and now, time for that musical question

[serinde]

Which is, will audiovile retain his fascination with banging randomly on the piano, or will he actually try to learn it, or will he give up in disgust?

Mom drove up this weekend with our old family piano, Grandma's desk, a grill (our Xmas present from her), and a few other odds & ends. After nearly killing ourselves getting the piano into the house (sweh's head will heal eventually), Steve has been utterly entranced by the thing and by turns sits down and dinks on it for half-hour stretches. In between Mom and me tossing spouts of musical theory at him--he had violin lessons as a boy but hasn't retained any of it--and I don't think our half-remembered gibberings about major vs. minor keys and intervals and stuff are helping.

I'm slightly distressed that I've apparently recycled all the neurons to do with reading music. I recognize middle C and can take it from there, but I'm lost on the bass clef; O the embarrassment. It seems I do still have some muscle memory for my main recital piece, Kabalevsky's Toccatina from Op. 27...at least until I got until the horrible middle section where it looks like someone took a dump of accidentals all over the page. But trying to make my hands work as a seamless unit is, erm, full of seams. So to speak.

Piano is in desperate need of tuning (O RLY?). I wonder how much that runs these days.

Comments

[tactisle.livejournal.com]

The bass clef is "All Cars Eat Gas", reading the spaces up from the bottom.
The lines are "Good Boys Do Fine Always", or if you prefer, "Good Boys Dig Fat Asses".

Around here, a piano tuning runs about $100. At least, the semi-retired freelancer we hired does. If you go through a store or something, they might charge more.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Yeah, among the mass of stuff Mom brought was all my old theory worksheets. I'm half-tempted to erase my previous work and go through it again as a refresher course.

Hey, is your person pretty much local, or do you think he/she would be interested in another customer up our way?

[tactisle.livejournal.com]

I think he's pretty much local, and prone to rescheduling drama even locally. If you're having trouble finding one, I could ask him if he knows anybody up your neck of the woods... After all, I must imagine that piano tuners have conventions and professional associations and all that stuff.