What Are The Letters Behind A Yamaha Piano Model Name?

What Are The Letters Behind A Yamaha Piano Model Name?
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">What is the difference between a </span><a href="/node/1515" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" title="Yamaha U1J PWH">Yamaha U1J PWH</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">, </span><a href="/node/591" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" title="Yamaha U1J SG2">Yamaha U1J SG2</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">, </span><a href="/node/1514" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" title="Yamaha U1J PEC">Yamaha U1J PEC</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">, and </span><a href="/node/6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" title="Yamaha U1J">Yamaha U1J</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">? Looking closer at their names, you would be able to tell minimally that they are all U1J pianos. However, each name has a different set of letters behind, which can potentially confuse buyers, especially first-timers. Guess it is time to sort them out!</span></p>

Convert Old VHS Tapes to Digital Content

Convert Old VHS Tapes to Digital Content
For the newer generation, VHS (Video Home System) tapes might be unheard of. But to the middle age and elderly, most will be feeling nostalgic about them. After all, we used to watch many of our favourite dramas and movies, and even record overseas trips and parties on these old video cassette tapes. What if you still have such vintage tapes lying around somewhere, and would like to convert them into a more modern video format like the Mpeg-4?

What Are The Marking Criteria For The ABRSM Graded Practical Piano Exams?

What Are The Marking Criteria For The ABRSM Graded Practical Piano Exams?
<p>Ever wonder how the ABRSM Graded Practical Piano Exams are being marked? Why is it that you feel you had played the prepared piece very well, but did not score a distinction? Will having a few slips during playing the scales and apreggios affect the marks a lot? If you cannot answer some aural test questions confidently, does this compromise the exam results significantly? How should you perform during the sight reading test to score high? Indeed, these are very common questions every candidate face, and probably uncommonly answered. Today, we take you to the secret chamber where the marking rubric is revealed!</p>

Finding and Listening to Piano Exam Pieces Before Choosing

Finding and Listening to Piano Exam Pieces Before Choosing
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Looking at the scores of the piano exam pieces and wondering if a piece is suitable for you; is a familiar situation most candidates face, with many lamenting the poor accessbility to their audios of quality playing. If you can hear the piece while following the scores; it can, in many occasions, give you a higher confidence whether you should choose that piece. While sight singing can help, it does not give a complete picture of the piece's demanding expressions and intentions, and is after all, not a skill everyone possesses. Here are some tips on how to find the audios. </span></p>

Steinway Gallery Singapore Presents the QuietTime ProRecord for All Steinway Pianos

Steinway Gallery Singapore Presents the QuietTime ProRecord for All Steinway Pianos
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">23 January 2015, Singapore: Steinway Gallery Singapore proudly presents the launch of </span><a href="http://www.steinway-gallery.com.sg/our-pianos/quiet-time-system/" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" title="Steinway Quiet Time system, QuietTime ProRecord">QuietTime ProRecord</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> – a leading-edge silent system that transforms a Steinway into a private mini recording system with digital keyboard functionalities hence providing pianists extensive benefits and endless capabilities. An advanced system which offers recording, playback and enhancement capacities, the QuietTime ProRecord system can be used on any grand or upright piano from the Steinway &amp; Sons family of pianos which includes Steinway, Boston, and Essex.</span></p>

Piano Workshop by Emma on 03 August 2015

Piano Workshop by Emma on 03 August 2015
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">It's natural for many passionate and advanced level pianists to look for ways to improve themselves in piano techniques, and in acquiring a deeper understanding of the pieces they're playing. Attending masterclasses, recitals, and workshops is one such popular way, where it's really a good opportunity to hear and learn from someone skilled and experienced, and willing to share. So, when I heard of a Piano Workshop on 3 August 2015 on the topics of phrasing and using singing to help the pianist express better, I jumped at it!</span></p>

How To Play Piano Late In The Night Without Disturbing Your Neighbours

How To Play Piano Late In The Night Without Disturbing Your Neighbours
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Many pianists have hit this bump that he really has to play the piano late at night due to either his working hours or the necessity to practice doubly hard for that audition, performance, or piano exam the next day. But in our tiny land-scarce Singapore, residential flats are built so close to each other, and it is not uncommon that a dog's barking or a couple's quarreling in the neighbourhood is audible enough in the slience of the night. It is, thus, important to find a compromise so that you can still play the piano without disturbing your neighbours.</span></p>

Change In ABRSM Piano Practical Exams Schedule And Dates From 2016

Change In ABRSM Piano Practical Exams Schedule And Dates From 2016
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Piano teachers, music schools, parents or candidates must take note that there is a slight change to ABRSM Piano Practical Exams in Singapore from 2016. This change includes not just the usual graded exams, but the diploma exams as well, and will definitely affect the planning involved to prepare the candidates for the exams</span></p>

Do You Have Any Music Questions To Ask?

Do You Have Any Music Questions To Ask?
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Ever wonder why some musicians play on the steps on the stage? Or whether you can learn an instrument if you don't know how to read musical notes? Chances are that there will be times when you, kids around you, or your friends might have some interesting questions about music that demand answers. How do we get the answers then?</span></p>

ABRSM Graded Practical Piano Exam Syllabus

ABRSM Graded Practical Piano Exam Syllabus
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The </span><a href="http://www.abrsm.org" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM)</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">, and </span><a href="http://www.trinitycollege.com" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Trinity College London (TCL)</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> conduct piano examinations every year in many countries all over the world, with more than 650,000 candidates taking ABRSM exams alone. In Singapore, ABRSM is arguably the gold standard that most parents and schools recognise and go for. Even big and popular music schools in Singapore like </span><a href="http://sg.yamaha.com/en/music_education/faq/" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Yamaha</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> and </span><a href="http://www.cristofori.asia/ver4/graded-piano-course/" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Cristofori </a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">send their students for ABRSM piano exams in each qualifying period. So, what does a ABRSM graded practical piano exam syllabus comprise?</span></p>

How To Register For An ABRSM Piano Theory Exam In Singapore

How To Register For An ABRSM Piano Theory Exam In Singapore
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">ABRSM Piano Theory Exams in Singapore are conducted twice a year. And for each theory exam, its registration exercise will take place a few months before. Be it you are a music teacher who wants to register your students, a parent who wishes to register your kids, or an individual who wants to register yourself; there are usually a few immediate concerns. What is the registration procedures for the ABRSM Piano Theory Exam? How much are the fees? Well, dig in, and find out more!</span></p>

Change in Singapore ABRSM Representative Office's Address

Change in Singapore ABRSM Representative Office's Address
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The ABRSM Representative Office in Singapore is responsible for a lot of administrative matters related to the ABRSM examinations conducted here in Singapore yearly. It also ensures that the information flows properly between the London office and teachers. Thus, it is very important for Examination Applicants and Candidates to know its office address.</span></p>

What Time After Must You Stop Playing The Piano At Night In Singapore?

What Time After Must You Stop Playing The Piano At Night In Singapore?
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">In Singapore, we have many HDB flats built close to each other, each densely populated with families of typically between two to four persons. If you are a </span><a href="http://www.quora.com/What-is-a-Singapore-heartlander" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" title="What is a Singapore &quot;heartlander&quot;?">heartlander</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">, hearing baby cries, couple's quarrels, and loud renovation works, are really not quite uncommon. Even the barking of the dogs or karaoke singings would remind you how close we are living just next to each other. Thus, it is understandable that being a good neighbour includes keeping noise level down. So, what time after must you stop playing the piano at night?</span></p>

How Does A Piano Work

How Does A Piano Work
<p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Most of us know, generally, that the piano has black and white keys, and there are upright and grand pianos. But here's the interesting question - have you ever seen the insides of it, and understand how the many parts come together to produce the familiar piano sounds where pieces like Mozart's Turkish March, Beethoven's Fur Elise, Chopin's Revoluntionary Etude, and more; are based upon?</p>

Can Adult Learn Piano

Can Adult Learn Piano
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Oh, so you have an adult friend who talks about how it is a pity not to learn piano when she was a child, and it is now impossible because her fingers are too stiff and she's too old to pick up piano. Well, are you convinced? This urban myth is so common in Singapore that most interested adults find themselves dealing with this unnecessary psychological obstacle right at the start.</span></p>

How Often To Tune Your Piano In Singapore

How Often To Tune Your Piano In Singapore
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Tuning your piano is a very basic thing to do for any piano owner. But, just how often should you tune your piano to keep it in good condition? We know when it is the time to visit the doctor, to trim our nails, or to cut our hair - how about when to tune your piano? Also, why does the piano even need to be tuned at all? And for us living in hot and humid Singapore, do the usual tips and advices apply?</span></p>

How To Register For An ABRSM Piano Practical Exam

How To Register For An ABRSM Piano Practical Exam
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">ABRSM Piano Practical Exams are conducted twice a year, and thrice a year starting from 2016. And for each exam session, its registration exercise will take place a few months before. Be it you are a music teacher who wants to register your students, a parent who wishes to register your kids, or an individual who wants to register yourself; there are usually a few immediate concerns. For example, do you register online, or submit a manually filled up form? How much are the fees? Can you choose a preferred month to take the exam in? Well, dig in, and find out more!</span></p>

Effect Of Piano Music On Fetus

Effect Of Piano Music On Fetus
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">You have heard that learning piano or listening to piano music during your pregnancy makes your baby in the womb smarter. Or you may have come across readings that suggest the fetus can develop to be more appreciative of music, or even acquire a talent for picking up musical instruments. Truth or urban myths? Let's find out.</span></p>

What Is Bad About Exam Oriented Learning

What Is Bad About Exam Oriented Learning
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Is your child learning just three piano exam pieces, and practicing the same scales and arpeggios day in and out every grading year so that he can take the piano exam? Sounds too familiar? Most importantly, is there anything bad with this approach at all, and is there even any good? Should you, as a parent, be concerned?</span></p>

Classical And Romantic Period Symphonies

Classical And Romantic Period Symphonies
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Symphonies are bigger pieces of works compared to Sonatas and Sonatinas, and are musical compositions usually scored for a concert band or orchestra. Classical and Romantic period Symphonies, however, are quite dfferent in their own ways. Let's explore.</span></p>

What Is A Silent Piano

What Is A Silent Piano
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">A Silent Piano is essentially still an acoustic piano, enpowered with the choice of muting the sounds that are produced when the hammer strikes the strings. Consequently, its main selling point would be that it offers the player a chance to have private silent practice, even in the wee hours like 2am.</span></p>

What Piano To Buy For A Beginner

What Piano To Buy For A Beginner
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">It is always a big dilemma for parents to choose a "right" piano for their kid who is going to learn piano for the first time. And the main concern runs roughly along this line - </span><em style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I'm not sure if he has interest, and I do not want to invest too much money to buy an expensive piano. Even if he has interest now, I wouldn't know it would last</em><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">. Totally valid. So how do we weigh the factors, and balance them; so that the kid gets a decent piano?</span></p>

Can A Grand Piano Fit Into A HDB Flat In Singapore

Can A Grand Piano Fit Into A HDB Flat In Singapore
<p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Whether a grand piano can fit into a HDB flat in Singapore, or even a HDB lift in the first place, is definitely an interesting and popular question to ask when you want to buy a piano. Given its big dimensions compared to an upright piano, we have always wonder if it is possible to live the dream of having a grand piano within our very own HDB living room in the heartland.</span></p>