Re: Magic piano - Amy's questions

[Guest guest]

Hello

The book they use is not one that the piano teacher chose, but one they

were given by an uncle who saw the piano in our house! The piano

teacher took a look, said it seemed good, and decided to use it. It is

the Usborne 'First book of the Piano', ISBN 0-7460-29853.

The teacher is old fashioned in that he expects application and

attention, but obviously flexible in terms of materials! He pushes the

children and expects a lot, but is gentle and very approachable and

human- rather than music-orientated.

My son could not read music when he started. In fact, it was worse than

that. Although I sang to him all the time when he was tiny, by the age

of two he was pleading with me not to sing a note, hated music of all

kinds and went into fainting fits and shock when the local village bell-

ringers did their practice, so that we had to have him tested for

epilepsy. Only since he started the piano has he begun, tentatively, to

sing for himself, and that is a joy to hear - (well, it is to me. I'm

not sure what anyone unbiassed and less tone-deaf would think!) On top

of that, he now lets me sing to him, and has even said he'd like to

listen to the Beethoven I was humming the other day, the one that goes

da da da dum. It's a good thing he's feeling so tolerant, because I

feel like singing my heart out at the moment.

Regards

Sara

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Sara e