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Re: Do you have any music-related bucket list items? Share one and why it's important to you.
Late response. Chopin Ballade #1, thanks for looking at my future questions on the general board...you'll see how slow I progress based on the frequency of the questions
I didn't like listening to…
Michael Cheng
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5 mths ago
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Re: Marc's Piano Diary
I have actually tried to make a wah-wah playing Gershwin on a digital (can't hook up a wah-wah pedal unfortunately). Do you think a variation of the tuning technique will work on my parents' piano?…
Michael Cheng
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6 mths ago
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Chopin Ballade No. 1 questions and woes
New to Tonebase. Garrick Ohlsson's tutorial is awesome! Today's problem is addressed to those familiar with Seymour Bernstein's and Mauricio Poli's and hopefully others' opinions of Chopin's markings.…
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Re: How to choose an instrument
@David thanks and good luck and happy playing! One parting thought is that I made some headway in technique when switching to a keyboard with a faster action (lighter touch)—especially with fast…
Michael Cheng
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6 mths ago
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Re: How to choose an instrument
@David yes your link is correct. I was trying also to link to the new tonebase discussion page, sorry the link didn’t paste
Michael Cheng
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6 mths ago
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Re: How to choose an instrument
@David thanks for tolerating my post. New tonebase video today (6/3/2024) on YT today smd tonebase @David 6/3/2024 addressing physical aspects which I forgot about (and it looks like the other…
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6 mths ago
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Re: How to choose an instrument
New YT video out today. Lots of posts on that video already. I’m sure people will start posting on the tonebase page below as well. Again I’m not expecting my CLP-735 to last as long as my childhood…
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6 mths ago
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Re: How to choose an instrument
Sorry for the length of this response. I’m a home-gamer who quit training at 19 yrs of age, consider this advice very amateur. I had to think about: Affordability, space, and features.…
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6 mths ago
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Re: Debussy (piano) editions?
@Kerstin Thanks for the suggestion and screenshot (I have a Peters edition for some Mozart and I read that Roberto Poli used it for Chopin). I have traumatic memories from high school (literal trauma…
Michael Cheng
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11 mths ago
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Re: Debussy (piano) editions?
FYI regarding the Roy Howat edition, just found some of the missing pieces under "6 morceaux de jeunesse" Thanks again to Harry and Timothy Debussy: Ballade Debussy:…
Michael Cheng
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11 mths ago
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Re: Debussy (piano) editions?
Thanks for the suggestions! My motivation was getting some insight on some of the puzzling (ok, troublesome) note values and articulations in my tattered Dover edition (reprints of Fromont/Durand,…
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11 mths ago
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Debussy (piano) editions?
Hi, "home-gamer" new to tonebase...re-learning/expanding my childhood repertoire (max. difficulty was the Toccata from Pour le Piano)--and wanted to get the Durand critical editions by Roy Howat.…
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