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Duane has more fun
teaching piano than should be legal, and that love
of piano playing and chords and music in general is contagious.
Thousands of piano students down through the years
have benefited from his easy-going teaching style in
person and through his many videos, audios, and
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- Duane
is a graduate of Southern Oregon University
in Ashland, Oregon with a BS & Masters Degree
in Humanities (Music & English literature
- a double major) and he is known as "the
man who wrote the book" -- since he is the author of over 500 books,
CD's and DVD's having to do with all aspects of
piano playing.
- But degrees and education means nothing without
the ability to teach so that the student can UNDERSTAND
and then APPLY what he or she understands. Take
one course and you'll immediately see for yourself
why Duane's DVD and CD courses are "one of
a kind" -- they actually get you UNDERSTANDING
music and then show you...
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- Keyboard
Workshop was established in 1965
to help piano players of all levels enhance their
piano playing ability though the use of chords,
styles, rhythms, runs, fills and other strategies.
So we've been around the block a couple times,
and we know what works!
- Duane started teaching in the
Sacramento, California area in the early 60's,
teaching both kids and adults in their homes. As
he would drive from home to home he would listen
to instructional cassettes in his VW bug,
learning more and more about music and teaching.
- In 1966 he & Bev and his 2 children
moved to Oregon where he resumed teaching both as a
"route teacher" and then later opened his own piano
teaching studio named "Piano University" featuring a
network of electronic keyboards with headsets for
both group and private teaching. The photo on
the right shows two of Duane's students (one of
which is Garin, his son) along with
two of his teachers, Diane & Paul. Soon after that
he established PlayPiano to make his courses
available nationwide, and later worldwide.
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- The smiling face the right is that of the
fun-loving Arnie of Pronto Print, a
long-time friend who does all the printing and
binding of Duane's books and materials. Arnie
has worked & joked & laughed with Duane for over
25 years, so has the feel for exactly what is
needed in the way of printed materials.
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- Our digital expert is Darryl of Creative Video Designs,
who produces and duplicates all of Duane's DVD's
and CD's. Anytime there is a problem with a
disc, Darryl is our go-to guy. He designs and
duplicates thousands of CD and DVD discs every
month. He & Duane meet every Thursday morning
for breakfast to hash out problems and pray and
joke a bit.
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- Our house genius and webmaster is Pat
of iDesign Marketing, who wanders the halls of
Keyboard Workshop in a digital daze until a
light bulb comes on in his mind holding a
solution to some need or problem in our shopping
cart or one of our web sites. Like Darryl and
Arnie, Pat is a fun guy to be around and we
spend almost as much time laughing as we do
working.
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-
Each
course is carefully assembled in our studio and
shipped via Priority Mail (or UPS on larger orders).
We ship all over the world including all of the USA,
Canada, Great Britain, all of Europe, Australia,
Asia, and many islands. The photo on the right shows
the fabulous duo of Muriel and Bev
preparing today's orders so they will arrive in
a nice little package at your doorstep. They are
really the bosses of Keyboard Workshop, but they
humor Duane by letting him think he is.
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- It's never too early to start learning!
- Herkemer may look like a beagle, but really is a
cleverly disguised cool cat who plays a mean boogie.
- But the real heroes of PlayPiano are you
and you and you -- our thousands of
wonderful students, without which we wouldn't even
exist.
- And of course our ultimate gratitude goes to our
gracious and loving God, from whom all
blessings flow.
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