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- by Gill the Piano
- 22 Jan 2017, 14:37
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What's Made You Happy Today???
- Replies: 796
- Views: 674916
Re: What's Made You Happy Today???
Long Christmas! Like the Queen who stretches it out to Candlemas.
- by Gill the Piano
- 22 Jan 2017, 14:35
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
I got them worried at Dibley today; turned up at a service where I wasn't playing! I think they thought there might be a knife fight...but I was there to meet a gride and broom to see what music they wanted.
- by Gill the Piano
- 21 Jan 2017, 14:38
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Problem Page, Dear Marge Poops......
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20142
Re: Problem Page, Dear Marge Poops......
Part of you must enjoy it. I think you enjoy the intellectual challenge. And you enjoy moaning about it...
- by Gill the Piano
- 21 Jan 2017, 14:37
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
You mean the AB forum?
- by Gill the Piano
- 21 Jan 2017, 14:35
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What tune have we had on our minds today??
- Replies: 413
- Views: 404852
Re: What tune have we had on our minds today??
Had 'Skyfall' as my earworm since Wednesday when I played it for the choir. Fed up with it now.
- by Gill the Piano
- 20 Jan 2017, 19:52
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Problem Page, Dear Marge Poops......
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20142
Re: Problem Page, Dear Marge Poops......
It's a compulsion then. Just go with it and don 't get would up. If you have a bad practice session, go and do something else.
- by Gill the Piano
- 19 Jan 2017, 18:27
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
- by Gill the Piano
- 19 Jan 2017, 18:26
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Problem Page, Dear Marge Poops......
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20142
Re: Problem Page, Dear Marge Poops......
Shut up whingeing ; play when you feel like it, don't if you don't! You're doing it for fun, so if you feel anxious or that you're not enjoying it, go and do something else to break the cycle that leads to disliking it.
- by Gill the Piano
- 18 Jan 2017, 15:57
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
- Replies: 96
- Views: 111315
Re: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
Your mum must have been more au fait with artists than I was - I never knew Bill Withers was black until a few years ago. Not that I cared either; I like his music but 'Lovely Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay' has me reaching for my inhaler!
- by Gill the Piano
- 14 Jan 2017, 20:27
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: George Rogers Baby Grand Piano
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6643
Re: George Rogers Baby Grand Piano
As it says at the top of the page, it's impossible to evaluate a piano without seeing it. Rogers were a good make and baby grands sell more easily than the bigger ones. Get a tuner/tech in to sort the sticking notes and to tune it, and s/he will be able to give you a fair idea of value for the area ...
- by Gill the Piano
- 12 Jan 2017, 18:00
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What tune have we had on our minds today??
- Replies: 413
- Views: 404852
Re: What tune have we had on our minds today??
Noddy Holder seems to have done all right for himself though - despite spelling issues.
- by Gill the Piano
- 12 Jan 2017, 17:58
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Get a little fan heater or ceramic halogen one. Warms a room quickly.
- by Gill the Piano
- 12 Jan 2017, 17:56
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Adult piano
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14781
Re: Adult piano
Have you looked at The Complete Piano Player by Kenneth Baker? I always recommend it for adults, particularly those teaching themselves, as it uses songs and tunes they know and can therefore self-correct.
- by Gill the Piano
- 11 Jan 2017, 16:52
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What's Made You Happy Today???
- Replies: 796
- Views: 674916
Re: What's Made You Happy Today???
Perhaps they read this thread... What's the new skill?
- by Gill the Piano
- 11 Jan 2017, 16:51
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What tune have we had on our minds today??
- Replies: 413
- Views: 404852
Re: What tune have we had on our minds today??
Slade 'How Do You Feel' on continuous loop in the brain today.
- by Gill the Piano
- 11 Jan 2017, 16:50
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Good; just stay within your comfort zone until you feel like pushing a boundary then!
- by Gill the Piano
- 11 Jan 2017, 16:47
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Ajello piano
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11818
Re: Ajello piano
They made (or at least had their names !) on player pianos too.
- by Gill the Piano
- 09 Jan 2017, 16:39
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What's Made You Happy Today???
- Replies: 796
- Views: 674916
Re: What's Made You Happy Today???
I reckon any newspaper you buy at the moment could make you ten stone lighter by the end of next week...
- by Gill the Piano
- 09 Jan 2017, 16:37
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Prefer Where Do You Go To. I had forgotten his Jason King moustache!
- by Gill the Piano
- 09 Jan 2017, 16:33
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Modern vs Older makes of upright - recommendations?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9733
Re: Modern vs Older makes of upright - recommendations?
I rate the newer Zimmermann uprights - worth having a look. Taken over by Bechstein in 1992. I've never tuned a bad one - but some of the dealers here will probably know more than I do. Don't bother with the Cold War ones - just the post Bechstein takeover models.
- by Gill the Piano
- 06 Jan 2017, 20:10
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
- Replies: 96
- Views: 111315
Re: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
My friend's husband is abig cheese in KPM...should I have a word?
- by Gill the Piano
- 06 Jan 2017, 20:07
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
I think civilisation pinnacled in the late 1950s and we have been on the downward slope ever since.
- by Gill the Piano
- 05 Jan 2017, 17:04
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Like that Irish version of the Twelve Days of Christmas that Wogan used to play; fabulous!
- by Gill the Piano
- 04 Jan 2017, 16:28
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Boo! Don't forget us weirdos who hate the summer and look forward to short days!
- by Gill the Piano
- 03 Jan 2017, 21:41
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What's Made You Happy Today???
- Replies: 796
- Views: 674916
Re: What's Made You Happy Today???
Excellent; mental sight reading.
- by Gill the Piano
- 03 Jan 2017, 18:37
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What are we listening to right now?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23764
Re: What are we listening to right now?
There are some bands who would be enormously improved by being heard through a haze of hallucinogenics.
UK PIANO PAGE DISCLAIMER: Speaking entirely hypothetically here, of course.
UK PIANO PAGE DISCLAIMER: Speaking entirely hypothetically here, of course.
- by Gill the Piano
- 03 Jan 2017, 18:33
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What's Made You Happy Today???
- Replies: 796
- Views: 674916
Re: What's Made You Happy Today???
I bet you're a wow at dinner parties, dahling...
- by Gill the Piano
- 02 Jan 2017, 15:09
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
No, keep it. You've come back to it once - or maybe even twice - so save yourself some money later on!
- by Gill the Piano
- 02 Jan 2017, 15:08
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What's Made You Happy Today???
- Replies: 796
- Views: 674916
Re: What's Made You Happy Today???
Oily? Where's that then? Sorry I missed your birthday - hope it was a good one!
- by Gill the Piano
- 02 Jan 2017, 15:07
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What are we listening to right now?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23764
Re: What are we listening to right now?
I quite like it...not sure I'd want to listen to a whole album though; how did you come across them? I'm listening to blessed silence after having tuned my new piano (which I always resent). It had gone SO SHARP in the middle, and I had been using it to tune my guitar. Surprised my guitar didn't exp...
- by Gill the Piano
- 01 Jan 2017, 15:55
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Et tu, Brute! (Et Mrs Brutus)
- by Gill the Piano
- 30 Dec 2016, 18:09
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
- Replies: 96
- Views: 111315
Re: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
I loved Stewpot. Laughing Policeman and Sparky's Magic Piano...
- by Gill the Piano
- 30 Dec 2016, 18:07
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What are we listening to right now?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23764
Re: What are we listening to right now?
Ever listened to Scenes From The Saga Of King Olaf by Elgar (whose dad was a piano tuner)? Some beautiful choruses in it.
- by Gill the Piano
- 29 Dec 2016, 16:42
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What tune have we had on our minds today??
- Replies: 413
- Views: 404852
Re: What tune have we had on our minds today??
'The Angel Gabriel' is buzzing through my brain (such as it is) today.
- by Gill the Piano
- 29 Dec 2016, 16:41
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Unable to spell, full stop. Thanks to spellcheck and txtspk. And their RIGHTS not to do homework.
- by Gill the Piano
- 29 Dec 2016, 16:39
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: progress
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23762
Re: progress
Read 'The Soprano Who Stood On Her Head' and 'The Inner Game of Music', both excellent books on performance anxiety and musicians.
- by Gill the Piano
- 28 Dec 2016, 17:08
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
- Replies: 96
- Views: 111315
Re: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
Perhaps the presenters are on charge somewhere until the new year?
Poor GM: the vultures are picking the carcass despite him being such a good person.
Poor GM: the vultures are picking the carcass despite him being such a good person.
- by Gill the Piano
- 23 Dec 2016, 20:14
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Our cooker is going dolally; I reckon that will be our next expenditure. Good job I can't cook...
- by Gill the Piano
- 22 Dec 2016, 16:51
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
And yours; I thought I was quite heroic to still have your address!
- by Gill the Piano
- 22 Dec 2016, 16:50
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Dave's Curio Corner
- Replies: 32
- Views: 43926
Re: Dave's Curio Corner
Yes, I love Gilbert - such good tunes and intelligent witty lyrics.
- by Gill the Piano
- 21 Dec 2016, 20:00
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
- Replies: 96
- Views: 111315
Re: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
Oh Lori always makes me think of summertime, not winter. It's in the lyrics. But as you say, the computer doesn't care what season it is.
- by Gill the Piano
- 21 Dec 2016, 19:58
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What tune have we had on our minds today??
- Replies: 413
- Views: 404852
Re: What tune have we had on our minds today??
I've been doing my accounts all day; can only think of Abba Money Money Money, or If I Were A Rich Man...
- by Gill the Piano
- 20 Dec 2016, 18:28
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
- Replies: 96
- Views: 111315
Re: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
Heard 'Wonderful Christmas Time' today - my fave! Everyone else seems to hate it...
- by Gill the Piano
- 17 Dec 2016, 18:16
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Peculiar Bechstein dampers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6435
Re: Peculiar Bechstein dampers
I always assumed they were for fly dampers...news to me that they weren't!
- by Gill the Piano
- 16 Dec 2016, 21:48
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
- Replies: 96
- Views: 111315
Re: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
Definitely...I hate finding that I'm suddenly marching down the freezer aisle in step with whatever's being piped through the system - like being controlled remotely!
- by Gill the Piano
- 16 Dec 2016, 21:47
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
That took me back!
- by Gill the Piano
- 15 Dec 2016, 17:03
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
- Replies: 96
- Views: 111315
Re: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
Hadn't realised they played unsigned artists. Were any of them any good?
- by Gill the Piano
- 15 Dec 2016, 17:01
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What tune have we had on our minds today??
- Replies: 413
- Views: 404852
Re: What tune have we had on our minds today??
...and we all know he liked his pizzas 'deep pan,crisp and even'.
- by Gill the Piano
- 15 Dec 2016, 16:59
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1331481
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Well that's ONE programme I might like...haven't seen much of interest in the guides yet.
- by Gill the Piano
- 13 Dec 2016, 18:44
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
- Replies: 96
- Views: 111315
Re: Co-op Radio. For deaf people everywhere
The drummer has his hat on backwards and it's a fact that all intelligence drains from the head when that happens. The chap at the back looks like a twelve year old with a Brian Blessed stick-on beard...but the song is quite jolly.
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