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#1396251 - 03/15/10 11:30 AM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Pogorelich.]
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a couple comments
Stores - we picked up that bookcase at an estate sale for $35.00 - it has wavy glass and everything.. not in the best condition but it could be superb.
Jason.. the presets on that organ don't work.. i bought it for next to nothing. it's great for practice.
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#1396308 - 03/15/10 01:10 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Pogorelich.]
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#1396567 - 03/15/10 07:51 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Dave Ferris]
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Damn I fail. But isn't this just for classical?
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#1396600 - 03/15/10 09:05 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Pogorelich.]
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Registered: 11/30/09
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My husband just promised to buy me a grand piano for my 50th Birthday.......OK so i have to wait till July 2028 but hey, there is light at the end of the tunnel and I can see my grand piano in it :o)
He did suggest a digital grand....... anyone have one or should I not have mentioned it <hide>
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#1396662 - 03/15/10 10:46 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Pogorelich.]
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#1396685 - 03/15/10 11:27 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: apple*]
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Registered: 07/28/09
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Loc: Saskatchewan, Canada
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Oh, Apple -- those gorgeous red shoes! I can just picture them flashing along the pedal board!
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#1396697 - 03/15/10 11:52 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Dave Ferris]
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Registered: 12/28/08
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Damn I fail. But isn't this just for classical? I thought we were talking music. If we are talking "just" Classical, I fail.  Anyone need a D that just has been tuned and voiced? Come and get it...my address is....  ME!!!!!
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#1396701 - 03/15/10 11:55 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: thumper49]
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Oh, Apple -- those gorgeous red shoes! I can just picture them flashing along the pedal board! And then you click the heels together and ... oh wait, wrong story. (actually, apple, I just noticed you're already in Kansas)
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#1396712 - 03/16/10 12:50 AM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: MichelleM]
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Registered: 11/28/09
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Loc: STL metro east
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My husband just promised to buy me a grand piano for my 50th Birthday.......OK so i have to wait till July 2028 but hey, there is light at the end of the tunnel and I can see my grand piano in it :o)
He did suggest a digital grand....... anyone have one or should I not have mentioned it <hide> Hi Michelle, I have one of each....a grand and a digital grand. My husband bought me the digital grand first, when we were Active Duty AirForce and moving all the time. Now we are retired and a finally got my real grand. and...I'm just a few months short of 50, haha. I don't know how to post pictures and I'm new here. You can click on my user name and click on my studio website. There is a few pictures of both my pianos there. But wishes to you and hope you are able to get your digital while you wait for your real one!
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#1396743 - 03/16/10 03:42 AM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: btb]
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Loc: Down Under
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Hi Angelina,
At 13 years of age, with romantic ogle-eyes on Rach 2 and Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata Op. 57, it won’t be long before you are an accredited member of the Grand Piano Club. I think you'll find Angelina is a bit older than 13. And I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss op.7 as a mere lead-up to op.13. IMO it has one of Beethoven's best slow movements, of all the sonatas.
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#1396764 - 03/16/10 05:55 AM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Meadow]
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Registered: 11/30/09
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Loc: Australia
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I have one of each....a grand and a digital grand.
Wow - I looked at your picture like you suggested - thank you. There is just something about a real grand piano - amazing. michelle
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#1396766 - 03/16/10 06:02 AM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: btb]
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Registered: 12/28/09
Posts: 5332
Loc: Here, as opposed to there
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Hi Angelina,
At 13 years of age, with romantic ogle-eyes on Rach 2 and Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata Op. 57, it won’t be long before you are an accredited member of the Grand Piano Club.
For what it’s worth, your present studying of the Sonata Op. 7 ... composed when Beethoven was still influenced by the styles of his early tutors Haydn and Mozart ... is but months away from the famous Pathetique Sonata Opus 13, when LB really showed his colours ... and romped over the keyboard in unprecedented grandeur.
The later top sonatas have collected fond nicknames ...
Moonlight, Pastoral, Waldstein, Appassionata, Les Adieu and Hammerklavier.
Any time you think the Moonlight 3rd movement is easier than the Appassionata ... I’ll book a ticket to listen to you on stage at Carnegie Hall. LMAO! Those romantic ogle-eyes have already entered Rach 2 in a successful competition. "Little" Angelina, is well aware of Op. 7's (though not as popular as Op. 13, in my opinion, a much grander, more mature work) place among the Beethoven sonatas (she plays it very well), and I'm sure she could tear the Pathetique off, at a moment's notice. She will, no doubt, however, be grateful for pointing out those nicknames lol. I would, certainly, agree with her opinion, that the "Moonlight's" 3rd movement is far easier than anything found in "Appassionata". By the way, where does one enter this sweepstakes? The prerequisite list would have qualified me years ago, so I'll be expecting delivery soon lol.
Edited by stores (03/16/10 06:07 AM)
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#1396830 - 03/16/10 09:55 AM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: stores]
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Registered: 12/28/08
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What he said ^ Also NO Beethoven is easy. Appassionata is harder for me, I played the moonlight when I was 13, oh and I'm actually 20 :p By the way I was just kidding too Ps op7 is a hell lot harder than the famous pathetique. And not just technically aanyways..,,,
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#1398557 - 03/18/10 12:11 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Pogorelich.]
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Posts: 3506
Loc: Pretoria South Africa
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Grateful thanks to currawong for drawing attention to the Beethoven Sonata Opus 7 ... in particular the largo ... supported with kind words by my Holy Grail reference book ... which sees Opus 7 as perhaps the best of the early sonatas. However, as earlier notes, Beethoven uses a modest canvas (never more than 3 octaves in extent) and is clearly still under the influence of early mentors Haydn and Mozart ... not to put too fine a point on it ... the structure is patchy (jumped to and fro) as are the switchback dynamics (loaded with short-lived 3 and 4-flag notes) ... by comparison the Appassionata Sonata stretches in places to a spread of 6 octaves. As previously suggested, Beethoven breaks out of the mould in Opus 13 (Pathetique) to show his true colours ... in coming of age Beethoven cottoned on to the poetic importance of keeping the main musical structure simple ... and only going "fruity" (lots of notes) in well chosen bursts of unbridled rapture (which Chopin was later to master from the outset). IMHO the slow movement of the Pathetique knocks socks off Opus 7 ... this after spending the past 2 days practising the largo (easy to sight-read because of the slow tempo) ... and thereby able to suggest a qualified take. 
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#1398558 - 03/18/10 12:19 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: btb]
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Registered: 11/16/06
Posts: 2548
Loc: Western Canada
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Grateful thanks to currawong for drawing attention to the Beethoven Sonata Opus 7 ... in particular the largo ... supported with kind words by my Holy Grail reference book ... which sees Opus 7 as perhaps the best of the early sonatas. However, as earlier notes, Beethoven uses a modest canvas (never more than 3 octaves in extent) and is clearly still under the influence of early mentors Haydn and Mozart ... not to put too fine a point on it ... the structure is patchy (jumped to and fro) as are the switchback dynamics (loaded with short-lived 3 and 4-flag notes) ... by comparison the Appassionata Sonata stretches in places to a spread of 6 octaves. As previously suggested, Beethoven breaks out of the mould in Opus 13 (Pathetique) to show his true colours ... in coming of age Beethoven cottoned on to the poetic importance of keeping the main musical structure simple ... and only going "fruity" (lots of notes) in well chosen bursts of unbridled rapture (which Chopin was later to master from the outset). IMHO the slow movement of the Pathetique knocks socks off Opus 7 ... this after spending the past 2 days practising the largo (easy to sight-read because of the slow tempo) ... and thereby able to suggest a qualified take. See, JAZZ players just play it like that, we don't have to read it!  You should see some of the jazz music written out!
Edited by Diane... (03/18/10 12:30 PM)
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#1398615 - 03/18/10 01:31 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Diane...]
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That's quite an odd place to put a piano - not quite the best place to play for audiences. The acoustics there must be horrible too!
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#1398628 - 03/18/10 01:50 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: MichelleM]
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Posts: 353
Loc: Boston
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My husband just promised to buy me a grand piano for my 50th Birthday.......OK so i have to wait till July 2028 I think your husband has it backwards. When we were shopping for a grand, and I was cringing at the prices, it was my wife (who does not play piano) who said to me, "What are you gonna do, wait until you're 50?"
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#1398727 - 03/18/10 03:47 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Larry B]
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Registered: 08/29/09
Posts: 4521
Loc: Land of the never-ending music
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Speaking of piano pictures, I installed this screensaver , but it won't work (I am using Vista)... Has anyone tried it on Vista?
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#1398823 - 03/18/10 06:19 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: ChopinAddict]
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Registered: 12/28/07
Posts: 640
Loc: SC
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I can play everything on btb's list with the exception of the Flight of the Bumblebee. It's not really a piano piece, so I didn't have any occasion to learn it. The 3rd mvt. of the Beethoven is more technically difficult than the other listed works.
I agree with Bruce about the Mozart Rondo Alla Turca. I just don't like the piece.
So I guess I get to keep my Steinway.
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#1398837 - 03/18/10 06:46 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: ChopinAddict]
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Registered: 09/18/08
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Speaking of piano pictures, I installed this screensaver , but it won't work (I am using Vista)... Has anyone tried it on Vista? I can't even get the Mac one to work...
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#1398852 - 03/18/10 07:03 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: ChopinAddict]
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Registered: 12/28/09
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Loc: Here, as opposed to there
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Speaking of piano pictures, I installed this screensaver , but it won't work (I am using Vista)... Has anyone tried it on Vista? I have my own Piano Photos screensaver. Just interesting piano photos I've collected and added to Windows Live Photo Gallery. You can add images from any file on your computer to the gallery and use them as a screensaver.
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#1398855 - 03/18/10 07:04 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: argerichfan]
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Registered: 10/14/09
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Loc: Los Angeles
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It has been a long time since I have seen the inside of a US Middle School. Don't the Americans call it Junior High? Junior High was grades 7, 8, 9 (and high schools were 3 year) At least here in Los Angeles virtually all the public schools are called Middle School and run grades 6,8,9 (and high school run a traditional 4 years)
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#1398859 - 03/18/10 07:09 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: stores]
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Registered: 09/18/08
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Speaking of piano pictures, I installed this screensaver , but it won't work (I am using Vista)... Has anyone tried it on Vista? I have my own Piano Photos screensaver. Just interesting piano photos I've collected and added to Windows Live Photo Gallery. You can add images from any file on your computer to the gallery and use them as a screensaver. Quick note for Mac users who aren't already aware: You can do the same thing from your iPhoto (and probably your Aperture or Photoshop, too) library. All your albums and events should appear in System Preferences > Desktop and Screensaver > Screensaver, in the list. 
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#1398861 - 03/18/10 07:10 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: KrAYZEE]
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Registered: 01/18/10
Posts: 1940
Loc: Omaha, Nebraska
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Interesting.
Our schools are
Pre-school
Kindergarten
Elementary 1-6
Middle school 7&8
High school 9-12. (im a sophomore ;))
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#1398876 - 03/18/10 07:35 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: Brandon_W_T]
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Registered: 05/15/07
Posts: 5051
Loc: Down Under
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Someone on PW did once explain to me what a sophomore is, but I'm afraid I've forgotten...
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#1398880 - 03/18/10 07:40 PM
Re: Picture of your practice space
[Re: currawong]
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btb, we'll have to agree to disagree on the relative merits of op.7 slow mvt and that of op.13, and also on your method of judging merit by observing range of notes Horo & CA: My screensaver is a random and regularly changing selection of my photos - sometimes piano ones, but at the moment it's beaches and lighthouses. Perhaps I need a holiday.
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