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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Free Piano Music to Download

I have always loved the sound of a piano. It doesn't matter if its Beethoven or Ronnie Milsap, the piano can bring out a variety of emotions by the way its played.

The piano Society offers free mp3s of piano concerts to download. There are tons to choose from. It doesn't matter if you like Renaissance or Modern music, they've got it all.

Click this link to begin browsing the available MP3s at the Piano Society website.

Here are some other sites for free piano music, and yeah, I'll throw some others in there too.

  • Whisperings Piano - This is the premier piano site on the web. They offer a free stream or a subscription stream. Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio also has in-person concerts.
  • Free Solo Piano - New Age .mp3s and sheet music to match.
  • Healing Piano - Musician Chuck Brown freely shares piano tracks from his three albums.
  • Piano Society - Free classical piano recordings.
  • Jazz Piano Music - Contemporary jazz artist, Hiromi, shares a free EP.

Guitars and Other Instrumental

Christian

  • Christian MP Free Selected songs from quality musicians who hope you'll like their music so much that you'll buy the whole album.
  • Great Songs Free - Selections from Jeff Woffard.
  • Songs of Praise - Elton Smith's huge collection of original and classic songs.

Christmas

Classic Cat

Classic Cat is a directory with links to over 4800 free to download classical performances on the internet, sorted by composer and work. It's further categorized into composers' name, country and year of birth, performer's name, country and year of birth, instruments and genres. Music lovers who have no clue about classic pieces can look forward to a quick start by viewing the Top 100 most popular works.

Note that Classic Cat does not host the MP3s itself. It just indexes the free-to-download classical mp3s on the internet. Visitors will be redirected to external download pages when they click the "Download" button. Some sites may require registration.

Click this link to visit http://www.classiccat.net.

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