Sheet music puzzle, 1000 pieces

A 1000-piece puzzle showing sheet music: staves and black notes on a white background, with no other picture. It is a hard puzzle, for regulars, where you progress by the shape of the pieces and the detail of the notes rather than by colour. A gift for a musician or a music teacher.

It is published by Piatnik, the Viennese house of playing cards and games, and made in Austria. It goes by the name Musical Notes in the brand's catalogue. Once assembled, it measures 68 x 48 cm.

To get through it, start with the edges, then sort the pieces by whether they carry a clef, a bar line or a plain note. It takes several evenings and a table you can leave occupied.