Talc Tolchin ducks into the music studio he built behind his Marin County cottage, where the sun filters through a towering redwood tree and his daughter has dotted the flower beds with fairy houses.

Everett “Chip” Reid is a throwback — a piano teacher who makes house calls. Reid is widely known for his musical skills and has devoted his life first to performing and now to what he calls a “saner” ...

The sound of piano music fills Patricia Langer's Edina home at all hours of the day. It has for years, because Langer, 72, has been teaching piano since 1969. Hers is a formula for success. Shakopee ...

When Marina Lupinacci was only 4, her father, a piano teacher and musicologist in Romania, was checking her musical aptitude. By age 10, it was decided that she should pursue a career in music. That ...