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"You can pay for the very high rent and fancy chandeliers of our competitors or
you can visit our Heights warehouse showroom for a terrific value and
friendly professional service on a great new piano or used piano"

LINKS:
PRINT MUSIC SOURCES:
Pender’s Music is a partner and our preferred print music supplier. You simply must stop by, they’re in the Heights as well, and see Houston’s largest selection of print music, music gifts and all kinds of music accessories. Pender’s and Houston Piano Company have an ongoing series of music workshops as well. Stay tuned by registering on this website!
https://wwwpenders.com/penders/catalog/locations.php

Houston Piano Company recommends the following education music publishers. Each has one or more complete piano methods, accompanied by digital Music Tutor files to make learning quicker and more enjoyable. Alfred has several piano methods, acclaimed by teachers worldwide. Now owning the Warner Bros. catalog, they feature a vast catalog of popular music titles as well. Also, be sure to look at their computer-music programs.
http://www.alfred.com/alfredweb/front/Piano.aspx?pageid=19&catid=42

Boosey & Hawkes has a large international collection of educational and performance music. In the U.S., Chris Norton is the most well-known composer and lecturer. Please look particularly at the Microjazz Collections. WOW! http://www.boosey.com/pages/teaching/

Long recognized as one of the world’s largest publishers, Hal Leonard recently released the Hal Leonard Student Piano Method, a comprehensive course of study, followed by an Adult Piano Method. Both of these feature brilliant music recordings by Phillip Keveren. http://halleonard.com/pianoEd.jsp

Music Sales and Shawnee Press have a great collection of classics and popular tunes, with Shawnee Press representing the educational titles.
http://www.musicsales.com/doc/45/index.htm
http://www.shawneepress.com/

Willis Music is best know for “the RED BOOKS,” or the John Thompson Piano Method. Still the world’s best-seller, it’s now available with MIDI files. Almost as well known, Edna Mae Burnam’s “Teaching Little Fingers to Play.” It, too, has MIDI accompaniment files for the utmost fun while developing finger dexterity.
http://www.willismusic.com/newecomsite/index.php?cPath=252

Alfred continues to expand their already vast catalog of church keyboard music. The continually sign up new, famous composers to increase their offerings. Take a look.
http://www.alfred.com/alfredweb/front/Choir.aspx?pageid=80&catid=46

A wide variety of church, piano & vocal, titles are available from Hal Leonard. Pay particular attention to Phillip Keveren’s piano folios. http://halleonard.com/church.jsp

Well known since the days of Fred Waring, Shawnee Press has a great catalog, with many “undiscovered gems” of sacred music. http://www.shawneepress.com/

Again, increasingly numerous sheet music titles are available for direct-to-your-computer download. Browse a while, and be sure to bookmark this site.
http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/SelectCountry.aspx?referrer=http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/Default.aspx

MUSIC TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS
Houston Piano Company supports local and national music teachers associations. In fact, our Director of Education is an active member of these associations. This keeps Houston Piano Company focused on the real needs of teachers, students and hobbyist-learners. Use these links to find the best, and closest teacher to you.

North Houston - http://www.conroemta.org/

Northwest Houston (Cypress Creek) - http://www.ccmta.org/

Greater Houston - http://hmtaonline.net/

West Houston - http://www.katymusicteachers.com/

Other websites will be listed as soon as possible.

MIDI FILE resources:
Nearly all classical masterworks for the piano are contained in these two sites. The quality varies, as the files are free. However, each recording artist is musically and technically accurate, so you have a good resource for either learning or tutoring, when the teacher or other expert is not within shouting distance, “Can you come over now, and listing to Fur Elise one more time, please, honey, please?”

Actually, these resources interactively instruct students through many difficult passages. Call us at HOUSTON PIANO CO for additional help, or to add more resources to the list below.

http://www.classicalarchives.com/
http://www.midiworld.com/classic.htm
http://www.kunstderfuge.com/
http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/

PIPE ORGAN PROJECT
The SoundCanvas Pipe Organ Project is one of my all-time favorites, as it lists almost every imaginable classical organ work. The quality varies somewhat, but you’ve got to appreciate this labor of love of pipe organ fanciers the world over. You can listen to the files, print them out, quickly email them to friends or even improvise above them for “high church” ceremonies (without practicing your little fingers to the bone. . .)
http://www.scpop.de/

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