Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
Photo: Yaroslav Shuraev
So most pianos are black because it was easier / cheaper for companies to manufacture them. As a corollary to this topic, it is actually also the same reason why many harpsichord manuals have reversed key colors.
For most people, 30–90 minutes per day seems to be a good goal. Total beginners may see good results in just 15 minutes per day.
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Overall, the guitar is easier to learn than the piano. If you consider the layout, learning songs, the ability to self-teach and a few other...
Read More »You're unlikely to see a classical piano concert with a piano that is anything but black. One of the reasons is that 95% of all concert pianists are Steinway Artists. Another reason is that black Steinways are the least expensive. A Steinway artist has to have a performing career, agrees to feature the words "Steinway Piano" on his programs, and agrees to exclusively use Steinway pianos in public performances. In exchange for this, Steinway guarantees to make a piano available (for a price) at any concert he plays. To accomplish this, Steinway has its dealers participate in the Concert and Artist program, maintaining a separate inventory of several C&A pianos, and handling maintenance, tuning, pickup and delivery. Now, since black Steinways are the least expensive (see Tim's answer for why), it follows that a dealer will provide only black pianos for concerts. The current list price for "Satin Ebony" is currently $157,379, whereas Mahogany, the cheapest wood finish, is $182,700, so we're not talking about small numbers here.
It takes at least four people to efficiently move a piano, with two to three people doing the heavy lifting, and the others guiding them to and...
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While it's totally possible to play with long nails and even be a professional pianist, it's much easier to play with shorter nails. You get more...
Read More »Located at the top of the first page of music text, caption titles present the most essential information from the TP such as the composer's name, the title of the work and the opus number.
Located at the top of the first page of music text, caption titles present the most essential information from the TP such as the composer’s name, the title of the work and the opus number. In certain Wessel scores, the caption title also includes the name attributed to the piece by the publisher, the number of the work within the series to which it belongs, the number of the ‘book’ and the dedicatee. In the CTs of three impressions an arranger’s name appears (3–1b-BR, 8–1a-W, 65–1f-B&H), while in 1–1-W there is the indication ‘Nouvelle édition corrigée’. The CTs of three English editions refer to their respective editor (see 5–1-W, 10/1-6–1-W, 10/7-12–1-W, 11–1-W). Analogous caption titles can also be found within the body of many editions, namely at the top of the first page of music text of either the constituent works in a given opus or individual movements or sections in a single piece (e.g. 13–1-Sm, 13–1-KI, 15–2-B&H, 17–2-B&H). In the latter case they sometimes appear in the middle of the page, at the start of a new section (e.g. 13–1-W). A limited number of editions lack a CT altogether, among them 1–1-BRZ, 2–1-HAt, 5–1-BRZ, 27–1-B&H, 43–1-SCHU and PolGm–1-CY.
F7. Commonly used to spell check and grammar check a document in Microsoft programs such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, etc. Shift + F7 runs a...
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However, these instruments aren't just for young children. Adults with small hands or smaller bodies may also find great success in learning how to...
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Joy Chapman certainly knows how to “drop it low” - using her powerful voice! The vocalist from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada has officially...
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Like Yamaha, Kawai have been producing acoustic pianos for decades and so they sample their own high end instruments for their digital pianos....
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