This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Please disregard the last two sentences in my comments. They were meant as a joke, not to offend anyone. David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Andersen Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 7:11 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: Practicing on a not so good piano: was RE: tax deductions? I would say that the idea that practicing on a not so great piano makes you a better pianist is at least counterintuitive, at most, pure BS. Much of learning and refining piano skills has to do with developing your sense of hearing and connecting what your hands do to what your ears hear. It is not, afterall, the same as learning to type. The poorer the piano, the more you learn to not listen, to ignore what you hear and therefore surrender control over what you are trying to accomplish musically. Wondering whether the mechanical problems you are encountering in executing a difficult passage belong to your fingers or the action can only serve to confuse the issue more and force you into some bad habits with respect to relaxation that will not serve your technique or tone production at all. And as far as advocating poorer pianos for our adult piano students to improve their technique.well that would be counterproductive. Remember, critical thinking is a privilege, not a right. You have to earn it. David Love Bravo. Fascinating topic. Have talked to so many concert & jazz pianists about this; they almost have to armor up with a kind of grief, I guess, and just go ahead and attempt to enable and create beauty on a less-than-good-sounding-and-feeling piano. It injures, IMO, their ability to be vulnerable enough to really FEEL any piano they play. It's a problem that literally no other instrumentalist deals with, and it adds to the fear of understanding how a piano works, or even disdain for the mechanical nature of the instrument---why else would an artist resolutely refuse to find out how a piano works after playing it for years or decades? Food for thought.... All the best..... David Andersen ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/e7/d0/f5/c9/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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