Kids and the Piano (Hawkeye Harriet-Theme & Variation)

[barre41]

Hello Ken,

The chime chord you described is also used in a piece called "Sabbath
Chimes" by F. Henri Klickmann and published by Shawnee Press. The left
hand plays a sixth but it may be a major or minor sixth depending on the
position of the note in the scale. The upper note of the left hand is
the melody note. The right hand is separated from the left hand by a
perfect fifth and it plays 2 perfect 4ths on top of each other. In the
"Sabbath Chimes" Klickmann uses the chime chords to play "Sun of My
Soul" and later in the piece he uses them again for 4 measures of
"Nearer My God To Thee". On a nice piano well tuned, these chords are
beautiful and sound very much like chimes.

I have used these chords now and then if the situation feels right to be
a little humorous saying, "Did you know that this piano is so good that
you can play chimes on it?" Playing a few chime chords then has always
gotten a good responce.

Norm Barrett
Memphis, TN

Kenneth W. Burton wrote:
> 
>         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
>