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- by markymark
- 23 Jan 2008, 18:10
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: page turns
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4524
Laying aside the obvious which would be to bring a page turner with you, you have a couple options here: 1. If performing for music exams, you are permitted by most boards to photocopy a piece of music onto A3 to allow fluid playing. 2. If there is a place 2-4 bars before the place where need to tur...
- by markymark
- 22 Jan 2008, 18:57
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: legal issues - please advise
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13812
Re: legal issues - please advise
Last September I bought a Kemble piano (around 5000 pounds) from a shop I don't want to name at this stage. I meet other pianos of the same model. Just on an aside to the information you've been given here, in order to protect the credibility of your 'case', should your complaint go any further tha...
- by markymark
- 22 Jan 2008, 18:35
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Where to find a good range
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14492
Re: Where to find a good range
Is there any reason why not an acoustic. For the upper end of your budget you could be in to good small acoustic with a silent system onboard or even better without. Just updated my post and read what you said, mdw. Cerise, mdw is adsolutely right. For 3000GBP upwards, you could get at the very lea...
- by markymark
- 22 Jan 2008, 17:57
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Where to find a good range
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14492
Can't help you with local stockists - have you tried yellow pages or the business section of the BT directory? I know that sounds blatantly obvious, but it there can't be that many local stockists in the area. Where I live, they are becoming few and far between! This is a sweeping generalisation, bu...
- by markymark
- 22 Jan 2008, 02:34
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: How to make students to remember the things you teach them?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10253
:?: Not sure what to make of this comment Gill the piano: Add to that the current indiscipline in home and school , and voila! you have a teacher's modern-day dilemma, I'm afraid. Are you suggesting that poor concentration, discipline and self-motivation during a private music lesson is not only the...
- by markymark
- 21 Jan 2008, 23:01
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Help please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8100
- by markymark
- 21 Jan 2008, 22:10
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: How to make students to remember the things you teach them?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10253
Very often, children right up until 9 years of age haven’t developed an emotional intelligence within their natural day-to-day social and personal development, so I have to say coming up against a brick wall when asking for an emotional engagement with something as abstract as music is part and parc...
- by markymark
- 21 Jan 2008, 21:34
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Digital vs. acoustic: old debate
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14573
Re: Digital vs. acoustic: old debate
Hello there! I am a beginner adult on the piano (background in classical guitar and singing). I put the question to the "piano" general thread which probably was not a good idea, because I got a few rather snappy replies trashing the idea of a digital. You are a new member then, aren't yo...
- by markymark
- 21 Jan 2008, 19:58
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Advice on digital pianos needed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13199
It's basically a service on the keyboard. Over years of use, the keys can lose some of their 'action' and need to be adjusted so that they return to the level of the keyboard in line with the others. If abused, the hammer action may need some attention. I have had problems in the past with the veloc...
- by markymark
- 21 Jan 2008, 19:50
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: weighted keys / Roland F50
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15781
- by markymark
- 20 Jan 2008, 17:01
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Help please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8100
I would say that the seller has made a mistake. I have never really heard of Yamaha using a ‘T’towards the end of the model prefix in its digital piano range. The CLP-122 was on the go around the same time as the CVP range around 1990 (if not slightly before). Basically, the CLP was the classical pi...
- by markymark
- 18 Jan 2008, 01:43
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Advice needed on buying electric piano
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29701
Just because they will sound exactly the same ( being digital ) doesnt make it any more moraly defensible to try in a shop and then buy online at a cheaper price. I very much resent how you have taken select, out-of-context comments from my whole posting and misrepresent what I am really saying. Yo...
- by markymark
- 17 Jan 2008, 00:40
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Advice needed on buying electric piano
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29701
- by markymark
- 15 Jan 2008, 19:42
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Advice on differences between Yamaha CLP220, 230 and 240
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10096
Basically as you make your way along a digital piano range, the manufacturers add in features like more powerful speakers, more voice options, expanded track recording options and sometimes enhanced voice samples. I had a quick look at the Yamaha Europe website and to be honest, it shows the progres...
- by markymark
- 10 Jan 2008, 01:24
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Cronenwerth CHP-500 Manual
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8803
Did you buy the digital piano online? On Ebay? The reason I ask is that I only seem to get search matches on Ebay.de! I'm not really familar with the brand name - is this company not based in Germany or Central Europe? Usually getting in touch with the manufacturer, in this case Cronenwerth, may be ...
- by markymark
- 08 Jan 2008, 23:35
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Advice needed on buying electric piano
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29701
But then its a digital so its almost worthless the moment youve bought it so that argument doesnt count. So that's why we're ignoring it! :lol: Why pay more when, by your own admission, digital instruments lose their value over a period of time. That is no newsflash! Getting the most for your money...
- by markymark
- 07 Jan 2008, 20:43
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Who are your favourite composers?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16149
Re: Who are your favourite composers?
And whose works do you enjoy playing the most? I used to play Richard Clayderman's but not as often these days after I discovered D. Benoit. On classical, I play Mozart's pieces the most followed by Chopin. Very little Bach(regretfully I find his music to be not engaging). I used to play a lot of P...
- by markymark
- 07 Jan 2008, 20:00
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Advice needed on buying electric piano
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29701
The main difference I can see is that the P120 seems to have had more powerful speakers than the P140 which is rather strange. As the P140 is supposed to be an upgraded model, you’ll get extra features like voice variations and extra reverb effects. As mentioned earlier, the GHS keyboard will be ins...
- by markymark
- 06 Jan 2008, 20:12
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Beginner's Advice
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10081
If you’re planning on going every other week, this teacher may be slightly indifferent towards your request if she is putting people on a waiting list. Personally, I don’t believe in waiting lists because it really only leaves people handing until someone drops out, which could be some time. In my e...
- by markymark
- 06 Jan 2008, 19:47
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: weighted keys / Roland F50
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15781
- by markymark
- 06 Jan 2008, 17:14
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Yamaha DGX620 vs. P-Series (P60, P120, P140 etc.)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9875
The main difference between the two keyboards is that the P-series doesn’t really have all the bells and whistles you talk about but the DGX-620 does with more voices, preset songs and rhythms than the P140. Both have some kind of sequencer installed. The DGX has a six track sequencer and the P140 h...
- by markymark
- 06 Jan 2008, 15:42
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Digital vs. acoustic: old debate
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14573
Re: Digital vs. acoustic: old debate
But seriously I began to think about the whole digital vs. accoustic thing and what is better. I put the question to the "piano" general thread which probably was not a good idea, because I got a few rather snappy replies trashing the idea of a digital. I thought you guys would be more ob...
- by markymark
- 06 Jan 2008, 15:06
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Urgent assistance needed re which digital piano
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12891
Fröhliches neues Jahr! I knew my A-level German would come in handy some day! LOL! I love those new CLP models and being a Yamaha fan and a great admirer of the old Yamaha hammer action, this message it right up my street! For gigging, you’ll need quite a powerful instrument. I own a CP300 which ha...
- by markymark
- 06 Jan 2008, 01:19
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: weighted keys / Roland F50
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15781
You need to make sure you know the difference between a “weighted keyboard” and a “hammer-action keyboard”. A weighted keyboard is just what it says but hammer action replicate the action and feel of an acoustic piano in the way a key operates the hammer inside the piano. Of course there aren’t real...
- by markymark
- 06 Jan 2008, 00:59
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Advice needed on buying electric piano
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29701
The P series really stands for “Personal Piano” range and so, as honeyfunk says, Yamaha designed this keyboard with the mindset that it will be first and foremostly a piano without all the gadgets, rhythms, tacky, pre-recorded songs, etc! The P series also offer the hammer action keyboard which knoc...
- by markymark
- 24 Nov 2007, 21:42
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Doing Grade Exams
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15742
I have to agree with Gill The Piano on this one. Self-taught musicians can have a few gaps in their musical development not to mention some bad habits. It wouldn’t do any harm if you were even treated as a Grade 5 student and had all the normal training just to see how you fair. As your experience i...
- by markymark
- 23 Nov 2007, 17:55
- Forum: Digital Pianos
- Topic: Urgent assistance needed re which digital piano
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12891
Hi! Unfortunately this is a common query with people who are starting out looking for digital pianos. First of all, you need to clarify your terminology. “Fully weighted” and “hammer action” are two totally different things. “Fully weighted” is just what is sounds but “hammer action” will replicate ...
- by markymark
- 09 Mar 2007, 21:59
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Accompanying - how much?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11801
Rate of Pay
The ISM website seems a bit unclear about this. I have heard of accompanists in my area charging around the £25 range per hour for accompanying. I suppose it really depends on how much preparation you have to do - taking into consideration the difficulty/complexity of the music and in shor...
- by markymark
- 03 Mar 2007, 18:47
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Kemble Concerto
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10036
Piano Update
Thanks everyone for your advice and feedback. Just to let you know Piano Guy that I went back to the piano store today and looked at a range of pianos including Kawai, Eavestaff and Yamaha. After playing the various models, I opted for the P121. It was a lovely piano to play with an even bright ton...
- by markymark
- 27 Feb 2007, 20:30
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: advice for a total beginner
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5044
Piano learning method
It really depends on what you want to do with your piano playing. Traditional teaching methods focus on the technical aspects of note recognition and reading two lines of music from written music. I suppose many people would call this "classical training". There is another method out there...
- by markymark
- 27 Feb 2007, 20:03
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Kemble Concerto
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10036
- by markymark
- 26 Feb 2007, 19:57
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Kemble Concerto
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10036
- by markymark
- 25 Feb 2007, 16:01
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Kemble Concerto
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10036
Kemble Concerto
I have been checking these out on the internet. Reviews seem to be great for the Kemble Conservatoire and reviews on this forum seem favourable as well. Space is a big factor and a 64cm deep piano is not feasible for my livingroom space. The Concerto model is supposed to be based on the larger Conse...
- by markymark
- 24 Feb 2007, 17:30
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Piano suitable for Grade 8+ pianist
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13703
Okay, what about Kembles...
I have tried the Yamaha U1 and the P121 and they both sounded good. I felt the U1 had more to offer but it is 61cm deep! So space I'm afraid has played a big factor in my piano shopping today. The Kawai K18 had a nice responsive keyboard action and the sound was clean and precise but a little light ...
- by markymark
- 24 Feb 2007, 13:03
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Piano suitable for Grade 8+ pianist
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13703
Quick Last Minute Advice Anyone
I just picked up the last post to my question. I am about to leave within the next 45 minutes for the music store to check out the pianos. They don't carry the Kembles as mentioned by Piano Guy and Fumbler but they do have the following: Kawai K18, made in Japan, special offer £2395 Yamaha...
- by markymark
- 23 Feb 2007, 22:39
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Piano suitable for Grade 8+ pianist
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13703
Re: Piano suitable for Grade 8+ pianist
After reading online reviews and postings on this forum, I have narrowed my selection to the following Yamaha models: U1, P121NT, PX124NT. I understand that pianos with a string length greater that 120cm have a higher quality tone as opposed to those with a string length less that 120cm. This is wh...
- by markymark
- 23 Feb 2007, 21:04
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Piano suitable for Grade 8+ pianist
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13703
Piano suitable for Grade 8+ pianist
Hi, I have been reading and searching through the various post regarding Yamaha pianos but I haven't been able to find a response that completely applies to my situation so apologies in advance if I have repeated an earlier posting. I am returning to complete my Grade 8 and want to complete my recit...
- by markymark
- 04 Apr 2005, 19:02
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: "compact-ish" piano
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5022
"compact-ish" piano
Hi to everyone! I have just registered and am looking for some advice. I am looking for an acoustic upright piano. I have been playing piano for the past ten years and practised on an older acoustic and a digital piano. I now want to return to an acoustic for the feel and tone of the keyboard before...
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