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- by Gill the Piano
- 10 Jun 2004, 18:11
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Piano tuners - a history.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10210
- by Gill the Piano
- 08 Jun 2004, 17:13
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Piano tuners - a history.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10210
Piano tuners - a history.
I'm trying to find information on the history of the piano tuner in England for a PhD. Are there any tuners descended from generations of tuners out there who might have information, ledgers, notebooks, tools, or other ephemera they might be prepared to lend me? I'd guard it with my life and send it...
- by Gill the Piano
- 07 Jun 2004, 15:30
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Performance tip: When should my students bow?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7183
- by Gill the Piano
- 07 Jun 2004, 15:26
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Teaching little children the piano
- Replies: 18
- Views: 36446
If it's the reading of music which worries you, then you could try a colour-based method such as the Lisa Childs method. I personally don't see the point of teaching a child that middle C is a red blob, then teaching it the correct name later - why teach it twice? I started at 4 and was taught by a ...
- by Gill the Piano
- 07 Jun 2004, 15:14
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: replacing keyboard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14005
Are the ivory keys actually chipped, or bits missing? Why does the tuner suggest replacement? I have to say that new plastic keys on an old piano often look like a new set of gnashers in the face of a very old gentleman, and Barrie's right about the feel; ivory absorbs sweat - sorry, perspiration!- ...
- by Gill the Piano
- 20 Apr 2004, 17:21
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: forgot the name!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5879
- by Gill the Piano
- 04 Apr 2004, 22:13
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Learning Piano using Keyboard?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9887
Well, it's a bit like using a motorbike to learn to cycle in that a keyboard is a diffent beastie to a piano; the touch won't be right, even on a weighted keyboard. However, from the note range point of view, it'll be a long time before you use more than 49 notes. You have 4 octaves, and a learner c...
- by Gill the Piano
- 31 Mar 2004, 19:37
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: candle holders (sconces)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7132
- by Gill the Piano
- 16 Mar 2004, 20:23
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Revitalising felts
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7544
The first thing I usually check is that the action is in place correctly; in a place like a church, where pianos often get shunted around, the action can sometimes get dislodged, especially if it only has a brass hook either end of the action to hold it in position.(Overenthusiastic pedalling can so...
- by Gill the Piano
- 14 Mar 2004, 20:43
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: age of teaching
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10256
I don't know where you live, but around here all teachers have waiting lists. If you're still having lessons you could ask your teacher if she/he would supervise you if you took on a few beginners, perhaps from their waiting list. That way if you hit a problem you could ask for advice. I started a f...
- by Gill the Piano
- 14 Mar 2004, 20:36
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Piano excercises
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13184
My teacher made me do the Wieck studies by Clara Wieck (later Mrs Clara Schumann!) and these were the exercises devised by her father. They're melodious and interesting...more so than Hanon and Czerny, I thought, but then I never liked studies! :roll: I think they're published by Edition Peters. Hav...
- by Gill the Piano
- 14 Mar 2004, 20:26
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Which type is good?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5566
- by Gill the Piano
- 14 Mar 2004, 20:19
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: teacher recomendation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9106
Try asking at your local music shop, or try the Incorporated Society of Musicians, who probably have a website you can look on. They have a recommended scale of fees which is to the high end of what people usually pay, but you can be sure that the teachers are well-qualified. The UK Piano Page has a...
- by Gill the Piano
- 04 Mar 2004, 18:46
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Is White all right?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10455
Just a thought; a few of the white UPRIGHTS I tune have shown signs of yellowing, even in homes where nobody smokes. These pianos are all 1970's -80's ones, so whether that trait has been put right or not I'm not sure. I was talking to an ex-Steinway tuner today who told me that Steinway let a conce...
- by Gill the Piano
- 12 Feb 2004, 19:07
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Where can I learn/study piano tuning & repair?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 22995
There used to be a course at Newark on Trent when I first looked at colleges 24 years Ago (aaargh!) but I don't know if it's still going. Stevenson College in Scotland was another one, I think, in either Edinburgh (posh) or Glasgow (not so posh). It's all so long ago...! The Pianoforte Tuners Associ...
- by Gill the Piano
- 06 Feb 2004, 20:16
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: learn to play piano from scratch !!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11044
A lot of people like the Complete Piano Player series by Kenneth Baker; it uses familiar songs (Abba, Elvis, Beatles, etc), doesn't go too fast but neither does it assume you're an idiot. There's a useful keyboard indicator/chart stuck in the back which you fit at the back of your keyboard and helps...
- by Gill the Piano
- 15 Jan 2004, 22:14
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Which Exam borad should I choose?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20596
- by Gill the Piano
- 13 Jan 2004, 22:09
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: black v wood upright piano
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10253
If he wants to buy a black one, let 'im polish it; they show fingerprints and dust like nobody's business, and if you chip a high gloss polyester finish it has to be repaired professionally to be perfect. Depends how well-behaved your family are! Amongst my customers who have new pianos, the black p...
- by Gill the Piano
- 12 Jan 2004, 16:35
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Which Exam borad should I choose?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20596
All of the boards you listed are internationally recognised, but the ABRSM is probably the one which is most commonly used by teachers both here and abroad. Both Trinity and Guildhall are respected institutions in this country, but I'm not sure how they are viewed elsewhere. The grades of all three ...
- by Gill the Piano
- 10 Jan 2004, 17:51
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Learning after long hiatus!!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8065
Try your local music shop; they'll know most of the piano teachers locally and will probably be able to tell you who'd suit you. Alternatively, try the Incorporated Society of Musicians who'll be able to give you the name of a qualified and experienced teacher in your area. No idea how you find 'em;...
- by Gill the Piano
- 22 Dec 2003, 22:23
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Carl Schatzlien Upright Piano
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11271
- by Gill the Piano
- 21 Dec 2003, 18:24
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Learning by Listening
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19022
Here Newt, have a laugh on me; I played at an old dears' carol singsong today and took a stack of music with me. 'Any requests?' some fool asked. 'Silent Night', they wanted. Now you and I know how simple that is...but I couldn't find the music and was petrified! Yet I should have been able to do it...
- by Gill the Piano
- 15 Dec 2003, 21:23
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: some help needed for a newbie learner
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10894
- by Gill the Piano
- 14 Dec 2003, 00:31
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Learning by Listening
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19022
No, not academic self preservation - just fear :shock: or self conciousness, call it what you will: that's why I said it was like (NOT the same as!) playing from memory. The trouble with starting piano lessons at the age of 4 is that doing without music is a bit like getting rid of the stabilisers o...
- by Gill the Piano
- 29 Nov 2003, 19:35
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Learning by Listening
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19022
Teaching to play someone by ear is difficult; you need a natural ability to play without music - such as you yourself have. I have played the piano since I was 4, but the thought of playing from memory fills me with horror, let alone playing by ear - and I've got all sorts of musical qualifications!...
- by Gill the Piano
- 30 Oct 2003, 20:40
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Piano not holding tune
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8960
Sounds obvious, but when you buy a piano it's usually been sold because the former owner didn't want it. If they didn't want it, they wouldn't have played it and certainly wouldn't have spent money on getting it tuned, so when you bought it, that could have been its first tuning in a long long time....
- by Gill the Piano
- 28 Oct 2003, 19:54
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Teaching Piano In England
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9132
Basically, most piano teachers in this country use the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for examinations, but the Guildhall School of Music, Trinity College of Music and the London College of Music are also used extensively. There are eight grades in all these boards' systems, then the...
- by Gill the Piano
- 25 Oct 2003, 20:13
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: School teacher are amazing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8771
School pianos
What these teachers don't realise is what a false economy the plastic pianos are; five years down the line when something goes wrong with them and they try to have them repaired, the parts will be unavailable, and that particular model obsolete, rendering the "instrument" useless. Whereas ...
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