question to everybody

what do I need to buy if I want to play piano with one finger - I saw in a restaurant the guy just use one finger but the sound was awsome.

I took a look at Mucisians Friend catalog and overwhelmed with selections there - workstations, digital organs etc etc. My price is around 300 bucks.

Thank you.

A Wal-Mart stereo would be about $300.00

If you want something Awesome spend about $5,000.00 to $6,000.00 and get a Yamaha CVP-107. With this keyboard not only can you play harmonies with one finger you can sing in a mic and it will make you sound like a trio or

This doesn't particularly answer the question, but you just reminded me of one of the oddest keyboard players I've ever seen. There's a guy with *no* fingers (no forearms either) who busks regularly on a little electronic keyboard at the corner of Spadina and Dundas in Toronto. He's got a pre-programmed rhythm track coming from the keyboard playing something like techno, diatonic in C, and he just plays white key clusters with the stumps of his arms. It's not all that interesting musically, but it's pretty mind boggling that he even thought of doing it.

K

You can play *any* piano with one finger. However, it will play only one note (or possibly two) at a time.

If you want some kind of device that automatically starts playing music with the push of a single button or key, then you want something other than a *piano.*

Unless you have a severe disability, you might consider using more than one finger at a time. It will open up a lot more musical possibilities.

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I guess it depends on the length of your finger. Laying my index on the piano keys I can play about 6 keys at a time.

And try zooming your thumb along the keyboard - fun! All kids love doing that.

Us music snobs call that a 'glissando'.

Mark,

If it is being used musically, it is a glissando. If you are 5 years old, never touched a piano before, and are wondering how much noise you can make in three seconds, it is zooming.

just a clarification.

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Dang, Mark. If you didn't find it in the two WTK books, you'll not find it anywhere !

No, just as there isn't one on playing with one finger only.

And if you're trying to *sell* a piano on which this abuse has been allowed to occur, it's called 'scratching' or 'staining' the keys

<< And let's not even discuss the lateral trauma to keys/actions from performing these 'glissandi' with four or eight high-downbearing fingertips.... >>

I thought 'lateral trauma' was when you get seated next to a stranger at a sold out concert who happens to be a mouth breather with a love for anchovies.