A piano class of teen
beginners at The Music School.
Together with her husband and business associate Dale, Charlene started The Music School in September 1997 thanks to the overwhelming support of Yamaha representatives in her area and with the invaluable assistance of Bill Erlandson, vice president of marketing at Indianapolis-based Meridian Music. As a result, her dream of a high-tech, instructional piano studio for students is now a reality.
A home-based piano instructor for many years, Charlene was looking for a way to make piano instruction more accessible to her students, particularly to adults who may not have the time to devote to intensive piano study, but who still want to learn. She first discussed the idea of a high-tech music school with Yamaha consultant Joy Carden while attending Yamaha Keyboard Technology Seminars. It was then that she began to see the many advantages that the Clavinova digital piano could provide to her and her students in both group and private settings.
Charlene’s
students can now select from a variety of instruments each time they come into class.
Students can create sounds like a bass, a flute or drum, and still master the eighty-eight
keys. "I had one student who was so excited, saying, "I always wanted to play
French horn." Now she can," commented Charlene. "Seeing the light in a
student's eyes when they hear themselves on the Clavinova, playing in this orchestral
setting after only three or four lessons is one of the most amazing and wonderful things
about this instrument." 
Charlene Sherry, proud co-owner
of The Music School -- just opened in September '97