So NYC’s last classical sheet music store is soon to close. Is this the end of classical music as we know it? NO! There was more sheet music sold online than ever before. Sheet music has never been more accessible. Anyone that has access to a computer either at home or at the library and […]
The Boston Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music, announced on June 25th 2015 that were exploring a merger that could take effect as soon as next year. This could make for some massive changes in the current program. The combination of Berklee’s world renowned music education curriculum and tech resources with the Boston Conservatory’s dramatic […]
Kanye West VS Freddie Mercury: “Bohemian… by babykute-dhxd If you haven’t seen it. Kanye West just finished butchering Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody at Glastonbury. Its blown up online. It really could not have gone any worse. Its true, the performance was awful. However, I think (once again) Kanye has been misunderstood. He obviously knows that he has the […]
Bravura gigs don’t ordinarily warrant five stars in my book, but concerts by Michel Camilo – the Latin-jazz piano star from the Dominican Republic – are so astonishing that you abandon all aesthetic doubts and come out with your hands up. After his long single-set tour de force at the South Bank, and a […]
This article by Vice.com states a pretty big claim. Though the data is shocking the way it has been presented, it seems to be a bit skewed for shock value. Vice did not take accessibility into account when making their claims among other things. A pop fan has a massive amount of vendors to get […]
Watch out, A Great Big World, this man’s gorgeous cover of “Say Something” will stun you. A video uploaded to YouTube captures Michael McNamara performing on a Cobourg, Ontario, street piano in Canada. The piano, called “Foxgang Amadeus,” was painted and placed on the streets as part of Cobourg’s “Keys to Our Town” art initiative, […]
The Yamaha U1 has a great history, as well as an enormous impact on the piano industry and is still playing a very very big role here at Merriam Pianos, as well as in the rest of the industry. The Yamaha U1 is definitely a 100% Japanese made piano manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation, and […]
The K-3 is a brand-new design from Kawai. It just came out in 2014 following up on it very successful K-3 model. The K-3 and the K 300 are two models that more often than any other piano on earth get compared to the Yamaha U1 and it’s pretty obvious why. Both pianos are from […]
The Kawai ES7 is not new to the North American digital piano market. In fact, the ES7 has been out for a little more than a year but something keeps its relevant, and something is keeping this piano still one of the hottest digital pianos out there. TONE The first thing that strikes you about […]
Lets take a look at the Kawai K300 upright piano, and most importantly what they’ve done to update the Kawai K300 from the Kawai K-3. A good amount of people who are looking at Kawai Upright pianos these days are very familiar with the K-3 (Kawai’s previous 48 inch piano) and the number one question […]