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I remember having the Muppet Show album on vinyl when I was a kid and we had an album of childrens stories I think too.

The first casette album I bought was the Simpsons Sing the Blues and the first CD album was Celine Dion. Hehehe

joseph wrote:yes, i'm just about to release my debut CD, and yes it has been a baptism of fire.

Hey Jospeh, that's really cool. Are you going to tell us when it's out and where we can get it from?

Hi Joyce,

I would recommend that you contact the shipper or the US government to find out what documentation they will accept to prove the age.

Cheers,
Kat

Hi... at last something on the history thread that I can help with! This quote is from the CBP.gov website: "You may import an object made of ivory if it is an antique. To be an antique the ivory must be at least 100 years old. You will need documentation that authenticates the age of the ivory...

Hi Martin! I'm 30, so not too much older than you and I started to learn just three short weeks ago. I'd wanted to learn since High School so I got an early (VERY early) Christmas present from my husband a few weeks ago - A Yahama personal piano (fondly referred to as 'stinky digital', but loved non...

I have MANY favourite movies, and even more favourite scenes but here are five movies I could watch to death and back again... in no particular order: Die Hard Back to the Future American Beauty Sense and Sensibility (with Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson) Dirty Dancing Don't worry, my tastes do range...

Claim to fame warning::::::: I met Ed Stewart in 1976, I was in hospital and he was visiting the children there to either cheer them up, or drive them over the edge :lol: he was lovely. He asked me if I would like a signed record and I asked for 10cc "Good Morning Judge", so he gave me Je...

Good advice there, Nutroast! It is your time and money and if you don't click with your tutor they probably find the relationship just a tough from their side too.

You'll find someone that's perfect eventually, Moonlight!

I found my piano tutor right here on UK Piano! :D She charges £9 for a half hour, or £15 for an hour (I think that was it anyway... I find half an hour is enough!) and I really like her! I can't remember her qualifications off the top of my head, but I find her very patient and s...

Lordy, I wish I could home a real piano, upright or otherwise! But unless I tear my newly decorated house apart I would have to play in the hall but then I wouldn't be able to get out of the door and the tuner wouldn't be able to get in. Not ideal. :? Stinky digital will have to do for the time bein...

Personally, I don't think that the pool cleaner is going to last. Louise is dead right about the cruise ship singer comparison! No, I don't think he's going to make it either. He's a bit... I dunno.... lounge singer. I can't see Girl Band making it too much further either. I like Eoghan... he's swe...

Gill the Piano wrote:My excuse is that weight-lifting strengthens the fingers...

LOL! Nicely done, Gill!

I can't get by without my weekly fix of X-Factor.

I was sorry to see Bad Lashes go but I felt there wasn't much between them and Girl Band. I probably would've given the other group the heave-ho!

Who's your favourite so far? I'd have a hard time choosing!

what year were you at the RSAMD Kat? I was there from 1998-2003, then i went back in 05-06. Sorry to hear about your brother - I always feel really sad when I hear things like that! I was there in 1997 to 1998 - the year the drama and opera school did Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dr...

And they say it's grim up north?

Does the Bridgewater Hall have an organ like there is in Symphony Hall/the Town Hall in Birmingham, Kat? Blimey, has it ever - the organ is probably not far off the size of the IMAX screen! Sadly, I haven't heard it... yet! Shame about the 37 quid train ticket. There are advantages to being 'maroon...

Forsyth's is great and always seems busy when I've passed by. It looks like such a small old fashioned shop from the outside but it's massive inside. When you're up this way, Dave, you'll have to check out the Bridgewater Hall programme and see if the Halle or the BBC Phil are playing. I took my Mum...

Very odd, Dave. Maybe there is a tear in the space-time continuum around Manchester or Brum-land? :P If the mrs can count in time but not clap or tap in time, that seems to indicate an issue of co-ordination rather than no sense of rhythm. I would say it's probably just a case of lots of rhythm prac...

I can comfortably manage an octave but only one or two notes beyond that really hurts my hands. I have the added disadvantage that I have a tremor so because I haven't been playing long my fingers sometimes do strange things I don't tell them to do, or don't do things I do tell them to do! LOL!

Hey Joseph, I went to the RSAMD... stage management though, not music and I had to leave after the first year when my brother died very suddenly. Still nice to 'bump into' someone else familiar with the school. :o) Dave, on the subject of Mrs Brum's rhythm... have you tried getting her to find a nat...

My brother was born with hydrocephalus and spina bifida so was both physically and mentally handicapped. He was able to play anything by ear after hearing it once or twice. Mum was telling me the other day that when he was a toddler she used to sit with him on her knee at the piano and basically he'...

So, Dave, you have two cats called Sophie and Sarah? Who's Fiona?

That's a shame, Mark. I was an IT trainer in my last job and consider, when someone isn't very good at something, that it's simply an area for improvement, not something they 'just can't do'. Sure, some people will find certain skills easier to pick up than others, but that's no excuse for a tutor (...

Good advice as always! I figured it was a case of get the basics first then trying 'playing' as well as playing.

Thanks again chaps... I fear it shall be many a year before a BBC talent scout is likely to sniff anywhere near me... either that or there will be some sort of disaster in which all the musically talented people in the world are somehow lost! :wink: Thanks for the advice on playing lots of different...

Hi all... Good tip about the sight reading book by Paul Harris... I am going to look that one out too. After all, who doesn't want to improve their sight reading? :wink: Do people really think sight reading can't be taught/learned? Isn't that rather like saying you can't learn or teach the reading o...

Hi Moonlight (and all!) My tutor introduced me to Bach's Prelude (mentioned above) in my first lesson because the shape of the music is quite repetetive so you only need to be able to read a few notes and recognise the repitition. She also suggested Chopin as a good classical composer for beginners ...

Why, Euphemia sounds like a little angel, Mr Fleetwood!!! :P I probably should've mentioned that I'm 30 and my Mum's tone deaf and my Dad's just impressed that I can read music on the basis that he can plonk by ear but music might as well be dutch for him - hehe! Anyway thanks for the advice - I can...

Hi all, I've been following the forum for a while and found it very useful so I'll take the opportunity, before anything else, to thank you all for the great info and advice... I even found my piano tutor on here. :D But, finally, it seems I have a question that hasn't already been answered - or at ...