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     Research teams exploring the link between music and intelligence have reported that music training dramatically enhances children’s abstract reasoning skills (the skills necessary for learning math & science), improves reading skills, increases spatial-temporal reasoning IQ, and boosts self-esteem.  Wise words spanning across the millennia concur:

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy;
but more importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys to learning!” – Plato



In the Kindergarten classes of the school district of Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, children who were given music instruction scored 48% higher on spatial-temporal skill tests than those who did not receive music training. - Rauscher, F.H., and Zupan, M.A. (1999).  Classroom keyboard instruction improves kindergarten children's spatial-temporal performance: A field study. Manuscript in press, Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Students in two Rhode Island elementary schools who were given an enriched, sequential, skill-building music program showed marked improvement in reading and math skills.  Students in the enriched program who had started out behind the control group caught up to statistical equality in reading, and pulled ahead in math. - Gardiner, Fox, Jeffrey and Knowles, as reported in Nature, May 23, 1996.

A research team exploring the link between music and intelligence reported that music training is far superior to computer instruction in dramatically enhancing children's abstract reasoning skills, the skills necessary for learning math and science. - Shaw, Rauscher, Levine, Wright, Dennis and Newcomb, Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children's spatial-temporal reasoning.  Neurological Research, Vol. 19, February 1997.

A University of California (Irvine) study showed that after eight months of keyboard lessons, preschoolers showed a 46% boost in their spatial reasoning IQ. - Rausher, Shaw, Levine, Ky and Wright, Music and Spatial Task Performance: A Causal Relationship.  University of California, Irvine, 1994.

Students who participated in arts programs in selected elementary and middle schools in New York City showed significant increases in self-esteem and thinking skills. - National Arts Education Research Center, New York University, 1990.

Researchers at the University of Montreal used various brain imaging techniques to investigate brain activity during musical tasks and found that sight-reading musical scores and playing music both activate regions in all four of the cortex’s lobes; and that parts of the cerebellum are also activated during those tasks. - Sergent, J., Zuck, E., Tenial, S., and MacDonall, B. (1992).  Distributed neural network underlying musical sight-reading and keyboard performance.  Science, 257, 106 - 109.

“Let us describe the education of our (children). . .
What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic for the body,
and music for the mind.” – Plato

“Music is higher revelation than all...
wisdom and philosophy.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

     In order to facilitate these benefits for children we have created a unique new brand of musical cartoon characters, entitled: Grand Staff & His Musical Friends.

     By turning the elements of music into cartoon characters, we have opened the door for children to learn about music at a younger age and in a more fun and colorful way than ever before.  Cartoons have long been the media that attracts and holds the attention of children while telling a story.  Now the rudiments of music have been brought to life and can be followed in a musical adventure that will be enjoyed over and over again.  Even grownups who have little or no musical background will find our products to be entertaining, educational and fun.

     We have combined audio-visual and hands-on learning styles that feature our characters and lessons in the form of a beautifully illustrated and easy-to-read hardcover storybook, a musical CD filled with engaging character animations and entertaining songs, a comprehensive coloring & activities book and eight pages of stickers.  The CD is exciting, endearing and fun.  It covers many musical styles while adding warmth to the illustrations and text.  Happy songs and cheerful characters not only provide musical ear-training and daytime entertainment, but also give parents a delightful and entertaining means for putting their children to bed at night.

     Our characters are new, wholesome and fun.  They include: a wise and talented old sheet of music known as Grand Staff, a jubilant red-haired pony-tailed character named Middle C, an elegant pair of opera singers named Mr. F Clef and Mrs. G Clef, the Musical Alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F, & G) along with the Musical Notes (Mrs. Whole Note, the Half Note Twins, the Quarter Notes, and the Eighth Notes), an old grandfather clock and timekeeper known as Father Time, and the authoritative, but comical, director of musical traffic, Officer Bar Line.

Let Grand Staff & His Musical Friends Introduce A Child You Know To Music!