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For questions about music written for piano, playing the piano, maintenance of a piano, or other general questions about pianos.
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Why are there 7 sharps when there are only 5 black keys on a piano?
piano you have an uncountable infinity of sounds — interesting for a mathematician, less for a physicist, useless to a musician. … Brings us to the topic of
Alternate tunings or intonation
The modern piano is tuned to something called equal temperament. …
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Is practicing on a digital piano harmful to an experienced piano player?
After some twelve years of having no piano got a Casio celviano with something strange called alternate tunings — Werkmeister Kirnberger Just... and the usual equal. …
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Godowski's touch
There was a book on learning piano playing that I must have seen near 50 years ago.
In there there was a detailed description of some all-time great -- I think Godowski. … One day when he got up from the piano he was so utterly fatigued that he could not hold his arms to the piano. …
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Godowski's touch
LG: Weight, relaxation and economy of motion are the foundation stones of technique, of interpretation and mechanism in piano playing. 90 percent of LG's playing is based on the weight principle, he taught …
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Didactic impediments of using simplified versions
I realize you are a student asking and what I am about to say may be better suited to teachers. Still here goes!
All teaching involves lies to children. At the very least the lie consists in not giv …