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I would love to see more inspiration, from anyone who wants to post a link.
A few of my favorites. I have worked on these, but I'm not at a level where I can do really well yet. I will return to them when I have progressed further...
Paderewsky damaged a hand on tour in the US. He never recovered and for the rest of his life had to do workarounds.
And he was Liszt's student wasn't he?
That's the thing, we aren't saying Liszt isn't great if we say he wasn't focused on technique, or his students got injured, we're just acknowledging he was a product of his time.
No. He was a student of Leschetizky but Leschetizky couldn't change his technique.
Leschetizky wasn't concerned with injuries either. I'm not even sure if he realized such things either existed, or if he did realize that, that they could be avoided. Schnabel was also his student and he was often injured. I've just repeated myself on this thread.
The issue would not be processor usage, but memory usage. I imagine if you run the VST alone, 8GB RAM should be enough. Problem could arise when you run the VST alongside some other applications at the same time - if the combined RAM usage (including whatever the operating system uses) exceeds 8GB, then some of those memory pages would have to be swapped to the SSD drive which would be slower and may cause hiccup.
Because I shouldn’t have to use a different browser and I look at everything in google chrome on iPhone, why on earth would I use a whole new browser to go on this forum only…. Which I hate anyway now.
Good bye
Well, one reason to stick around is that we will miss you... 🙂
Also, change can be a bit annoying, but often good things come from it as well as some annoying things. No reason not to try new forums though, but you can always come visit here.
Like right now, I'm using Firefox for the first time since Google became popular, and so far, it's been very good. I like watching science content on YouTube and adverts have now stopped. It's very much better using this new browser.
Just to add more experiences, I liked this comparison between the casio gp-310, the kawai nv5s and the Silent yamaha B2. It's in Italian, but you can put an automatic translation of the subtitles on YouTube if you want to understand the evaluation, or just listen. In short, as many have said, Casio is a winner in terms of value for money. The lowest score was in the mechanical realism of the keys, due to the fact that they have similar weight between the low and high notes, with a score of 8/10, but 9.5/10 in the response and mechanical precision of the keys. There is a table at the end of the video with the scores.
I am just starting research on this piano, which belonged to my US grandparents and is now in the home of a first cousin in Vegreville, Alberta, Canada, 50 miles east of my home in Edmonton. I don't yet have a serial number or solid professional photos, and its condition is possibly not the most functional. My main interest is in its provenance.
It travelled in a boxcar from New Richmond, Wisconsin, about 25 miles east of Minneapolis, to Vegreville in 1913 when my grandparents emigrated to a new farm life in Canada. It was loved and played in the old farmhouse and eventually made its way to my cousin. My search here is just to get any general or specific personal information anyone has about this make; Adam Schaaf was evidently a well-made piano from Chicago with high quality and reputation. The company was in business from 1873 until the Great Depression forced its demise, like so many others.
At the PTG National in Arlington last summer I talked to the Bechstein folks. I pointed to the Concert 8 they had on display and said:
"That piano, with THAT action in it (pointing across the isle to the Esmonde/White/Fandrich action exhibit) would be THE BEST upright piano on the planet!"
That got them interested and they went and checked it out. They were suitably impressed. Of course incorporating new things into well established product lines is rarely easy, and requires foresight and a bit of risk. My understanding is that B. is a bit risk-averse.
Ooo! I only have one of his books, the Ghibli Best Stories book. Will you please tell me which other ones you have? If I could only learn one composer's works, it would be his.
That was my first one and it’s definitely my favorite. I wish all of my piano books had that thick creamy paper…
There’s some overlap between the books…some pieces appear multiple times. But there’s at least 2-3 pieces in every book that I really love so I don’t regret buying any of them.
There is a book 2 for both Piano Stories and Piano Collection - I don’t have either of those yet.
It’s described as “Studio Ghibli songs arranged in Chopin style,” which intrigued me because I love Chopin too. In reality they are more like an odd mish-mash of a popular Chopin piece and a Ghibli piece. There are a few I like, but overall I would not recommend this book.
The function of the pianosense device is simply to bypass the microphone and acquire the "cleanest" distortion free signal as currently possible. If one is perfectly happy with the mic performance (or whatever setup they have) there is no need to invest in a high end sensor. It's really intended for pros rather than DIY.
I've been hauling this little gem around for more than half my adult life. It is still in sad shape internally although its exterior is quite nice. My mother refinished it for me around 2001 and my father is an expert piano tuner, so he will supply me through fixing its innards back up now that I finally have the time to dig into it.
By the serial number, 29945, it is from 1901-ish. I did find it free on a curb covered in candle wax and stored it poorly for a few weeks when I first had it.
My grandmother was a piano teacher and told me this is an upright grand and could sound better than anything I've ever played on if it were fixed. My father attempted to tune the working keys and could not bring it up to the appropriate frequency, I think is how he put it. He says it could still be put in tune with itself, but middle C won't exactly play C...
I was reading that its finish is probably extremely rare, and that's mostly why I shared, it may be appreciated here.
Please bear in mind that the makers of this and all other pianos never in their wildest dreams intended or expected anyone to be attempting to restore it 140 years later. The "design lifespan" is roughly 30-40 years (or one typical generation). By then some serious stuff is happening. Downhill from there.
I can't answer your question about ATX and Aures, but I was playing both a K200 and K300 last week and I wouldn't say there is any noticeable difference in loudness between them.
I'm just surprised that so many people have been surfing the interwebs without ad blockers or tracking blockers. I never even noticed the change here, since I never see ads...
Sam
Same here.
But on the other hand, after many years, YouTube has finally figured out how to detect ad blockers and it will simply stop you from seeing the content unless you turn them off. The alternative is to pay a monthly subscription. Something like that could happen here, I am guessing.
Funny thing about YouTube, though, is that some of my favorite classical music channels don't even have ads. There must be some special arrangement about that, but I don't know any details about it.
The odd thing is that I never see ads on youtube, and I am there everyday. Is it the Brave browser? I do have a youtube account and upload my own videos for the ABF recitals and other things, but I don't pay them anything...
The thing with ad blockers is that it's like a whack-a-mole game. If YouTube detects specific ad blockers then people will switch to different ones that they don't detect. There is no such thing as "blocking all ad blockers". They have to write code for specific browsers/extensions. If you're using a more obscure browser they may never bother. Though, I'm using Firefox and ublock origin, which isn't all that obscure and I never see ads on YT.
Thanks for the tips on browsers and blockers, Sam and Bart.
I'd gone for many years without ever seeing ads on YouTube, using Firefox with AdBlock Plus. Then, a few months ago, I started seeing them. Googling about it brought up some articles and posts that said YouTube had figured out a new way of detection that was basically beyond the reach of all ad blockers. I sort of gave up at that point.
In a way, I feel a little guilty about wanting to watch videos for free and with no ads. But then, the YouTube business model keeps that guilty feeling at a minimum.
I'm glad you liked it. I realize I once again somewhat hijacked a thread because you asked for inspirational pieces, not people But I think that gal is incredible!
The other has the original 25 year old hammers. The the tech has lightly shaped and fine voiced the hammers once a year for 25 years, and just did again today.
Do you really need to voice hammers that often? How do you know when you should voice them?
Here is another bucket list piece I desperately want to learn one day. I would love to see more inspiration, from anyone who wants to post a link. When I'm not playing, I'm dreaming about playing.
I've only just started playing piano. I'm 2/3 through Alfred's All-In-One Level 1. To keep my motivation up while I learn pieces that aren't my favorite, I dream every day of the kind of music I would most like to play one day. I'm going to share one of mine. Will you share one of yours?
We're on the same wavelength. I LOVE Joe Hisaishi. I think I have 5 of his piano books now and more on my wishlist.
Ooo! I only have one of his books, the Ghibli Best Stories book. Will you please tell me which other ones you have? If I could only learn one composer's works, it would be his.
One of my friends, she used to play that for me before I had a piano. I really love that song. When I got a piano that was the first song I wanted to learn. After a few years, I was good enough to learn that song but I discovered a lot of beautiful piano pieces and I never learned that song.
I enjoyed watching this video, Serge, thank you for sharing it.
Music in almost all its forms is inspirational to me. I love how it transcends time (the legacies of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart or Joplin are still alive thanks to their music), borders, skin colour, gender, or any of those other silly artificial obstacles people have created for themselves.
But what I find most inspirational about the piano that it's ageless...
But I think that gal is incredible!
