The great travesty of the presidential election of 2012 is that no single candidate addressed a crisis that is silently destroying much of our heritage. Not even the Socialist Workers Party dared ...

I’m thinking these questions are asked of me so often that they may be of general interest to all. Enjoy. QUESTION: What does the “A440” in “A440 Piano Service” stand for? SMART ALECK ANSWER: There ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson issued a statement calling out inaccuracies of a Washington Post column about a 13-year-old piano prodigy. The column, by Petula ...

“But see how the strings of the piano attach to the hitch pins on the frame at the far end, and then they’re stretched – with great tension – across the bridges to the tuning pins at this end. There ...

Playwright August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” comes down to this: A sister and brother, haunted by the violent disruption of their Mississippi childhoods, reunite in 1936 Pittsburgh. It’s a tense ...

My father played the piano – very well, actually. His college best friend’s mother (we remembered her as “Granny Sterner”) was a concert pianist and she gave him lessons. He was a natural musician and ...