Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - "Ya'll ready to jam?" Outside the Jackson Park field house, children squeeze between an upright piano and its accompanying bench for a chance to unabashedly pound their fingers across the keys and peek into the inner workings of the instru

Pianist

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EMAIL: editor@pianistmagazine.com WRITE TO: The Editor, Pianist, Warners Group Publications, 31-32 Park Row, Leeds, LS1 5JD. STAR LETTER wins a surprise CD. Letters may be edited. I read Joseph Laredo’s ‘Weakest link’ letter in issue 114, and I find

Beat English

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Beat / How much distance do you already have from „Flur“? Did you have time to reflect it yet? Martin/ It‘s two months old now. I often need the mirror of other people who work with me in order to feel it too. I try to get the music out of myself as

Pianist

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Pianists are often encouraged to think more like singers. There’s a long history of such advice, and by grasping the potential link between our ‘real’ voice and our ‘pianist’s’ voice, our playing should sound more compelling. From a rich literature o

Stuff UK

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There are some things you just don’t expect to be released as Lego sets: Coventry Central Police Station, the Whitgift shopping centre in Croydon, Fred and Rose West’s house. A piano probably doesn’t immediately spring to mind either. After all, they

Pianist

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If I were to ask you which online topic was most likely to provoke the largest amounts of spittle-flecked invective and steam-eared ranting on both sides of the debate, you’d probably suggest, say, the presidency of Donald Trump or the actions of Meg

Pianist

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On these pages, Pianist covers the most basic stages of learning the piano through a series of lessons by Hans-Günter Heumann. This lesson features a two-page exercise that will help you take control of your repeated-note technique. Notice how the fi

Australian Home Beautiful

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Of all the objects that we keep in our homes, none thrum with quite the potential of musical instruments. The sinuous lines of a guitar, for example, not only make music, they also look beautiful. Pop a guitar up on a stand and it functions as an ers

Post Magazine

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Gift of music I was born in Sydney in 1954. My adoptive parents flew from Dubbo, a little country town in the middle of New South Wales, picked me up and took me home. I have a country heart and a city mind. My parents weren't musical but they realis

Computer Music

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Whatever level of keyboard playing you’re at, there’s always more to be learned if you want to. If you’re serious about taking your playing to the next level, working on your basic piano technique is an obvious move, since piano is the granddaddy of

Pianist

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This is the perfect time of year for a spring clean! For many of us, piano playing has become quite a different experience from what we were accustomed to just a year ago. While for some the daunting reality of a virtual world merely confirms the ind

JazzTimes

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GenreFluid Streaming, especially on non-conventional platforms like YouTube, has become the dominant mode for disseminating music in 2019. With decades of recordings of centuries of music at our fingertips, musicians have access to a seemingly infini

Ladybug

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Greta loved playing Nana’s old piano more than anything in the world. More than eating Nana’s cookies. More than using Nana’s bubble bath. Even more (just a little bit more) than playing in her garden with the toads and butterflies and daisies. Nana

Writing Magazine

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Pianist magazine is the go-to magazine for anyone who wants to take up playing the piano, or improve their skills ‘Our motto is that Pianist is for people who love to play the piano,’ said editor Erica Worth. ‘It’s aimed at any level, beginners to ad

Sound and Image

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Which day do you choose for piano day? Why, the 88th day of the year, of course, matching the number of keys on this instrument which is one of the hardest for any audio system to nail perfectly. Not only does piano have one of the widest frequency r

BBC Music Magazine

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Enrico Pieranunzi (piano), Jasper Somsen (double bass), Jorge Rossy (drums) Challenge CR73459 Here’s a fine outing from a pianist noted for his ability to stir unexpected concepts into jazz that seem to fit perfectly and naturally but that never seem

Global Voices

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Despite winning numerous awards at international classical piano competitions and training with some of the biggest names in classical music, Viktoriya Yermolyeva decided to tackle another kind of music: rock.

Pianist

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If you can set a child upon the journey to discover the joy of playing music, you’re giving them one of the greatest gifts ever. And the KORG tinyPIANO is one of the best ways of helping them take their first tentative steps. Don’t dismiss tinyPIANO

BBC Music Magazine

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Back in February, Nicolas Namoradze, the winner of the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, gave his Wigmore Hall prize recital – and a terrific programme it was, too. Alongside a Bach sinfonia and the Partita No. 6, the Georgian pianist pull

BBC Music Magazine

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Composing started early for Finnissy, who took to the piano before he was five and soon began to create his own tunes on the keyboard. A scholarship for the Royal College of Music was followed by an Italian scholarship, during which time the young mu

The Knot California

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This is easy to forget. Your bridal party has compiled a playlist of getting-ready music no doubt, so do your part and remember the guests who will be awaiting your grand entrance. Same goes for cocktail hour, when you may be off having your pictures

Pianist

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Congratulations go to Giuseppe Capasso from Rome, Italy, who has won a Kawai piano. Capasso wowed the five judges with his stylishly hypnotic 46-bar tango, Blue Habanera. ‘Giuseppe Capasso composed a wonderfully evocative tango packed with stylistic

Hi-Fi Choice

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WHEN IS A weight not a weight? When it’s a Gravity One record weight from Origin Live. Although it’s called a record weight, the Gravity One might more aptly be described as a record puck as this add-on – designed to sit on a record over the centre s

Hi-Fi Choice

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IN KEEPING WITH AE tradition, the constituent parts of the AE300 include a 25mm aluminium tweeter partnered to a 125mm aluminium mid/bass driver. The modern twist comes in the way it’s implemented. The tweeter is set within a waveguide that the compa

Pianist

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Benslow Music Trust Various dates throughout 2020 www.benslowmusic.org Residential and short courses for all levels in Hertfordshire. Piano courses include Fugues for Fun (8-10 May), Jazz Piano (26-28 May), and Late Starter Piano (10-12 July). Chetha

BBC Music Magazine

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Though the Coronavirus outbreak has scuppered most of this year’s Beethoven 250th-anniversary plans, Steinway has at least done its bit to help the composer blow out the candles in style. The company has built ten ‘Appassionata’ pianos (left), whose

The Christian Science Monitor

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Can you know a place by its instruments? A British travel writer wanders Siberia on a strange and wonderful quest to write about historic pianos.

Pianist

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In many ways, its name, Piano Week International Festival and Summer School, doesn’t do justice to this extraordinary musical venture or, more accurately, adventure. For a start, it’s a touring festival and summer school held over multiple weeks and

Future Music

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01 > We’ve set our dictaphone to record and captured some upright piano chords and some isolated, higher notes. We could plug in a USB cable and transfer these directly to our DAW, but we’re adding a second layer of lo-fi, by recording them via a mic

Stuff Magazine South Africa

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from R4 000 / smartpiano.com In 1988 fantasy comedy Big there’s a classic scene where Tom Hanks plays Chopsticks with his feet on an oversize piano. The keys light up with each step, and frankly you’d have to be a cold-hearted bastard not to get wr