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dave brum

But I want to have the confidence to play in front of others, Gill. You do every Sunday. And I have to cracking the code of reading music and getting a tune out of it, just think of all the new pieces I'll be able to learn effortlessly. I do not think Mabel Mucklethwaite was the right teacher for me...

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A good day in work today (despite burning 4 bags of sossidge rolls), time for a tea break, and seeing Hassan has his last plaster off.

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Been a marathon 0630-1415 shift today and we've had Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. So it's obvious, they think a song about nuclear armed superpower confrontation is suitable for stocking ones store cupboard to. So they can now play Ebenezer Goode or Anarchy In The UK. And STILL no Christm...

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Next Friday at 10. She says my first lesson is planned, back to basics just so she can get to the heart of my worries of sight reading, note recognition and playing with confidence. I can't even play in front of my wife.

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I'm keeping my cake hole shut as knowing my luck if I say something it'll b*lls the whole thing up,

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Looking like I've got an appointment with a ***** ******* next Friday.

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A very hard day at work, so relaxing with a glass of Chardonnay and some American piano music from my collection. Lasagne in oven. Dirty uniform in washer. I heard a new Rod Stewart track on the radio in work. I'm hoping that it won't be played every day until next Easter. I just wish they'd play th...

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I've decided to try and carry on learning the piano. How I'll do that I know not. Mabel pushed me too much. Someone in Birmingham has contacted me via Facebook who is a piano teacher and she also plays viola in my favourite little chamber orchestra, Erotic Camera.

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As I have a piano that I cannot use for its intended purpose, I was wondering what such an item could be used for? I already mentioned on another thread the idea of using one to make out you have style and class (a-la Hyacinth Bucket) or as a safe asylum that cats could either sleep on or sleep unde...

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Yes, they did catch them. That weekend, U.K.I.P had just finished their conference in Bournemouth, and their loutish small-minded younger supporters were making their way from there to the Northern Industrial towns where they hang out and they would have to change trains here after drinking copious ...

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Today twas a bit of Glazunov. Autumn from 'The Seasons' which was a ballet. It was also the theme tune from the old classical music programme 'Concert Hall' on Worcester based Independent Local Radio station Radio Wyvern in the 80s, presented by David Hart, who was a music teacher in South Shropshir...

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Breaking news. Piano not going. I need some dust in my house, you see.

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Today - the cleverest song ever made, according to the Guardian, Ebenezer Goode, by The Shamen from the early 1990s.

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Remaining Double Dutch dispatched out today, to Coventry, Scotland and Ireland, so that has made me happy. Then in work it made me even happier to see my friend Hassan back, who has had 6 weeks off after being racially attacked by six thugs in Birmingham city centre and needing 15 stitches in his fa...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mk318iACyM

Unlike this one, which has a sublime backbeat of a wooden spoon being slapped in some Yorkshire pud mixture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAq_6KARfs

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In the song by Cliff Richard ' I Could Easily Fall in Love With You' between the A-woo x 8 and Cliff's opening vocal, it sounds like a big fat redneck with a beer belly shaped like the top of St.Pauls Cathedral giving his prized possession a quick double slap.

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'C'Mon In', otherwise known as the theme tune to Breakfast Special, which used to go out on the old Light Programme on 1500 metres long wave and VHF after Tony Blackburn's breakfast show began on the new Radio 1, on 247 metres medium wave.

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The Lieutenant Kijé Suite by Prokofiev is what we're talking about. It was originally written for a film but the 'Troika' movement was used as the bridge in the pop song 'I Believe In Father Christmas' by Greg Lake, which as of today (15th October) I have not heard on the instore radio station at wo...

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Christmas has come early. I've gotten Lieutenant Kijé out.

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Princes Risborough. Loads of stuff, cost me £16 in postage, which she will reimburse. Some more went to Petersfield and what I've got left may be getting sent to Coventry.

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Getting rid of around 75% of my sheet music to a teacher not that far from you Gill in Bucks who will actually put them to good use and will be giving me a donation for the B30 Foodbank for all of it (of which we were both clients of when Iain Duncan Smith took away my benefits last year). It feels ...

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Playing a bostin handbells concert in Northfield to a troop of nine, very grateful octogenarian females.

I agree with you Gill about never being too old to learn to play the handbells.

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Yesterday began with 'Love On A Farm Boy's Wages' by XTC then went to Entry of the Gladiators by Julius Fucik (ensuring that my spellchecker doesn't omit one of the letters of his surname) and ended with the March of Brian Ború.

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Best place name in Britain has to be Grope Lane in Shrewsbury. In medieval times it was known as Gropec*nt Lane, due to what went on there after dark. I've walked down it hundreds of times.

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As was Ludwig Schytte.

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Except whenever I have a bash, no sense is made. Or music, neither.

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Gill, perhaps you should change your signature to you're never too old to learn, except if your name is Dave Brum.

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She doesn't like them...after I told her what they were! Naughty naughty.

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No. Not since January 2015. But I get all my classical CDS from there. And all my sheet music is in a box waiting to go up there whenever I have a mo.

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Gill the Piano wrote:And what on earth did Scheidt's antecedents do?

Lavatory attendants?

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Just having a ponder on this one; if the ancestors of Schumann were shoemakers, were those of Telemann television repairmen?

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An outbreak of Slavonicism in work today, as I came across a Naxos CD of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances in Oxfam Harborne today, that's both sets of Dances. But it's the popular dance no 8 of the opus 46 I've had today. The old ABRSM Grade 1 Piano pieces from 2009 that was there yesterday morning had gone...

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Poor Kayleigh in work. Didn't know what I meant when I asked her if we sold French letters.

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Tchaikovsky's Italian Caprice. We had this on 78rpm as part of one of Charlie Kunz' piano medleys on Decca years ago, but it was entitled 'The Echo Told Me A Lie' on there, so it had obviously been made into a pop song.

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Don't think so. No more silly trumped up pianistic delusions for me. Well, why bother with making things difficult for yourself, eh? Interestingly enough, as there was no church service at our usual church today, we had to go to our sister church, which is based on a 1960s slum clearance area. There...

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A bostin' bit of CAKE in church this morning. Nothing like It!

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Tried to play all of this morning's hymns on the piano at church from easy-ish music and right hand only. Sounded bl00dy awful.

Exactly why I've given up playing the blithering thing in the first place.

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Off to a concert tonight. Live music. Yippee!!

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Michael Barratt, Bob Wellings, Luke Casey, Khalid Aziz, not to mention Frank Bough, Sue Lawley and that loudmouthed chap from Strabane would have been proud of me today. It's been 'The Good Word', better known as the theme tune from 'Nationwide'.

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I heard this funny three-and-a-half minute pop tune yesterday whilst I was eating in an Argentinian restaurant in Birmingham city centre, which I've discovered to be the handiwork of a band called The Feeling. Actually the meal I had in there was very substantial so The Feeling was quite a satisfied...

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There are even some children, both chav and human, called Ayda. Not Ada, as in what your old granny might had been called (or in my case, my aunt).

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Big brave girl, Fiona. Just thinking about accompanying makes my tummy turn through 90 degrees!

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He said on his new tablet, Substitute by Clout, who were a South African girl rock band. The song was a cover of an old Righteous Brothers track.

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Going into town today, enjoying the sense of freedom after the last four days of lockdown and demi-siege thanks to the Conservative Party, and getting Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells III from the Library of Birmingham - an album I've wanted to hear for many years but not yet available on Youtube apart...

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Wonder if there'll be any Charlemagnes born, or whether any chav (i.e white, lower class, uneducated, gullible and aggressive) parents will think it's a female name...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne

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Still early in the day, but a wonderful well-written track courtesy of an American man named Donald:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w58E2S315a4

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When this old Irish one came out, I thought the poor chap had a cold, atchoo, atchoo, atchoo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeQiMbGqkjI

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Abandoned my easy play system for the time being having discovered a flaw or two. That is until I can get my thinking cap on to find a way around them.

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and here, 'In The Hall Of The Mountain Kings' from the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg, with a bit of Barwick Green and Kaempfert's 'A Swingin' Safari' thrown in.

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I wasn't sure if they were called Blossoms or Bottoms though. Or even Bosoms.

My close friend in work was actually named after this song from 1985:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQCu8Jp9iwM

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