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Lol I laughed when I saw Eric Clapton on ABRSM syllabus too!! My lesson was good thanks Dave :-) Teach was impressed with my progress which was lovely to hear! I have a couple of new pieces to learn now which are really cool. Dave, you do cooking, cleaning - you sound like a real Domestic God(dess)!!

Hi all :-) Dave that's so typical of cats!!! They always sit in the most inconvienient of places......its like they know!!! Dave your teacher would be so impressed if you could play all 9 pieces!! I haven't got the book as my teacher thinks I might be able to skip a few grades. I've only been learni...

Hey Dave and Moonlight :-) I've seen that My Family episode, its funny :lol: Wow Dave, are you making the chilli yourself? Sounds wonderful! I'm not a very good cook unfortunately. I finished university a year ago now, but I still live on the student diet of baked beans and pasta!! I'm on leave from...

Thats a great quote by Chopin! I often look down at the keyboard whilst playing.......... :roll: My piano teacher told me that Chopin had small hands, apparently that's why he was very strict about using the exact fingers he specifies when playing his music. Moonlight, have you got the strange symbo...

The Young Ones was brilliant!! I loved the episode where they went on University Challenge :lol: I also love how this thread has veered off! It's one of my favourite threads though!!! My clav is good thank you :-D I have a piano lesson tomorrow so I'm about to go practice on mine. I haven't really t...

Moonlight wrote:Hey Dave,

Thats a real bummer ( I haven't used that word since I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the 80s! ) Dave I bet you were really looking forward to your 1st lesson. Hopefully you won't need to wait too long.

Rofl, lets bring the word bummer back into mainstream use!!

Ooooh Dave do you reckon your neighbour would let you have a go on the piano? Dave and Moonlight, you both practise so much! I usually try and practice as soon as I get home from work in the evening, and I'll play for about an hour. After an hour I start to get a bit tired and have to stop. I tend t...

Dave, I thought the exact same thing as you when I saw the piece 'Early One Morning'!!! I was browsing through the book in the music shop, saw the title and thought 'no it can't be' and then laughed out loud in the middle of the shop!! It was the episode where he was auditioning to be a holiday redc...

My cousin was doing one of his saxophone grades and was so nervous that he didn't breathe properly whilst playing. He kept blowing but not breathing enough until eventually he was almost hyperventilating and then fainted! Luckily his accompanist rescued the sax and he was allowed to go outside and h...

Hi there Susan, Nerves are such a difficult thing to try and control, and it sounds like your Grade IV experience has knocked your confidence a bit. Try not to be so hard on yourself about your playing - I know that's easier said than done. I'm a perfectionist and will pick apart my performances, bu...

Thank you so much for the advice Gill and Vernon. I was just a bit nervous about telling the tuner how out of the condition the piano is - it feels going to the dentist when you haven't been for a long time and then getting told off!! Lol :-) I've contacted a tuner and he is coming next week so hope...

I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we could tell everyone what pieces we're currently learning, what pieces we've just perfected, or what we're struggling to play! At the moment I've just finished working through the book 'Its never too late to play piano' by Pam Wedgewood, and I'm no...

Hey guys :-) Dave, my fingers don't tend to slip off of the keys on my clavinova. However, even though I've had mine for a few weeks now, I'm still very protective of it and I always wash my hands before I play to keep the keys lovely and clean!!! I also moisturise a lot :-) Good luck with the teach...

My parents have your bog standard brown wooden upright piano which hasn't been used in a long time. They would like to get it tuned etc so that it can be used for the grandchildren. The piano hasn't been tuned in 10 years (!!) and in that time it has moved house. I've had a look at the piano and it ...

Mark has put it very well really - if you can afford the acoustic then why not! But if there is a reason for you having a digitial, whatever that may be, I'd suggest playing the 380 to see if there is much difference between that and your 170. What are your reasons for moving away from the 170? Also...

Hi there :-) Lucky you getting the CLP370, my budget only stretched to a 340! I agree with the size of the thing - the box was huge, and very heavy! It said it was a 2 person lift, so we were hoping that me and my boyfriend would manage. But I'm your typical weedy girl and couldn't lift the thing! W...

I have an acoustic piano that I usually practice on at home, but I spend about 3 nights a week at my boyfriend's house, so we decided to get me a piano to practice on at his place. He lives in a barn conversion on the 1st floor, and getting an acoustic in there would be a nightmare, not to mention t...

Thank you so much for all the wonderful replies, there are some great tips there.

Dave, thank you for the link, thats a really good site so I think I'll keep trying those games

Dave is right, this a lovely friendly community

Hello there :-) I've just started taking piano lessons and am having some problems with bass clef. I've been playing the clarinet for 13 years now and so I've only ever played music in treble clef. I've done theory exams etc and A-Level music so I know how bass clef works, but for some reason I can'...