Talk about having a Piano in the Family! Meet the 5 Browns...a Five-Piano Family!

The 5 Browns are all siblings and they all tour and perform together.  They are the first family in history to have 5 children attending Julliard School of Music at the same time.

I recently read that their mother sat at the piano bench with each child as he or she practiced for an hour a day.  That's 5 hours a day just spent sitting at the piano with each child!

I think the practising paid off.

Apparently their monthly tuition for piano lessons was more than the mortgage on their home.

Imagine trying to find music for a 10-hand piano quintet...probably made to order.

Playing for Myself

I'm into a new book and loving it.

Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players 

(Complete Edition) 

by Dan Haerle

I played for an hour through pages 1-12, creating melodies, improvising with chord tones and scale tones.  It was relaxing and satisfying.  

Next week my lessons with tweens and teens will be infused with some of this.   I'd like my students to experience this relaxed feeling and I think this is a way to get there.