Ignite a Passion for Practice
When I began researching for this post, I figured, “hey, I’ve got a well rounded background in music, it should be easy to tell if my piano is out of tune.” But as I tested the recommended methods on my […]
I sat down at an outdoor acoustic piano placed in our city. It was towards the end of the summer, and the weather was humid. I played a couple notes. About 1/3 made a sound as expected, 1/3 made a […]
Comedian and pianist Victor Borge once said, “You know, some people have asked me why there are three pedals on these grand pianos. Well, the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals…which might be bad […]
I discovered the left pedal when I played Clair de Lune by Debussy. The opening is marked con sordina which can mean “with mute” and my teacher encouraged me to use the left piano pedal called the una corda pedal […]
The piano has been around for several hundred years. Since the late 1800’s the number of keys has remained about the same. What led to this stable number, and is this number likely to change? By the end of this […]
Unlike a piano’s white keys, the black keys have more complicated names. The white keys of the piano are A B C D E F G, and then the pattern repeats; these notes are known as the “natural” notes. The […]