Fun & Interesting Facts

• Fun Piano Facts -- Just interesting facts about the piano from Piano World.
• Music Math Harmony -- Try out this math and music fact.
• Math & the Piano -- Dr. Math answers a student's question about the relationship between the two.

Desktop Wallpaper

• Piano Desktop Wallpaper -- Download various piano wallpaper for your computer from the Piano Technicians Guild.
• More Piano Desktop Wallpaper -- Nice black and white close-ups of the keys.
• Black & White Kitty Sleeping on Piano Keys Desktop Wallpaper -- I hope you can still get this from my search results.  Look midway down right of screen and you'll see small photo of cat on piano keys.  To download, click on "Download" button in upper right section of screen. You will need to up-zip photo before using it as wallpaper.
• Calico Kitten on White Piano Desktop Wallpaper -- Another nice one for cat lovers out there.
• Basic Grand Piano Desktop Wallpaper -- Just one basic computer-generated 3D grand; pick your screen size.
• Pastel Keyboards & Notes Wallpaper -- By Mayu Koubou of Fancy Material in nice pretty pastel colors.
• Tom & Jerry Mouse on Piano Keys Wallpaper -- Cartoon close-up of mouse on piano keyboard.

Games & Activities

• Piano & Mouse Coloring Page -- Picture to print out and color.
• Music Coloring Pages -- From ABC Home Preschool -- Lots of coloring pages of various musical instruments, including the piano, and music notes/symbols. 
• Piano Parts Word Search Puzzles --  Print out on paper and solve.  From the Piano Technicians Guild. 
• Piano Parts Concentration -- Match the parts of the piano concentration game from the Piano Technicians Guild.  Interactive online game that you play online.
• Upright Piano Origami -- Print out and fold your own piano!  From the Piano Technicians Guild. 
• Grand Piano Greeting Card Origami -- An original Shoko Aoyagi creation, instructions to fold a grand piano piano greeting card!   
• Online Piano -- Here's an online interactive piano to play with your mouse while you're on the Web!
• Virtual Keyboard -- Online interactive piano keyboard that lets you select from 9 different instrument sounds.

Movies & Videos                                                                                                                                                       Top

• "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T"--1950s cult movie classic about a boy's nightmarish dream about his piano teacher, Dr. Terwilliker ("Dr. T"), and a giant 480,000-key piano for 500 little boy students (the "5000 fingers") to play simultaneously!  If you haven't seen the movie, watch the DVD sometime!
  • Trailer -- On You-Tube, the complete trailer for this cult classic.
  • Joe Bob Briggs Looks at "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T" -- A Dr. T link with some descriptions to give you an idea of what the movie is about.
  • Dungeon of Scratchy Violins -- Classic and famous, beautifully choreographed, scene from "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T."
  • "Ten Happy Fingers" Song -- Classic and famous little happy fingers song scene from "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T."
  • Giant Piano Scene with Dr. T -- Classic and famous scene from "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T" of the giant 480,000 key piano of Dr. Terwilliker for the 500 little boys.
     
• Nora the Piano Playing Cat -- Nora is the cat that belongs to a piano teacher.  Nora loves to play the piano and frequently gets up on the piano and plays it all by herself.  Take a look at Nora in these videos!
  • Practice Makes Purr-fect Video -- Nora the Piano Playing Cat in her first You Tube video.  This is where it all got started! 
  • Catcerto -- View the full performance of the first concerto written just for Nora, the Piano Playing cat, by the composer and conductor, Mindaugas Piecaitis.
  • Nora the Piano Playing Cat -- View ALL the YouTube videos of Nora the cat playing the piano.  Also view more information about this piano playing feline!  You can also order Nora accessories like mugs, bags, and t-shirts, too!  I have a Nora t-shirt, and I get compliments on it every single time I wear it!
     
• Igudesman & Joo's "A Little NIGHTMARE Music"--This musical comedy duo, made up of Aleksey Igudesman on violin and Richard Hyung-ki Joo on piano, is all the rave!  Each is a supreme concert artist in his own right, but they have teamed up to make a delightful new comedy act that is superb and extremely funny!  Since the success, both critically and publicly, of the 2004 world premiere of “A Little Nightmare Music” at one of the most prestigious venues in the world, Vienna’s Musikverein, Igudesman & Joo have been delighting audiences all around the world in theatres, concert halls, and international festivals.  They now have a DVD which you can order at their website link above.  Below are some of Igudesman & Joo's videos:
  • "Rachmaninov By Himself" -- The 2nd movement of Rachmaninov with Richard's singing of "All By Myself" pulling down the mood of the whole situation!
  • "And Now...Mozart (Alla Molta Turca)" -- A new twist on Mozart's "Rondo alla turca."
  • Scenes from "Pianomania" -- New video with the technician from Steinway!
  • "I Will Survive" -- View the YouTube video of this fun and spirited session!
  • "Mozart Bond" -- Leave it to these two to mix James Bond with Mozart!
  • "Piano Lesson" -- View the YouTube video of this slapstick piano lesson skit!
  • Preview (7 minutes) -- A compilation preview of their various acts.
  • "Rachmaninov Had Big Hands" -- View the YouTube video of this hilarious solution to playing Rachmaninov's wide hand reaches on piano!
  • "Riverdancing Violinist" -- This isn't piano-related but I had to include because it is so classic!
  • "Ticket to Ride" -- Richard Joo jubilantly playing and singing "Ticket to Ride" while Aleksey Igudesman looks on in pained disdain!

  • My photo with Aleksey and Richard when they came to Wilmington to perform their show!

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• Metronome Synchronization -- In case ONE metronome isn't enough for you when practicing, here are FIVE metronomes being amazingly synchronized to tick together at the SAME TIME!!!