Piano! Yay! ^.^

[Fishblade_Bluestream]

We had to give back our old piano last summer, but instead we got this really nice $600 keyboard. The full 88-keys, it's touch sensitive (so you can play piano or forte), has about 500 different instruments, you can record songs, play MIDIs off of disks...

It's great! If anyone ever gets rid of a piano this is a great alternative!

[spacecase33]

Our piano is 100 years old next year. It's got real ivory and ebony keys... and one key that can't be tuned no matter whats done to it. I love it. *pets piano*

Whoa. You're awfully fortunate then- supposedly, the older the piano, the better it sounds. (Not to mention it sells nicely, but I doubt you guys are letting go of that.)

not always. our old piano wasnt in very good condition so didnt sound that good and wasnt worth much (about £100). it depends on the instrument.

Anyway, I've taken piano for a little over 10 years so far. Doing decently in Royal Conservatory (although my results are completely inferior to Inrun's- I started with a 99 in theory (stupid flat!) then it went all downhill from there, while in performance I received 80-ish marks, now 70-ish ), finished grade 10 a few months ago, and am working on getting a degree in performance. Sure, I won't really be using it, but I guess it's something to turn to if I need a short-term, part-time job as a piano teacher.

what kind of grades are you talking about? the only music grades i know about are the associated board ones, and the highest in that is a grade 8... *looks puzzled*

Anyway, i play the piano too not anymore unfortunately as i dont have a piano here, but i still have a go when i'm at home with my parents. I played for about 3 years, but i had tought myself some stuff because i'd played the cello (and still do) and done music theory before i started piano lessons. i've taken up to my grade 5 in piano and then i stopped doing exam stuff and myteacher taught me pieces i wanted to learn because i wanted to concentrate on my school work and have piano as something fun to do.

Yay for a fellow cellist! I'm not especially serious about it, but I still take lessons and perform with my university's orchestra...I could never completely give it up.

I never learned to play the piano, but I wish I had. It would have helped me understand some of the fundamentals of the cello and develop my ear quicker. I did have a keyboard for a while, but I think my parents eventually gave it away because I never learned to play it. If I had learned to play the piano, I could have also possibly gone into music education...I would have loved to have been a middle or high school orcehestra director. Oh well, law school it is instead for me...thank goodness I'm interested in many different things.

[Rachel]

Yay for a fellow cellist! I'm not especially serious about it, but I still take lessons and perform with my university's orchestra...I could never completely give it up.

I never learned to play the piano, but I wish I had. It would have helped me understand some of the fundamentals of the cello and develop my ear quicker. I did have a keyboard for a while, but I think my parents eventually gave it away because I never learned to play it. If I had learned to play the piano, I could have also possibly gone into music education...I would have loved to have been a middle or high school orcehestra director. Oh well, law school it is instead for me...thank goodness I'm interested in many different things.

Whoot for fellow cello players!! i havent had lessons on the cello since i left school almost 3 years ago, but i recently joined the "for fun" med school orchestra, which i really enjoy (its conducted by music students, and its not really high pressure)

I'm currently trying to decide if i can warrant paying £10 for a piece of music i LOVE but i'm not sure if i'll be able to play it...

But i dont think learning the piano helped with anything cello wise other than being able to read the treble clef, and i swear, as i've gotten older i've become progressively more and more tone deaf! and recently, i just cannot count to save my life!

[krisgp]

Our piano is 100 years old next year. It's got real ivory and ebony keys... and one key that can't be tuned no matter whats done to it. I love it. *pets piano*

Whoa. You're awfully fortunate then- supposedly, the older the piano, the better it sounds. (Not to mention it sells nicely, but I doubt you guys are letting go of that.)

not always. our old piano wasnt in very good condition so didnt sound that good and wasnt worth much (about £100). it depends on the instrument.

Anyway, I've taken piano for a little over 10 years so far. Doing decently in Royal Conservatory (although my results are completely inferior to Inrun's- I started with a 99 in theory (stupid flat!) then it went all downhill from there, while in performance I received 80-ish marks, now 70-ish ), finished grade 10 a few months ago, and am working on getting a degree in performance. Sure, I won't really be using it, but I guess it's something to turn to if I need a short-term, part-time job as a piano teacher.

what kind of grades are you talking about? the only music grades i know about are the associated board ones, and the highest in that is a grade 8... *looks puzzled*

Anyway, i play the piano too not anymore unfortunately as i dont have a piano here, but i still have a go when i'm at home with my parents. I played for about 3 years, but i had tought myself some stuff because i'd played the cello (and still do) and done music theory before i started piano lessons. i've taken up to my grade 5 in piano and then i stopped doing exam stuff and myteacher taught me pieces i wanted to learn because i wanted to concentrate on my school work and have piano as something fun to do.

I believe Royal Conservatory is a Canadian thing. My friend has been playing the piano since she could read and has her grade 12 (I think it goes that high... not 100%). I've looked at that stuff and went whaaa??? I used to play the piano, but I have a split handedness thing and it is extremely difficult to co ordinate the left and right hands to work together on something. I'm surprised I can type actually... Plus my teacher was hard core... she wanted scales, I wanted Tarzan and other Disney pieces. I lost, therefore I quit. Lol. Gotta love 10th grade logic.

[Yoshi]

Yeah, Royal Conservatory of Music is a Canadian thing.
http://www.rcmexaminations.org

It only goes up to grade 11/ARCT though. ARCT (equal to a master's degree in performance, apparently) is awfully stressful (memorisation of pieces, I believe five of them, each 10 pages or so, is compulsory, compared to other grades in which you lose 6-10%), even one mistake can cause you to fail. It also requires a lot of music theory, which I haven't taken- so I've shifted to London College. Although it's lesser and more equivalent to a bachelor's degree in performance, memorisation isn't compulsory and there's a lot less music theory to take.

[krisgp]

Yeah, Royal Conservatory of Music is a Canadian thing.
http://www.rcmexaminations.org

It only goes up to grade 11/ARCT though. ARCT (equal to a master's degree in performance, apparently) is awfully stressful (memorisation of pieces, I believe five of them, each 10 pages or so, is compulsory, compared to other grades in which you lose 6-10%), even one mistake can cause you to fail. It also requires a lot of music theory, which I haven't taken- so I've shifted to London College. Although it's lesser and more equivalent to a bachelor's degree in performance, memorisation isn't compulsory and there's a lot less music theory to take.

ah ok. she must only have her gr. 10 or 11.