Friday, January 2, 2009

Edmund's piano

This year Edmund got a piano for Christmas from his grandparents. It is really a very nice little instrument. It is a "real piano," not anything electronic. It is chromatically tuned, the chime-like notes being produced by hammers striking steel rods as apposed to taut wires as in full-sized pianos. The keys are the same width as full-sized pianos, to help the child's hands learn proper "finger stretch" from the very beginning. Edmund loves it and once he gets a little older we plan to teach him to play it using the song book and key guide that came with the piano.