Re: ot piano blog



Jackson Pillock wrote: 
A few months ago, I bought a piano for a hundred pounds. Culture, I thought,
is an attainment, not a consumer item. Now we have a music room. Guitars,
swanney whistles, the lot. Neither child has taken much interest, however.
The little girl has learned the very basics, but lacks any driving passion
for music. The boy is still a bit too young. So I've been playing it like a
guitar, just chords and a few embellishments.

Nearly any pop song in a major key is child's play to work out by ear, if
you're happy playing triplets and fifths. In spite of my modest gift, I get
immense pleasure in playing and singing. I sound like that saloon pianist
you hear in Westerns. The one who stops playing just before the big brawl.
"Plonky-plonky, tinkle tinkle..." That's my basic style, though I can chill
it out for a more "Let it Be" sound.  It's nice to have an occasional
ding-dong.

My burning ambition is to play the Peanuts theme. But for that, I'll have to
learn to play a piano like a piano.


A hundred pounds of what?

--
Stan
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