You guys are the greatest. What a wonderful, helpful community (and frankly, just what I needed after a very tough week of people being difficult, unhelpful and irresponsible). Thanks. I love the tutorials for Audacity - and will probably want to play around with that some. But before I got those responses, I did some more searching and found a very simple program called MP3 Key Changer. It allows you to save up to 3 versions for free - so that will suffice for my daughter's purposes of creating one higher pitched and one lower pitched version. The free version may also save only a portion of the song - but my daughter only needs a few bars, not the whole song. The full software costs $45. So if we want further transposing, I think we'll learn Audacity. In case anyone finds this thread and is interested, this free download trial from CNET can be found here: http://download.cnet.com/MP3-Key-Changer/3000-2139_4-10463799.html My daughter loves singing, though. And I can imagine her learning audacity to change the background tracks so she can sing any song she wants in her own key. Bob - your links were great places to start learning Audacity. And Chugger - your screen shots are worth a thousand words. My daughter is 13 - and not quite at the stage of intuitively figuring her way around software. Thanks everyone. Lynn.

Don't worry about learning one hand at a time. My son's piano teacher, with whom he has been studying for 10 years, always suggests starting out a new piece one hand at a time. Not learning it to perfection or the point of memorization, but just to be familiar enough to be comfortable. Here is an explanation from Wikipedia about the reason for different clefs: "The use of three different clefs makes it possible to write music for all instruments and voices, even though they may have very different tessituras (that is, even though some sound much higher or lower than others). This would be difficult to do with only one clef, since the modern staff has only five lines, and the number of pitches that can be represented on the staff, even with ledger lines, is not nearly equal to the number of notes the orchestra can produce. The use of different clefs for different instruments and voices allows each part to be written comfortably on the staff with a minimum of ledger lines. To this end, the G-clef is used for high parts, the C-clef for middle parts, and the F-clef for low parts - with the important exception of transposing parts, which are written at a different pitch than they sound, often even in a different octave."

Here's something I made 15 years ago, along that line: Close up: I bought the sheet music, postcards and photos at an antique store. Did not want to ruin any old pictures I had. Tore deeds to use as the background. Brown paper is a grocery bag crumpled up, then "antiqued" with antiquing liquid bought at Michael's (looks like leather). I used a large stretched canvas from Michael's (use coupon for 40% off). I used either textured papers or lace behind pictures Used antiquing liquid again to tone down whites. Trinkets from around the house - buttons, single silver earring I used to wear as a teenagers, keys, large metal thing from side of sewing machine (spray painted) and a tiny ring DD2 gave me when she was in preschool. I thought it needed something after finishing, so I added the upholstery tacks at each corner. Also like using the black photo corners - gives it that "old" feeling.

Update: So, as most of you know, shortly after the piano was delivered my lovely DD (pictured above playing the piano) accidentally started a fire on the third floor of our house. The piano was saved but suffered damage to the finish. The whole house was gutted and we moved back in almost exactly a year after the fire (this past Christmas eve, to be exact). The piano is in its new position and we, once again, get to listen to our DD play beautiful music for us. ETA: Thankfully, no one was hurt in the fire :) Hmmm, looking at the pics, I think I've hung the art too high.