I love your channel. Learning about all the different types of pianos out there and watching you play has really increased my love for the instrument and has made me want to practice way more then ever. I'm not perfect (who is), so the short tutorials would be a great way in my opinion to foster more interest in pianos and help others improve their skills greatly. Thanks.
4 years ago | 1
I think it's a great idea. I ve always played by ear but would benefit from learning to read notes faster and about theory. I particularly enjoy learning about antique pianos. About 10 years ago, a friend bought me an old upright piano from a thrift store for 100 bucks. An old upright that looked like it was dead, complete with a greenish dead body looking hue to it. When I got it home and played it, I was shocked. I had never heard a piano, as decrepit as it looked, have such an incredibly warm and rich tone. I decided right then that it should be restored at any cost. A few weeks later, I put it in a friend's garage for storage while we moved. The person's house caught fire and I was not able to get the piano back. Several years later I moved out of state but dreamed of the piano for many years. Last year, 10 years later, I came into town to adopt a dog and as I always did when visiting, made another search for the piano. The house it was stored at had a second fire and new owners had completely gutted the house. I asked if the piano was still on the property. They told me there was absolutely nothing in the house and 1 thing in the garage.. it was the smoke covered piano. They said I could take it. I literally cried. I had a piano company pick it up and store it for a year. I moved back to Colorado where it was stored last year and have brought it home and back to life. It looks, plays and sounds amazing and I really mean sounds amazing! Recently, I saw you did a video on the same piano and came to the same conclusion... it is an 1895 B. Shoninger Louis XV Cabinet Grand. I'd love to send you some pics. I think you would love the way it has turned out. I had to put in a lot of time and work to get it playable and stable in its tuning. And of course getting the case back to " very nice" was an incredible learning experience as well as learning to tune it. I had verbal guidance from 2 life long tuner / restorers from the Guild. I get more and more amazed by this piano everytime I play it. I looked so hard for another one all those years and no one seemed to even know what i was talking about when i would mention Bernard Shoninger. Of course now that I have it back and its nearing final restoration, some contacted me a few days ago with an 1878 model that appears to have been very well cared for and is in incredible condition. I have no room for 2 but I can't let someone turn it into a desk or something. Perhaps, James, you might know someone who might want this incredible instrument. As an upright, it would go nicely in a studio and it sounds as good, if not better than some very large concert Stienway grands that I played last week. If you can, please help me save a very rare and awesome piece of musical history!
4 years ago (edited) | 0
Well there are already hundreds of channels doing this already. The thing I like about your channel is you show off rare and unique instruments. I don't know of anyone else really doing what you do to the extent that you are doing it.
4 years ago | 6
As a music teacher myself, good idea. Not everyone can have one to one lessons with a teacher, especially with everything going on over the past 18 months.
4 years ago | 0
i think it would be better to do normal videos, shorts are not ideal for teaching, in my opinion
4 years ago | 3
I love the idea. Your channel is growing and it would give more variety to it. Plus I think many of us would find very interesting what you have to share about playing the piano.
4 years ago | 0
That would be great! I am trying to learn piano, which would be a great help then :D
4 years ago | 0
Light and effortless way of playing fast arpeggios and octaves tutorial would be really helpful sir
3 years ago | 0
It would be nice to learn techniques from you.Could you please make some videos on rhythm patterns or styles spanning across various genres like salsa ,funk,edm,reggae,bossa nova etc
4 years ago | 0
Humm... very interresting question because there seem to be two schools of music... and, they can cross... 1) Learn to read music... and play it 2) Learn to think music... and play it I think of music as a language. It takes thousands of hours to learn... just like a spoken language... Just different muscles and a different voice box (perhaps -- one could sing...). You tend to learn and play (very well) the spectacular written masterpieces. And, the other school -- of perhaps more improvisation music -- is also hugely dependant on fundamental skills with chords & scales. So these fundamentals could form a basis for a course... that ultimately leads to both schools depending on whether on wants to learn the masters or become a master... What do you have in mind? 🖒
4 years ago | 0
Hi James. Right now I’m struggling to get past page one of an old Belwin book one. Not going well!
4 years ago | 0
ThePianoforever
Hey, everybody! I'm thinking about starting a new series using the #shorts feature about how to play the piano! We'll start with simple things like chords, scales, and simple tunes, and go from there! Let me know what you think of this! :D
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