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Thanks, Jeff.

Yes, I had an old piano where it was just a damper for the bottom half of the range. The Clavinova had just two pedals but yes, this one has a fully functional sostenuto pedal - I used it to sustain the low notes in the Liszt piece during harmony changes!

If you want to study it bring it up. The only agenda I have is a chronological progression for the main sonatas, Mozart, Clementi, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt.

Pmsl

Seriously though, congrats Richard, looks nice,

Nice looking piano Richard, I see you to have started your own cult.

"The cult of the crap light bulb that ruins everything"

We too have one or four.

Low energy light bulbs ruin everything. they do not allow standard lamps or table lamps to use the shade that you used,liked and loved, when normal and proper light bulbs were in vogue.

Another thing, has anyone ever tried to thread a neadle with cotton thread after dusk with only a low energy light bulb to illuminate (NOT) the operation?

Why oh why do we allow and put up with this shite to happen?

An otherwise perfectly acceptable looking music room ( with added interest of extra large book entitled "Music" to add to general ambiance) with new piano installed, ruined, ruined I say by low energy light bulb showing, naked in its uselessness and shadeless shame.

unless, unless of course (a) Richard had no money left after Kawai purchase for a lampshade, Or (b)Richard has a thing about lampshades after the incident with a childhood governess.

Or ( unlikely) (c) lampshades are not available in a suitable colour in Ireland.

I bought that lamp, Rossy, as a matching pair many years ago to light up either side of a mirror when practising stage make-up (I was in amateur theatre for many years). I never used the shades and threw them away.

I delight in low energy light bulbs because I only have to change them once every seven to ten years. They also give out diffuse light, like a fluorescent lamp. All our bulbs are low energy but some are brighter than others. We have bright ones that are brighter than the old 120W bulbs in the front room but dimmer ones in bedrooms and hallways. Even in Ireland we can get lo-energy bulbs that are exactly the same shape as the original and genuine light bulbs of my youth.

Were I not married, none of my lights would have shades. None of them did when my wife first visited my home (before she was my wife, of course).

Oh, and I seldom use the thing. Normal room lighting is enough for me to see the score. It reflects off the white walls adequately.

Further, my childhood governess was a low energy one and no lampshades are available in Ireland unless they're green (yukkie green, not pleasant green) or the colour of peat moss.

The book is the Oxford Dictionary of Music but they chose not to put the important word (Dictionary) on the spine. There's Oxford for you. It's so that I can spell Baithoeven, Showpan, Shy Cough Ski and Bark correctly. I use it all the time.

And I didn't need money for the piano. I used a credit card. You don't have to pay those till you get a bill. Excuse me, there's someone at the door. That'll be the postman...

...It was the bank writing to say I was overdrawn. No worries. I've mailed them a cheque.

Nice, Richard! Congrats!

Speaking of lights, I just started getting rid of the CFLs that ruin my paint color choices and switching them out for LEDs. Much warmer and supposedly they last 20 years or so.

I know of the perfect clip to complement your check writing scenario, Richard, but I can't find it on you tube. That makes me sad.

77 mph on a pushbike.

How is that done?

well on a public road, in fact a really good one that is called the Kirkstone pass.

I know it well, it was in my kneck of the woods when I lived in that neck of the woods.

Kudos for the guy with the speedo and the helmet cam.

check this out....

Dammit, I do that run on me bike three times a year (the days when it doesn`t rain) . . Wouldn`t like to meet him . . .

forget about pianos, lets talk Bikes . . Hill climbs . . . punctures . . beer . . GREAT vids! That`s my neck o` the woods, nearly.

For Peterws Tough Mudder

I'm stoned, lol,

Bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

who? did you mean bustards wayne? was that a video of great bustards?

or did someone do reiki by remote on you without asking?

Morning Rossy and all I was refering to the "embedding disabled by request" on my Gimme Gimme Gimme post. It's so annoying lol Hope all is well with everyone, off to do some housework, bk a bit later

Hi!

This video shows a parody on my city. They sing in Spanish (or something similar ), but I think it’s still funny. It has been a total success over here.

Your town is pretty, Recaredo!

Here's my new addiction:

That'll be Richard, trying to Shackle my chakra's lol

wayne you really have to do a google search on "violet breath" like really, for instance if you suspect reiki as charlatan, then violet breath is a gift from god.

it is all explained in this informative ( and totally misguided) video.

You start off by breathing in. Except you dont use your mouth or nose for breathing in, oh no that would be much to easy a feat for the spiritually aware, you breath in from, well, listen dudes and dudettes I swear on my mums life I have not made this shite up, honestly, its what reiki instructs you to do....


apparently you breath in from your bum, now call me a cynic, call me a skeptic, call me whatever you want, but if you can breath in from your bum, then dont call me anything especially near my face when you go breathing out again, please.

but in reiki, apparently you breath in from your fundament and then turn it purple and breath it out again on some poor gullables head who will actually pay you for what sensible folk would consider an insult if it worked.

there are many wonderous and amazing things in this universe, stunning things, awe inspiring things that have yet to be discovered, I believe that there are many , many things in this universe than can be conceived by my imagination,

however, reiki is not one of them.