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		<title>Buying a Digital Piano for the Aspiring Pianist in Your Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The piano is a great instrument to learn and an excellent one for the beginning musician. A variety of musical styles can be played on the piano including rock, jazz, show tunes, blues, and classical music. This is a great way to expose your aspiring pianist to a variety of musical styles and also enhance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charlotte-piano.com/blog/241/buying-a-digital-piano-for-the-aspiring-pianist-in-your-family-3/</link>
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		<title>Piano care and maintenance tips.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Care and maintenance of pianos.
Temperature and humidity.
In positioning your piano, you should strive for evenness of humidity and temperature. Since a piano is made mostly of wood, it is greatly affected by seasonal change. If there is lots of variation in humidity and temperature, your piano will easily go out of tune. Humidity fluctuations can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charlotte-piano.com/blog/240/piano-care-and-maintenance-tips-3/</link>
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		<title>Adults Can Learn to Play the Piano Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you well past puberty and have always had a hankering for tickling the ivories? Maybe you didn&#8217;t have the money as a child.  Or your family was always moving. Or you probably didn&#8217;t even know there was such a wonderful thing as the piano. Whatever the reason it is never too late to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charlotte-piano.com/blog/239/adults-can-learn-to-play-the-piano-too-4/</link>
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		<title>The Beauty of New Age Piano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are so many styles of music out there. Thankfully, there is also New Age piano music. A wonderful style of playing that goes right to the heart bringing back memories, feelings, and emotions. Or creating new pictures in our heads. Impressionistic in nature, New Age piano music does not seek to try and tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charlotte-piano.com/blog/238/the-beauty-of-new-age-piano/</link>
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		<title>The Flower Garden and New Age Piano Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever looked at a flower garden, not only its beauty may have captivated you, but also its overall arrangement.
There may have been some tulips or roses combined with other flowers or plants.
You may also have stood there looking it over. Maybe you started on one side and your eye moved down or vice-versa. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charlotte-piano.com/blog/237/the-flower-garden-and-new-age-piano-music/</link>
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		<title>Free Piano Lessons Show You How to Create Your Own Music!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;re looking for free piano lessons? There are many sites on the Internet that offer to teach you how to play the piano. Problem is, they aren&#8217;t that good. That is, you may learn how to read bass or treble clef, but you won&#8217;t come away being able to actually play something until now!
My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charlotte-piano.com/blog/236/free-piano-lessons-show-you-how-to-create-your-own-music-3/</link>
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		<title>Beginner Piano Lessons: Creating Music From the Heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beginning piano students can become focused on reading the notes and finding the right keys on the piano and miss the point of playing   to make the music sound, well, musical.  This takes a creative human touch and sensitivity that children are capable of, when they know where to look for it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charlotte-piano.com/blog/235/beginner-piano-lessons-creating-music-from-the-heart/</link>
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		<title>Why a Guitar Player Can Teach You More About Piano Than a Piano Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know why more people want to learn guitar than piano? Because it&#8217;s easier! And because students get to play something that actually sounds like music many times faster than their piano playing counterparts.
But did you also know that a guitar player can show you how to play piano better than most piano instructors? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charlotte-piano.com/blog/234/why-a-guitar-player-can-teach-you-more-about-piano-than-a-piano-teacher/</link>
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		<title>Advice on Moving Pianos To Your New Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tickling the ivory keys is a passion with many, but moving a piano is not nearly as fun. When it comes to moving pianos, a little advice can go a long way.
There comes a time in every piano owner&#8217;s life when the unthinkable must happen   the moving of your piano. Whether you&#8217;ve just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charlotte-piano.com/blog/233/advice-on-moving-pianos-to-your-new-home-2/</link>
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		<title>Piano Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some pointers to help you on your journey in learning to play the piano: 
1. Take some lessons with a good classical teacher. 
2. Use the Hanon exercises (especially the scales and arpeggios) to gain finger dexterity and to know the correct piano fingering of the scales and arpeggios. Always use a metronome [...]]]></description>
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