we have got a piano!!!!
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ewein2412it arrived yesterday. I think this just about completes the list of demands polite requests that I moved in with over twelve years ago when I first came to live with Tim. Actually, it was not at my request that the piano finally arrived. It was only after Sara had taken over a year of piano lessons on the 5-octave electric keyboard that Tim finally said, "Sara's worked really hard at this and it would sound so much nicer on a piano..."
I bought the keyboard for myself, a couple of Christmases ago, because I was so homesick for the American tunes to "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" and "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear."
May I add here: The genius of Mozart, the REAL genius of Mozart, is not that he wrote amazing music. It's not even that he wrote quite a bit of amazing music that any old dope with a little bit of musical ability can play. The REAL genius of Mozart is that he wrote quite a bit of amazing music that is relatively simple to play AND--this is the genius part--he makes you feel like a virtuoso while you're playing it.
I bought the keyboard for myself, a couple of Christmases ago, because I was so homesick for the American tunes to "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" and "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear."
May I add here: The genius of Mozart, the REAL genius of Mozart, is not that he wrote amazing music. It's not even that he wrote quite a bit of amazing music that any old dope with a little bit of musical ability can play. The REAL genius of Mozart is that he wrote quite a bit of amazing music that is relatively simple to play AND--this is the genius part--he makes you feel like a virtuoso while you're playing it.
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Date: 2007-08-31 04:34 pm (UTC)We have a little spinet that goes out of tune if you look at it, and has keys that stick when it gets humid (like, all summer in Iowa). If all goes well this year, I'm getting us a new one (a new used one, I mean). The neighbors will appreciate it, at least.
Good luck to Sara as she continues her lessons.
Oh, and Mozart kills me. When I play Mozart all my lack of technique is revealed, woe.
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Date: 2007-08-31 09:38 pm (UTC)huhhhhhhhh... gee, I wanted a piano to put in my dining room, not to play in Carnegie Hall.
It is just one of those snooty weird European blips that I have resigned myself to. Ours is called a "modern upright" and is not much bigger than a spinet, but fortunately it has the full 88 keys--another weird blip I've discovered here is that you often get these bizarre 83-key keyboards--the top five keys taken off, presumably in an effort to maintain "European concert standards" while still building a piano small enough to fit in your dining room.
I have no technique, I never took lessons. I play like Algernon, missing out many notes but with great feeling.