I can play the 'In the night garden' theme tune on a toy piano! What can you play on a childs toy piano?

[Dragonbutter]

You named me, Kerry. Please explain yourself.

I've seen those Bocca .

There's a saying, you shouldn't criticise someone unless you have walked a mile in their shoes'. I think this applies to alot of threads on here.

SEX!!!

Yes, DB, that was my (not very well-expresssed) point. Some people on those threads made some very sweeping and offensive remarks about only children. Nobody here has said anything about any child, gifted or otherwise - we've been laughing (I thought) about the severely limited (although in some cases very ingenious) nature of our own musical abilities.

oh that was liberating.

As you were.

KM - you sound like you're looking for a fight, and you don't really care who it's with. I do understand how it does seem that because the G&T label is so abused and misused in the UK, parents with real concerns about dealing with a very bright child are brushed aside. That's a valid concern. This, however, is a funny thread about musical instruments - the only group of people being mocked are the posters themselves.

Is that relevant?

We need some anal news to occupy us with dont we, km?

I cant find the thread, wonder if there is an update.

And remember the musical fanjo? It was gone, like WHOSH before I managed to even ponder it.

there was no malice intended in this thread.
it was actually quite a cute thread where we acknowledged that we play with the kids toys.

Phantom - I agree absolutely about the 'walk in my shoes' thing.

I think there are some oddities about how G&T is dealt with in schools - especially that the standards are relative rather than absolute - but I believe that schools do need to make appropriate provision for particularly able children and I would never scoff at those children (especially as we have some in the family). The attitudes of some parents of some G&T childen, however, do invite a certain amount of leg-pulling.

BEWARE of KERRYMUM and FEMBEAR they take things on a very personal level. aaahhh not just me who gets attacked then! LOL
Anyway on on this subject yes I have a gifted and talented child. I bought him a keyboard for his third birthday. And he taught himself to play Eastenders tune, twinkle star and lots of other tunes. I am tone deaf can't play and neither can my other half. No extra tuition or anything. He is very musical now (18 years) he is amazing!!
I ahve done this when kids gone to bed tried to play tunes with their toy instruments it is actually quiet addictive and fun!!!!!!!
No one on here by the way is digging at children KERRYMUM. Far from it!

's OK. Will not be posting on G&T again (except about my own G&T offspring).

It isn't poking fun it is putting it into perspective!

Musical fanjo? Now that is gifted and talented. What did it play?

It played like windchimes, I gather.

"It isn't poking fun it is putting it into perspective! "

Perspective, ha!

I dont see anybody going to other support topics to put things "into perspective"

To answer my own question, as kerrymum doesn't seem inclined to carry on what she started, then g and t status of my child might be relevant if this was a thread about g and t children, but it isn't.

I also like DragonButter. Muchly. The poster, not the erm, other thing.

I can play anything you like on a child's piano

subject to the limitations of a range of 2 octaves, obviously

but then, I AM gifted and talented