Toy pianos are fun to plink around on for a minute, but their small keyboards and even smaller sound make them musically uninteresting pretty quickly. [Måns Jonasson] found a way to jazz up a ...

Think of the toy piano as the unicorn of the classical-music world. “It’s not commonplace to see a toy-piano concert,” Tristan McKay said. Three years ago, the New York-based pianist and multimedia ...

A child’s toy may seem like an unlikely candidate for the classical concert hall. Around the world, however, thousands of musicians gather every year for festivals, conferences and concerts dedicated ...

LA JOLLA —- Serious pianists will get seriously silly thisweek at UC San Diego’s 11th annual Toy Piano Festival. The free event, conceived of and hosted by UCSD libraryassistant Scott Paulson, will ...

Janice E. Kelsh held four pewter pianos the size of Monopoly tokens in the palm of her hand. “I call these the babies of the bunch,” Kelsh said while standing in a room filled with hundreds of ...

Which toy pianos are best? Who said that the elegance of a grand piano was only for adults? These days, parents want to teach their children how to play music at a much younger age, and many want to ...