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If your daughter doesn't want to do grades I think you are right to go along with her. You probably haven't got much alternative if she is like many 12-year-olds. Maybe you need to think even more alternatively -- she wants to play this music (or this type of music) she doesn't necessarily want to g...

Royal Academy of Music not College -- my mistake, I went back and checked. I asked her about leaving the finger on the key and letting the rebound push it up and she said she'd never heard of it "takes all sorts", she said.

Maybe I will do both with my daughter.

All that info has enabled me to find the original book on the Web -- though not to buy it because it is only available second-hand at specialist shops. It is The Groundwork of the Leschetizky Method by Malwine Bree published in German in 1902 and then republished in 1971. I think that the Royal Coll...

"Did I get a book of the exercises?" No, I've just got a photocopied page. Is the name right -- if so, I can't find anything on the Web by the same person. So they are strengthening, flexibility exercises -- to do with improving independence of the fingers? The teacher said that they shoul...

My daughter's piano teacher has given her some finger exercises marked as by someone called Leszetiwsky ?? I must be misreading that slightly because a google search doesn't throw up anything relevant. I'm sure someone here knows who they are by And...........she tells me that the point of the exerc...

thank you very much to everyone who responded. I personally think that the exams as musical qualifications are part of our "better-than-you" culture and valued as cultural signs of child hood genius when playing parental one-up-manship, as several people have said. The need for a syllabus ...

Performance seems so much better to me -- it's what matters. Do you sound good to other people!! I praised a lovely piece played by a friend in church and she said to me "It's only around grade 3" She has Grade 8 piano and says of herself "I could only ever play my exam pieces". ...

I find myself baffled by the emphasis placed on grade exams in music. In other areas of children's lives certificates etc are offered. But these are really to encourage the child -- the important stuff is in the teacher's mind -- where has the child got to, what does it need to do next. There is som...

thank you for writing so much. I will pass this onto her piano teacher. She's a lovely person with Grade 8 piano and a degree in Music Therapy. Also she has a (different) full time job and a family. So she's busy and not thinking about piano teaching most of the time. My daughter doesn't need music ...

What would you recommend? I'm an ignoramus.
Sally

My piano did this and it was caused by a pencil lying on the strings. Twang. Just a thought
Sally

thank you I will look for it
Sally

My 14-year-old daughter is autistic but musical. She plays the piano around Grade 4. She loves exercises and enjoys the repetition and the sound. She has learned all her scales and associated arpeggios (major, harmonic and melodic minors). Could anyone recommend what she should do next? She plays re...

Many thanks to everyone who gave me advice about this piano. I freecycled it. It wasn't that easy because the collection cost meant (of course) that it wasn't free or anything like it. But in the end it went to a good home for other children to learn on which is what everyone who has owned it in the...

I have a Harper piano, straight strung, upright. It can only be tuned a semi-tone low, the pedals are pretty dodgy. On the other hand it has a pretty sound, it can be tuned and keeps its tune well, it has no sticking keys and no moths. My daughter learned to play on this piano which was given to us ...