Larry Polston with his wife Diane look to God from whom they gather their strength.

God has blessed the hands of Larry Polston with many talents. As a retired Engineer with the State of Florida's Department of Transportation, Polston is also a music teacher, artist, and author of a well known National Gospel Piano Course. The piano course was the Nation's #1 best selling piano course for several years and continues to be a great success. With a well developed history in music, Polston has now also been bountifully blessed with the ability to paint... to God be the Glory.

Larry Polston has converted his musical education and the knowledge of a lifetime into development of America's best loved gospel piano course. The establishment of a method by which students could learn renowned gospel piano techniques at home has led him to the establishment of Rain Tree Publications. The company began as the dream of this young rural Florida musician who studied for years under the guidance of Mrs. Forest Goodson. Goodson utilized her impressive education credentials to teach her students the art of incorporating classical techniques with the rich pure sounds of gospel music.

Polston was reared with his two brothers and three sisters in a home centered around the love of music and the church where his mother, Mrs. Flora Polston, was an Assembly of God pastor. He has carried this love into his adult life and never fails to give God full glory for directing him along the paths which have culminated in the realization of the success of Rain Tree Publications. Polston has garnered knowledge, inspiration and counsel from numerous renowned gospel music performing artists in his quest to develop and fine tune Rain Tree's piano courses. This vast culmination of talent, tempered with God's touch, has moved the course to the forefront position... the Nation's number one best selling... Rain Tree Gospel Piano Course.

"And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands;
yea the work of our hands establish thou it." (The prayer of David) Psalms 90:17