Comments for Piano Addict http://pianoaddict.com The Site For All Piano Enthusiasts Wed, 16 May 2012 00:58:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Galumphing With Mr. Hanon by Nancy Ostromencki http://pianoaddict.com/2012/05/galumphing-with-mr-hanon/comment-page-1/#comment-6782 Nancy Ostromencki Wed, 16 May 2012 00:58:55 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6509#comment-6782 Totally great article! Thank you Totally great article! Thank you

]]> Comment on PA Shorts: Opportunity Knocks by LaDona http://pianoaddict.com/2012/04/pa-shorts-opportunity-knocks/comment-page-1/#comment-6712 LaDona Wed, 02 May 2012 19:45:42 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6420#comment-6712 Reblogged at ladonasmusicstudio.com Reblogged at ladonasmusicstudio.com

]]> Comment on PA Shorts: Opportunity Knocks by PA Shorts: Opportunity Knocks | LaDona's Music Studio http://pianoaddict.com/2012/04/pa-shorts-opportunity-knocks/comment-page-1/#comment-6711 PA Shorts: Opportunity Knocks | LaDona's Music Studio Wed, 02 May 2012 19:42:06 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6420#comment-6711 [...] PA Shorts: Opportunity Knocks. Share this:Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...] [...] PA Shorts: Opportunity Knocks. Share this:Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

]]> Comment on Duty or Joy? by Piano Addict http://pianoaddict.com/2012/04/duty-or-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-6667 Piano Addict Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:36:23 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6375#comment-6667 The word lifetime seems to be the key here. Every person makes choices and sets priorities. I am always amazed and saddened by the older students who return to music with such shame over having stopped lessons as a child or taught themselves in lieu of a teacher. It truly doesn't matter to me. What matters is that the person is able to grow and experience joys of making music. Their early experience plus all their experiences in life will give their playing maturity and a unique point of view. The word lifetime seems to be the key here. Every person makes choices and sets priorities. I am always amazed and saddened by the older students who return to music with such shame over having stopped lessons as a child or taught themselves in lieu of a teacher. It truly doesn’t matter to me. What matters is that the person is able to grow and experience joys of making music. Their early experience plus all their experiences in life will give their playing maturity and a unique point of view.

]]> Comment on Duty or Joy? by Janis http://pianoaddict.com/2012/04/duty-or-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-6656 Janis Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:44:57 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6375#comment-6656 Yeah, there's some things that I think just don't work well in a large group setting. Music and sports are both this way. There is just no way to teach these two things in an assembly-line classroom-like setting, I think. You will wind up with either the kids who can't keep up being given a lifelong hatred of the topic at hand (as I have for all team sports, period) or you will wind up with bright, talented kids being fiercely frustrated and their talent possibly wasted for life, especially kids from less advantaged backgrounds who don't have mommies and daddies who can make up for the lack of classroom instruction with personalized tutoring driven by professional connections. Things that can't be taught behind a desk should not be constrained to a pedagogy based on things that can be learned at a desk. Yeah, there’s some things that I think just don’t work well in a large group setting. Music and sports are both this way. There is just no way to teach these two things in an assembly-line classroom-like setting, I think. You will wind up with either the kids who can’t keep up being given a lifelong hatred of the topic at hand (as I have for all team sports, period) or you will wind up with bright, talented kids being fiercely frustrated and their talent possibly wasted for life, especially kids from less advantaged backgrounds who don’t have mommies and daddies who can make up for the lack of classroom instruction with personalized tutoring driven by professional connections.

Things that can’t be taught behind a desk should not be constrained to a pedagogy based on things that can be learned at a desk.

]]> Comment on Duty or Joy? by Piano Addict http://pianoaddict.com/2012/04/duty-or-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-6593 Piano Addict Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:43:47 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6375#comment-6593 I just want to be clear that I am not by any means against syllabi. I'm just against applying them willy-nilly! I just want to be clear that I am not by any means against syllabi. I’m just against applying them willy-nilly!

]]> Comment on Duty or Joy? by Nancy Ostromencki http://pianoaddict.com/2012/04/duty-or-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-6591 Nancy Ostromencki Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:39:11 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6375#comment-6591 Wow finally someone has come out and spoken truthfully about the value or lack of value of getting involved in a syllabus program and/or a yearly evaluation program. Part of why I truly do love private teaching is for the FREEDOM to decide what would work out best for each and every INDIVIDUAL student. I have had other teachers try to prove to me the value of syllabus teaching, I truly cannot do it. However, many colleagues feel that because of this I am an inferior teacher. Not so, I take each and every student as an individual and know that following a syllabus and forcing them to do a yearly evaluation would totally kill any love they have for their study of piano. Wow finally someone has come out and spoken truthfully about the value or lack of value of getting involved in a syllabus program and/or a yearly evaluation program.

Part of why I truly do love private teaching is for the FREEDOM to decide what would work out best for each and every INDIVIDUAL student.

I have had other teachers try to prove to me the value of syllabus teaching, I truly cannot do it. However, many colleagues feel that because of this I am an inferior teacher. Not so, I take each and every student as an individual and know that following a syllabus and forcing them to do a yearly evaluation would totally kill any love they have for their study of piano.

]]> Comment on Duty or Joy? by John Terauds http://pianoaddict.com/2012/04/duty-or-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-6589 John Terauds Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:58:38 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6375#comment-6589 Thank you so much for taking my post to heart -- and for adding valuable insights from your own experience. Thank you so much for taking my post to heart — and for adding valuable insights from your own experience.

]]> Comment on PA Shorts: What Has Your Piano Eaten Lately? by Piano Addict http://pianoaddict.com/2012/04/pa-shorts-what-has-your-piano-eaten-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-6510 Piano Addict Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:24:23 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6325#comment-6510 LOL and thanks to both Shawna and Mario for spending time with Piano Addict! I chuckle at the though of tuning tools being left in a piano since mechanics and surgeons are also notorious in this respect. Since the word is now out about the piano as a hiding place for $$$ we all had better find a new place. Perhaps inside your Timpani? LOL and thanks to both Shawna and Mario for spending time with Piano Addict! I chuckle at the though of tuning tools being left in a piano since mechanics and surgeons are also notorious in this respect. Since the word is now out about the piano as a hiding place for $$$ we all had better find a new place. Perhaps inside your Timpani?

]]> Comment on PA Shorts: What Has Your Piano Eaten Lately? by Shawna http://pianoaddict.com/2012/04/pa-shorts-what-has-your-piano-eaten-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-6508 Shawna Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:53:28 +0000 http://pianoaddict.com/?p=6325#comment-6508 My mom finally, after 20 years, relented and gave me her piano (that nobody in the family could play except me.) Well this was in 2009, and when I took the covers off to clean it, I found a check dated in 1970 something written to a piano teacher I had for 3 or 4 months when I was 8 years old. Wow. I guess that piano teacher never got paid. I of course have found the usual pencils, papers, and so on. As for the money, I sometimes stash money inside the piano, so that's not unusual. My mom finally, after 20 years, relented and gave me her piano (that nobody in the family could play except me.) Well this was in 2009, and when I took the covers off to clean it, I found a check dated in 1970 something written to a piano teacher I had for 3 or 4 months when I was 8 years old. Wow. I guess that piano teacher never got paid. I of course have found the usual pencils, papers, and so on. As for the money, I sometimes stash money inside the piano, so that’s not unusual.

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