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'I Am The Beat' by the Look. Love it!

Music for the Royal Fireworks next?

Bernard Manning CD? Good grief....

Colin Nicholson wrote: To tune with one, strike it on your knee (ouch!) - then put the 'handle' of the fork between your teeth

....and after 30 years you'll have a corner worn off your front tooth!

I'm soooo pleased. As my gran used to say, there's a lid for every pot!

dave brum wrote:I came second in the Scrabble.Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to do my sight reading practice.

I don't want to say I told you so, but I told you so! Well done! Next lesson booked...?

Had a 'hymn' today called 'All I Once Held Dear' - modern thing. Well, if the second half of it isn't a very close relation to 'The Ugly Duckling', I'll eat my hat. I was well behaved and didn't launch into 'With a quack, with a quack, with a waddle and a quack...' but it took a lot of self control.

We sometimes play Welsh squabble on Thursday afternoons. It strains the brain...

So glad you got on well!

Well, how'd it go? Don't leave us on tentpegs!

It made me smile that they put bum notes in. I'm waiting for Kevin Mayhew to bung it off to me now.

I was never sure what they were singing anyway!

Excellent. You'll be fine!

Shut up, you'll be fine. And re the music (?) at work - you could well find you're one of the only people who LISTENS to it...I think it trickles in one earole and out of the other for most people, but you being a muso actually hear it properly as music as opposed to background mush.

Just googled it; if it isn't too hard I might get the music and have a crack - depends how many flappy feet are required.
It's brilliant - had to watch 2 different vids to check that the bum notes were intentional!

I've had a stupid Russian alphabet song wibbling round the vast empty tracts of my brain. Which would be fine if I could actually remember the names of the letters instead of fizzling out a third of the way through

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Well there's nothing we can do re rising prices as some chiseller's always out to put up prices - had we stayed IN Europe they would have cited that as an excuse to raise prices. The morons up for election in america don't bear thinking about (A plane containing Hilary & Trump is hurtling to the...

What about Gaudete? That'smy favourite - I play it before every carol service.

Burned nicely then!

I don't know why I say yes when there are accompaniment requests; I get so twitched, usually about one of the pieces then I fall apart OR worry about falling apart, so it's not enjoyable. Not bothered about playing the organ, except at weddings.

More like Cyril Smith, I should've thought.

I've still got poxy Puccini lodged in my earole...

Nope, the accompaniment to 'O mio babbino caro' . Gave myself a complex about it and shouldn't have, but there you go. Nobody died -even though a lot of the audience were 110 in the shade...

She pops in from time to time...I think she has her hands full with various health problems (hers and other peoples'), teaching and so on. Send her a PM if you want to alert her to your resurrection on UKPP!

I'm happy that the concert was last night and I shan't have to play that bl00dy piece again.

In that case don't pressurise yourself. Go very gently and make it clear that you can't be rushed and need to work at your own speed. If it helps I had to play in a concert last night and got ahangup about a particular piece. Sure enough I fluffed it and had to extricate myself. :roll: Happens to mo...

You don't have to play in front of anyone. As an old friend of mine used to say, 'I play for my own amazement'.
You'll be fine - but do tell her if you don't want to do sigh treading, so it doesn't spoil the rest of it for you.

Ah, read your other post. Good on you!

Good. Take it gently, keep it light and make it clear you're only interested in playing pieces and you should be fine. You're paying the piper; you call the tune. Pob lwc, bach!

Giss a clue; no idea to what you are referring!

Can't tell you the times I move Liszt off the music desk of a (usually grand) piano that I know damn well is beyond the capabilities of the owner (and me) which has been left there to impress. Giveaway; not even the most ardent cleaner will dust open music!

No more sacrilegious than having one and not using it (like me and my harpsichord...)!

For some obscure reason, today's earworm has been the theme tune to 'Jackanory' !

God, poor Hassan; is he better now? Did they catch them?

Glad about the piano...cats have to sleep SOMEWHERE, you know...

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. Well I'll bow to your superior knowled...

dave brum wrote:Except whenever I have a bash, no sense is made. Or music, neither.

Untrue! I've heard you, remember! What/who is Kije?

Genesis 'That's All'. I kept walking in time to it too.

Whereabouts in Bucks? Good that it's going to a good home.

I just don't like to discourage anyone from having a bash!

And what on earth did Scheidt's antecedents do?

Are you still working in Oxfam? i send all my customers there to look for new music - there are some real bargains to be had!

She'll learn...probably!

Yes, I have the 1940s sheet music with Vera Lynn on the front. I learned to play it from that sheet music which was in the piano stool when we bought it, and I got such a shock when I heard it played 'proper'!

You'll be wonderful! Just smile and thank everybody else and they'll think you're the bee's knees. Which of course you are...

Keep having a go now and then though. Play Hydrofoil or Cwm Rhondda!

Beautiful diamond day, barrelling round the back lanes of the Chilterns en route from one church to the next. Wonderful! Except for the blasted cyclist and silly sweaty gasping runners who force roads to be closed so they can run about in their vests. I didn't appreciate having to walk further with ...

The Classics to Moderns series is a good one. The Associated Board do a series called 'Upgrade' which is designed to slot between the grade exams but I don't think they are classics. If Colin (Nicholson) reads this he'll be more use than me as he teaches. You could always PM him.

Robbie Williams' wife is called Ayda, I think. But I expect that's the least of her problems.

That was my lightbulb moment, Feg, at a festival where I was strung out from accompanying. I volunteered to turn for another accompanist and the penny dropped; 'SHE ISN'T PLAYING ALL THE NOTES!!' And what's more nobody a) noticed, or b) died. So now I do the same and, as you say, lower stress levels...

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