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Author Topic: Learning to play a piano Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-24-2015 04:31 PM                     Yes, especially with the 16' Pedal Reeds. If the setup has the 16' Ophicleide stop that operates, at least, with 50 inches of wind, that stop can do some serious screaming. Wonder if Gord ever played a Wurlitzer and sitting on a Howard Seat as below: -Monte  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-24-2015 05:42 PM                     I always use the Howard Seat  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-27-2015 09:45 PM                     And they refer to that seat as "the nut cracker". No wonder why! Nice photo of the Redford Theatre Barton with the dragon decorations  |  IP: Logged Rex Oliver Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Greenville, NC. USA Registered: Apr 2013 posted 04-28-2015 03:03 AM                     Ahh-those Wurilitzer and Barton organs!!Wish I had the space and cost to get one!!!Lowrey eat your heart out!!!I have many cinema organ recordings-CDs,LPs and such.Enjoy those instead!One of the "swap shop" thrift places out here had a whole lot of organ CDs-bought them all!!!Still listening to them.If I can't get an organ-guess this will have to be the next best thing.Those Howrad seats sort of make me think of some tractor seats!  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-28-2015 08:59 AM                     Unless you wear a kilt i doubt any nuts got cracked I find the howard set much more comfortable than a bench on the back especially if you have a long shift to play also it is easier on the thigh and hip when doing a lot of pedaling  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 04-29-2015 03:31 PM                        After spending about an hour a day playing with my piano for the past couple of weeks, I can now play Bach's Minuet in G and have it sound like it's supposed to. That Casio digital piano does a dandy harpsichord! I'm just now getting to a point where I can watch the sheet music rather than my hands, and things have suddenly become a whole lot easier. This process reminds me of when I was first learning to type in school. Getting over that first hurdle is tough. After that it gets both easier and more interesting, since you can suddenly do stuff. My hands don't wear out quite as quickly as they did a couple of weeks ago, as well.  |  IP: Logged Robert Koch Film Handler Posts: 93 From: Williams Ca USA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 04-29-2015 05:20 PM                     Good for you, Frank  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 05-07-2015 12:12 AM                        I'm really stumped here and hope one of you fine folks can tell me what this means: It's a notation on the Star Trek theme music, which is in 4/4 time if that matters. I can't find anything that tells me what that notation means, probably because I don't know the right terminology.  |  IP: Logged David Buckley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 525 From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2004 posted 05-07-2015 04:27 AM                        Since I'm the only one awake . I think the term you need to look up is tuplet  |  IP: Logged Carl Hetherington Film Handler Posts: 93 From: York, North Yorkshire, England Registered: Jul 2012 posted 05-07-2015 05:24 AM                        It means the quavers (eighth notes) should be "swung", not played straight (so that the first note is a bit longer than the second note, as typically found in jazz). This page talks about it  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 05-07-2015 12:05 PM                        Ah, the light just came on. Thanks ever so much, guys! Now getting back to exploring strange new worlds....  |  IP: Logged Doug Thompson Film Handler Posts: 27 From: Jacksonville, Fl, USA Registered: Sep 2011 posted 05-15-2015 08:52 PM                     Frank, One word: Technique. I started taking piano lessons in 1968 when I was in first grade. In eleventh grade, I was still taking lessons from the same little old lady when she died. She held back my progress because she didn't want me to pass my two older brothers, concerned that it would discourage them. And I sure I surpassed her teaching ability. Somewhere around the tenth grade, I had one lesson from a student teacher at one of the local universities. In just one lesson, he fixed my technique. On the next lesson, my regular teacher commented that I must have been practicing a lot since the previous week. I never told her about the lesson from the student teacher. I took more lessons from the student teacher, and still use what I learned from him, no matter what the style of music. Because technique is so important, I suggest you take a few lessons from a university student who is studing piano pedagogy. Doug  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 05-17-2015 12:12 AM                        I just found my first "legitimate" use for my piano. I had an announcement recording to make for the radio station that required a pow wow style intro and background. I used the percussion tone setting on my piano to create the drumming and the singing, and after an hour of experimentation I actually got an authentic sounding effect. Cool! I was working this out with my headphones on when my wife came by and asked me why I was hammering the hell out of my piano. That piano does really dandy pow wow. The syncopation was a bit of a challenge but I figured out a way to sort of bounce the keys to make it sound right and ended up being able to simultaneously synthesizize three pow wow drums and a singer. Not bad for just two hands. That was certainly a change from trying to play Beethoven.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 06-01-2015 12:26 AM                        Now THIS is cool. Moving Picture Music Sheet music collections for playing along with silent movies. I love the descriptions that go with some of the titles: Mysterioso - for depicting stealth, murder, gruesome scenes, etc. Furioso - for depicting storm scenes, general confusion, tumult, etc. Appassionato - for deep emotion, intense or tragic situations. And so on. Theatre Organist's Secrets How to make an organ create sound effects: snore, moo, bark, police whistle, train, etc.  |  IP: Logged

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