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PJF
Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 24 Location: South Louisiana, USA
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:48 am Post subject: May I call you Anh? |
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Hello Mr. Tran, my name is Pierre, but you can call me Pete. I'm a 27 year old aspiring concert artist living in Acadiana (a region in southern Louisiana populated mainly by people of French-Canadian descent). I'm currently pursuing a Master's degree in piano pedagogy. I've been enjoying your website for some months now. I'm glad to see you've a forum up and running. It's a little empty, but that will change.
Let's get those intellectual juices flowing!  _________________ Outwardly Limited,
Boundless to Inward
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lol_nl
Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 32 Location: Ede, Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:16 am Post subject: |
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Ok, I'll introduce myself as well. My name is Yiteng, I'm from Chinese descent, but I already live in Europe for about 9 years (I came here when I was 4, so calculate how old/young I am ). At the moment I live in the Netherlands. I have been playing piano for about 5 years, and my favorite composer is Chopin, followed directly by Liszt, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert and Rachmaninov.
I agree that it's quite empty, but I'm already trying to make commercials everywhere so they will flow in . _________________ Yiteng
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." - S. Rachmaninov |
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chopin Site Admin

Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 72 Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:40 am Post subject: |
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Hi
Thanks for your messages. You can call me Anh. Sorry that I haven't checked the forum recently. I just cleaned up some inappropriate messages today. Thank you very much for getting more visitors to this forum. I hope the forum will be better in the future.
Anh |
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PJF
Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 24 Location: South Louisiana, USA
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:37 am Post subject: |
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Yes Anh, it's empty. Don't all forums start that way? Your website is so well known and well made, more will show up.
We pianists are patient. _________________ Outwardly Limited,
Boundless to Inward
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nathf
Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:20 am Post subject: |
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I might introduce myself too
Im Nathan. Ive been playing piano since I was hmm...about five, and have recently gotten a great fondness of Chopin's work and it's almost all I play now-days. After Chopin, my favourite composer would probably be Beethoven. Im of Polish descent, but live in Australia. I plan on moving to Poland in about two years for a while where I want to study at one of the conservatories. Currently I'm about 17 and am still working through the last parts of high school....and I just finished learning Mazurka op17-2 =) |
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scherzo
Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 1
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Hello to all!
I'm Sara.I am 15 years old,and I live in Belgrade(Serbia).I've been studing piano since I was 6 years old,and now,I will start from this month with conservatory.
Chopin is my favourite composer!I have played his works when I started to learn the piano,and for this 9 years,I still think that he is the best genius ever!
(I already started to preparing for the next Chopin competition in Warsawa... )
I am happy to see forum like this,about Chopin,and I'm hoping that this forum will be even better in near future!
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MorrisseyMan

Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Gold Coast, Australia
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Hey everyone.
My name is Lochlan, and I am a 16-year-old semi-professional pianist. I play Jazz piano on gigs, and classical mainly at home.
I have been playing for 8 years, self taught. About 3 years ago, I was taught Jazz piano, and have been playing Jazz since then. I have always loved classical, and now I am beginning to play. |
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1uc
Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 2
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject: intro |
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Hello pianists
My name is Luka, I'm from Slovenia (you know Europe, small country next to Italy - yap thats where I come from) anyways I play piano for about two years now, I'm self-taught so I could use some of your profesional advice on which fingering exercises are good and so on and so on and YES I absolutely adore Chopins music. I could listen and play it forever and I will
btw: What I "play" now is: Chopin - Waltz op 64 no.2, Chopin - Nocturne op.9 no.2, Chopin - Piano and Cello sonata 3. mov. Largo, Mozart - Alla turca, Mozart - piano sonata no.15 k545 1st mov., and now I'm in about half way of Liszts - Liebesträume no.3. ...and that's about it I think. _________________ ...and the god said: " let there be a piano "... |
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enchantedpianist
Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 41 Location: Vietnam
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: intro |
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1uc wrote: | Hello pianists
My name is Luka, I'm from Slovenia (you know Europe, small country next to Italy - yap thats where I come from) anyways I play piano for about two years now, I'm self-taught so I could use some of your profesional advice on which fingering exercises are good and so on and so on and YES I absolutely adore Chopins music. I could listen and play it forever and I will
btw: What I "play" now is: Chopin - Waltz op 64 no.2, Chopin - Nocturne op.9 no.2, Chopin - Piano and Cello sonata 3. mov. Largo, Mozart - Alla turca, Mozart - piano sonata no.15 k545 1st mov., and now I'm in about half way of Liszts - Liebesträume no.3. ...and that's about it I think. |
Welcome! If you can play Liszt's Liebestraume, you must be good! I can never play it, especially the passages of "small" notes. |
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1uc
Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 2
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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hey.
I never said I CAN play it I'm trying... I mean I will be able to play it and if it's the last song I ever learn what I start, I must finish. And these passages you said...that's hard yep... But the problem with me is I'm self-though and I have absolutely NO technique...and please don't tell me to go out and find myself a teacher because I don't have money... Sometimes I ask myself "why I am doing this...i'll never be able to play this..." and sometimes I just play you know trying and practising and enjoying
anyway for how long do you play the piano? _________________ ...and the god said: " let there be a piano "... |
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wanderer
Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 73
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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Well, if you practiced slowly and weren't tempted to speed up right away, you could "technically" play the piece without a teacher, even if it took much longer time to finish.
Good luck! |
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Manolito Mystiq

Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Hello there everyone,
I'm Manuel, a Dutch musician (both a Peruan and Dutch-Indian descendant), and currently I'm a conservatory student at Rotterdam, studying Flamenco Guitar (World Music Department, as vague as the department can be called).
I'm by no means a pianist, heavens, I don't even have a piano.
The only thing remotely close is a Roland 5-octave keyboard.
I'm planning to work on my pianoplaying, though, especially since it comes in handy with music theory and music analysis.
Fortunately I can grasp the theoretical/terminological parts very easily, so it's the practical part which needs more work.
Any recommendations how to start playing piano? I just played the first prelude to Bach sight-reading it. Probably not with the added emotion and dynamics, though. |
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chopin Site Admin

Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 72 Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome! I don't belong to any school of music. Music is my hobby and I studied piano with a private teacher.
I'm now quite busy and doesn't have much time practicing. Last week I played again my favorite barcarolle op.60 and realized that I need to read the notes again.
I don't know. For starters, some easy Bach, Mozart, Czerny?
Manolito Mystiq wrote: | Hello there everyone,
I'm Manuel, a Dutch musician (both a Peruan and Dutch-Indian descendant), and currently I'm a conservatory student at Rotterdam, studying Flamenco Guitar (World Music Department, as vague as the department can be called).
I'm by no means a pianist, heavens, I don't even have a piano.
The only thing remotely close is a Roland 5-octave keyboard.
I'm planning to work on my pianoplaying, though, especially since it comes in handy with music theory and music analysis.
Fortunately I can grasp the theoretical/terminological parts very easily, so it's the practical part which needs more work.
Any recommendations how to start playing piano? I just played the first prelude to Bach sight-reading it. Probably not with the added emotion and dynamics, though. |
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