Hi All, I've begun piano lessons and chose to start out on an electronic keyboard. It is going well so far, but I've recently started looking into upgrading...
Valerie: Congratulations for taking up piano again. To enjoy music, it's never late. I am a student, but also a teacher of adult students - a most gratifying ...
I have my piano tuned twice a year. My piano tech says that that's enough for my piano; the tuning is pretty stable. Cheers, Michele ... From: Pat McClard To:...
Since I am teaching piano out of my home, I have the piano tuned 2x yearly. HOWEVER....when I was not teaching but still playing for my own enjoyment, I am...
Re: Piano Tuning I am a friend of Matt's and a piano tuner. Yes, every piano, regardless of how much it is played requires on going, or seasonal tuning as the...
Kent Stallan
kent.stallan@...
Feb 8, 2006 12:18 am
43
From: Lya Ferrer <lyaferrer@...> Subject: An Appreciation of Students Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:09:22 -0600 (CST) A wonderful article, specially for us...
I have my piano (a half-grand Kawai - in Spanish, we say "media cola"; which is half the size of a concert piano; but I don't know the exact translation) tuned...
Greetings, February 16th, an announcement went up on MusicalFossils.com about a workshop I'm doing this summer in Varna, Bulgaria. The location is unique, the...
Matthew Harre
mharre61@...
Feb 18, 2006 5:39 pm
46
Hello! I find the musical fossils site inspiring so I thought I would tell my story. I am 36 and in my second month of piano lessons. It was something I always...
Hello fellow(ette) Fossils! I'm and adult violin student (45) and heard about this site over in BAVS yahoo group. I've played piano for about 40 years, and...
Hello new young fossil! It always feels good to be exposed to a few new aspects looked at from a few new angles. I find it extremely 'unfair' of you though to...
Isleif
isleif@...
Mar 12, 2006 5:13 pm
49
... (...) ... Hello new young fossil! It always feels good to be exposed to a few new aspects looked at from a few new angles. I find it extremely 'unfair' of...
klavierneu
isleif@...
Mar 12, 2006 5:14 pm
50
I haven't abandoned piano at all. I have always added new instruments to my skills--just a habit, but violin was especially an intense addition, which I...
it is a interesting discussion. i guess, purely, what zeagle79 intend to say about "define adult achievement" is "can we have a list of good things about ...
Jianhui Jin
jianhui.jin@...
Mar 13, 2006 3:15 pm
52
sort of jianhui... I also was at the same time saying that adult achievement is very arbitary in some ways because by the time a person reaches adulthood,...
maybe i can try to make up a list for myself: 1. enjoy the music from my own hands 2. explore music, classicall music. learn more knowledge about them 3. play...
Jianhui Jin
jianhui.jin@...
Mar 13, 2006 5:40 pm
54
And it keeps the old brain working! Valerie Jianhui Jin <jianhui.jin@...> wrote: maybe i can try to make up a list for myself: 1. enjoy the music from my...
... Sharing with you what music has achieved for MY life. It has given me "a world of my own" - and this is more important than playing Bach's Concerto in A or...
I just read Musical Fossils. Wow, a suberb description and essay of what goes on with us fossils. I played trombone in high school and college, and at various...
I too, am astonished at what a fine page Mr. Harre has written. This is the best webpage on private teaching I've seen anywhere, and I've been designing a...
Hi, I joined this group about a week ago. I am a piano student in my mid-30s. I played from age 6 through college but quit after that and just took it up again...
That was very nicely said.... And I think that was the spirit with which I said earlier, adult achievement, really has not been defined because adults each...
Greetings, It might be useful to separate the concepts of accomplishment and credential. There are huge possibilities for adult music students to accomplish...
mharre
mharre@...
Mar 15, 2006 3:44 pm
61
I agree. And I think part of that process may be finding ways for adults to step out of the box and spotlight what they are learning. A few months ago, with...
Forgot to mention what we do for technic: Lébert, Hanon, Czerny, scales (single notes, thirds, sixths, and octaves), arpeggios, chords, Brahms, and several ...
Adrienne in France: Welcome to the wonderful world of piano playing. Here in México, at the school I go to, we start with this book - Mikrokosmos Volume I by...
hi there i have discuss this question with lots people, pros or amaturers. are czerny, hanon, and other studies so necessary that every adult student in China...
Jianhui Jin
jianhui.jin@...
Mar 16, 2006 11:33 pm
65
Hi, Jianhui Jin! The opinions of the pros are divided. One teacher says: by all means, do Hanon; another claims Hanon and the like are good for nothing. I...
klavierneu
isleif@...
Mar 17, 2006 1:12 am
66
I'm actually an adult violin student in my 50's but I self-taught myself piano when I was a teen and before that started on one of the first "electric organ"...
I do Hannon, and promote it, have purchased it as gifts for friends, and think it added to my confidence in transposition, appregios, freeing my left from my...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
