The sound of a toy piano may conjure the magic and innocence of childhood: You see toy pianos in playrooms, not concert halls. But John Cage wrote a suite for toy pianos in 1948. In 2001, a toy piano ...

When it comes to synthesizers, gear fetishism tends towards hardware that is incredibly well-designed and built. In other words, stuff that feels as great as it sounds. Toy synths like Casiotones, ...

Move over, Schroeder. Margaret Leng Tan, the formidable, pathbreaking virtuoso of the modern piano, is coming to town for an evening of cutting-edge 21st-century music. But instead of the usual ...

When I first visited Phyllis Chen‘s Queens apartment it slightly resembled the lab of a mad scientist, if you were to replace the bubbling beakers with toppling toy pianos. At times several of the ...

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 ...

Phyllis Chen knew her way around a grand piano from a young age as she is a classically trained pianist. Phyllis Chen knew her way around a grand piano from a young age as she is a classically trained ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Modern pianos are central to classical music. But some musicians are learning other keyboard instruments, and feel like better artists for it. Phyllis Chen, a trained pianist, ...

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 ...

The 76-year-old has played everything from toys to teapots to become a famed avant-garde musician. Ahead of Australian shows she speaks about her toy piano collection, OCD and believing in fate At her ...

Phyllis Chen with one of her miniature pianos in Plainfield, Indiana in 2009. As a classically trained pianist, Phyllis Chen knew her way around a grand piano from a young age. But then she saw her ...

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 ...