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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
@Albert Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, coming from your years of high level experiences. My numerous piano try-outs in the last year were unknowingly hampered by severe loss of hearing…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 4 hrs ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
@Albert @Dominic Cheli I have a question for group discussion. I am looking for the best concert grand with the lightest action. I am not able to play the coda of Chopin's Ballade No 1 in g minor up…
- Jenny_Harrison
- Yesterday
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Re: Chopin Scherzo no 2: Create a master plan to bet to this level.
How does one find the right fingering? Can you possibly post a copy of yours? That would be truly awesome!
- Jenny_Harrison
- 3 mths ago
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Re: Chopin Scherzo no 2: Create a master plan to bet to this level.
During the pandemic, I decided to try and learn Chopin's Ballade #1 in g minor with a background similar to yours. I spent hours taking lessons on ToneBase and at times got specific help to solve…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 3 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
@Adena Which Steingraeber do you have? Tell me why you love it.
- Jenny_Harrison
- 8 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
@Andreu What a beautiful photo! I hope you get something as wonderful as this. By a concert grand, do you mean around 9'?
- Jenny_Harrison
- 8 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
Here is a related question for this group. If you won the lottery and you could purchase a great 9' concert grand for your modest size living room, would you?…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 8 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
@Angela Fogg It was actually on eBay! I truly lucked out since Steingraebers are so rare in the U.S.. The price of $20k seemed fair.
- Jenny_Harrison
- 8 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
@Angela Fogg I have owned a Steingraeber upright for five years and love it, I bought it sight unseen after hearing James Shawcross' amazing review on youtube.…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 8 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
@cheryl jack Was the Yamaha hand built? There is a big difference in quality between the factory built and hand built.
- Jenny_Harrison
- 8 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
@pacchiarotti Which would you put first: Fazioli or Steingraeber?
- Jenny_Harrison
- 8 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
I am in the market for a great concert grand and have found a four year old demo Steingraeber at an excellent price. I have not yet tried it, but have heard wonderful recordings on it by concert…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 8 mths ago
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Re: Request: Playback speed of livestreams
I like that idea! It would also be nice to be able to play a section more slowly, or at least be able to repeat it as many times as we like
- Jenny_Harrison
- 1 yr ago
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Re: How far can your hand stretch on the piano?
If I drop to the edge of the fingerboard, I can play 10ths in both hands.
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Carol Chua You made a great choice. Your second great choice was to join tonebase. I jumped right in with a lifetime membership as soon as I read about it.…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Carol Chua Now I see why you spent so much effort to get your hammers sounding right. Mine is a 130 TPS, very similar to yours. I heard one reviewed on youtube by James Pavel Shawcross and he…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Carol Chua I have a Steingraeber upright and had it voiced and regulated recently. It is almost at the level of my Steinway B! Which model do you have?
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Carol Chua How interesting that steaming can improve hardened hammers. I would be tempted to try this out on one or two hammers, but only because I have a nice steamer that could hit the right spots.…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Jenny Harrison Carol, I would get another opinion about the felts. Hard felts can usually be softened with needling. There are also chemical treatments.…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Carol Chua
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Which musician (non-pianist!) inspires you most?
I heard Gustavo Dudamel conduct the SF Symphony several times before he became famous. He is way up there in my list.
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: EXCLUSIVE: Apply for the tonebase Mentorship Program - with SARA DAVIS BUECHNER
I am going to pass on this, but appreciate the invitation. I might be ready for the next semi-private tutorial.
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Which composer do you feel most "at home" with?
This question got me thinking and I realized that Dvorak is my favorite composer of chamber and symphonic works. I had never heard any piano music by him,…
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Which composer do you feel most "at home" with?
Chopin and Brahms
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Questions on using una corda
Great question!
- Jenny_Harrison
- 2 yrs ago
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