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In Reply to: RE: How did you come by your love of classical music? posted by tinear on October 31, 2020 at 07:23:02
My father was a great music lover and self-taught pianist. He was good enough to struggle through a lot of Bach, which was his usual fare.
I had piano lessons but never learned to sight read properly. I'd persuade my teacher to play my pieces herself to show me what they sounded like, then played them back by ear. My father discovered after a year of lessons that although I could play my pieces well enough, I couldn't actually read them off the page.
He was horrified. Had he been a bit more insightful he would have realised that this was a first step to improvising and playing jazz, which was my career for many years.
My father was a doctor. My brother must have seen him as a doctor and followed in his footsteps. I always though of him as a pianist since that was what seemed to give him the greatest pleasure.
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There was an old beat-up baby grand piano in my house...... But as a young child I saw it more as a "woodworking project" or "construction project" than a musical instrument........
I removed the rods to the three pedals, and then later didn't know what I did with them. I also tore off the metal "serration" from a box of plastic wrap, and used it as a "saw" on the thing.....
I dare to say that I'm known (locally) for my sight-reading - but I can't improvise to save my life. Whereas our two kids are mostly improvisers and "play by ear" types (on electric guitars). I remember one time when they were in high school, I bought the complete Doors sheet music volume, so we would "jam" - me reading the music and the two of them improvising guitar parts around it. ;-)
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