http://fuq.encycmet.com en-us http://fuq.encycmet.com ActiveKB NX thecoop@birdhousecraft.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:56:46 EST 20 http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3372/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3372/ Question: I have composed a set of 22 piano pieces for children. Can anyone suggest how I could go about getting them published (i.e. as a book)? Any information would be greatly appreciated. ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3373/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3373/ Question: I have to say that pinpointing a hard and fast genre for solo-piano music is certainly not an easy task. Do the New Age enthusiasts and radio programmers consider George Winston, for ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3374/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3374/ Question: Hal Leonard puts out Easy Piano music books. Is there a significant difference between that and the regular books ? Answer: Generally speaking yes. Easy piano arrangements *generall ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3375/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3375/ Question: How many keys has a full size piano ?. Sorry for the silly question but its really bugging me !. Answer: This is interesting because my upright, new in the mid-Fifties (I was very yo ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3376/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3376/ Question: We're considering to buy a new upright piano for my daughter. The obvious question is which one to buy. I was told that Baldwin, Steinway, Yamaha, Kiwei, and Boston made pianos are ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3377/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3377/ Question: I have Win98 SE and 2 CD Drives - one is an Asus 50xmax (my E: drive), and the other is a Pioneer DVD 500M (my F: drive). Both can read computer files, but only the Asus 50x can play m ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3378/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3378/ Question: Does anyone play piano in a restaurant or bar? I'm UK based, and used to play (jazz) piano a lot. I've always toyed with the idea of playing dinner jazz in a restaurant as a sideline - ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3379/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3379/ Question: I've been taking 75-minute piano lessons weekly for just more than a year. It's a very hard grind but it's going well, given my objectives. My first goal is to play well enough to ent ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3380/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3380/ Question: I have got a piano, and I want to tune it myself. Not in order to save money, but I just want to do it myself. I have played piano for more than 25 years and have tuned a lot more sim ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3381/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3381/ Question: i've always wanted to learn the keyboard however i have not the money to purchase even a used upright piano!I do have an electronic keyboard with 64 keys though. i looked into piano t ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3382/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3382/ Question: What is the best way to learn the piano without taking lessons? In particular, I would appreciate recommendations of manuals or textbooks. Answer: My dear boy/girl/lad/lass/person (or ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3383/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3383/ Question: Can anyone help with an online website that has piano notation? An elderly friend of my mother's wants the piano music for the old song Let Me Be Your Sweetheart but I've yet to find ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3384/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3384/ Question: So I was cruising the Appian website last week to see what Sergio Fiorentino recordings were still available and amongst all the rather well-known pianists on their catalog list is so ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3385/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3385/ Question: I'm wondering what you would say about the possibility of beginning to play the piano at age 20. I already have some experience playing clarinet and basson. But some people (like my m ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3386/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3386/ Question: HOW DO I GO ABOUT READING SHEET MUSIC? Answer: well, you take lessons privately, and/or you get a music degree. private lessons will definitely ensure that you develop the ability to ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3387/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3387/ Question: After many years of not playing, 20+, I picked the horn back up...started practicing again...running the scales then picked up some sheet music then I remembered why I laid the horn d ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3388/ http://fuq.encycmet.com/questions/3388/ Question: I've thought about it, and I think I'd like to start teaching piano as a sideline. How would I start to acquire piano students in my area? What are my options? Please help, all sugg ... Cooper Fehr Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:05:20 EDT