Talk:Toy piano

message: Can someone point me to information about pianos which used glass bars to generate sound instead of strings? I've never heard of this, and apparently neither has the wikipedia piano article... AdinaBob (talk) 23:36, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Glass bars?

message: The article says: "However, given the technical difficulties of the music he is playing, it is unlikely he actually played on a toy piano."
Of course he didn't actually play them. Its a comic. This part should be removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.4.115.3 (talk) 15:42, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No. In the Peanuts cartoon world Schroeder really, actually, did play a toy piano. It's a cartoon toy piano, of course, because Schroeder himself is a cartoon, and so is everything else in the strip, but given the understanding that Peanuts is a cartoon and fiction, it makes no sense to say "Schroeder didn't actually play [a toy piano]". The article currently reads "In the Peanuts cartoon strip, one of the characters, Schroeder, plays classical music (principally Beethoven) on what appears to be a toy piano.[citation needed]" Why "appears"? We'd might as well say "what appears to be a little boy". And why do we need a citation? Does anyone doubt there is such a thing as a Peanuts strip that regularly includes a character named Schroeder who is typically depicted performing on a toy piano? The only thing doubtful here is why an article about the toy piano needs to include this fictional trivia at all. In any case, if there is a place for it at all in the article (and I can't think of one offhand), it clearly does not belong within a section called Use in musical performance. This is not an instance of use in musical performance. I'm removing the passage. TheScotch (talk) 11:20, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Schroeder didn't really play a toy piano

message: Seals and Crofts also used the toy piano as a backing instrument in their 1972 song "Summer Breeze".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tubajoe0 (talk • contribs) 08:12, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summer Breeze 

message: I have removed the following section.  It does not seem to reflect the expectations of an encyclopaedia, instead it seems to be trivialities, and a pit for any reference that may have had some mention of the subject.  If this section is to be removed it should be tightened so it is not larger than the article itself, ad it should try to focus on the encyclopaedic components. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:18, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You bring your opinions, and they are exactly that. This is an encyclopaedia, and needs to be treated as such, and that is the guidance for the site. If the information is not found anywhere else, then it should not be here, please see Wikipedia:Citing sources. That last section is poorly constructed and needs to be savagely culled, and reworked.  Twenty one sentence paragraphs is not suitable. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:03, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

text: Here is all of what Grove has to say about toy piano repertoire: "The toy piano has been featured in John Cage's Suite for Toy Piano (1948) and Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (1960) and included in works by George Crumb, Renaud Gagneux, Mauricio Kagel, Louis Roquin, Zygmunt Krauze, Leonid Aleksandrovich, Grabovsky and others, and compact discs with specially-commissioned – primarily solo – works have been released in the United States (Margaret Leng-Tan) and in Germany (Bernd Wiesemann)." This article can afford to be a bit more expansive perhaps, but Grove makes a good model. TheScotch (talk) 08:00, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed section, non-encyclopaedic 

message: A lot of this article seems to be about one particular company making toy pianos. Are there others out there?   Should there perhaps be a separate article about the Schoenhut company? PamD 13:47, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Re: removing the global "possible bias" tag. Just read the article, and did light clean-up of the History section where Schoenhut is mentioned. In its current version, there doesn't seem to be undue weight given to Schoenhut. It seems to have been either one of or the leading toy piano company right from the start, and several other toy manufacturers and products are covered with in equivalent detail. --Tsavage (talk) 20:19, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advert for Schoenhut? 

message: I've removed three points from this section, about Jacco Gardner, Br'er, and Tiago Videira. Since all three were uncited and since WP has no article on any of them, I think they can be removed as non-notable examples of usage. The section is already quite full as it is. Brian heim composer (talk) 20:34, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-notable points in "Use in musical performance"