Re: ot piano blog

Could we have kippers for breakfast, Mummy dear, Mummy dear? And,
while we're at it, let's read what "Stan (the Man)"
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> 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?
>

I think he means "Linus & Lucy", rather than the peanuts theme.

Vince Guaraldi. Wot a guy. Although Wynton Marsalis does a hell of
a horn with that song.

--
gekko

If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my
knees.
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