Any pianists on here???

[Guest]

...piano teachers, tuners, general enthusiasts, learners, ex-learners????

well???

[EdgeleyRob]

...piano teachers, tuners, general enthusiasts, learners, ex-learners????

well???

It's on my list of things to do when I retire,learn to play the piano.
If you like Alkan (the best piano music ever IMVHO) I'll forgive you for not being a British music lover.

[ahinton]

It's on my list of things to do when I retire,learn to play the piano.
If you like Alkan (the best piano music ever IMVHO) I'll forgive you for not being a British music lover.

As Anthony Payne once rather ruefully observed, "it is perfectly possible to love Delius and Webern"; likewise, a love of and admiration for Alkan's work and loving at least some British music are not exactly mutually incompatible...

[2cats]

It's on my list of things to do when I retire,learn to play the piano.
If you like Alkan (the best piano music ever IMVHO) I'll forgive you for not being a British music lover.

I like Bax, he's British. And we had a cracking feast of British song at today's Monday Showcase at the Birmingham Conservatoire, namely John Ireland.

[MrGongGong]

I like Bax, he's British.

I like Cage, he's not

[BBMmk2]

That;s one thing I do love and that is British song! What a treat you had there 2Cats"

I play piano and EEb bass Tuba(hence my username)

[johnb]

I started the piano a couple of years ago, found a teacher and practised assiduously for about a year, since when it has been on hold. I keep telling myself I need to get back practising, as it wasn't going too badly (Janacek's 'Our Evenings' from 'On an Overgrown Path', Mozart Andante from K545, etc).

[2cats]

I play... EEb bass Tuba(hence my username)

That's the tuba formerly known as the Orange/T-Mobile flat tuba?????

[2cats]

That;s one thing I do love and that is British song! What a treat you had there 2Cats"

I play piano and EEb bass Tuba(hence my username)

How lovely to play the piano. I get really annoyed when people come along and say things like 'it's never too late to learn to play the piano'. I started at age 36 (six years ago) and just could not absorb all the information, let alone do sight reading, and after a subsequent six years of almost nightly scales, arpeggios, Paul Harris sight read exercises and tunes assorted I've not touched my piano since June not even to dust it.

Anyone who wishes to prove me wrong please get in touch.

[rauschwerk]

I began to learn the piano at 5 and have been teaching keyboard instruments for the best part of 20 years. I keep my hand in as a performer: accompanist to local choirs and singers and also occasional duettist.

I still consider my finest hour to be the time I played for Fanny Waterman who had come to adjudicate at the Suffolk Festival (I was an amateur then). She said that my playing had given her very much pleasure.

[2cats]

i began to learn the piano at 5 and have been teaching keyboard instruments for the best part of 20 years. I keep my hand in as a performer: Accompanist to local choirs and singers and also occasional duettist.

I still consider my finest hour to be the time i played for fanny waterman who had come to adjudicate at the suffolk festival (i was an amateur then). She said that my playing had given her very much pleasure.

Hail Queen Fanny!!!

[Pianorak]

Hail Queen Fanny!!!

I'd better not correct you, else it would mean demoting her to Dame Fanny.

[Alison]

Wedding Day at Troldhaugen about my limit and I never practise !

[teamsaint]

I could once play at grade 7 standard (nifty huh?!).....I really wish I had got my grade 8.
I keep promising myself "when I have time" I will take lessons, and get there. 100 would do .

Perhaps less time on this board would help!!

[2cats]

I'd better not correct you, else it would mean demoting her to Dame Fanny.

Indeed...A Great Dame she chances to be.....

And the nemesis of cheap 'n' cheerful pianner teachers