Product Description

Little ones can rock out with their very own Baby Grand Piano! This pint-sized piano teaches numbers and colors, as well as exposes them to musical concepts like tempo, pitch and style. Baby is encouraged to play and learn with the eight light-up keys and four activities with four songs led by a dancing character and "magic" music book. Features three modes: Learning, Musical Fun and Imagination. Requires 3 "C" batteries (not included). Measures 19" x 17" x 17". Adult assembly required.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1499 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Fisher-Price
• Model: J9163
• Released on: 2006-06-12
• Dimensions: 18.60" h x 15.90" w x 9.00" l, 7.80 pounds

Features

• Learn about numbers, counting, opposites, colors, tempo, pitch, music styles, and more
• A friendly dancing character comes to life as baby plays
• There's an interactive songbook with pages to flip, colorful light-up keys, charming sing-along songs, and lots of busy activities all around
• Turn the dial for fun music and sounds
• Features Learning, Musical Fun and Imagination modes

Editorial Review
There’s nothing like watching small children fall in love with music. This baby grand will play Cupid to a toddler’s relationship to music. Just the right size for little fingers, with bright colors, lights, and familiar songs and learning concepts; kids will need no introduction before getting in there and starting to tickle those ivories! Three modes of play encourage children to enjoy music, learn basic concepts (alphabet, counting, opposites, etc.), or just play notes and chords on the eight-key keyboard. A plastic songbook (built into the piano) uses numerals on musical notation to teach aspiring musicians the correlation between the sounds they hear, the notes on the page, and the keys on the keyboard. Slides and buttons and dials can be manipulated to adjust tempo, pitch, and style, while a metronome keeps time. And a friendly maestro monster looms over the piano, dancing as your artiste creates composes her or his opuses. The music, as with so many children’s toys, is moderately unpleasant—nursery rhymes meet lounge jazz—but not the worst you’ll ever hear. And the joy toddlers will get out of playing their own melodies, as well as the potential for learning, far outweighs the burden of listening to cheesy tunes. Or you can just keep it in note-playing mode, and skip the pre-recorded tunes altogether! Three "C" batteries required (not included). Some adult assembly is required. --Emilie Coulter

From the Manufacturer
Little ones can rock out with their very own Baby Grand Piano! This pint-sized piano teaches numbers and colors, as well as exposes them to musical concepts like tempo, pitch and style. Baby is encouraged to play and learn with the eight light-up keys and four activities with four songs led by a dancing character and "magic" music book. Features three modes: Learning, Musical Fun and Imagination. Requires 3 "C" batteries (not included). Measures 19" x 17" x 17". Adult assembly required.

Customer Reviews

Fun Toy piano!
This was for our grandaughter, newly adopted from Guatemala. We chose it because of all the sensory things it does..and we were not disappointed!! It's a really fun toy, very interactive, lots of lights and sounds! We'd buy it in a minute again!! This is a winner and just right for little people! Besides that..it's Fisher-Price!

Our son loves it!
We bought this for our son's first birthday, and a couple of months later it's still his favorite toy. He loves music, and he loves pushing buttons, so we knew it would be perfect for him. It is so much more than just a piano, it's also taught him some rythm and the difference between fast and slow; there are so many knobs and buttons, it's fun to watch him figure out how each one works. There's one little tune in particular that gets him dancing like nothing else.

It's also very well made in that it seems indestructable. Sometimes he likes to push it around, and even knock it over. Like most toddlers, he's stronger than he looks, but it takes a beating and keeps on singing (literally).

Maybe they changed the design in the one we have, but there's no problem with pinched fingers. The sun does not move by itself, only if you grip it firmly and turn it back and forth manually - something he hasn't figured out how to do, and isn't strong enough for, yet . Also, we only paid about $40 or $50 for it at the store - and it wasn't on sale.

All-in-all, it is an excellent toy and learning tool. If something happened to it, not only would I not hesitate to buy another one, I'd probably rush to the store as soon as possible.

**** love it
My granddaughter, age 13 months has her hips going all the time playing with this toy. Easy to assemble too, and comes with the batteries.