Schoenhut 37 Key Trad/Deluxe Spinet with Bench

by Schoenhut

Product Features

• Schoenhut?s learning system, with its play by color teaching method, makes playing simple and fun
• Educational
• Chime like notes
• Learning system
• Realistic style

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 23 x 11 x 24 inches ; 40 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 30 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0009Q1TV4
• Item model number: 6637MB
• Our recommended age: 4 - 8 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 36 months - 6 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,133 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Schoenhut Piano Company takes the concept of pianos for the very young a step further with a three-octave Traditional Deluxe Spinet. This model is designed for the 3-9 year old. Not “just a toy”, but a fine musical instrument. Chromatically tuned, the chime-like notes are produced by small hammers striking precision-ground steel music rods. Schoenhut’s learning system, with its play by color teaching method, makes playing simple and fun. A removable color strip fits behind the keys to guide small fingers from chord to chord. The keys on Schoenhut pianos are the same width as adult keyboards and this teaches children proper “finger stretch” from the very beginning. Ages: 3 and Up.

Product Description

Schoenhut Piano Company takes the concept of pianos for the very young a step further with a new three-octave Traditional Deluxe Spinet. With a keyboard almost half the size of that on an adult piano, this model is designed for ages three to nine. Not "just a toy," but a fine musical instrument, and a lovely addition to your home, as well.

Chromatically tuned, the lovely chime-like notes are produced by small hammers striking precision-ground, German steel music rods (versus the conventional taut wires used in full-sized models).

Schoenhut?s patented Learning System, with its play-by-color teaching method, makes playing simple and fun. A removable color strip fits behind the keys to guide small fingers from chord to chord. The chart will also work on adult keyboards, since keys on Schoenhut toy pianos are of corresponding width. This teaches children proper finger stretch from the very beginning. The accompanying Songbook contains a collection of familiar tunes. This Learning System has been specially designed to build a child?s confidence and develop basic playing skills.

Made of maple, birch and hardboard. Piano measures 24"H x 24.75"W x 12"D. Matching bench measures 14"W x 11"H x 8"D. Weighs 32 lbs.
Ages 3 and up

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!, January 8, 2006

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pidge mcgee - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schoenhut 37 Key Trad/Deluxe Spinet with Bench (Toy)

My son who is almost 3 received this for Christmas. What a beautiful and rewarding toy. This is something that can be passed down to future generations, very good quality. The sound isn't quite classic piano, but sounds very nice. Almost like chimes. It comes with a removable color coded key guide and a song booklet. The matching bench is great too. My son really loves it and I think it's a great way to introduce him to a musical instrument. I read somewhere that this is the smallest piano ever played at Carnagie Hall. (small trivia tidbit).

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad quality given price, November 12, 2009

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C. McCulley (Ft. Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Schoenhut 37 Key Trad/Deluxe Spinet with Bench (Toy)

While I didn't expect fantastic sound from a toy piano, given the price it should be reasonable to expect better quality. The action of the keys feels very cheap. There is almost no travel and adequate rebound to the key action. You pretty much can't get a sound out without a forceful hit leaving little room for subtlety in dynamics. One of the notes is pretty badly out of tune -- so much for the advertised "precision" of the sound rods. Worst of all is the upper octave. Striking any note there sets up a very unpleasant resonant hum which pretty much drowns out the note you are trying to play.

Because of a shipping mix up, we actually got shipped two of these and sent one back. The second one had pretty much the same defects, so these problems are clearly inherent to the quality of the product.

The piano looks nice enough, and we weren't going to send back our daughter's second birthday present at the last minute, so we ended up keeping this. She does enjoy it as a toy, and it will be good enough to introduce her to the basics of a keyboard, but I'm severely disappointed in the quality of this given the price. Clearly whatever quality this brand once had has been squandered in outsourcing its production to China, so by all means "mark well the name," for it now deserves scorn. If my daughter was a little older, I think I would pay half as much for an electronic keyboard.

2.0 out of 5 stars Chair broke immediately, could not be fixed., October 19, 2011

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Inge R. - See all my reviews

= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Schoenhut 37 Key Trad/Deluxe Spinet with Bench (Toy)

I bought this for my grandson, at the request of my daughter. The chair broke immediately and could not be fixed. The unit looks good, but sounds awful, and my grandson has hardly used it.