Resources For Pianists

• Learn to Play
• Composers
• Piano Products
• Software
• Piano Competitions
• MIDI & Audio  

 Learn to Play Links

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• Tips from MTNA about choosing a music teacher.
• A passion for Jazz - History of Jazz music origins, styles and musicians featuring photo gallery, timeline, festivals, webcasts, piano chords, scales, online lessons and music teacher locator.
• Free Music Sheets on The-Music-Sheet-Piano-Tabs-Guide.Com - Free Music Sheets Guide includes daily updates, information about sheet music of popular music artists, composers, free music lessons, music sheet books, and much more. 
• The Jazz Corner  
• Learn-piano.org - Everyone can learn piano, yes as long as they learn things that they love, if you love to hear it then you'll love even more to play it.
• Lessons4You.com - Piano Lessons - Offering Virtual Piano Lessons Online for Adults and Older Students! 
• MakingMusicFun.net - An elementary music resource website, jam packed with colorful and engaging free resources to enrich the elementary student’s music making experience.  Learn music theory with the Oliver the Octopus Arcade Games, enjoy the free printable music theory worksheets and award certificates, or search the MMF! Music Library for music composers, the instruments of the orchestra, reviews on music notation software, music lessons, and more!
• Marycliff Productions - Learn the piano with Clifford Evans, videos and book 
• Music Scale Lessons For Piano - Features professional piano playing lessons along with a  well-designed, and downloadable piano music scale book of major, minor, and blues scales.
• Musician's Health Page - Contains information about carpal tunnel and other problems that musicians encounter. Also includes positive ways to make music making more enjoyable.
• Piano Instruction
• Pianolessons.com - Powerful piano lessons to help you learn how to play piano.  Sign up for Nate Bosch's '12 Steps To Playing Piano' free online video course.  You can start learning the piano for free today!
• Piano Lessons for Beginners - These beginner piano lessons are perfect for those who are just starting to learn to play piano.
• Piano lessons for adults using piano chords!
• PianoTools.com - Online piano education tools, including piano flashcards, piano visualization tools and music theory flashcards. 
• Quiescence Music - Learn how to play in the New Age style with these online piano lessons 

 Composer Links 

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• Classical Composer Biographies 
• Chopin, Frédéric
• Composer Data & Works Lists - Classical.net  Lists of Composer Birtdays and Death Days and links to list of their works

Piano Products 

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• Allegro Music Supplies - Includes a searchable database of sheet music
• Piano Covers from Jansen - Custom made covers for grand pianos at hamonyonline 
• Professional Piano Cleaning Products
• Mozartini - Gifts for Music Teachers & Students - Mozartini offers unique gifts and collectibles for music lovers, teachers & students featuring original artwork pertaining to the study of music. Popular items include our "Practice Maintains Perfect" Mozart Magnets & Stickers. We also carry a variety of music manuscript paper notebooks with original cover art in a variety of formats to suit your needs or purpose. 
• Quiet Keys™ Piano Volume Control Accessory  
• Pianogoods.com - offers items like caster cups, benches, lamps and metronomes

Software for Pianists 

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Music Notation Software

• Cakewalk software - Music playing and editing software
• Finale - Industry Standard Family of Notation Software
• Musitek's Home Page - MIDI Scan & Smart Score software. Interprets your scanned image of music into a playable MIDI file.
• Sibelius - The Fastest, Smartest, Easiest Scorewriter in The World
• Score Writer

Learning to Play Software

• Adventus Software - The complete music playing and learning system for all ages.
• Harmonic Vision Home Page  
• Happy Note! - Treble and Bass Clef - A real game that will teach you how to read music even as you play!
• Reed Kotler Music - Makers of cool transcribing aids that help you learn by ear from your favorite recordings.
• PianoNanny - Online piano lessons using Quick Time 

Piano Competitions 

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• 1st International Piano Competition Repubblica di San Marino
• 1st Arshak Andriasov Piano Competition (Rochester, NY)
• 5 Towns Music and Art Foundation, Inc.
• American Pianists Association
• Gina Bachauer International Competition
• Boston International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs (bi-annual)
• Cleveland International Piano Competition
• Hilton Head International Piano Competition, SC
• Honens International Piano Competition, Canada
• International Festival for Creative Pianists (Idaho, USA)
• The King Award (Salina, KS) 
• Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, UK
• Florida International Piano Competition (Orlando, FL)
• Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, Utrecht, Netherlands
• The Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition
• New Orleans International Piano Competition
• Rose Petroff Piano Competition
• Piano Arts Competition (Wisconsin, USA)
• Richter Piano Competition (Moscow)
• San Antonio International Piano Competition 
• Sendai International Music Competition
• Val Tidone International Music Competition
• Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, California
• Washington International Piano Competition, DC
• Wideman Piano Competition, Shreveport, LA
• World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest