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Adult Beginners Forum
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YouTube must have a music bot that listens and compares to known melodies, which is pretty cool technology. Anyway, it is common for Fur Elise, Bach Minute in G, Prelude I, Canon in D, and any such melodies typically featured in "relaxation&quo
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Adult Beginners Forum
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Originally Posted By: casinitalyOriginally Posted By: WhizbangOriginally Posted By: ClsscLibAn ideal practice session it wasn't, but it was SOME practice. It's definitely hard to count playing on a piano in the wild as a "practice" session
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Pianist Corner
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Originally Posted By: fnorkOriginally Posted By: pianoloverusI think that only sometimes Beethoven wrote awkward or technically difficult passages for the reason you mention but that most of the time this is not the case. The most famous that probabl
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Digital Pianos - Synths & Keyboards
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This thread caught my eye because I just bought a Yamaha 440 myself. However, the prices here in Canada are significantly less than what you quote. The 430 here is $1800 showroom retail, and that is before you negotiate down. The 440 is $2500 at the
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Pianist Corner
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Originally Posted By: keystring The underlying skills are not built, the strategies are not taught, and they may be assumed to be there. Interesting aside.. I just had a discussion about this regarding K-12. I believe the same inherent problems exit
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Adult Beginners Forum
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This may seem odd but: We don't necessarily know what we know when we know it. We may think that we don't know what we know, and we may think that the knowing we have is the knowing, when our real knowing may be the actual knowing. Not striving fo
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Adult Beginners Forum
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I think I said something misleading when I said I was "naturally" using suspensions and anticipations. I was using my learned knowledge of suspensions and anticipations from my harmonic analysis course several years ago. So it wasn't comi
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Adult Beginners Forum
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I wanted to pick up another idea. Originally Posted By: PianoStudent88 Now, if you want to simplify for beginners.... I remembered you writing that I had also been against simplifications, but couldn't find it. I wanted to think about this before a
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Piano Teachers Forum
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Well here's a flip flop. I just read online about when to hire a lawyer. One recommendation is to hire a lawyer when you've been accused of a crime. Maybe a one time consultation would be less than my initial guess. If you could get legal counsel fo
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Piano Forum
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Originally Posted By: Almaviva ...In America, most Steingraeber models retail for much MORE than a comparably-sized Steinway (Hamburg or New York), Bluthner, Bechstein, Boesendorfer, Fazioli, etc. I'm not sure that's all correct. At least when I d
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Pianist Corner
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Hi Geoff. Good material. There are parts that really pull me along, others not so much, but over all very interesting. I'd like very much to be in the hall and hear it being played. I'm glad that the others bumped the thread back up and that I h
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Pianist Corner
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Originally Posted By: Steve ChandlerHere's an article that addresses the subject of this lengthy thread. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/practice-makes-perfect-not-so-much/ The article doesn't provide the details that would be found in the study,
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Piano Tuner-Technicians Forum
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Originally Posted By: Mark Cerisano, RPT So, nose down slightly is definitely not desired. Very good comments except that it sounds like the OP is speaking of hammer rake angle. In an upright it is normal to have the rake at less than 90 degrees.
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Pianist Corner - Non Classical
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Originally Posted By: TimRLooks like an organ part. Bass line on the pedals, right hand handles the treble notes on the swell, left hand handles the tenor line on the great. There is no organ in this song that I am aware of. here is a full shot
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Members Recordings - Pianist Corner
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Had to laugh, I barely recognized this one.
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Piano Forum
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my 'desert island' recording: my favorite brahms, by van cliburn.
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Pianist Corner - Non Classical
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Another lunch break take. Probably I will submit this one. I wish I had the courage and energy to write and work on an arrangement like you did. http://snd.sc/13IGjLL
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Pianist Corner
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Originally Posted By: Orange Soda KingI have some pretty awesome recordings of the three piano sonatas that changed how I view them. They're good pieces, though I wouldn't say the pinnacle of the Romantic piano sonata. (Bonus!) I hope Damon enjoys
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Pianist Corner - Non Classical
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Looks like an organ part. Bass line on the pedals, right hand handles the treble notes on the swell, left hand handles the tenor line on the great.
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Members Recordings - Pianist Corner
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Originally Posted By: Goomer PilesI've done a bit of digging now, and I really dig this guy's creative blurbs that accompany the recorded rubbish. Self-referential and self-reverential in the extreme. Eloquently phrased, GP: "Self-referential
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Adult Beginners Forum
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That is very helpful, Morodiene, thank you.
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Piano Tuner-Technicians Forum
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Originally Posted By: BDBOriginally Posted By: MwmOriginally Posted By: BDBI have heard unequal temperaments that sound dull, possibly because the major thirds are too flat for my ears. Other times, you get intervals which are so far off they make me
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Pianist Corner
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I think it might also do better in the Composers Corner. I agree with Tim, wonderful piece. If there's a reason why the pianists here haven't responded it could be because the piano part isn't that interesting in the first half. However, I really enj
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Pianist Corner
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Originally Posted By: pianoloverusI think that only sometimes Beethoven wrote awkward or technically difficult passages for the reason you mention but that most of the time this is not the case. The most famous that probably fits your description wou
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Piano Tuner-Technicians Forum
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90 to the string plane, but you may discover it is not vertical so lets say not more than 90 whenever possible, but 1-2 degrees are not that important, practically. R Shanks flex a lot so the rake angle is somewhat important anyway. I worked on a G
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