May 2007

I like all the movements!

May 31, 2007 21:12

Very rarely I find a sonata where I like all the movements. This is an exception- Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata for the piano. I just bought the music sheet. I can play the 2nd movment already. Now comes the hard part, 1st and 3 movements. Can't wait to go home to my piano!

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Note to Self - Rosin

May 13, 2007 20:19

Don't be afraid to apply more rosin on the bow when needed. When do you know more rosin is needed? When the strings don't respond! (Duh!)
I can be such an idiot sometimes.

Theory Exam on Wednesday. Still haven't decided if I want to memorise the 3 stupid folk songs or just let go of the 8 marks.

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New Toy

May 6, 2007 21:03

After several months of window shopping, I've finally upgraded my digital piano to Roland FP-7!

With its sound bank of 339 tones and USB connection, I can hook it up to my laptop and play the midi files on the piano. The sound is stunning! This is fantastic to write the piano/orchestral parts on my laptop and play it on the piano for my violin practise.

The key touch matches closely to a grand piano, better than my old Kawai ES. The touch sensitivity can be adjusted to 100 incremental steps.

There are 3 problems:

- The stand comes separately and I placed an order which will take a month to arrive! I'm using my old x-shaped stand for now.

- I can't seem to match the sound bank of the piano to the ones in my laptop. Apparent the piano uses GM2 (general midi 2) while the software I've got (Sebalius Pro and Sonar Le Pro) uses GM1. The manual was obviously written for someone with electronic music background instead of violin. I don't understand the many jargons they are using!

- What name should I give him?

Instead of selling my old digital piano on e-bay, I gave it to a friend who will benefit it more than the few hundred dollars I will get from selling.

Theory exam is coming up next week. I don't have time for such crap. I want to go home and play my piano!

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