Activates high-speed brainwaves, which reflect how alert people are Faster brainwaves are often reduced in people suffering from Alzheimer's Previous research found flashing lights may be a promising treatment Yet, noise could be a more effective, 'entirely doable form of therapy' One in eight over 65s in the US have Alzheimer's; a common form of dementia  By Alexandra Thompson Health Reporter For Mailonline Listening to low-pitched noise, such

All sorts of things can go wrong in a performance. A cockroach can scuttle across your pedalling foot (this has happened to me). The music may fall off the stand (this has happened to me). A blood blister on your cuticle may burst during a glissando (you guessed it, this has happened to me). But no matter what happens, as they say, ‘the show must go on’. What is the reason for this? Why do you have to keep going no matter what? Because it’s

Science Shows How Piano Players' Brains Are Actually Different From Everybody Else's   Piano lessons are sort of like braces. For a few years, everyone's parents paid a lot of money so their children could contort their bodies (fingers; teeth) and lie about doing something daily that, really, they never did (scales; rubber bands). Both were formative experiences. But while everyone grows out of braces, some people never recover from childhood

At age fifteen, I quit seven years of piano lessons, quit playing the piano, and heaved a sigh of relief. Maybe my mother had some regrets, but no one else. Ten years later in graduate school, I made it final and gave my music away to a friend — I was never going to play the piano again. Who would have guessed that a grand piano and harpsichord would eventually fill my living room and that I would play almost every day until my back aches! Yet

This month American Council of Piano Performers is happy to present to you a biography of Sergey Rachmaninoff.Sergey Rachmaninoff, in full Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninoff also spelled Rakhmaninov, or Rachmaninov   (born March 20 [April 1, New Style], 1873, Oneg, near Semyonovo, Russia—died March 28, 1943, Beverly Hills,California, U.S.), composer who was the last great figure of the tradition of Russian Romanticism and a leading

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  The first piano was invented in Florence, Italy in 1700 by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655 – 1732), a craftsman who repaired harpsichords for Italy’s royal court. Cristofori’s invention was a simple keyboard that he called a gravecembalo col piano et forte, “keyboard instrument with soft and loud,” named for the strings that produced different dynamic levels upon vibrating when struck by small wooden hammers covered with deerskin. Cristofori