Our Collection
1890's Bliss
Toy Piano
Schoenhut 1900
Eight keys, fully functional Chime Piano
Performance Tip:
Take the top wood out for better resonance, and unscrew the legs to facilitate performance; this way you can pile them up and perform using many toy pianos at once!
Messy Living Room, moving to a new home with so many instruments took some energy!
2018 Japanese Kawai
More pictures will be added soon
Color Coded Grand Toy Piano with long legs!
Color Coding the keyboard keys has proven to be a reliable associative pedagogical device to help young students. Many mid 20th century toy pianos already came color coded, even with wildly varied and inconsistent tuning. I would caution against the overuse of colors, as students might develop system overdependence. Nevertheless, if students have a hard time reading music, colors can definitely bridge student's memories to the abstract universe of music notation!
Unique Leg Length!
This is an annually long legged instrument.
As children grow up, their instruments grow with them and the legs had to be adapted to toddlers learning how to stand up.
Play AWay Tin Toy Piano with music scores attached!
Roll Player Organ
with
Manuel Lever
Uncle Sam's Tin Baby Grand
EMENEE
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Electric
Organ
MAGNUS ELECTRIC CHORD ORGAN
BROWN MAGNUS ELECTRIC CHORD ORGAN
AUDION ELECTRIC CHORD ORGAN
Did you know that John Cage composed a Toy Piano Suite in 1948? It is a fairly simple five movements piece written also with techniques that are just meant for Grand Pianos, as the piece can also be performed on regular stringed pianos.
Look at the left hand in the first measure; he wants the initial sound to be sustained for many measures, what is not possible on toy pianos, as the metal vibration has a short life span. This Toy Piano Suite actually sounds really good if played in multiple toy pianos at once, but it isn't a very convincing piece performed as it is written. Many toy pianists perform this piece for its historic significance, but don't let them fool you, there are hundreds of better written toy piano pieces out there.
GRAND PIANO
SCHOENHUT
IT'S HUGE
MELISSA
&
DOUG
TOY
PIANO
JAYMAR
PianoLodeon Roll Reader - Electric
We have 3 of these instruments in our collection
We have two of these instruments in our collection. To find out more about the restoration process and see the inside of the instrument please visit Loren Ludwig's webpage:
http://lorenludwig.com/pianolodeon-909-rebuild/
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There were 50 songs made into Rolls at the time that this instrument came out. The Rolls I have are listed bellow, you can soon watch them all at The Toy Piano Sanctuary's YouTube Channel:
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1- Oh Shine On, Shine On Harvest Moon
2 - No. P6 Sweet Sue (Just You)
C 1928 Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Inc.
Renewal Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Inc., NY, NY
J. Chein & CO Burlington N. J.
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3 - No. P-3 Frosty The Snow Man
C 1950 Hill and Range Songs Inc., NY NY
J. CHEIN & CO Burlington NJ
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4 - No. D -3 The Old Piano Roll Blues
C 1949 by LEEDS Music Corp.
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5 - No. P – 7 Seet Georgia Brown
Bernie, Pinkard, Casecy
C 1925 Jerome H. Remick & CO
J. CHEIN & CO Burlington NJ
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6 - No. P – 2 In The Good Old Summertime
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​7 - No. E-1 Aint She Sweet (Ager – Yellen)
C 1927 By Advanced Music Corp.
Copyright renewed
J. CHEIN & CO Burlington N
8 - No. P – 2 In The Good Old Summertime
J. Chein & CO Burlington N. J.
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9 - Frosty the Snow Man
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10 - No. D -3 The Old Piano Roll Blues
C 1949 by LEEDS Music Corp.
J. Chein & CO Burlington N. J.
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11 - No. P -1
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
C 1911 by Irving Berling
Renewal 1938 Irving Verling New York N. Y.
Made in USA J. Chein & CO
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12 - No. A – 1
Here Comes Santa Claus
(Gene Autry, Oakly Haldeman)
J. CHEIN & CO Burlington NJ
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13 - No A – 5
Rudolph The Red -Nosed Reindeer
C 1949 by St Nicholas Music INC.
J. CHEIN & CO Burlington NJ
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14 - Come on and hear
Come on and hear
Alexander’s Rag Time Band
C 1911 by Irving Berlim
Made in USA J. CHEIN & CO
​Repertoire tip 1:
Isida Kazue Rockzaemon is a Japanese composer, toy piano collector and performer.
He is a really friendly person, and he composed hundreds of pieces for toy piano that are very charming and well constructed!
He will most likely send you PDFs of his scores if you write him a nice email!
Make sure to send him a gift or MONEY as appreciation! His email: grokyu@gmail.com
​Check his pieces:
Aves - 60 Preludes for Celesta or Toy Piano
Florum - 360 Pieces for Toy Pianos
Another repertoire tip, check
The Toy Piano Digital Library:
Casspinette Toy Piano
Unnamed
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Very rarely we encounter a toy piano that apparently wasn't developed by a big corporation, with odd bones and its unique color and shape!
BC Toy Piano
Recently Acquired
For more information visit www.thetoypianosanctuary.com or email daniel.inamorato@gmail.com