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- by Feg
- 04 Dec 2012, 08:58
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Some advent greetings for you all
- Replies: 30
- Views: 37061
Re: Some advent greetings for you all
Beautiful Now I can't get the Carol of the Birds out of my head!
- by Feg
- 03 Dec 2012, 20:55
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Some advent greetings for you all
- Replies: 30
- Views: 37061
Re: Some advent greetings for you all
These are brilliant, Gizzy Something to cheer me up if I get a little bit 'Grumpy'
- by Feg
- 20 Nov 2012, 22:32
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Gamble, London - Action Maker
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5820
Re: Gamble, London - Action Maker
Thanks, Bill
Fiona
Fiona
- by Feg
- 20 Nov 2012, 15:05
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Gamble, London - Action Maker
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5820
Gamble, London - Action Maker
Bill
Do you have any dates for actions made by Gamble, London?
Thanks
Fiona
Do you have any dates for actions made by Gamble, London?
Thanks
Fiona
- by Feg
- 26 Jun 2012, 10:33
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: My project which I am excited about
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17687
Re: My project which I am excited about
Ooooh - that sounds like fun, Gizzy :D Takes me back to my secondary school days when the music department put on an opera every year - all female cast, costumes and sets made in-house, directed from two pianos by our Head of Music and her husband who was the school piano teacher. We all had great f...
- by Feg
- 24 May 2012, 17:02
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Englebert and Eurovision
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10822
Re: Englebert and Eurovision
Not heard the song (at least that I'm aware of) but I know what you mean about when he was younger
Give me Tom Jones any day - so much better looking since he ditched the hair dye.
Give me Tom Jones any day - so much better looking since he ditched the hair dye.
- by Feg
- 22 May 2012, 18:43
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Is the phrase -Tempered Instrument - too vague?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 34760
Re: Is the phrase -Tempered Instrument - too vague?
How do you mean? In 30 years of tuning I have been asked ONCE to use an alternative temperament. To my mind that doesn't warrant spending a large chunk of tuning tuition on esoteric temperaments on the offchance that 28 years hence someone will want it! :lol: To learn about them and know the interv...
- by Feg
- 21 May 2012, 19:52
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Is the phrase -Tempered Instrument - too vague?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 34760
Re: Is the phrase -Tempered Instrument - too vague?
No, we are taught that JSB wrote the 48 to prove that ET worked, as the common view at the time was that it couldn't possibly work in every key. We were taught that other temperaments existed, but that they were so rarely used as to be pointless to learn and practise. We had to learn the principles...
- by Feg
- 18 May 2012, 16:21
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Practise strategies for oldies
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10010
Re: Practise strategies for oldies
I'm not quite sure why you call it practice. You are Playing, which is what you want to do. I would have said practice was a preparation for something - a lesson, and exam, a performance. If you're doing it for nobody but yourself, you don't relly need a strategy as such - just enjoy! At the other ...
- by Feg
- 03 May 2012, 15:30
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 88666
Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?
Sshhhhhh..........we have glorious sunshine.........
- by Feg
- 29 Apr 2012, 11:28
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 88666
Re: What Is The Weather Like Where You Are?
I know a piano tuner in Cherry Hintongizzy wrote:It's absolutely PERSISTING down here in Cambridge. I've just sent a poor little boy out in it to cycle home while I sit here in my slippers to feel warm. Wallowing in guilt
Gizzy in a very wet Cherry Hinton
- by Feg
- 24 Apr 2012, 11:18
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Church music
- Replies: 66
- Views: 77392
Re: Church music
A Google search for Easy To Play Hymns brings up this http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/03131/details.html Looks like it has loads of traditional ones.
There are loads of other suitable books out there too - just look at the 'You May Also Like' tab.
HTH
Fiona
There are loads of other suitable books out there too - just look at the 'You May Also Like' tab.
HTH
Fiona
- by Feg
- 27 Mar 2012, 20:36
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1332095
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
She'll only say I'm c**p anyway, she's the most unsupportive person any piano learner can have for a wife...however I'd rather make up my own mind as to whether I am or whether I am not c**p (but just so it happens she's right anyway). I'd be changing 'the wife' rather than the piano teacher :lol:
- by Feg
- 21 Mar 2012, 19:18
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Grade 3 in the summer sitting for old turniphead 'ere
- Replies: 106
- Views: 59390
Re: Grade 3 in the summer sitting for old turniphead 'ere
Okay Gill. Wednesday. Paul Harris first melodic exercise in stage 2, okay. Despair dirges, one correct, one rhythms okay but some wrong notes. Of course I didn't enjoy them (never do) but still did 'em nonetheless. My old psychotherapist told me to look for joy in bad situations. There! Is that pos...
- by Feg
- 20 Mar 2012, 20:46
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1332095
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Dave
Try this website for loads of easy arrangements of popular piano pieces.http://www.8notes.com/piano_sheet_music.asp.
I'm pretty sure that most of the ones marked 'Easy' and 'Mid' you will manage to SR quite easily.
Fiona
Try this website for loads of easy arrangements of popular piano pieces.http://www.8notes.com/piano_sheet_music.asp.
I'm pretty sure that most of the ones marked 'Easy' and 'Mid' you will manage to SR quite easily.
Fiona
- by Feg
- 19 Mar 2012, 21:29
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Random thoughts or comments...
- Replies: 1635
- Views: 1332095
Re: Random thoughts or comments...
Wine is good
- by Feg
- 16 Mar 2012, 20:33
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: I'm back!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 16206
Re: I'm back!
An A in Higher Maths????? Is she a yuman?? :D Hmmm.....there are days when I'm not sure at all :lol: She certainly doesn't take after her mother - I achieved a 'B', much to my late father's amazement. He was an engineer by profession and good at all things maths related. Hee maintained that I had a...
- by Feg
- 15 Mar 2012, 23:18
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: I'm back!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 16206
Re: I'm back!
is Feg still here?? How are you doing Fiona chops? Oh, I'm still here Dave :D I'm still tuning pianos, teaching descant recorder and trying to keep up with this forum :roll: glad you're okay Fiona (I've not been the same but I won't go into all that in public) . Had an evening trying to plough thro...
- by Feg
- 15 Mar 2012, 21:52
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: I'm back!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 16206
Re: I'm back!
Oh, I'm still here Davedave brum wrote:is Feg still here?? How are you doing Fiona chops?
I'm still tuning pianos, teaching descant recorder and trying to keep up with this forum
- by Feg
- 09 Mar 2012, 13:19
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Smug parent posting
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6327
Re: Smug parent posting
Well done, little Nut Cutlet
A good teacher, plus loads of parental encouragement of course, is always the answer.
A good teacher, plus loads of parental encouragement of course, is always the answer.
- by Feg
- 07 Feb 2012, 19:25
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: POLL: Future of the Piano Lounge
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13726
Re: POLL: Future of the Piano Lounge
Why not just change it to 'The Lounge'? Would be like changing Windscale to Sellafield......if there's no interest there, we should just have the learning and teaching section. Just because there aren't many posters in the Piano Lounge of late is no reason to delete it. We don't know what the futur...
- by Feg
- 26 Jan 2012, 14:14
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What tune have we had on our minds today??
- Replies: 413
- Views: 405188
Re: What tune have we had on our minds today??
Hi Feg, I usually start at the beginning, but some children get bored quickly with it, they'd rather learn a nice little tune first and then the notation later on. We didn't do much playing yesterday, I got them all to be crotchet soldiers and quickedy quavers :mrgreen: I teach them B, A and G - pl...
- by Feg
- 24 Jan 2012, 18:12
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What tune have we had on our minds today??
- Replies: 413
- Views: 405188
Re: What tune have we had on our minds today??
Do you miss out a lot of the earlier tunes? If I had to teach them all it would drive me insane!
Joe, joe is one of my least favourite ones.
Joe, joe is one of my least favourite ones.
- by Feg
- 24 Jan 2012, 14:35
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What tune have we had on our minds today??
- Replies: 413
- Views: 405188
Re: What tune have we had on our minds today??
'Tadpoles', Page 34, Recorder from the Beginning Book 1 by John Pitts! gues who is just back from a hour of recorder tutoring
- by Feg
- 21 Jan 2012, 21:00
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Should I ask for an unequal temperament?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 45889
Re: Should I ask for an unequal temperament?
You don't have to be PTA but you do have to be in the trade.Colin Nicholson wrote:Might be of interest to some......
PTA's convention in May 2012, covers a lecture on "Early Temperament Tunings"
http://www.pianotuner.org.uk/pta6.htm
dont know if you have to be PTA though? .... but worth a try.
- by Feg
- 18 Jan 2012, 23:12
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Piano Lounge Slimmers circle
- Replies: 184
- Views: 264274
Re: Piano Lounge Slimmers circle
Dave Caroline was 18 in December but three years ago she took ill and now has CFS. She was formally diagnosed in June and was weighed at the hospital. We knew that a combination of extreme fatigue and comfort eating had put on some weight but she wasn't aware of quite how much. She decided that the ...
- by Feg
- 18 Jan 2012, 22:16
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Piano Lounge Slimmers circle
- Replies: 184
- Views: 264274
Re: Piano Lounge Slimmers circle
Dave My daughter lost a total of 3st in weight between 18th July and the beginning of November by good old-fashioned calorie counting :D There are a couple of free to join websites which not only allow you to record your daily food intake, but do all the calorie counting for you. She downloaded an '...
- by Feg
- 18 Jan 2012, 21:01
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What are we doing right now? (aside from being on the forum)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 56129
Re: What are we doing right now? (aside from being on the fo
I seem to have taken on the role of Co-ordinator for the local primary school's PTA Recorder Club. I've been the recorder tutor for about 15 years and there is a PTA bod who organises class lists, fees, deals with parents and the school. The PTA bod changes every couple of years with varying degrees...
- by Feg
- 18 Jan 2012, 13:57
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: What are we doing right now? (aside from being on the forum)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 56129
Re: What are we doing right now? (aside from being on the fo
I lasted a whole 20 minutes on Twitter then deactivated my account - I do not see the attraction :? I 'may' have the afternoon to myself - my youngest has taken herself off to college on her motorbike now that the weather is more two-wheel friendly. My eldest is about to take himself off on his moto...
- by Feg
- 17 Jan 2012, 16:30
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Should I ask for an unequal temperament?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 45889
Re: Should I ask for an unequal temperament?
The Mathematics of it all is loads of fun too........Colin Nicholson wrote: I could even bore you all to tears with all the physics behind ET and non ET tuning....
but then again.... maybe NOT!
- by Feg
- 04 Dec 2011, 16:34
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Idle chit-chatterers corner (again)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 30233
- by Feg
- 05 Nov 2011, 18:15
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Anybody fancy a chinwag?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 21463
Re: Anybody fancy a chinwag?
We used a bright red book called 'The School Recorder Book 1'. It was meant to be used in conjunction with in-school teaching rather than as a teach yourself book. Anyone who got to the green book 2 was considered a swot. I didn't. I've got a copy of the red book, somewhat faded now I'm afraid, and...
- by Feg
- 04 Nov 2011, 23:28
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Anybody fancy a chinwag?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 21463
Re: Anybody fancy a chinwag?
I use the John Pitts books as a starting point but don't find them very inspiring. I have devised my own way of teaching and only use some of the pieces in BK1 and not in the order they are written. I much prefer to write my own exercises tailored to the class I'm teaching that year. If you follow t...
- by Feg
- 04 Nov 2011, 14:17
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Anybody fancy a chinwag?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 21463
Re: Anybody fancy a chinwag?
Does opening up the head joint make any difference to the pitch? You should be able to lower the pitch by a fair amount that way and you always have a small amount of extra in the bottom joint as well. If you want a temporary recorder to tide you over until Christmas, give me a shout and I'll post o...
- by Feg
- 16 Jun 2011, 19:49
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: RIP Uncle Ronnie :(
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10764
Re: RIP Uncle Ronnie :(
Sorry to hear about your Uncle Ronnie
- by Feg
- 22 Apr 2011, 11:22
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Knabe and Thal piano
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11254
Re: Knabe and Thal piano
Nobody anywhere can guess the condition or value of a piano without tuning it. In my opinion it is bad advice to say "you need a tuner" when the owner could just upload some photos and we can give a rough assessment based on its age, physical condition and whether it is straightstrung, ov...
- by Feg
- 11 Apr 2011, 16:40
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Some good news...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20334
Re: Some good news...
You are but a child, Davedave brum wrote:I'm 41
I am envious of your youth
- by Feg
- 09 Apr 2011, 22:13
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: piano tuning course
- Replies: 23
- Views: 28945
Re: paino tuning course
Feg. What's wrong about asking Veron(sic)? We know Auld Reekie rules and that the Weegies are" the people" but the Capital of the Highlands is far it is at> At present I am training a pupil in piano tuning, one to one, as I have done to many in the past. ( For the benefit of our non-scotc...
- by Feg
- 09 Apr 2011, 20:04
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: piano tuning course
- Replies: 23
- Views: 28945
Re: paino tuning course
I don't think any piano tuning college will do quick crash courses in tuning - and don't know any in Scotland - ask Vernon. Why ask Veron? I'm a Scottish piano tuner too :D and I've already replied to that question! The only piano tuning/repair course in Scotland closed in June 2000 - I was one of ...
- by Feg
- 09 Apr 2011, 09:11
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: piano tuning course
- Replies: 23
- Views: 28945
Re: paino tuning course
A basic tuning of unisons & good lever technique is possibly all that is needed really for top notch pianists. .........so its also knowing which string to tune. I would forget about repairs.... if you are playing on a good piano, it won't need any, unless you break a hammer! I'm all for pianis...
- by Feg
- 09 Apr 2011, 00:25
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: piano tuning course
- Replies: 23
- Views: 28945
Re: paino tuning course
The only piano tuning/repair course in Scotland closed in June 2000 - I was one of the last students to get my qualification there. As far as I'm aware, the only training facility left in the UK is at Newark College. It takes far more than a short course to gain any practical knowledge of tuning and...
- by Feg
- 05 Apr 2011, 11:35
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: If you were seriously rich which piano mwould you buy?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9400
Re: If you were seriously rich which piano mwould you buy?
I tune a 1700s one with bells and a drum. But I'm not allowed to use the drum pedal because it makes the dog go loopy. Haha, that's brilliant. I didn't imagine for a second that something like that already existed! :) You need to brush up on your early keyboard history :lol: Get thee to the library!
- by Feg
- 03 Apr 2011, 14:27
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: J. Strohmenger & Sons London???
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10028
Re: J. Strohmenger & Sons London???
The only way to get an accurate assessment of your piano and its value (if any) is to contact your local piano tuner and get his/her expert opinion. There is a list of suitably qualified piano tuners by area on this site (links at the left of this page) or via the Pianoforte Tuners' Association webs...
- by Feg
- 29 Mar 2011, 23:48
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: I did it!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3325
Re: I did it!
Well done
- by Feg
- 26 Mar 2011, 00:37
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: any idea of the phoenix piano in hurtswood farm?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18949
Re: any idea of the phoenix piano in hurtswood farm?
Already here, and have been for some time!Johnkie wrote:What next carbon fiber fiddles, cellos, guitars ?
- by Feg
- 18 Mar 2011, 18:40
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Some good news...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20334
Re: Some good news...
I shall never try and go beyond my Ken again (also, with all of Anne's best intentions she may have been pushing me too far). Missed talking to Gill too :shock: Dave, I think that you got so focussed on sitting and passing piano exams that you lost sight of why you wanted to learn in the first plac...
- by Feg
- 18 Mar 2011, 11:03
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: Some good news...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20334
- by Feg
- 20 Feb 2011, 22:57
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: The End
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13884
Re: The End
The issue being that activity in the Piano Lounge has over the past six months or so died away to almost non-existent in terms of learners and teachers using the page. With this in mind, this page is transforming into a sole resource for piano tuners historians and technicians only, squeezing the t...
- by Feg
- 20 Feb 2011, 18:32
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: The End
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13884
Re: The End
I'm sorry folks, but I'm struggling to understand what is going on? I don't see that the forum or it's categories have changed recently and I'm on here a good few times a day. The UK Piano Page was set up and is run by the ABPT not only for the benefit of its members but for the wider piano owning, ...
- by Feg
- 17 Feb 2011, 13:45
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Piano buying advice - Yamaha P114T v U1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16097
Re: Piano buying advice - Yamaha P114T v U1
I don't think it is at all cheeky to about any piano's tuning history/piano tuner etc. If you were buying a car, you would want to see the service history etc. If the seller of a car couldn't/wouldn't provide a service history, you would walk away from the deal. Why shouldn't the same principle appl...
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