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Welcome to the Forum. It has been a long time since RMMP where we first "met". I fondly remember your discussions of writing and publishing your book there. I did not know that it was now in print - my apologies.
Now I have to read it. All the best to you and it is good to "see" you again.
Warmest welcome! I appreciate thoroughly your work, and am both a practitioner and a proponent. Esp. I appreciate your paradigm shift away from the physical exercise aspect ("mindless exercises" ala Hanon, etc.) toward the real challenge which is in the brain.
A thousand kudos, and so glad you are here!
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I've bot 2 clavinovas so far (the first got so old I gave it away to a student who couldn't afford one), but both of them ended up with sticky keys after about 5 yrs. If you don't play them for over a day, they get stuck until I play them once, then they are OK. Is this curable? Our daughters have a Korg and a Roland, so I will have to check with them, but do other models also have the same defect?
Welcome to the forums, CC Chang. I too am a reader of your book.
I am an experienced pianist having studied many years ago and almost persued a career in music, and I have found this to be a valuable book with much insight and common sense for piano practice.
John
Current works in progress:
Beethoven Sonata Op. 10 No. 2 in F, Haydn Sonata Hoboken XVI:41, Bach French Suite No. 5 in G BWV 816
Current instruments: Schimmel-Vogel 177T grand, Roland LX-17 digital, and John Lyon unfretted Saxon clavichord.
Originally posted by CCC: >>I am curious, based on your comment above-how many have read your book and how many pianists do you estimate are out there?
My estimate is that conservatively, there are at least 30,000 pianists seriously reading my book (the total number of visits to all web sites, including translations, is over 700,000), and many of them are teachers with over 20 students.
Does anyone have an estimate of how many pianists there are? Order of magnitude wise, if the world population is 10B, and 0.1-0.01% have pianos, then the number of pianos is 1-10M; does that sound correct?
First, welcome to our forums CCC, happy to have you join our little community.
I don't know the answer, but I can tell you our little web site averages 3-4 million page views a month, with somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 unique visitors each month, all interested in the piano.
Looking forward to your involvement in our discussions.
My Keyboards: Estonia L-190, Roland RD88, Yamaha P-80, Bilhorn Telescope Organ c 1880, Antique Pump Organ, 1850 concertina, 3 other digital pianos ------------------------- My original piece on BandCamp: https://frankbaxtermrpianoworld.bandcamp.com/releases
Me banging out some tunes in the Estonia piano booth at the NAMM show...
