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		<title>Should you put a rug under your grand piano?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The general received wisdom is that if your grand piano stands on a hard floor, whether wood, tile, concrete, etc., the loudness of the instrument can be reduced by putting a thick rug under it. So I&#8217;ve had a thick pile synthetic rug under the Omega since it arrived in my home just over three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=1021&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GigBook &#8211; Sheet Music Reader for the iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psst! Do you have an iPad and always wished you could use it for storing your sheet music and maybe use it on the music desk in a pinch? Well wish no more because there is GigBook! You can even use it with accessories such as wired and wireless (Bluetooth) page turners and iPad mounting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=1010&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arrau talking about playing wrong notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 16:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting exchange between Arrau and Joseph Horowitz in the book Arrau on Music and Performance. J H / Busoni and Carreño were the two pianists who influenced you most? C A / Those two. Carreño more than d&#8217;Albert [one of Carreño's husbands], because he never practiced. He used to have a big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=997&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Teresa Carreño gets practice time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 14:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the books that I dip into from time to time is Arrau on Music and Performance, written by Joseph Horowitz. Just today I picked up something that I missed when reading it the first time around, and that is Arrau&#8217;s reporting of a comment made by the great Venezuelan pianist Teresa Carreño. She had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=990&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Armless pianist wins China&#8217;s Got Talent 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Again from Iñaki Coello&#8217;s blog I found another interesting YouTube video. It is the performance in the final of China&#8217;s Got Talent 2010, by Liu Wei the armless pianist. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=984&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kennedy Center Honors Dave Brubeck</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listen to some jazz, and of course to Dave Brubeck. When visiting Iñaki Coello&#8217;s blog I came across this gem of a clip from YouTube, from the Kennedy Center Honors Gala in September 2009, where Mr Brubeck was one of the Honorees for that year. Mr Brubeck didn&#8217;t know that his four sons were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=980&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iñaki&#8217;s blog</title>
		<link>http://pianochronicles.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/inakis-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago Iñaki Coello from Valladolid, Spain, contacted me asking for permission to use some of the pictures that I took during my visit to the Sauter factory in March 2008, for an article about piano construction. Iñaki&#8217;s blog is here: http://coellopiano.blogia.com/. It is in Spanish though, but the online Spanish-to-English translators do a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=976&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improved Non-dominant-hand awareness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early February I underwent minor surgery on my right hand to remove a ganglion cyst at the base of the index finger (palm side). The cyst was small, about 3mm in diameter. But it was located at a pressure point in the hand so I had difficulty grasping things. After the surgery (under local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=968&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not concentrating on Beethoven anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had previously decided to concentrate on the Beethoven sonatas that interested me the most. That resolve didn&#8217;t last very long. Progress was slow, mainly because of insufficient practice time and the need to improve inadequate technique to solve specific technical challenges posed by Beethoven. So I added other pieces to my &#8216;work in progress&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=963&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TuneLab for iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought the iPhone port of TuneLab a few days ago, and finally got around to using it to tune the Omega yesterday. Up until now I had been using Verituner Pocket. It worked fine, with my main gripes being a somewhat clumsy user interface and the fact that my old Pocket PC device&#8217;s battery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pianochronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4421254&amp;post=957&amp;subd=pianochronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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