Here is MY Piano recital Experience:
My Piece was “Fur Elise” by Beethoven.
My Piano at home was a Steinert Spinet, with lovely action, and I could play the piece perfectly.
My teacher rented an Eleven Foot Concert Grand Piano for the Recital.
The action was SO STIFF (it had to be, I guess for such a BIG piano), that I had to POUND every key to make it even make a sound. So much for a nuanced performance.
I quit lessons the next day (at the age of 10) and continued to teach myself piano and guitar.
OH - ha ha ha ha ha!
You taught yourself guitar? So did I!!!!
The first “real” song that I played was “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan as written in the Peter Paul and Mary songbook that I purchased.
How many roads must a man walk down
Before they can call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes and how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned.....
The answer my friend
Is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn’t see?
The answer my friend
Is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
How many times can a man look up
Before he sees the sky?
How many years must one woman have
before she can hear people cry?
How many deaths will it take
Til we know
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend,
Is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLUDJlx5jEc
(Joan Baez does it best!)
But I never attempted piano again - until now!!!!
Thanks for the story and the memory....I need to pull that old guitar out and strum it a bit.