Explore the Piano: An exploration into creating your own music

Aki, who had stopped practicing the piano, is taught about piano exploration by his neighbor, by his neighbor's grandfather. An exploration to create one's own music.

Chair House, the creator of the Piano Manyoshu, has compiled this picture book based on his own experiences creating original music on the piano. This story introduces a piano exploration method for creating one's own original music.

Thank you for picking up this picture book.

The piano is a truly wonderful instrument, isn't it?

A fundamental question arises: What will you do with the piano over the course of your long life?

① The path of practicing to be able to properly play music composed by others. ② The path of being able to create your own original music.

Path ① is a brutal competitive path, with one in 10,000 players striving to be one of them. Path ② has no clear path, but is the path of creating your own musical world.

Piano Exploration may seem like a far-fetched story, but it is the true story of what the author did to achieve path ②.

Just like Aki, the author, Chair House, explored the piano on his own and acquired the skills to create his own music.

Not someone else's musical style, but his own.

Day after day, despite being told he was too noisy, he continued his piano exploration and created his own world of sound.

A fond memory.

The results are being shared with the world every day as the Piano Manyoshu project, in the form of original, tranquil piano music.

I hope that this picture book will inspire readers to create their own original music.

If you love it, you can achieve it.

August 2024, Chair House, Director of Piano Manyoshu