Piano and Computer Training Boost Student Math Achievement . . . . . 1

Winter NAMM ’99 a Success for the Keyboard Division . . . . . 2

Clavinova Festivals Quickly Becoming Tradition . . . . . 4

Fourteen-Year-Old with Cerebral Palsy Connects with Music . . . . . 8

John Hopkins Middle School’s Music Program Expands with the Addition of Clavinova Digital Pianos . . . . . 9

“Lights of Love” Shine to Bring Clavinova into Life of Seniors . . . . . 10

Clavinova Digital Piano Lab a Hit at Hampton University . . . . . 12

Piano Max Maximizes Music Education in Houston . . . . . 13

Magical, Celestial Evening Under the Stars . . . . . 14

Piano and Computer Training Boost Student Math Achievement

amaha Corporation of America, in continuing its commitment to the importance of music education, supplied keyboards and music lab consoles for the latest research led by Physics Professor Emeritus Dr. Gordon Shaw from the University of California at Irvine. According to the findings, taking piano lessons and solving math puzzles on a computer significantly improves specific math skills of elementary school children. These results, published in the March issue of the journal Neurological Research, are the latest in a series that links music training to the development of higher brain functions.

“Yamaha is a corporation dedicated to enhancing people’s lives through music, so it was a natural for Yamaha to be involved with this research,” says Yamaha Piano Marketing Manager Ray Reuter. “This latest study pinpoints what music making does for children, giving school districts and parents concrete evidence from which to make decisions about how music education should be woven into their children’s daily lives.”

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