I am a beginning pianist, and would like to know what are the most important scales to practice?
I am the proud father of a little girl showing keen interest in the piano. we have now gotten to a stage where we need to by her a piano, and are trying to decide wich way to go. Obviously we want to...
So what do you think - Does Mr. Bean really Play the Paino?
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Hi Hugh,
Professional pianists certainly do worry about their hands, and though I'm not one, and don't know any myself, I'm sure that they aren't willing to put their hands in ...
There is an exhaustive, ongoing discussion of this very question on Piano World right now. Go to the Pianist Corner and 'How can one note have better "tone" than another?'. LOTS to...
I want to buy a piano for my grandson who is a beginner pianist (really just beginning) I am totally in the dark about pianos and have no idea where to start looking and what brands would be suitable....
What piano pieces will be good for a Catholic wedding? I will be having a pianist and suprano singer and am looking for suitable pieces. Please recommend.
...iano, I need a good instrument. Is this thing worth fixing up and tuning? I'm a sax player -- not a pianist by any stretch, but it's important that my kids learn on a dependable instrument...
... to have an 88 weighted key digital piano - but this is really only suitable, I believe, for the beginning pianist to get used to reading notation and basic keyboard work. Others may disagree, but, if...
...it accurately. This is especially important in complicated passages.
My college professor, an excellent pianist and musician, stressed that method of practice. It still works for me....
...uot; (his composition, NOT Miles Davis'!). Solo versions are best...
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...fter the CFIIIS.
So C7 if you have the budget! You will never go wrong whether you are classical or pop pianist!
regards
Ian...
...e that the environment you practice in is conducive to both learning and comfort. I took residency with a pianist once who kept his poorly tuned piano in a dimly lit dungy room and we both cut sessio...
...imate attainment would be to accurately reproduce the sound and touch to such an extent that a blindfolded pianist couldn't tell the difference. Now - to be *better* would, I think, make it a dif...
I'm a pianist and piano technician in Southern CA. I was very touched by the emotions and the way you connected them to piano playing. I, too, have depended on my piano playing for therapy and to...
I am an advanced amateur Classical pianist.
If I may I have a different perspective on this topic.
I played on a Technic digital piano for 20 years and just upgraded to the new Yamaha H 11. The Te...
..., Michigan. From its earliest inception, the Everett was a piano of high quality. Teresa Carreno, foremost pianist of her time; Walter Damrosch, long-time conductor of the N.Y. symphony and pioneer ra...
I'm a pianist and I dealt with tremendous stage fright when I performed for recitals in college. What helped me the most was being extremely prepared for what I was playing, I mean knowing the mu...
... & Bach also carved in wood, as well as "New York" (carved in wood lettering) A professional pianist said it was a great piano. I cannot seem to locate the serial number on this one. I...
...ing and almost as good.
The U1 is a more standardized piano which has a nice sound, but if you are a good pianist you will definitly see that the YU series are much more pure in sounds and to play wi...
...onal stars.
If you want something bad enough, you can make it work. Whether or not you can be a concert pianist will determine many things, and there is a LOT of competition.
Professional could ...
...re. It was always my own thing.
So always encourage, never EVER push!
Nicholas Mustelin
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Well let me ask you something. Where is it that you think his pianos come from?? For the most part they are 5-10 years old or older. It seems to me highly unlikely that these pianos come from private ...
A google search gives the following:
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Steger worked at a series of different jobs and lived in various households where he noticed that the most prominent piece ...
...o influenced both M Ravel and P Debussy, his name is” Eric Sati”. He was certainly not an accomplished pianist, and his "Gymnopedies" and "Gnossienes" were no...
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This is a Project Guntenberg eBook of Harriette Brower's 1915 book Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianist featuring some of the greatest pianist of the earliest 20h century. I found this on ...
...ic, and I discuss the concept in more detail in a previous post on my own blog .
However, not being a pianist myself -only dabbling on the piano at a grade 4 level, I took the pieces to a good fr...
Edward Weiss from Piano Musings recommended listening to Solopianoradio.com , I had never heard of it before so of course I went over to listen, and as he predicts in his post I did listen for...
I just was just getting into reading the interview with pianist Andre Watts on Indystar.com, when it ended abruptly.
Usually in an interview or Q&A there will be at least 8-10 questions, but...
...f a great data base for 20th Century Piano Lit. that could come in as a very handy tool for teachers and pianist alike. The site is a database started by Dr. Kathy Rabago, who has degrees in music e...
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