Music by Susan

10/07/2025

Beats for patterns

10/07/2025

10/07/2025

Enjoy Fall Y'all

07/03/2025

Happy 4th

06/07/2025

People don't fully realize how utterly miraculous music is.

We vibrate the air-literally. We disturb invisible particles in patterned waves, and those waves enter the ear, shake tiny bones, trigger neural cascades... and suddenly, we feel.

We feel longing.

We feel rapture.

We feel a memory from childhood or a vision of a place we've never been.

All from air... moving.

But it's more than sound.

Music is emotion encoded in time.

05/22/2025

Sunday , May 4, was our Spring Piano Recital. I am extremely proud of these talented young ladies. Thank you, Greensboro First Baptist Church for hosting us.

05/22/2025

Summer Piano begins
June 2. Don't forget to practice

04/28/2025

Join us May 4 at 4:30
for our Spring Recital at Greensboro First Baptist Church fellowship hall

04/18/2025

Remember that Jesus hung on the cross for our sins

03/31/2025

March 29 is the 88th day of year and better known as Piano Day

How did the piano come to have 88 keys?
After word got out of Cristofori’s miraculous musical invention, composers started writing more and more music for the piano.

But the instrument’s four-octave range was limiting. So, piano manufacturers designed new pianos with more keys, so that composers like Haydn and Mozart could write more challenging material for a fuller keyboard.

By the time Romantic composers like Chopin and Liszt were writing music in the mid-1800s, pianos had up to seven octaves, allowing them to compose pieces with an even more ambitious range like the bafflingly virtuosic ‘La Campanella’.

In the late 1880s, piano manufacturer Steinway created the 88-key piano. Other manufacturers followed suit, and Steinway’s model has been the standard ever since.

An 88-key piano has seven octaves plus three lower notes (B, B flat and A) below the bottom C.

It has 52 white keys and 36 black keys (sharps and flats), with each octave made up of seven white keys and five black keys. So just imagine how boring music would be if 88 keys weren't invented and all we had was a 5 octave of its ancestor the Harpsichord