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Now I can't get the Carol of the Birds out of my head!

These are brilliant, Gizzy

Something to cheer me up if I get a little bit 'Grumpy'

Thanks, Bill

Fiona

Bill

Do you have any dates for actions made by Gamble, London?

Thanks

Fiona

Ooooh - that sounds like fun, Gizzy :D Takes me back to my secondary school days when the music department put on an opera every year - all female cast, costumes and sets made in-house, directed from two pianos by our Head of Music and her husband who was the school piano teacher. We all had great f...

Not heard the song (at least that I'm aware of) but I know what you mean about when he was younger

Give me Tom Jones any day - so much better looking since he ditched the hair dye.

How do you mean? In 30 years of tuning I have been asked ONCE to use an alternative temperament. To my mind that doesn't warrant spending a large chunk of tuning tuition on esoteric temperaments on the offchance that 28 years hence someone will want it! :lol: To learn about them and know the interv...

No, we are taught that JSB wrote the 48 to prove that ET worked, as the common view at the time was that it couldn't possibly work in every key. We were taught that other temperaments existed, but that they were so rarely used as to be pointless to learn and practise. We had to learn the principles...

I'm not quite sure why you call it practice. You are Playing, which is what you want to do. I would have said practice was a preparation for something - a lesson, and exam, a performance. If you're doing it for nobody but yourself, you don't relly need a strategy as such - just enjoy! At the other ...

Sshhhhhh..........we have glorious sunshine.........

gizzy wrote:It's absolutely PERSISTING down here in Cambridge. I've just sent a poor little boy out in it to cycle home while I sit here in my slippers to feel warm. Wallowing in guilt

Gizzy in a very wet Cherry Hinton

I know a piano tuner in Cherry Hinton

A Google search for Easy To Play Hymns brings up this http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/03131/details.html Looks like it has loads of traditional ones.

There are loads of other suitable books out there too - just look at the 'You May Also Like' tab.

HTH

Fiona

She'll only say I'm c**p anyway, she's the most unsupportive person any piano learner can have for a wife...however I'd rather make up my own mind as to whether I am or whether I am not c**p (but just so it happens she's right anyway). I'd be changing 'the wife' rather than the piano teacher :lol:

Okay Gill. Wednesday. Paul Harris first melodic exercise in stage 2, okay. Despair dirges, one correct, one rhythms okay but some wrong notes. Of course I didn't enjoy them (never do) but still did 'em nonetheless. My old psychotherapist told me to look for joy in bad situations. There! Is that pos...

Dave

Try this website for loads of easy arrangements of popular piano pieces.http://www.8notes.com/piano_sheet_music.asp.

I'm pretty sure that most of the ones marked 'Easy' and 'Mid' you will manage to SR quite easily.

Fiona

Wine is good

An A in Higher Maths????? Is she a yuman?? :D Hmmm.....there are days when I'm not sure at all :lol: She certainly doesn't take after her mother - I achieved a 'B', much to my late father's amazement. He was an engineer by profession and good at all things maths related. Hee maintained that I had a...

is Feg still here?? How are you doing Fiona chops? Oh, I'm still here Dave :D I'm still tuning pianos, teaching descant recorder and trying to keep up with this forum :roll: glad you're okay Fiona (I've not been the same but I won't go into all that in public) . Had an evening trying to plough thro...

dave brum wrote:is Feg still here?? How are you doing Fiona chops?

Oh, I'm still here Dave

I'm still tuning pianos, teaching descant recorder and trying to keep up with this forum

Well done, little Nut Cutlet

A good teacher, plus loads of parental encouragement of course, is always the answer.

Why not just change it to 'The Lounge'? Would be like changing Windscale to Sellafield......if there's no interest there, we should just have the learning and teaching section. Just because there aren't many posters in the Piano Lounge of late is no reason to delete it. We don't know what the futur...

Hi Feg, I usually start at the beginning, but some children get bored quickly with it, they'd rather learn a nice little tune first and then the notation later on. We didn't do much playing yesterday, I got them all to be crotchet soldiers and quickedy quavers :mrgreen: I teach them B, A and G - pl...

Do you miss out a lot of the earlier tunes? If I had to teach them all it would drive me insane!

Joe, joe is one of my least favourite ones.

'Tadpoles', Page 34, Recorder from the Beginning Book 1 by John Pitts! gues who is just back from a hour of recorder tutoring

Colin Nicholson wrote:Might be of interest to some......

PTA's convention in May 2012, covers a lecture on "Early Temperament Tunings"

http://www.pianotuner.org.uk/pta6.htm

dont know if you have to be PTA though? .... but worth a try.

You don't have to be PTA but you do have to be in the trade.

Dave Caroline was 18 in December but three years ago she took ill and now has CFS. She was formally diagnosed in June and was weighed at the hospital. We knew that a combination of extreme fatigue and comfort eating had put on some weight but she wasn't aware of quite how much. She decided that the ...

Dave My daughter lost a total of 3st in weight between 18th July and the beginning of November by good old-fashioned calorie counting :D There are a couple of free to join websites which not only allow you to record your daily food intake, but do all the calorie counting for you. She downloaded an '...

I seem to have taken on the role of Co-ordinator for the local primary school's PTA Recorder Club. I've been the recorder tutor for about 15 years and there is a PTA bod who organises class lists, fees, deals with parents and the school. The PTA bod changes every couple of years with varying degrees...

I lasted a whole 20 minutes on Twitter then deactivated my account - I do not see the attraction :? I 'may' have the afternoon to myself - my youngest has taken herself off to college on her motorbike now that the weather is more two-wheel friendly. My eldest is about to take himself off on his moto...

Colin Nicholson wrote: I could even bore you all to tears with all the physics behind ET and non ET tuning....

but then again.... maybe NOT!

The Mathematics of it all is loads of fun too........

We used a bright red book called 'The School Recorder Book 1'. It was meant to be used in conjunction with in-school teaching rather than as a teach yourself book. Anyone who got to the green book 2 was considered a swot. I didn't. I've got a copy of the red book, somewhat faded now I'm afraid, and...

I use the John Pitts books as a starting point but don't find them very inspiring. I have devised my own way of teaching and only use some of the pieces in BK1 and not in the order they are written. I much prefer to write my own exercises tailored to the class I'm teaching that year. If you follow t...

Does opening up the head joint make any difference to the pitch? You should be able to lower the pitch by a fair amount that way and you always have a small amount of extra in the bottom joint as well. If you want a temporary recorder to tide you over until Christmas, give me a shout and I'll post o...

Sorry to hear about your Uncle Ronnie

Nobody anywhere can guess the condition or value of a piano without tuning it. In my opinion it is bad advice to say "you need a tuner" when the owner could just upload some photos and we can give a rough assessment based on its age, physical condition and whether it is straightstrung, ov...

dave brum wrote:I'm 41

You are but a child, Dave

I am envious of your youth

Feg. What's wrong about asking Veron(sic)? We know Auld Reekie rules and that the Weegies are" the people" but the Capital of the Highlands is far it is at> At present I am training a pupil in piano tuning, one to one, as I have done to many in the past. ( For the benefit of our non-scotc...

I don't think any piano tuning college will do quick crash courses in tuning - and don't know any in Scotland - ask Vernon. Why ask Veron? I'm a Scottish piano tuner too :D and I've already replied to that question! The only piano tuning/repair course in Scotland closed in June 2000 - I was one of ...

A basic tuning of unisons & good lever technique is possibly all that is needed really for top notch pianists. .........so its also knowing which string to tune. I would forget about repairs.... if you are playing on a good piano, it won't need any, unless you break a hammer! I'm all for pianis...

The only piano tuning/repair course in Scotland closed in June 2000 - I was one of the last students to get my qualification there. As far as I'm aware, the only training facility left in the UK is at Newark College. It takes far more than a short course to gain any practical knowledge of tuning and...

I tune a 1700s one with bells and a drum. But I'm not allowed to use the drum pedal because it makes the dog go loopy. Haha, that's brilliant. I didn't imagine for a second that something like that already existed! :) You need to brush up on your early keyboard history :lol: Get thee to the library!

The only way to get an accurate assessment of your piano and its value (if any) is to contact your local piano tuner and get his/her expert opinion. There is a list of suitably qualified piano tuners by area on this site (links at the left of this page) or via the Pianoforte Tuners' Association webs...

Well done

Johnkie wrote:What next carbon fiber fiddles, cellos, guitars ?

Already here, and have been for some time!

I shall never try and go beyond my Ken again (also, with all of Anne's best intentions she may have been pushing me too far). Missed talking to Gill too :shock: Dave, I think that you got so focussed on sitting and passing piano exams that you lost sight of why you wanted to learn in the first plac...

The issue being that activity in the Piano Lounge has over the past six months or so died away to almost non-existent in terms of learners and teachers using the page. With this in mind, this page is transforming into a sole resource for piano tuners historians and technicians only, squeezing the t...

I'm sorry folks, but I'm struggling to understand what is going on? I don't see that the forum or it's categories have changed recently and I'm on here a good few times a day. The UK Piano Page was set up and is run by the ABPT not only for the benefit of its members but for the wider piano owning, ...

I don't think it is at all cheeky to about any piano's tuning history/piano tuner etc. If you were buying a car, you would want to see the service history etc. If the seller of a car couldn't/wouldn't provide a service history, you would walk away from the deal. Why shouldn't the same principle appl...

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