Game A - Up or Down?

Kids play fun, familiar songs right away with our number system.
Give kids a quick and happy start, and confidence at the piano.
Try Piano By Number!

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Bach's Minuet

| 5 * 1 2 3 4 | 5 * 1 * 1 | 
| 6 * 4 5 6 7 | 8 * 1 * 1 

On the piano, UP is to your right and DOWN is to the left.

Which way did you go? Click on the arrow below to see if you are right! 

Up and down in the musical world are not exactly the same as in the real world! 

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What Killed the Golden Age of the Piano

Carl Tausig Cooks His Cat

I Meet Aaron Copland

George Sand Killed Chopin

Why Brahms Must Have Been Fat

Artur Rubinstein Was A Vampire

Igor Stravinsky Loses His Cool

Vladimir Horowitz Goes To The Racetrack

Beethoven Was No Beauty

The World’s Largest Blue Danube Waltz

Was Mozart Murdered?

Beethoven’s Rage Over A Lost Penny

Franz Schubert, The First Bohemian

Chopin’s Singing Piano Tone

Stravinsky’s Good Luck

Tchaikovsky’s Greatest Fan

Hector Berlioz and the Orchestral Train Wreck

Piano Lessons with Papa Bach

Piano Lessons with Frederic Chopin

The Great Piano Craze of 1910

The American Piano Wars

Why Hugo Wolf Went Insane

Rachmaninoff and the Evolution of Pop Songs

Musical Feuds

Piano In The Past Was Better

The Master’s Hands

Einstein’s Piano

Einstein’s Violin Improvisations In Gypsy Style

A History of Piano and Numbers