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Earlier this week the Beeb showed two programmes on Afred Brendel, the first about his life and the second from a recital. He seems an aimiable enough bloke, quite modest with no great ambitions of fame. When he played I was surprised at the sheer bulk of his hands, more like bricklayers', and his f...

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Could be a clue there, do you think?

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Unfortunately the OP looks too much like a puff for his own stuff being touted on ebay. I may be wrong, I also may have been around for too long!

Rgds.

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Openwood wrote:*note the use of the term piano-ambition. My greatest life ambition involves Jennifer Lopez and a catering pack of ice cream.

Ah, but that will change as Miss L er, fades, shall we say. Your piano ambition will remain constant.

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Yes, yes, yes, but any news on the Challen?

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Hi, To keep the costs down in the low thousands, it will probably need to be delivered to a shipper, crated then shipped to a destination city, then delivered to the final destination. Or hire a van, get a piano mover to load it in the van, pay me to drive the van to Italy, then get a local firm to ...

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That's better. One of us should contact the seller - there's no feedback for the Challen so I don't know if the sale has been finalised.

I don't mind doing it but I shan't be able to do so until Friday evening. I'm intrigued now.

Rgds.

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Hi,

I don't think that the beer/tea/vomit/body fluid stains on the soundboard auger well.

Rgds.

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Hi,

I'm a little confused. Assuming that you want this piano, why didn't you offer to take it off the school's or the remover's hands? And if it has been on ebay recently why don't you contact the seller/buyer?

Rgds.

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Hi,

Well, there's 'Jazz Improvisation for the Classical Pianist' by Martan Mann (often listed as Martin Mann) which seems right up your street. Although I don't have this tome, his blues book - which I do have - is excellent. If only I could play it all.

Rgds.

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A K121 for three grand? Now that's discounting!

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Hi, A CD Steinway is a Model D Steinway that was retained by Steinway's Concert Division for use by signed-up artists and others. As far as I can glean the CD's were selected for their better qualities and obviously maintained to a high standard, including a technician to chaperone them when they we...

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Hi, There are plenty of resources on the internet which can be Googled, for instance http://www.petethomas.co.uk/jazz-chord-progressions.html (the vast majority in rather technical English). I think it would be better to use a jazz study book in your native language, have you tried to find one? Writ...

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Hi, 'I have an Aucher Freres Piano, it was sent down from my Grandad and i have absolutely no idea what its worth.' From Mr Scuggs on Feb 4th this year. I wish I had such a far-sighted grandad who was keen on passing his treasure to me. I wonder if there are any more in the old boy's attic? Anyway, ...

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Hi, A brief dip into Kevin Bazzana's GG biography reveals that early in 1955 Gould adopted an 'almost ideal' Model D Steinway CD174, built in 1928: this was used for the 1955 Goldberg Variations. In 1957 CD174 was dropped and had to be completely rebuilt, and like most rebuilds was never the same ag...

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Just a minute - you didn't think you could get away so easily, did you? The above is simply copied from an alien website. It's a good story, not that I quite understand it, but there is another rather more logical explanation which I find more appealing. Although there are many minor scales the thre...

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Hi, This is an interesting question (well, to some strange people..) A quick dash at Google gets this from a guitar site - I don't know how much truth there is in it but it will do for a start. I'm sure I have some info tucked away in a dusty tome somewhere.. 'The Melodic Minor - The WHY?!: Well by ...

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Hi, If you still have confidence in the restorer, or are willing to take a chance on another UK techie, why not ty to come to some agreement about a few days in Malta? Can one get an out-of-season weekend or midweek package for a reasonable price? Perhaps someone on this forum will jump at it! I wou...

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Kemaha? Yamble? I should think that the music students (surely 'school kids' are not going to be allowed to reduce these fine examples to matchwood) would be extremely fortunate to play either. Remember that it's the school's piano, not yours, so that the ability to take a daily pounding might be mo...

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Hi, There's nothing magical about 120 cm. that doesn't apply to 119, or 121, or any piano height between say, 100 and 150. It's just that piano manufacturers seem to have model ranges with around 120 cm as a break point. All things being equal a longer string will sound better than the shorter strin...

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Hi, It depends what you mean by locks. On my upright if the key is pressed without bringing it back to the full rest position then it travels back to the fully depressed position. There's no sound, and all touch has gone out of the window, but it doesn't lock. Do you mean that your key jams in the h...

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Hi, I suppose we all have our favourites. Without reflecting badly on those listed above (I am not familiar with them all) I can highly recommend Martan Mann's Improvising Blues Piano, which has Gospel, Tritone, Boogie Woogie, Stride, Funk, Rock, Jazz, and Minor blues styles explained - aimed at the...

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Hi, Once every umpteen years the council gets something just perfectly right, and ours did when they bought a Hamburg B for the new library around five years ago. I'm still bemused when I think of how that one managed to slip past the committee. A few months ago two Steinway specialists came for two...

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Hi, Martan Mann's Improvising Blues Piano is my bible (under a tenner at Amazon, listed under Martin Mann). It assumes a certain level of skill but is excellent and covers many styles including jazz. There are websites that list the chord symbols and how they are made up (sorry, constructed), try ht...

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Hi, Yes, you can play a song very well with just the melody line and the chord symbols. All the jazz pianists do it. They also have spent many years practising their scales and theory, so it isn't a get-good-quick scheme. In essence every chord is represented by a symbol, such as F-9 for F minor 9th...

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I'm sure she would sooner succeed by merit than forum spamming.

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Hmm, cheaper than I thought. Going off at a slight tangent, whilst Googling for the Imperial I came across one which had been modified (pedal reach, I suppose) for the rather diminutive boy who played in the final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition about 18 months ago. You know, the o...

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Yes, the dealers (not that they would describe themselves as such) are remarkably reticent on this matter. Not so in the USA, where the list prices are given as: Model (290) Imperial Grand PRICE LIST: 290 9'6" EBONY HIGH GLOSS $179,550 290 9'6" White, WalNUT, ChERRY, MahOGANY,PomELE, BubIN...

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Yes, I rather like the idea of a piano with bumpers!

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Hi, It looks (from Forsyth's website) that the Academie or Studio range are suitable for 'institutional' use. I can't see any prices but it looks as if the Studio is the less expensive. I've no idea if 3000 pounds will cover one though. I can't say that the word 'attractive' applies, though. Well, t...

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If you're in a hurry you can download them legally from http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/single ... poser_id=7. It's Part 1, 2 and 3 you want.

On the other hand the book is quite cheap from Amazon, and saves all that printing and collating.

Rgds.

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Hi, Thanks for the reply Barrie. I'm sure you're right about the fonts, I guessed at Verdana and TNR (I think that fonts look better when they are common over a page, forum and quoted text, and I'm no fan of Courier!). I have loaded the css file now, but the forums still disply the same. Not a trace...

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Hi, A background of #FFFF99 does indeed show as a rather bright custardy yellow on my PC, but not on the ukpiano forums. I don't seem to have loaded the ukpiano.css file, so that's possibly where the problem is. Also the text of the posts is the horrible Times New Roman, instead of the lovely Verdan...

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Openwood wrote: How are you supposed to play anything with more than a few pages? GRRR

I dunno, I never managed to get past the first few pages....

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Hi, Ah, chords... All the information you could possibly want can be Googled quickly. Alternatively buy a piano primer based on the style of playing you are pursuing (jazz, etc) and a scale book. The basic major triad for any chord is the first, third and fifth of its Ionian scale. So C# will be C#,...

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Hi, Well maybe, but I don't think that Shelly is at either the Holland or Wakeman stage yet. If you can't get a 'real' piano in your room then go for a good digital. Despite what many say, playing a digital keyboard will ruin neither your ear nor your touch. Many 'classical' players use digital pian...

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Hi,

Well, it is a long time ago. According to the Piano Magazine website Misty appeared in issue 20, not 5. Both issues are available on back order.

Rgds.

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Hi, No, but it's an easy enough task to translate them, a little mechanical and laborious, but not brain damaging. You can create a template with the lines of the stave and the corresponding 'letters' on each line/space. Just watch the sharps and flats, depending whether you're in the key of C or D ...

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btw, what's renner? - Using some anti-damp things inside the piano - Worth using a keyboard cover - if we replace our carpet with laminate, would that be a no-no for a piano room - location of a piano (near window, sun, radiator, warm/cold room) - worry abt getting a piano in - if tilted on it's si...

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Hi, Advice is always difficult to give, but here goes. Have you thought about the Yamaha P121? UK build, European sound, large enough to produce a strong response, excellent build quality and durability, and good resale value should you wish to upgrade in a few years. It's also a gift at the discoun...

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Hi, There's nothing on Google about asbestos and Hydroceel, so you're probably safe. However I did come across hydrocele, under male genital pathology. Yeeeeuk! The manufacturers (of Hydroceel, that is) should have chosen a less easily confused name. Rgds. PS More info at http://mmd.foxtail.com/Arch...

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Hi, Probably some better jazzer than me will give a better answer, but here goes... I assume you are talking about a resolution to a root or other chord, using a chord sequence. The 251 resoloution is quite simple (too simple!) and is achieved in any key by playing: a minor seventh one tone above th...

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Hi,

A quick search on Google reveals that chiropody felt is, indeed, a soft felt used in chiropody. I assume that the thicker felt sheets also have their uses in pianos.

I think I'd sooner be a piano tuner than a chiropodist. All those ugly feet!

Rgs.

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Hi, I can't add anything abaout the piano, but I was employed by Russells in Granby Street, Leicester as a callow youth for about a year in what must have been 1957-ish. It was my first job and I was supposed to be trained as a piano repairer and eventual tuner, but nothing came of it. I was paid Ł2...

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Hi, If the two staves are joined together with vertical barlines, then play the upper stave with your right hand and the lower with your left. Play the notes in the lower stave as indicated by the treble clef, i.e. on the trebly bit of the piano. It's a fairly common practice and there should be som...

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Hi,

I don't think it's necessary to post that you've seen the video. I would have liked to see it, I am interested in anyone's efforts, but it's just too large for poor old dial-up users.

Keep up the good work, Rgds.

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Hi, Step gently into this minefield. If the tiny quavers have a line through them, as if they are being cancelled, they are acciaccatura, from the Italian "to crush". They are ornaments, and have no inherent time value, in other words they do not add any time to the written music. How they...

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Hi,

Or try your library. Most will have a selection of these old war-horses. Of course copying such borrowed material is verboten.

Rgds.

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...and you're a talking piano called Gill...?

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Hi, It's interesting that in the early 80's Glenn Gould finally forsook his beloved American Steinway CD and, after trying German Steinways and other prestigious makes, chose a CF Yamaha for the remainder of his performing career . He said the action was the best in the world, and liked the intimacy...

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