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Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 18 Feb

Our lodger (who is very interested in engineering) and I have been having an interesting time figuring out whether we could improve the state of the piano. I wrote before about replacing the check tapes by gluing on new ones… well...

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The things you find in the bottom of pianos

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Feb

Fleur (@Fleura) wrote about doing some repairs on her piano and Fiacre (@xFiacre) wrote about checking out the bottom on a piano to see if any cash had been stowed away there. When I was quite small, a piano tuner turned up at...

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Delving inside the piano

Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 9 Feb

I have inherited the family piano. I learned to play on it, my mother and aunt learned to play on it. More than likely my grandmother also learned to play on it, she certainly played it. It dates from 1898 (you can look up the...

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Giving away beginner piano books

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 31 Jan 25

In a previous life, I taught piano. These were individual lessons and the children came to the house for their lessons. Piano-teaching served me well as I didn’t have to leave home so didn’t need childcare. I would have lessons...

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Gratitude Chronicles November 20,2024

Denise Knight @gnatsmom (2575) 22 Nov 24

I am thankful that in most of our pastorates, I have had the privilege of playing the piano. I am thankful that my mom taught me to play at a young age. Although, I am nowhere as skilled and talented as others, being at the piano...

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Short story: The unappreciated piano thumper

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 19 Sep 24

Every weekend, Rob Sinclair would sit at his piano, and play tunes on it for several hours, to help him to relax, from his weekly bout with his work. This settled his nerves, and relaxed him, but little did he know that...

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An 1809's medico's view on piano-playing

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 7 Nov 23

I’m reading a book about the early days of the nursing post/hospital at Ravensthorpe, a small, isolated country in the south-east of Western Australia. The Phillips River was nearby and the local paper was called the Phillips...

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Have you ever played a piano?

John nyambegera @thebos (5960) • Kisumu, Kenya 25 Jun 23

Hello guys, It is a wonderful moment of Sunday, which here it is almost over. Today i was being taught new things by my one of best friends since childhood Basically we ended up focus on playing a piano. It was my first time...

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The piano has been tuned

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Feb 23

We had our piano tuned today. It hasn’t been done for a couple of years and has been moved to this house in that time. The serial number tells us it was made between 1850 and 1890 so it is well over a century old. Pianos don’t...

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Same old, same old

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Feb 23

I made another walnut and banana cake today. I haven’t made one for a while but there were some bananas that needed to be used so I made a cake. I took a new photo but the cake is more or less exactly the same as the one I made...

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We've arrived at our house-sit

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jan 23

We’ve arrived at our house-sit and are partly settled. We knew the owner wouldn’t be here but she never locks the house so it was easy to get in. We’ve connected to the internet and found the air-conditioning switches so it’s all...

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Musical definitions you may not be familiar with

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Dec 22

I came across these musical terms the other day and thought you might enjoy these alternative definitions to the more usual ones. I might put them up in a couple of batches so I don’t bore you all silly. Composers mostly use...

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People collect some strange things, don't they?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Nov 22

Some months back, I wrote about a piano that was rotting away in a paddock. About a month after that, we went back there and the piano was no longer in the paddock. When I asked about it, it had been picked up. The insides have...

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I get to teach my young friend Anabella today!

The Horse @TheHorse (238268) • Walnut Creek, California 16 Oct 22

It's been weeks since I gave a guitar/keyboard lesson to Anabella! She's my young friend and student who performed with me a couple of times at Guitar Center's "Showcases." I'll attach a picture of us together after one such...

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A once-lovely piano left to rot

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Aug 22

In a paddock near the house where we are house-sitting is this old piano. Apparently, it was with a lot of items at an auction but, because it didn’t work, no-one wanted it. Our host went back next day and picked it up and put it...

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Piano Baby

Denise Knight @gnatsmom (2575) 7 Aug 22

One of the classes I teach is music. Some of my students love music. Some just tolerate it because their parents enroll them. One of my little ones, though, is obsessed with music. She is obviously too young for piano lessons, but...

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Sharing to you my early lunch

Luis Asuncion @luisga814 (7138) • Quezon City, Philippines 1 Jul 22

Hi guys. Today is Saturday here in the Philippines. It's already 10:05am. Today is my rest day. I ended my work shift at 5:14am, technically with 14 minutes overtime. I haven't sleep yet since then. After my shift. Took my...

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Listening Bon Jovi Songs

Luis Asuncion @luisga814 (7138) • Quezon City, Philippines 29 May 22

It's 2:29pm of 29th of May2022. I'm going to take a nap because I have a lacked of sleep a while ago. I need to regain strength before I'll do some online activities later on. Although before that I'll be opening a discussion...

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Busy Weekend

Meggan Moore @Meggan (375) • United States 18 May 22

Thursday after work we drove 7 hours to my dad's house. Then Fridsy my husband and son had another 3 hour drive to pick up the goat he won on scholarship and then 3 hours back to my dad's house. Then Saturday we went to look at...

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A Kentucky tornado victim uses music to ease the pain in his community

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122067) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 14 Dec 21

Jordan Baize who lives in Bremen Kentucky is a person that is using his gift as a piano player to music to ease the pain of members of his community who were victims of the deadly tornado that struck several states late last week...

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