Here are some links to lists of serial numbers to help you determine the age of your piano.
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Bluthner http://webvoice.blogspot.com/bluthner/serial- numbers.htmBosendorfer http://webvoice. ...
It's going to happen to us all at some stage... we will be left with an old piano, wondering what to do with it!
It's one of those things that seems to come up every now and then - what's my old ...
I know how hard it can be living with depression and mental illness. I'm not the only one who is stuck within the living hell we get to call a life.
Music has given me such wonderful "outs" as I ...
You know, it's absolutely amazing how wonderful music can be in helping heal the human spirit. The part ofthis month long illness that really seems to have caused the most problems is the fact that ...
This is a little of topic, but since I found the concept so charming and different, I thought I would share it with you.Chris Becker has a project going Along with some Silent film makers (I wasn't ...
I always encourage my piano students to hie themselves down to the nearest ballet studio and volunteer to play the piano for ballet class. Many of them put up a lot of resistance to this idea, but ...
It's an amazing instrument - some might argue it's the most pure form of music making. Sounds are created simply by moving your hands through the air - there are no moving parts, no strings, ...
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Probably a lot of you have, and on the other hand many others haven't heard of the new kid on the block - The Estonia Piano.
Andy Quinn ...
Its truly a wonderful feeling to create, to play, to do anything musically really. But is it enough for oyur brain to play? Can you feel what you're playing? When you're playing can you "hear" a ...
This is a Guest post by Chip Michael of Interchanging Idioms
Since I am not a composer myself, I found it a most interesting insight on the workings of composing.
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It can be very difficult to suffer through depression. It can be so difficult that even getting up the oomph to play piano can seem like an insurmountable task. I've just come through a ...
Yes, I know the title has the word "piece," but it's intentional. Let me tell you why.
When someone who has been self taught, or has been taking lessons for a short period of time and are ...
It's amazing what a desire to make music can make people do.
Have you ever heard a young child banging away on a piano, much to the annoyance of the other listeners in the room? Have you ever seen ...
Joshua Nemith did two great posts Freelancing in the "New" economy (part 1) and Part 2 in which he comes up with 9 different ideas of how to increase your income. Some of the ideas will be frowned ...
Between the wastelands of Lifetoohectic and Damnedepression lies an oasis of bliss. It can refresh the weary from their journeys between the two hellish deserts. Back and forth the masses go, for ...
When you decide what it is you want to be when you grow up, you are usually unaware of the difference between your dream, or how you picture your day will look, to the way it actually looks in ...
Of course the hard economic times world wide will affect every nook and cranny of our lives sooner or later, and not only banks and financial institutions will suffer but Orchestras and opera houses ...
Galen Brown from Sequenza 21 pointed me in the direction of an article in the Guardian about Carl Orff, the German composer, his dubious political passed and problematic personality.Orff is know ...
I remember that whenI was in grade 5 I would tidy the kindergarten rooms because they had pianos in them. It was worth the agony of having to pick up after other people, as I hate to tidy after ...
One of the things that I hear a lot amongst adults who once learned piano as a child is their regret at not continuing with their music. It's as though they feel they've lost an opportunity in their ...
With a long road ahead of us my husband and I sat down with razor blades in front of the piano. We have been looking up the most effective way to remove damaged key caps. After three days of looking ...
I am sure you have all heard of Guitar Hero, the video game and the ongoing debate about its influence on music, musicians and the next generation of musician.
I happen to be all for moving on with ...
What do you do when you are experiencing a creative block while either writing or playing?I sit in front of the computer and stare at the screen, waiting for it to give me something, anything.Nada.
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I read this in the Well Tempered Blog.
"Andrew Vactor was arrested for playing rap music "too loudly" on his car stereo. Vactor faced a $150 fine, presumably for 'disrupting the peace', but a ...
Life is 3 dimensional and everything we do, including our chosen profession, in this case music, can be visited from different angles.
Every angle visited, of course, would give you a wider ...
There was a very clever joke I heard today:
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An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends and took along a few pictures to show the hostess. She looked at the ...
Marketing always seems like such a dirty word when it comes in connection to art.Why is that?If we were in any other business besides the arts, probably we would have no problem at all marketing our ...
I thought this was a great way to end the week
This video is from Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) staring Doris Day in her peak and James Cagney, playing Ruth Etting the Jazz singer and her husband the ...
It's interesting that if I'm sad and having a hard time finding words of my own, that music can offer so much. Even instrumentals with the right chords and the right tempo can bring tears to my ...
For those of you who are not familiar with the Pianologist, pianologist is in there own words:
a blog about innovative piano playing. Pianologist consists of 2 pianists - KCLau and Rewsnat. We ...
This is Weird.
A Harwich police officer examines the Baldwin piano discovered on conservation land yesterday.JAKE O'CALLAGHAN
Its nearly old news now but its Weirdness earned my attention.A ...
Mahler: Symphony No 3, 1st movement (Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra)
I was inspired into Mahlerdom after reading a post on Mahler Owes me Ten Bucks that bassicaly devides all of ...
As a child I played recitals on a Steinway grand that sat in the parlor of the Bernheimer House across the street from our house. My family was half Jewish and half Protestant. My mother was Jewish ...