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Ciara Ritchie

Leon is extremely passionate about music and inspiring musicianship in his students. Through our lessons, I was able to learn more about the history behind the pieces I was playing and really connect with the emotions and intentions of the music. These lessons were my first time playing the piano again after a four-year break, and Leon was very understanding and pushed me to achieve a lot in the 8 months we had together. Thank you so much for this great experience and for facilitating my re-connection to music!

April 29, 2024

Ciara Ritchie

McMaster University

Music Lessons

School for parents.

We understand and encourage uniqueness with a nurturing environment tailored to each piano student’s individual talent and career goal. Music is a reflection of our lives and piano is among the most expressive instruments capable of delivering musical experience.

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... the next door for piano teacher, will consider more than just the performing ability of the teacher, will look into the professional status of the teacher, and will start their children’s piano study with the expectation of year-to-year progress toward musical competence.
James W. Bastien
How to Teach Piano Successfully.
Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 4380 Jutland Drive, San Diego, California 92117

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Piano Tuning

Piano Service and Tuning

Piano is a complex musical instrument that uses mechanisms not found in any other device.

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A professional musician usually analyzes tone subjectively, using a sense like soft, mellow, bright tone or, sharp and low pitch. The professional tuner is able sometimes, to please customer by making sound more mellow or bright, regulate the action and to bring scale to the standard of 440 MHz “A” created by J.S Bach.
A perfectly tuned piano is a necessity for people playing piano. It must be in tune and well regulated in order to avoid hearing the music properly and be able to prepare for the ear-test component of the Conservatory exams.

Like any mechanical instrument it has to be serviced at least twice a year.

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Audio Recording

Audio recording is the perfect tool to overcome nervousness of public performance

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In public performance there is still some room for error. It could be recovered by the special study of the piece, knowledge on how our memory works and solid preparation however, the perfect recording require ability to stay focused through entire recording which is even more difficult.
After successful recording session artists and students are more confident in their abilities to deliver expressive musical performance without any glitches.
Some helpful tips on how to work on eliminating memory lapses and technical glitches read in the next update of the web site…

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