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Re: Piano Manufacturers and Brands: A discussion!

@Maria "Basic Principles in Pianoforte playing" may be that one. Hard to pinpoint exactly since I read about 300 pages of 2 other books in the past 2 days on a different subject..

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Re: Piano Manufacturers and Brands: A discussion!

@Noel Nguyen @Maria we may have read the same book. :-)

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@Noel Nguyen recently I was reading a book and came across Hoffman. Absolute genius !. Rachmaninoff thought Hoffman was the best of that time which included himself and Conus - per the book ( I am…

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Re: Piano Manufacturers and Brands: A discussion!

@Andrew Smith yeah ! A fellow tonebase afficianado from the area . Yes I am 5 minutes from Duke University we should connect !

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Re: Piano Manufacturers and Brands: A discussion!

I am not an advanced player by any stretch of imagination. Had a Yamaha Clavinova at home for about 10 years. Played it off and on - very very elementary repertoire - could read a bit.…

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3 wk ago
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Re: What would you like improved on tonebase?

@ARTURO OCHOA This is actually a fantastic platform! with some of the very best pianists and piano professors teaching here. I could barely read a few notes 2 years ago and if you hear me play now it…

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3 wk ago
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Re: What's the most challenging piece you've ever learned and how did you tackle it?

@rebecca LAM Yes we did a zoom session (after a year) and I definitely noticed quite a difference! in your playing back in October. That teacher is awesome ! :-) . Kudos! .…

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1 mth ago
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Re: What's the most challenging piece you've ever learned and how did you tackle it?

@Victoria Macdonald unfortunately not, between full time work and ,coaching tennis for strong high school players in the evenings and putting in an hour or more of daily practice on the K 414…

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1 mth ago
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Re: What would you like improved on tonebase?

@Dominic Cheli Thank you Dominic ! I am very happy to be a lifetime member of TB and am recommending it to my classical piano friends. The past 2.5 years of daily playing was almost entirely inspired…

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1 mth ago
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Re: What would you like improved on tonebase?

@Dustin James The Bonus comment is great ! I went through one of Garrick’s lectures and it led me to 2 books ( Lhevinne and Neuhaus ) then headed over to the Chopin podcast( Ben Laude) ( check it out…

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Re: What would you like improved on tonebase?

@Anastasia completely agree ! Content here is mainly for conservatory types 😀 I am hoping to see some level 1-4 content taught by the great masters e.g Bach Sicilliano , Bach Air on G ,…

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Re: What would you like improved on tonebase?

Hello Dominic, First of all I want to thank Tonebase immensely for inspiring me on a musical journey for the past 2.5 years at the age of 56+. ( no formal musical training of any sort - am now…

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Re: How do you deal with pianists/teachers making weird claims about touch etc?

@Albert I did see a YT of the legendary Brendel playing with bandages and was wondering about this as well as the expectation was that it definitely would feel different since the surface area of…

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3 mths ago
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Re: How do you deal with pianists/teachers making weird claims about touch etc?

@Michael As I explained above - the physics is actually reasonable. So you must play with the pads for a better sound ! (unless your personal experiment deems it wrong .…

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3 mths ago
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Re: How do you deal with pianists/teachers making weird claims about touch etc?

@Judy Kuan Thank you for your kind comments. I am not even an advanced player ( never seen a conservatory -nor any formal music training of any sort ) but play everyday for the past 2 years (about…

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3 mths ago
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Re: How do you deal with pianists/teachers making weird claims about touch etc?

This is an interesting topic. I read recently a book on Piano Playing by Josef Lhevinne( very very esteemed Pianist - maybe an all time great). He writes in there somewhere that playing with the pads…

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3 mths ago
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage

@Alexander Weymann wow ! Beautiful playing. I don't know the works of Scriabin (i am a beginner level player ) except for hearing an interview of Horowitz talking about Scriabin on(YT) .…

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Re: What's the most challenging piece you've ever learned and how did you tackle it?

@Alexander Weymann Thank you! It will be a very long journey for me! But I am enjoying it a lot and hopefully sometime in the near future my work will come to a close and then there is more time.

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5 mths ago
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Re: What's the most challenging piece you've ever learned and how did you tackle it?

Absolute rank untrained amateur here . :-) . A scientist type that strayed into the art pf classical piano playing. I heard an Ashkenazy recording on YT of Mozart K 414 about 2 years ago and not…

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5 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!

@Derek McConville wow ! really nice.. I can only dream of playing like this.. :-)

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6 mths ago
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!

@Terence W Hello Terence. Have the Taubman courses helped your scale speed (mm speed ) ? Also how long did it take.. I am a bit wary of scales due to occasional pain - so I either stop or take a…

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7 mths ago
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Re: Recording : Mozart K332, andante

very nicely played !.. would be happy to play musically like this. How many years have you been playing the piano.. Also I have a few beginner's questions can I reach out to you .. Thanks a lot.

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7 mths ago
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!

@Timothy Giordano - Similar story here.. Was a Physics prof at a univ in my 20's. No real formal music training of any sort. Came across Tonebase about 3 years ago.…

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10 mths ago
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Re: Is Tonebase right for me?

You will get a lot out of tonebase. There are absolutely world Class pianists - who give lessons. I have never been to music school or even visited a conservatory.…

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11 mths ago
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?”

@Pauline Dominic is absolutely awesome..! I intend to watch every lesson of Dominic on Tonebase in the next couple of years. Job work will possibly wind down for good this year.…

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1 yr ago
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