Re: Looking for "I Love a Piano" books (I think)

Were there a lot of Shearing and McPartland arrangements? I lost mine as
well. Had a red cover. Later I uncovered a reprint of the same Shearing
arrg'ts on Amazon which was cool. I'll see if I can dig it up for you.

cheers

Rick Hollett
"Dennis Turner" <nobody@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Many years ago I found a set of 3 or 4 books of standards arranged for
> intermediate - advanced piano. Very nice arrangements. The covers of the
> books had a picture of a piano in a concert hall somewhere. Same picture
> on all books I think except some were black & white, some color. Each
> book contained perhaps a dozen arrangements of pop standards. I want to
> say the name of the book series was I Love a Piano, although my memory
> may be faulty.
>
> The books were left at my Mom's house along with her piano which I
> recently inherited. The books, though, were not to be found. Evidently
> they were discarded or sold at some point by her or by my sister. I
> would love to find those books again. Have done a search for the books
> at sheetmusicplus and amazon without success. They may no longer be in
> print, and I may be mistaken about the title.
>
> Any help would be tremendously appreciated.
>
> Dennis
> --
> As a child, my parents thought I was an idiot-savant.
> Now, however, it is rather clear that I'm simply an idiot.


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