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Happy 90th Birthday to Marvin Blickenstaff!

Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question Thanks to the generosity of supporters around the world, The Marvin Blickenstaff Teaching Excellence Fund is advancing high-quality teacher education and raising the standard of piano instruction. We invite you to join this meaningful effort by making...

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Teaching Us to Be Our Best Selves: The Power of a Piano Teacher

Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question We welcome you to celebrate your own teacher by sharing a tribute with us and donating to The Frances Clark Center. Students, parents, and colleagues are honoring piano teachers from their communities as part of the “Power...

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How do you teach technique to beginning piano students?

May 2016; Vol. 8, No. 3

Beginning piano technique: Back to basics “He’s just trying it out, so he doesn’t need an expert teacher. We’ll just go to the most inexpensive teacher we can find until we know he likes it.” How many times have we bristled at this kind of...

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