Piano Lessons (TV series)
Piano Lessons is an American music education television series featuring piano lessons from Giuseppe Aldo Randegger. It originally aired in New York City on W2XAB, a then-experimental television station of Columbia Broadcasting System, from October 8, 1931, to 1932. Piano Lessons is among the earliest regularly scheduled television programs. Due to a lack of any preservation the entire series is widely accepted as being completely lost.
Production and broadcast
The series consisted of piano lessons given by Professor Giuseppe Aldo Randegger, and aired on mechanical television.The first episode aired October 8, 1931, as announced in the Radio News section of The Daily Star newspaper. Originally a 30-minute series, it later aired in a 15-minute time-slot. It aired without commercials, as American television was not yet a commercial service, due to the highly experimental nature of early television broadcasting.
In a television listing from 1932, the series is listed at 8:15PM on Mondays, preceded by The Television Ghost and followed by ukulele player Jack Peterson. In an earlier television listing from the same year, it is listed as airing at 9:00PM, preceded by songs by Doris Sharp and followed by songs by the Shannon Brothers.