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Powell Hall Tours - St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Experience a behind-the-scenes look at the newly restored Powell Hall and the new spaces of the Jack C. Taylor Music Center, hosted by the Symphony Volunteer Association. From the expanded backstage to the grand lobby, this tour offers you insights into the history of the building and a peek into ho...

I learned from the same book! “Teaching Little Fingers to Play” by John Thompson.

"I had begun making up songs when I was three. Perched precariously on Brooklyn and Manhattan telephone books atop the piano bench, I improvised words and melodies at the top of my lungs while my little fingers pounded out a rudimentary accompaniment on the piano. Using the most advanced form of recording then available in our household, my mother transcribed onto music paper a song I wrote called "Galloping."
My first real music lesson took place when I was four. My mother invited me to climb up and sit next to her on the piano bench. (By then I needed only the Brooklyn phone book.) She introduced me to music theory and elementary piano technique using a child-sized book with a bright red cover called Teaching Little Fingers to Play, by John Thompson." - CK
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She is amazing playing this piece from Gary Moore that my husband and I absolutely LOVE! She nails it!

Still Got the Blues (Gary Moore) Vocal & Piano Cover by Sangah Noona Still Got the Blues by Gary Moore - Vocal & Piano Cover by Sangah NoonaLIVE-STREAMING SCHEDULE:FRI & SAT8:00PM Eastern YouTubeSUPPORT/DONATIONS: https://stre...

Of course, it’s true! I never heard that “physicists said it was impossible,” as they allege.

Physicists said it was impossible. Pianists said they could hear the difference. A century of argument. The pianists won.

Published May 28, 2026, scientists finally settled a debate that has divided musicians and physicists for over 100 years: can a pianist's touch actually change the tone colour of a single piano note, or does the same key always produce the same sound regardless of how it's pressed?

Physics says a piano hammer hitting a string at the same speed should always produce the same tone. The only thing that should change is volume. But pianists have insisted for generations that HOW you press the key, the angle, the speed profile, the finger contact, changes something about the quality of the sound.

The scientists confirmed: the pianists were right. Using precision acoustic measurements, they demonstrated that subtle variations in how a key is depressed produce measurable differences in the harmonic spectrum of the resulting note. Not just louder or softer. Actually different in tonal colour.

The mechanism involves micro-variations in how the hammer contacts the string, timing differences in the damper release, and interactions between simultaneous notes that create different resonance patterns. A century of "you're imagining it" just got overturned by the data. The musicians could hear something real that the physicists couldn't measure until now.

(Source: ScienceDaily, May 28, 2026 / Acoustics)

Bad news for the arts.