Mystery of the Lost Crown: a piano method book

‘Mystery of the Lost Crown’ is book two in a fun beginner piano adventure series. Budding detectives are immersed in a mystery designed to engage students and add some fun to lessons.

One day Frankie, chief mouse of the ‘Mouse Detective Agency’, leaves Terry the turtle in charge while he goes on holiday. Poor Terry was only supposed to answer the phone but finds himself in the middle of a case! He is a very shy and reluctant detective and only piano and theory skills will solve the mystery.

This story based adventure is the second book in this series (after ‘Who Ate The Apples‘). It can be used from age 5 or 6 upwards and works well as both a stand-alone method book, or alongside any other piano method series as a supplement to reinforce learning.

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‘Mystery of the Lost Crown’ has many varied activities and moves forward from the off-stave notation found in book one to reading notes on a piano stave. It includes tunes to learn (with teacher accompaniment), ‘clues’ to discover in the theory puzzles, doodling or improvising, mini composing, and even two player games ideal for student versus teacher. There are mazes, scramble puzzles, match ups, colouring activities and more.

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The book is aimed at young beginner learners and is equivalent to the first two thirds or so of Piano Adventures Primer, or part way through book B of My First Piano Adventures. This series can be used alongside any piano method book as a supplement to learning, and is also ideal as a stand alone method.

The story is set in ‘Harmonia Land’, a place where gnomes, fairies, giants, animals, humans, princes and more live together in harmony. Students follow the colourful comic style illustrations as Terry as tries his best to find the King’s ‘lost crown’. With their help, poor Terry might save the day!

Budding piano detectives rule out fake crowns one by one as they progress through the book. A QR code leads to the solution to check if they found the crown, and there is a colourful certificate at the back of the book for successful investigators.

‘Mystery of the Lost Crown’ is available worldwide from Amazon. Find out more about the first book in this series, ‘Who Ate The Apples’ here.