Grand Obsession
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I haven’t started it yet (gotta get past the concert before I start anything new right now) but it’s this one (also barefoot
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That’s the other one I bought, lol. He did a better job for old eyes in the sheet music for The Messenger - the notes and staffs are bigger on the printout for that than they are for this one. You should try The Messenger. It’s really not harder than this one, except that the speed is in the left hand instead of the right, and you can play it much more slowly than he plays it, and it’s still beautiful. I feel like some of these modern piano composers that I like have a much bigger reach than I do, and I have to think about how to best do the fingering, as I am unable to do what they do (there are a few awkward reaches in The messenger).
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A “before my time” question…where was the August 2008 piano party held?
Clips from the gathering to nudge memories…
Link to video Link to video@wtg said in Grand Obsession:
A “before my time” question…where was the August 2008 piano party held?
New York City.
IIRC, Elena's duo were giving a concert in Carnegie Hall that weekend so Jon-NYC hosted a piano party to coincide with the event.
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@wtg said in Grand Obsession:
A “before my time” question…where was the August 2008 piano party held?
New York City.
IIRC, Elena's duo were giving a concert in Carnegie Hall that weekend so Jon-NYC hosted a piano party to coincide with the event.
Naturally, a great time was had by all.@Axtremus no, that party was in 2007. June. IIRR. And that party was held in JonNYC's Brooklyn apt, which did not have curtains like that. I am sure of this because I was unable to attend that party due to being on deadline to finish the ms for Grand Obsession, which was published in Jan 2008. Also I've been to Jon's apt several times and that isn't his apt.
Maybe this was in the Washington DC area? Didn't we have a PW member who threw a party there the following summer? Or maybe it was at Mary Anna's in Florida? I remember not being able to attend those either because of the book tour.
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A “before my time” question…where was the August 2008 piano party held?
Clips from the gathering to nudge memories…
Link to video Link to videoI believe the video of Muffin and me was made at Plays88Keys' piano party. Jon was there and he's in the video. Do you recall, Jon?
She had a Steinway at the time, so you're probably right that it was a New York Steinway.
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That’s the other one I bought, lol. He did a better job for old eyes in the sheet music for The Messenger - the notes and staffs are bigger on the printout for that than they are for this one. You should try The Messenger. It’s really not harder than this one, except that the speed is in the left hand instead of the right, and you can play it much more slowly than he plays it, and it’s still beautiful. I feel like some of these modern piano composers that I like have a much bigger reach than I do, and I have to think about how to best do the fingering, as I am unable to do what they do (there are a few awkward reaches in The messenger).
@Jodi said in Grand Obsession:
I feel like some of these modern piano composers that I like have a much bigger reach than I do,
Yep. I play music by Alexis Ffrench, David Lanz, and George Winston. All of these guys are quite tall, and as far as I can tell from videos, they all have massive hands.
I’ll check out the Messenger.
I need to pick my next pieces to work on after the concert is over …
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@AndyD said in Grand Obsession:
Looking at the Korg website, this was new:
https://www.musicradar.com/news/korg-chopin-piano-poetry?origin=serp_autoFrom that link:
The first of Poetry’s two piano tones is based on Chopin’s 1843 Pleyel piano, which had 80 keys and was pitched at 430Hz rather than 440Hz, the modern tuning standard. This gives it a distinct tone that promises to be authentic to the one that Chopin would have experienced.
Ha! Maybe @Nina can get a digital Pleyel....
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Thanks, started with some trepidation but thought, well, surely it won't be worse
Hardest was getting the original shape when sanding the filler (two lots of filler, the chewing was so deep).
And I never have exactly the right colour stain... oak, redwood, dark tudor. Usually mix them, trial and error. -
@AndyD
Very nice restoration work, Andy.Big Al
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@Big_Al said in Grand Obsession:
@AndyD
Very nice restoration work, Andy.Big Al
Indeed.
And why is it that dogs go after piano benches? Our first golden chewed off the corner of the lid on the piano bench (it wasn't an adjustable style of bench). The fellow who did the repair didn't do nearly as a good a job as @AndyD did on his bench.
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Stumbled upon this recent video titled "Valentina Lisitsa Meets Grotrian".
Valentina Lisitsa visit us at PianoWorks over the weekend and during a tour of our workshop, she encountered a Grotrian Charis model 208 Studio. We recently retired this piano from concert duty and the pedals were taken apart while we re-sprayed the matte ebony finish...hence the no pedal challenge.
She plays for about 7 minutes, and then talks about her reaction to the piano.
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