The first of a four-part series on keyboard labs sets the table for a discussion of their role and utility as facilities that can attract more students to musical instruction.

In the early 1980s, as synthesizers and electronic keyboards crept into American schools, music education found itself caught between excitement and uncertainty...

Irwin Kornfeld Publisher of In Tune Monthly I left my post as a Billboard  associate publisher 25 years ago and created the reading resource In Tune Monthly  shortly thereafter. These were the days of Napster and the beginning of the great digital disintermediation - the sea change that would upend the music business as we knew it, and when the next stylistic shift in music rolled into town (see: “boy bands” and “hip hop”). The mighty music moguls were shaken, and for good reason, as it turns...