baby grand piano with bench.
		With a keyboard almost half the size of an adult piano, this new model is designed with the three-to-nine year old in mind.
		The chart also works on adult keyboards, since keys on Schoenhut® toy pianos are of corresponding width.
	www.giftdistrict.com /elbagrtoypi.html (739 words)

	DurableToys.com Schoenhut Toy Pianos, Wood, Mechanical, and more
		Encourage your child to be creative at the piano and he or she will be composing and playing ballads in no time.
		This is an issue of limited edition piano by Schoenhut, a leader in the world of toy pianos for over 128 years.
		Each piano is chromatically tuned, educating the ear of the young performer to the true values of musical notes and their combinations.
	www.needak.com /music/schoen.htm (1832 words)

	FREE SHIPPING! Schoenhut NAMM Centennial Edition Spinet & Bench - Kids Toy Piano
		Schoenhut ® Piano Company is the Leader in the World of Kids Toy Piano since 1872.
		Schoenhut ®Piano Company congratulates NAMM on 100 years of service to the Music Products Industry, and shares in the celebration by issuing a limited number of 100 toy pianos bearing the NAMM Centennial (centenial) emblem.
		You may contact them on the web: www.namm.com Each piano is signed by the craftsman, given a serial number designating its order and date of creation, and includes a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity.
	store.platinumgalleria.com /schoenhut-piano-namm-centennial-spinet-3700.html (356 words)

	The Extensible Toy Piano Project
		Yet, the toy piano produces a rich and quirky sound palette.
		John Cage brought the instrument from a treasured plaything to a bona fide musical instrument with his Suite for Toy Piano (1948).
		To that end, we're offering the electroacoustic composition community a complete set of high quality recordings of a classic Schoenhut upright toy piano.To encourage the creation of electroacoustic compositions that use both live and pre-recorded toy piano, we're sponsoring a composition competition.
	www.clarku.edu /xtp/xtp.html (203 words)

	It takes real talent to play a toy piano \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		German immigrant Albert Schoenhut is credited with inventing the toy piano in Philadelphia in the 19th century.
		Paulson either called on the bassoonists to play between the pianists'; pieces or dispensed theatrical bons mots such as: "The toy piano is neither a toy nor a piano.
		Paulson keeps some of his 300 toy pianos – "I got carried away," he said – at the library, some at home and some in a storage locker.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040815/news_1m15pianos.html (559 words)

	Toy Learn to Play Piano
		The Toy Learn to Play Piano features 25 keys for a wide range of 2 octaves and a songbook, and the keys are even color-coded to help your child quickly learn the musical scale.
		The Toy Grand Piano measures 16.40" x 11.50" x 9.90” inches and is suitable for children age 3 and up.
		The toy piano comes with the Melissa and Doug lifetime guarantee if you lose or break a piece, they will replace it.
	store.wokits.com /babygrandpiano.html (178 words)

	P-ART WEB OF ARTISTS: Margaret Leng Tan
		Her choreographic approach to the piano, reminiscent of chinese "tai-chi", is the outcome of highly co-ordinated movement between the keyboard and the piano's interior.
		This is evident whether she is playing the keyboard, on the strings of the piano, or even as she enters the world of the toy piano.
		It amuses me to see my little upright piano sitting on the plane comfortably strapped in place by its seatbelt, or in the studio surrounded by a forest of the highest of high-tech mikes; or to be asked to demonstrate my toy pianos for the graduate piano students at Juilliard.
	users.skynet.be /P-ART/P-ARTWEB/9TAN/LENGTAN.htm (760 words)

	Articles - Toy piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although primarily thought of as a toy, the toy piano has been used in serious musical endeavours.
		In 1993 he released the CD Neue Musik fÃ¼r Kinderklavier (new music for Toy piano), containing compositions by John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ratko Delorko, Andreas Kunstein, Frank Scholzen, Joachim Herbold, Carlos Cruz de Castro, Francisco Estevez and himself.
		On it, she plays a number of pieces written specially for the toy piano as well as arrangements of other pieces, including Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and The Beatles'; "Eleanor Rigby".
	www.alistic.com /articles/Toy_piano (553 words)

	toy piano forum \| a place to talk about toy pianos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Featured this year is new work for multiple toy pianos by Arun Chandra (http://academic.evergreen.edu/a/arunc/), several short performances by local musicians exploring a wide variety of musical styles and techniques, and a new short film by Emily Linders about toy pianos in Olympia.
		Toy piano performance in front of the Geisel Library at UCSD at Noon to commemorate Dr Seuss' birthday.
		This Pasties song has a toy piano in it, but you have to listen for it.
	www.toypiano.org /forum (665 words)

	Schoenhut Toy Piano Company - Over 130 years
		Schoenhut Piano Company, Inc., leader in the world of toy pianos since 1872, has taken the concept of toy pianos for the young a step further with this new three-octave elite baby grand piano with bench.
		Schoenhut Piano Company, Inc., leader in the world of toy pianos since 1872, has taken the concept of toy pianos for the young a step further with this new three-octave traditional deluxe spinet piano with bench.
		Schoenhut's toddler-sized tabletop piano is the perfect choice for introducing a young child to the world of music.
	www.toypiano.com /pianos.htm (820 words)

	The Art of the Toy Piano
		His new instrument could better withstand a child's rough handling and its gamelan-like timbre is the sound of the toy piano as we know it today.
		The toy piano was intended as an educational tool.
		I remain wholeheartedly intrigued by the toy piano's magical overtones, hypnotic charm, and not least, its off-key poignancy.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Toypianocd.shtml (420 words)

	Toy Piano and Electronic Keyboard Selections
		This toy piano is the perfect choice for a beginner who has had no previous piano study.
		With a keyboard almost half the size of that on an adult piano, this model is designed for the three-to-nine-year-old.
		Each piano is the series is custom built from solid maple and ½-inch multi-ply birch, stained in mahogany or painted in your choice of white or fl, with the interior hand finished to match the selected exterior.
	www.musicaltoysplus.com /piano_keyboard_organ.htm (923 words)

	Toy Piano Concert Grand
		The Schoenhut Concert Grand Toy Piano is an exquisite replica of a full-sized concert grand.
		Each toy piano is custom built from solid maple and 1/2 inch multi-ply birch, stained in mahogany or painted white or fl.
		If you already have a full-size piano, a toy piano may relive your piano of the wear from a young child’s play.
	www.edeneve.com /html/toy_piano_concert_grand.html (385 words)

	Best Classic Toys 2003 Winner: Schoenhut Toy Piano Co. - Traditional Spinet (Model 6625)
		This classic piano is a great way to get them started including practicing the finger stretch required for playing and making it easier for the transition to a larger piano.
		The piano has high quality sound and is a delightful instrument.
		The piano was used by Margaret Leng Tan for the CD “The Art of the Toy Piano”.
	www.drtoy.com /2003_c/classic_03_21.html (180 words)

	Day Care Durable Spinet Toy Piano - Schoenhut
		Schoenhut's® sturdy 37-key piano was designed with the Day Care industry in mind, but is perfect for the home too.
		Built of solid maple and one-half inch birch plywood, it is crafted entirely by hand and built to endure active play.
		With a keyboard almost half the size of that on an adult piano, the three-octave span allows plenty of room for playing with both hands.
	www.littlekidstuff.com /schoenhut_day_care_durable_spinet_piano_3798.html (216 words)

	Dr. Toy's Smart Play / Smart Toys: Schoenhut Toy Piano / Fancy Baby Grand Toy Piano w/Bench
		Schoenhut Piano Company has taken the concept of pianos for the very young a step further with this new two and a half octave (30 key) Fancy Baby Grand piano.
		This Baby Grand is almost half the size of an adult piano and is a fine musical instrument, not just a toy.
		This piano has a lot of lasting value that your child will enjoy for a long time.
	www.drtoy.com /smart_toy/st_070.html (199 words)

	BABY GRAND TOY PIANO WITH BENCH
		This unique toy piano is designed to encourage the very young to play and develop a love of music.
		The piano never gets out of tune and the tone never changes.
		As the child learns and grows, the color strip can be transferred to a larger piano, since the keys on Schoenhut Toy Pianos are of corresponding width.
	www.giftdistrict.com /whbagrtoypi.html (755 words)

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