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  • 1.  Hearing the Piano Like Picasso Painted

    Posted 07-19-2017 18:36
    I found this video of interest particularly in light of what we do. For the piano technician the metaphor of hearing the piano like a child is different in that we are exchanging how we listen with Other information about the piano, but the argument still holds true as much perhaps more...

    Listening to Piano by Emilie Barton, 2 years old
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    Listening to Piano by Emilie Barton, 2 years old
    A few thoughts about holding on the happiness of our first musical impressions.
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    Benjamin Sloane
    Cincinnati OH
    513-257-8480
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  • 2.  RE: Hearing the Piano Like Picasso Painted

    Posted 07-19-2017 21:56
    Actually...this fine toddler and her somewhat pedantic dad, describe exactly why I'm in piano work and piano design.  For me, its all about the immediate, sensual experience of  sound and of the sympathetic effects of that sound on my bod'. When that sound happens, and I experience it, layers of stress simply drop away.

    The actual experience of tuning is about this sensual experience, the playing is about this sensual experience, the choices in piano design are about this experience...the voicing is about this experience.  There were many years when this present experience of sympathetic sound was removed from the present and experienced only in distant memory...that sucked...and for a while I stopped playing altogether, as the visceral joy was gone. But once I figured out what that sound was, where it was coming from in a piano (or other instrument), and how I could create the conditions that allowed that sound to happen, the gloves were off, and remain off...never to return to sound experienced only as a memory...it is either immediately present or not.  

    Many teachers of classical lit, in particular, actively teach their charges to "ignore" the sound of the instrument, and gauge their playing off of the relative discomfort created by different sound pressures, and by mental images of what they will the sound to be in their heads...poor suckers...missing out on the experience of sound in the present...I've been there, have been trained to be there, trained my self to be there too...and will never go back.

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    Jim Ialeggio
    grandpianosolutions.com
    Shirley, MA
    978 425-9026
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  • 3.  RE: Hearing the Piano Like Picasso Painted

    Posted 07-20-2017 03:22
    This precocious, pretty little girl is parodying a Concert Pianist - and parodying it very well! 
    I wonder who had their foot on the Sus.Ped.?
    Michael    UK





  • 4.  RE: Hearing the Piano Like Picasso Painted

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 07-20-2017 09:00
    Michael, In the video, her dad said that he wedges the sustain pedal
    down with a pencil. Clark

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    Clark A. Sprague, RPT www.clarkspianoservice.com




  • 5.  RE: Hearing the Piano Like Picasso Painted

    Posted 07-21-2017 03:35
    I skipped most of the intro - so missed that. Just got down to the 'nitty-gritty'  However, why spend so much time trying to paint or play like children when there are real children who can do it  . . . 'just-like-that'          Michael    UK





  • 6.  RE: Hearing the Piano Like Picasso Painted

    Posted 07-20-2017 12:55
    The child, re-enacting and exaggerating  the moves of a pianist in the video, is a drama queen bound to become a hit in TV comedy shows and movies, or even a concert pianist someday. This childhood video will be a good collectors item to feature when she reaches adulthood to either embarrass her or display her acting talent at that young age.

    That's why I never would accept a piano student under 9 years old. I would tell the parent that I could start a 7 or 8 year old and a 10 year old at the same time and in two years the 7 or 8 year old would be playing as well as the 10 year old played after five months of piano lessons. "Don't waste your money", I would tell the parents. Of course then the parent might think, "OK, wait a year or two and don't bother getting our piano tuned until he is 9. Why waste money on a regular piano tuning? If no one plays our piano it won't go out of tune." 

    Thanks for posting the video! 

    Bob Highfield

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    Robert Highfield
    Lancaster PA
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  • 7.  RE: Hearing the Piano Like Picasso Painted

    Posted 07-20-2017 20:21
    Check out the transition from Alberti Bass to octaves @ 2:15. It is like she is jumping 2, like she really is. 

    Amazing 2-Year-Old Piano Prodigy (The Best)
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    Amazing 2-Year-Old Piano Prodigy (The Best)
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    Depends on the child.

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    Benjamin Sloane
    Cincinnati OH
    513-257-8480
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  • 8.  RE: Hearing the Piano Like Picasso Painted

    Posted 07-20-2017 20:31
    And another kid, not quite so young. 

    Gotcha Now Documentary: Part 1 (The life & music of Cory Henry)
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    Gotcha Now Documentary: Part 1 (The life & music of Cory Henry)
    This is the first part of a documentary short on the life and music of Cory Henry. Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe9dF4zs9lU directed by: shot by esso™ / @shotbyesso for Scouts Honor Media http://www.scoutshonormedia.com/ Cory's album "Gotcha Now Doc" is available on: ITunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gotcha-now-doc/id535819536 & Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Gotcha-Now-Doc/dp/B008B55IJ4 cory's twitter: @cory_henry
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    How come none of these kids are white?

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    Benjamin Sloane
    Cincinnati OH
    513-257-8480
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