I don't have a strong opinion about whether PT's recitals should be offset from ABF's...

I will upload my recital piece whenever the deadline is.

But I would love a holiday recital 🙂

@navindra yes to the comments above thanking you! This is a wonderful site and you've given us all a lovely gift by creating it. 🙂

    ShiroKuro yes to the comments above thanking you! This is a wonderful site and you've given us all a lovely gift by creating it

    I second that! No third that. I mean "everybody else" that 🤣😂🥰

        Ok, I have something. 6 days from start to getting a recording and I'm submitting it now.

        At one time I thought this piece was difficult.

          Player1 Awesome work P1! 😃

          "Don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars." (Final line from Now,Voyager, 1942)

              navindra I've not recorded yet... and I'm thinking maybe this time I'll do it on Pianoteq so that I could also submit it to Modartt's 2024 contest and make an easy 20€. Or maybe not... but then I'll have to tune one of my pianos and clear the house (of noisy little people) for the recording. I'm waffling, but I'll get it done either way!

              I just play tested all my options and I think I'll be recording on my upright this time around. I've never done that before, so I don't have high hopes I'll be able to figure out just how to properly do that!

              I did give Pianoteq a spin and I enjoyed it very much. The new Bösendorfer is very nice, the U4 is as fun as ever, and I think the NY Steinway D remains my all-up favorite.

              I'm just feeling the acoustic upright more this time around. I'll have to pick a tuning and recording strategy... I've got my work cut out for me.

              If all fails, I might just have to go back to Pianoteq. 😃

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              Beach L168, Wish, baCh, WOW Petrof, Fake Steinway, VS
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                The last recording session was a rush. Used a grand piano at the conservatory half an hour before a teacher was scheduled for a lesson. Setup the camera and did serveral re-takes while checking the time every few minutes.

                  Finally got a recording of my piece! Feels good to play well.

                  In my younger days I was musical and could remember tunes on TV commercials easily. Piano was not my instrument due to playing techniques required. At age 11 a cousin showed me songs in a beginner book. Up to 4 lines in large print. A piece with LH repeated chords was too hard and kept me away from piano for 3 decades. Today a piece like this would be easy to sight read within an hour.

                  The piece I recorded is not done yet. There is an upcoming event for amateur pianists. If I decide to attend I might play it.

                  Nightowl

                  Hah, wait until after the 15th to say that. The piece isn't very polished because I didn't really want to spend any more time on it.

                    Here's the Wednesday tally!

                    1. iternabe — O mio babbino caro by Puccini, arr. by Faber
                    2. keff — Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg, arr. by Brent Edstom
                    3. plop_symphony — The Midnight Ball by Naoko Ikeda
                    4. Schubertian2 — Ballade 4 by Chopin
                    5. WieWaldi — Quick Five Blues by Christian Fuchs
                    6. Nightowl — What A Wonderful World by G D Weiss & B Thiele, arr. by G P Tingley
                    7. Sophia — A Classy Rag
                    8. rogerch — Slow Steps by rogerch
                    9. thepianoplayer416 — When You Wish Upon a Star by Ned Washington & Leigh Harline
                    10. Sam — The Never Finished Piece by Sam
                    11. MarieJ — Waltz in F minor by Tim Neumark
                    12. Player1 — Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar
                    13. Rubens — Sonata no.2, Op.36 (1913), 2nd movement, by Sergei Rachmaninoff
                    14. Cratersmash — Sonata No. 3 in A Minor by Sergei Prokofiev
                    15. Gooseberry — Pigalle by Virginio Aiello

                    Alright!

                    There's still plenty of time to get your performance in! 🙂

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                    Beach L168, Wish, baCh, WOW Petrof, Fake Steinway, VS
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                    Gyaaa. The clock is ticking! Ok, starting today, I will record my first play through of each piece (there are three) at each practice. After a few days, I should have one that I can share….

                    I touched up the tuning on my upright piano today. Hopefully it's good enough!

                    I plan to record tomorrow but unfortunately I don't really have a strategy. I really needed to experiment with mic and camera positions but I don't have the luxury of time for all that.

                    I'll just have to wing it and hope for the best!

                    Anyone else recording this weekend?

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                    I'm coming back from hiatus and working on recording something. If I can't get anything I like today there's always tomorrow 😉

                    I haven’t been recording much because I’ve been practicing for my recital, which is later today. I want my PT recital piece to be a different piece (one of the ones I’ll play in the concert at the end of this month, but not today’s recital piece). So my plan is to start tomorrow and work on getting a shareable recording of that piece …

                    Cutting it a little close here…

                    Like a lot of others, I've got something in the works. It may not be polished, but I'll get it in by the deadline (probably right at it).

                    The down side of having a so-so version of my piece already recorded with plans to better it is that I haven't been as motivated as I would be if I had nothing or something really bad.

                    I'd planned another session yesterday, but warming up with it turned out to be one of those times out of the blue where it's like I'd never seen the piece before.