ok i have the World's Least Glamorous Piano and only a sketchy idea about the bass clef

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but still would like to learn

my piano smells of orange juice and mouse bait.

The only books I have are ones with twee children in them, glad to be singing morally uplifting songs.

I have NO MONEY for lessons (it has all gone on wool)

I do play the violin, kind of. I mean, I can read the treble clef and bizarely have an elderly grade 5 theory.

please sort me out with books

oh and I need it tuned. Do I just look in the yellow pages under p?

for tuners yes look up piano tuners under P. or you can look here

am sure one of our piano teachers will be along soon with suggestions for books. I learnt years ago with the twee children and scary Fanny Waterman

i have a fanny waterman around sonewhere, the blue one

her woodcuts scare me

i can actually locate the right keys for the treble clef fast enough to read music but am very wobbly on bass cleff

thanks for link there! how much am i looking at? (its badly out of tune and worse, isn't holding its tune..on a violin thats a Bad Sign)

(um...I take it I cant tune it myself? I have pretty good pitch...)

right i have to bump this to get it above the other thread that I started by accident

Around £40 to £50.

If it's really covered in orange juice and mouse bait, it may have had it, but the piano tuner will advise...

The Carol Barratt course is going cheap on Amazon. It doesn't contain too many uplifting songs iirc, and is a course for adults not children. DH and I got a bit fed up with it after a while, but that might have been because neither of us was starting from absolute scratch.

god i hope it hasn't had it...I have been listening to satie all morning in preparation for my foray into the world of the piano

ah both these books sound good.

i have attempted to play some music. i have discovered that actually I can pretty much work out most of the bass clef. hmm... I am not sure what I am after really. I guess I want nice interesting music that is easy to play. I sight read a load of stuff from the usborne book of xmas carols (both hands) this morning. I think its more filling in the gaps...

God I dunno what I'm after really. I think I want some inspiration.

this is perhaps sounding like teacher territory. hmm.

piano time looked especially good...is it classical music or made up for beginners muzak ?

Ooooo, you are just like me then. Bet mine rivals yours for world's least glamorous piano - it is knackered and was delivered by tractor a year ago. I still haven't got round to getting it tuned.

I'm struggling a bit on the bass clef but hanging in there as I'm determined to have mastered Silent Night and one other carol by Christmas as I have visions of us all standing around the piano singing beautifully (to hide the fact the piano is out of tune) on Christmas day !

I am a beginner as an adult. Have been embarresed into learning s my dd7 is better than me. The two books my teacher has given me are
Tuneful Graded Studies Volume 1 by Dorothy Bradley

and

Thomas F Dunhill First year pieces Felix Swinstead Work and Play(easier piano pieces No
51}

We went to our local music shop to find a tuner.

Oh nad pratice everyday for at least 10 mins.

am rofl at piano being delivered by a tractor

mine has rentokill traps in it.

and I am assuming that it is orange juice making the keys sticky....oh jaysus...

and beety I read that as "grandad studies..."

do you like the tunes in the book? Are they fun to play? Are they at least potentially tuneful? Or is it 400 choruses of "merrily we roll along?"

i really like the tunes. NOthing trashy or child like. And easy enough to play after some work so you don't feel stupid. (although I have to say I struggle a bit but I have never palyed an instrument}

that sounds most promising, ta beety...

enjoy and don't forget to do your throery

I am going to have a look for those Beetroot as I have got the bug with DD's Christmas carol book and want to keep this up after Christmas. The only practising going on in this house is me at the moment, DD doesn't do any. I have been telling her teacher now for a year that when I get a chance I am going to book her for lessons but until DS gets a bit older I don't think I'm going to get a chance, so I am on my own.

DS's face was a picture when the tractor turned up on the driveway !

I must say I have never done much throery . it has never been a thing of mine, if i am honest.

practice has to become a part of theirlife. it is what they do before school. Everyday!!

DD is 7 taking grade two recorder adn taken grade one piano in June. This is not a boast, this is what happens when they work hard.

I wish your DD would have a word with mine Beety ! In fairness to DD she currently has homework, speech therapy, physio & OT exercises to do, so she is pretty snowed under. Her teacher said not to push her to practice and that she will get to the stage in a year or so when she will want to do it off her own back and that is the time to encourage her. Apparently her mother was a piano teacher and she learnt quite slowly as DD did, so I'm going along with what she says.

It's more for DD about what she gains from it with her dyspraxia. She gets auditory feedback from the pressure on the note that has helped her how much pressure to exert when writing.

I'm the one desperate to be good at the piano, think I should take over her lessons really !