Over time the copper winding on the bass strings in pianos will loosen and their tone will degrade. They will develop a characteristic “tubbiness” – that is, they will lack brilliance and sustain. Thankfully, short of replacing the strings, measures can be taken to restore some of the winding’s former tautness including twisting of the … Continue reading »
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No Excuse for not practicing!
These music students in Paraguay, one of the poorest countries in the world, have fashioned their instruments out of refuse they found at a landfill! This video brought tears too my eyes. Continue reading »
So Many Poets Used Piano Imagery – Here’s a Dickinson Example
The Master He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keysBefore they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees, Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow,By fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath … Continue reading »
Your piano’s action will tend to atrophy – It may be time for some Piano Yoga
Please, allow me to lovingly dote on your instrument and be you piano’s itinerate spa. Metaphors aside, a relatively quick and tuning-inclusive service I offer for most customers is a hammer line adjustment in grands or lost-motion adjustment in upright pianos. In the former, the right angle geometry between the jack and knuckle is restored providing a much snappy touch. In the latter, play is eliminated separating the key and hammer butt imparting dynamic security and accuracy.
The Boom of the Tingling Strings
A poem about piano (and other things): PIANO By D.H. Lawrence Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she … Continue reading »
Piano and Poetry
This is lovely … http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/3362 Continue reading »
Piano Prodigy Preparation of Palm Beach Gardens
I was graced again this week with a family that acknowledges music and arts education as a priority. These kids play violin, piano, percussion, AND can act!
