Thanks, Zen. I have done that, too. Here's another one that may have slipped past you. I sometimes tell the kids that they have bells in their piano. Then I play a chime chord in the extreme high treble. The best one I have found is from an old piano piece my mother had, called "Chapel Chimes." To play it, you use both hands to play an octave in the area of the top two octaves of the piano. To the right hand, add a fourth up and a fourth down. To the left hand, add a minor sixth down. If you chose two C's, you would have E - C in the left hand and G - C - F in the right hand. You can move the chord around and it still sounds good. It makes an impressive flourish to end a piece of music with this chime chord. In "Chapel Chimes" this chord was used to play the Doxology, "Old One Hundred." Good luck. Thanks again. Ken Burton "Doctor Piano" Calgary Alberta On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Zen Reinhardt wrote: > > > > ---------- > > From: Kenneth W. Burton <kwburton@freenet.calgary.ab.ca> > > To: pianotech@ptg.org > > Subject: Re: Hawkeye Harriet-Theme & Variation > > Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 8:26 AM > > > > > > Zen, > > > > Good for you! I have a routine of entertainment which I use for > > kids and, if you don't mind, I'll add the bit about the jack kicking the > > hammer in the butt. > > Hey -- that's exactly why my tip was posted publicly, and I appreciated > reading your tip concerning the alternate sounds a piano can make. Yes, I > too like strumming the strings and calling it "Monster Music." Take that > one a step further by pressing down the sustain pedal and having the kids > "call" the piano, then listening to the echoes come back from the strings. > One of these years, I'd like to hold down the sustain pedal during a good > crash of real thunder and hearing what comes back from the piano .... > > Tip for the day ... think like a kid to keep the kid within you alive, > well, and laughing. > > ZR! RPT > Ann Arbor > diskladame@provide.net >
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