Have You Heard of a Place called Keyboard Town?
by Alison Lund on 07/04/12
Being a piano teacher is one of the more old-fashioned jobs a girl can have. Which is only fitting as I love vintage everything. And tonight, this very evening, all the angels of Etsy.com illuminated a whole new world of of vintage piano method books to collect. Yes, dear reader, I hover upon the very edge of a Paypal precipice of precipitous purchases.
Other than nostalgia for quality artwork and tasteful design (I shall refrain from commenting upon the appallingly tacky aesthetic of every single contemporary method book series), I am in love with these books for their imaginative, beautifully written rhymes and songs.
Music is an art. Poetry is an art. Art is an art. If piano method books are intended to introduce hundreds of thousands of people to the beauty of music, surely the accompanying art and text should also be beautiful, creative, and original.
Have you heard of a place called Keyboard Town,
Where half of it's up and the other half down,
And the people all sing what they'd naturally say,
While the traffic cop signals in a musical way?
