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36 Questions

What modern innovations have been/are being made for the piano?

How can I slow down a YouTube video I'm trying to analyze or transcribe?

Where did “The Real Book” originally come from?

Am I too old? Is it too late?: A guide to a popular question [duplicate]

What is the relationship between where and how a vibrating string is activated?

How are editorial additions/changes to a score indicated?

What are the acoustics of brass instrument pedal tones?

How did the ancient Greeks notate their music?

What does the chord notation X/Y (“slash chord”) mean?

What criteria does ABRSM use in assigning piano music to each grade?

What is the origin and original meaning of “tonic”, “supertonic”, “mediant”, etc.?

What are brass instrument “pedal tones” and “false tones”, and how are they different?

What are brass instrument “false notes” and how are they played?

Did Chopin use hairpins (adjacent crescendo and decrescendo) to indicate rubato rather than dynamics?

Should the comping instrument ever double the bass player?

Why do guitarists specialize on particular techniques?

How does changing a guitar string's tuning affect its timbre?

Come to think of it, who did put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?

Did continuo players consider figured bass as “interval symbols” or “chord symbols”?

How can one learn to identify intervals by ear without singing?

General term to cover piano fingerings, trombone slide positions, Theremin hand positions, etc

How can I render “uneven” tuplets in ABC notation?

(How) Do the terms “open” and “close” position apply to chords with multiple doublings?

Fingernail and hand care for pianists

When the tones in a chord are packed together, is it in “Close position” or “Closed position”?

What are the audition repertoire requirements for a U.S. undergraduate classical piano performance degree?

(How) Can CPE Bach's Solfeggietto (Solfeggio) in C Minor be played left-hand alone?

Sometimes I naturally sing songs in the right key. Do I have perfect (absolute) pitch?

Does perfect (absolute) pitch ever go out of tune?

What are the embouchure differences for the brass family instruments?