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Piano Trivia Time #6 - Is there anything different about the piano pictured below; what is it?
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I'm speechless. After playing the way it is for so long, I don't think I can imagine playing on that mirrored piano. |
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I kind of think of this as a person getting used to both left-hand and right-hand drive, but the complexity involved would be tremendous. If you could play on both, you would truly be an... See More I kind of think of this as a person getting used to both left-hand and right-hand drive, but the complexity involved would be tremendous. If you could play on both, you would truly be an ambidextrous god! |
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I think driving is completely different from this. The way you look at the scores, and how you move your fingers will be really more challenging. Just imagining playing the first 9 notes of Fur... See More I think driving is completely different from this. The way you look at the scores, and how you move your fingers will be really more challenging. Just imagining playing the first 9 notes of Fur Elise's on my left hand is already taxing my brain and finger muscles! |
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Conversely, it must be tough forcing a left-handed person to play on a "right-handed" piano? Perhaps somebody who is left-handed should chip in and share their viewpoint. |
Piano Trivia Time #4 - In which city can you find the oldest piano in existence on display today? How old is it and how many keys did it have?
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?... You can hear the oldest piano being played here too. |
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I think the pianist will have immense pressure on him! What if he accidentally break a string or something!! The oldest piano! Btw, what about those other pianos by famous composers? Are... See More I think the pianist will have immense pressure on him! What if he accidentally break a string or something!! The oldest piano! Btw, what about those other pianos by famous composers? Are they preserved or something? |
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The piano tuner would also feel stressed repairing a broken string on such a pristine piano. The pianos of famous composers are well preserved in museums. Here are just a few of them: ... See MoreThe piano tuner would also feel stressed repairing a broken string on such a pristine piano. The pianos of famous composers are well preserved in museums. Here are just a few of them: - Mozart's piano can be found at his home in Vienna. - Chopin's only working piano can be found as part of the Cobbe collection of musical instruments displayed at Hatchlands, a country house run by Britain's National Trust in the southern English county of Surrey. Chopin's other pianos in Paris and Majorca do not work. - At the Budapest museum dedicated to Liszt are two Chickering pianos and a Bösendorfer piano. There's also an Erard grand piano owned by Liszt during the last 15 years of his life at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. - You can find one of Beethoven's piano in Bonn at the museum dedicated to him. |
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Nice. Wonder how current pianists will feel playing on these preserved pianos. Ha. |
Would we see piano-themed clothes on the E-Store? Frankly, would anyone be interested in these? (PS - Click on the camera icon to add an image. If you want to include more than 1 photo, they must be of the exact same dimensions. I think this website needs a manual somewhere.)
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Haven't seen a gal wearing a big piano dress! ? |
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Think I saw the top right at Suntec recently, together with many other piano-themed clothes. |
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Oh! Haha, we had a Pop-stall @ Suntec 404 on 21 and 22 July 2018. You might have passed by our stall! =) |
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LOL! No wonder, I thought Linette was mentioning about some new shop at Suntec. Kept scratching my head there for a while - like wow, which new boutique? Thanks for connecting the dots. |
Piano Trivia Time #5 - Which piece was John Denver's "Annie's Song" first 5 notes based upon (see video below) - name the composer and the classical piece? Name a Frank Sinatra song that is also based off this exact same classical piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbAn3wWV7bM
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As to the second part of the question, you can find the answer under the Wikipedia entry for the Fifth Symphony, "Part of the second movement was given English lyrics under the title Moon Love,... See More As to the second part of the question, you can find the answer under the Wikipedia entry for the Fifth Symphony, "Part of the second movement was given English lyrics under the title Moon Love, recorded by Glenn Miller and Chet Baker among others." This of course points to Frank Sinatra's version of the song - Moon Love. You can listen to the piece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc6LPWuKO60 |
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To round up this Trivia solution. You can play the piano version of "Moon Love" from this IMSLP download (starting from page 23):... See More To round up this Trivia solution. You can play the piano version of "Moon Love" from this IMSLP download (starting from page 23): http://ks4.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d4/IMSLP08001-Tchaikovsky_-_... |
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thx Gavin for your very detailed answers! kudos to you for coming up with the piano trivia quizzes. |
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No problem Adrian. Just glad that Pianover users will get to enjoy and learn something new from it. |
Piano Piece Pick #15 - And so it goes that Billy Joel's 13th (and last) album would be entirely classical compositions, and not a single piece would be performed by him.
As you hear the Air (Dublinesque) from his Fantasies & Delusions album, played beautifully here by Richard Joo, you can't help but marvel at the talent of the incredible "Piano Man" born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Here's to many more years, Billy!
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Piano Piece Pick #15 - And so it goes that Billy Joel's 13th (and last) album would be entirely classical compositions, and not a single piece would be performed by him.
As you hear the Air (Dublinesque) from his Fantasies & Delusions album, played beautifully here by Richard Joo, you can't help but marvel at the talent of the incredible "Piano Man" born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Here's to many more years, Billy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70fiAUFniNQ
PS - Yes, the intro to "And So it Goes" (also from Billy Joel) does sound very similar to the Air (Dublinesque), that I shall add a link to it below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHO6a2H-pqY
Enjoy.
I know I did, playing the Air (it was excellent) and listening to Billy Joel. You can find Fantasies and Delusions at the Esplanade Library.
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Book Intro #1 - "Play it again: An amateur against the impossible" by Alan Rusbridger. This is an inspiring book by the Editor of the Guardian, one of the world's foremost newspaper. Alan, who gave up the piano at 16, gave himself a year to learn Chopin's Ballade No. 1 forty years later, and this book deals with his focus, discipline, and desire. It is, above all, about the sanctity of one's inner life in a world dominated by deadlines and distractions. A great read - available at NLB (... See More
Book Intro #1 - "Play it again: An amateur against the impossible" by Alan Rusbridger. This is an inspiring book by the Editor of the Guardian, one of the world's foremost newspaper. Alan, who gave up the piano at 16, gave himself a year to learn Chopin's Ballade No. 1 forty years later, and this book deals with his focus, discipline, and desire. It is, above all, about the sanctity of one's inner life in a world dominated by deadlines and distractions. A great read - available at NLB (Esplanade, Tampines, Woodlands, and Jurong).
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A short video about Alan's book by Alan himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJKGEWarAk |
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Currently going through this book and must say it's very well written and full of insights. The content is laid out in the style of a diary and I especially love the ending where Chopin's Ballade... See More Currently going through this book and must say it's very well written and full of insights. The content is laid out in the style of a diary and I especially love the ending where Chopin's Ballade is analyzed thoroughly page by page, section by section - kind of like an amateur climber tackling the Matterhorn, one cramponed step at a time. |
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Very inspiring. |
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Absolutely! Here is a single paragraph from the following entry "Friday, 25 March": Lunch with Noriko Ogawa today. She's just flown from Japan and looks emotional and sombre. I... See More Absolutely! Here is a single paragraph from the following entry "Friday, 25 March": Lunch with Noriko Ogawa today. She's just flown from Japan and looks emotional and sombre. I suggested a couple of weeks back that she might give a Kings Place concert in aid of the Japanese tsunami relief appeal. She immediately agreed - and promised to play the G minor Ballade. After a single course, we steal off for a very quick lesson in one of the rehearsal rooms in Kings Place. She begins by playing the piece to me. I realise that this is the first time since I started on this journey that I have heard the piece live and played by a 'proper' pianist. I've of course sampled numerous recordings on YouTube and iTunes, but nothing in the flesh. She plays it with incredible power and certainty - especially given the inner turbulence she must be feeling after such personal exposure to the tsunami, which has wrecked the concert hall where she most regularly plays. The piece today has an extra dimension - the sheer elemental feeling of some of the passages, that sense of being almost out of control, or rather in the control of wilder external forces. At the end, she seems shocked by what's happened. We both sit there in silence for a few moments. Noriko then asks me to play. I struggle - even though it's a new Steinway O - to make the piano sing, to tease a delicate sound out of it. On Saturday at Fish Cottage I was flying on my newly arrived Steinway. Further evidence that progress is not linear. |
Piano Trivia Time #1 - Can you guess - in which city can we find this very interesting piano-shaped building, which comes complete with glass violin staircase?
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Well done! The Piano Building is located in the city of Huainan, province of Anhui - somewhere near central China. You can read more about it here:... See More Well done! The Piano Building is located in the city of Huainan, province of Anhui - somewhere near central China. You can read more about it here: http://architecture-mag.com/content/the-piano-building-in-china/ |
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Wow.. designed by archi students!! Impressive. Just realised it is mentioned also by thepiano.sg too! Wow.. designed by archi students!! Impressive. Just realised it is mentioned also by thepiano.sg too! |
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Heh heh... |
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Thanks Gavin for sharing this! This is so cool! Wish sg can have one too! |