Learning to play the piano is one of the most important factors of musical development and it also leads to development of creative independence and of intellectual background of a future professional. General piano teaching as a subject has the main purpose to create a well-educated musician in many areas. Starting with the middle of the XIX century researchers dealt in their works with the problem of learning and development in the process of making music (especially, piano). Among the authors of many progressive ideas we can emphasize the names of V. Gutor and V. Bulychev. Scientific activities of the two outstanding educators were directly connected with didactical and communicational piano orientation, reflected in a number of works of these authors.