TDmonthly’s Charitable Kid Picks Her Charities TDmonthly Magazine’s Charitable Kid Contest winner, 13-year-old Kimberly of South Carolina, has consulted with her mother and pastor to come up with the first few charities that will accept the prize of Schoenhut My First Piano IIs:...
9/1/2009
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14-Year-Old Kimberly Makes Music for Needy Kids Dozens of special needs and foster children are unexpectedly making music on high-quality toy pianos, thanks to the Schoenhut Piano Company and TDmonthly Magazine's Charitable Kid, 14-year-old Kimberly from South Carolina...
11/1/2009
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Top-10 Most-Wanted Bath Toys To say that toys by Alex-Panline dominate bath time would be an understatement. Nearly 70 percent of 64 specialty retailers surveyed this spring named the Alex line, or particular products from it, when discussing best-selling bath toys,...
5/1/2009
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TDmonthly’s Charitable Kid Contest #1: Schoenhut Piano Co. Inc. Will YOUR Customer Give Away 100 Schoenhut Pianos? TDmonthly Magazine is teaming up with manufacturers, specialty retailers and kids to bring joy – and toys! – into the lives of needy children...
14-Year-Old Kimberly Makes Music for Needy Kids Dozens of special needs and foster children are unexpectedly making music on high-quality toy pianos, thanks to the Schoenhut Piano Company and TDmonthly Magazine's Charitable Kid, 14-year-old Kimberly from South Carolina...
11/1/2009
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TDmonthly’s Charitable Kid Picks Her Charities TDmonthly Magazine’s Charitable Kid Contest winner, 13-year-old Kimberly of South Carolina, has consulted with her mother and pastor to come up with the first few charities that will accept the prize of Schoenhut My First Piano IIs:...
9/1/2009
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Why Kimberly Is a TDmonthly Charitable Kid Michelle from South Carolina entered her 13-year-old daughter Kimberly in the TDmonthly Magazine Charitable Kid Contest without Kimberly's knowledge. She thought the contest was perfect for her daughter...
The Yin and Yang of a Successful Event The Schoenhut Piano Company has a history of participating in and funding unusual events that bring their chime-like toy pianos — and the newer 44-string mini grand piano — before the public...
7/1/2009
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Will YOUR Customer Give Away 100 Schoenhut Pianos? Schoenhut Piano Co. Inc. has generously agreed to donate 100 25-key My First Piano IIs to be given to needy children by a child who wins the TDmonthly Charitable Kid Contest!...
6/1/2009
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Top-10 Most-Wanted Bath Toys To say that toys by Alex-Panline dominate bath time would be an understatement. Nearly 70 percent of 64 specialty retailers surveyed this spring named the Alex line, or particular products from it, when discussing best-selling bath toys,...
5/1/2009
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TDmonthly’s Charitable Kid Contest #1: Schoenhut Piano Co. Inc. Will YOUR Customer Give Away 100 Schoenhut Pianos? TDmonthly Magazine is teaming up with manufacturers, specialty retailers and kids to bring joy – and toys! – into the lives of needy children...
5/1/2009
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Alison Marek, Managing EditorPhone: (310) 979-4330Email: alison@toydirectory.comwww.tdmonthly.comwww.toydirectory.com Charitable Kid to Give Away 100 Toy PianosContest by Schoenhut and TDmonthly Magazine® Encourages Generosity Los Angeles, Calif. (May 13, 2009) ― With times being tough for so many families around the nation, TDmonthly Magazine has teamed up...
5/1/2009
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In This Issue Did you miss last month's announcement about our 2008 award winners and Promising Toys for a Promising Future(tm): TDmonthly Magazine's 2008 Specialty Toys Report?...
9/1/2008
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TDmonthly’s Top-10 Most-Wanted CDs and Musical Toys When TDmonthly Magazine recently spoke to 68 retailers about their sales of music for children, most expressed that it’s a steady, stand-by category with an emphasis on simple instruments...
9/1/2008
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Baby Roundtable: Tots Tickle the Ivories This month, TDmonthly Magazine’s Infant/Toddler Roundtable participants evaluated SCHOENHUT PIANO CO.’s My First Piano II, which received glowing reviews...
9/1/2007
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Wind Instruments Blow Past Electronics Of the 32 specialty toy-store owners recently surveyed by TDmonthly Magazine in an effort to gauge musical toy sales, 25 cited plain musical instruments with little to no electronic pizzazz...
9/1/2007
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Woodstock Chimes Rings True In 1979, Garry Kvistad was teaching music at a Midwestern university when he decided to make his first instrument — a xylophone constructed of aluminum lawn-chair tubes that he hung to be played by the wind...
Schoenhut Plays Beautifully With Kids When Frank Trinca bought the Schoenhut Piano Company in 1984, he invited his brother Len and sister-in-law Renee aboard as silent partners...
9/1/2007
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Jingle Bell Rocks Kids and the old folks can get their groove on with everything from zithers to electric axes...
7/1/2007
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Low-Tech Band Aids In every child is music. Sometimes it comes out through banging on a pot or a pan...
9/1/2006
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Showcase the Music What goes into creating a kid song that works? TDmonthly Magazine talked with the creators and distributors of children's CDs...
One Odd Bird of a Store Lark in the Morning, a successful West Coast music store chain, has survived in a peculiar niche because its owners care about musicians and the instruments they play...
11/1/2005
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Are Music Teachers Passé? Does your store carry software that teaches kids music? If not, then maybe it should...
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Today’s Kids Rock Out for Real These days, children’s instruments are less about child’s play and more about learning the basics...
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