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Private teachers


​'My students have great fun realising that they can play an octave or a tenth for the first time in their lives.’
Erica Booker, Suzuki teacher trainer and private teacher, Sydney, Australia, 2010.

United States of America

Catharine Lysinger, Dallas, Texas: DS5.5® (7/8) keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]

Katie Hoody, Garland, Texas, DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]

Katy Sargent, Salt Lake City, Utah: DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. katsargent@gmail.com

Gloria Tham-Haines, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]

Melissa Robol, Worthington, Ohio: DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]

Corrine Van Dyk, Twin Falls, Idaho, DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]

Tiffany Goff, Cleveland, Ohio, DS5.5® keyboard in upright piano.  [email protected]

Kristen Landrum, Dallas, Texas, 7/8 keyboard (slightly larger than DS5.5®) keyboard in upright piano. [email protected]


Kathryn Mientka, Grand Junction, Colorado, DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]

Esther Chung Marks, Long Island, New York, DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]

Brandon Bui, Loma Linda, southern California, 
DS5.5® and DS6.0® keyboards in upright pianos. M.I.K.A.L. Music Playrooms, 24711 Redlands Blvd., Suite N, Loma Linda, CA. 92354. Phone: 1+714+822+7784.

Ely Guest, San Marcos, Texas, 
DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]
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Canada

Jen McCabe, Burlington, Ontario: DS5.5® keyboard in upright piano. [email protected]

Linda Gould, Victoria, British Columbia, DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]

Monique Fournier, Calgary, Alberta: 
DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]
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Australia

Erica Booker, Sydney, New South Wales:  DS5.5® keyboard in upright piano, Kawai GM12 grand with 6.06 inch octave keyboard, and a larger reduced-size keyboard (approx 19/20) in Steinway grand piano. [email protected]

Asia

Kahoru Amano, Singapore: 
DS5.5® keyboard in grand piano. [email protected]

Europe

Simone Reichstatt, Korb (near Stuttgart), Germany: Laukhuff 6.0 inch octave keyboard in a Yamaha grand piano. 
[email protected]​

Matthew Curtis, London, UK: Pinkham 6.0 inch octave keyboard in upright piano. [email protected]​

​Berglind Jonsdottir, Reykjavik, Iceland: Kawai GM12 grand with 6.06 inch octave keyboard. [email protected]​

Karolinka de Bree, The Netherlands: 5.5 inch octave keyboard in a Steinway grand piano. [email protected]
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