Conference napalm::commusic_v1

My impression is that the best classical piano teachers (including an old
friend of mine) look down their long noses at electronic keyboards and refuse
to teach on them.

But you can find a hack or a rocker.
Tom

    
    When I bought my CZ-101 last summer, it came with free keyboard
    lessons. Unfortunately I'm never in my hometown where I bought it
    and haven't been able to take full advantage of this opportunity.
    Anyway, when you go synth-shopping, see if you can find a comparable
    deal.
    
    Darryle

    If you want to learn real classic technique on electronic keys,
    seek out an ORGAN teacher. These fine people can teach you many
    fine points for effective use of electronic keyboards (e.g. quickly
    changing patch presets on a DX7 would be little more than pulling
    an organ stop to these fellows).
    
    It is my impression that organ instructors are much better equipped
    to help a student in other ways, such as switching between boards
    for multi-key playing and interpereting music scores with proper
    tonal authenticity (i.e. whether to use a quentedena vs. a vox humana
    or flute pipe). 
    
    The only thing that pianos have that organs don't is velocity sensitive
    action on the keys, however, any good organ instructor will have
    had a great deal of piano experiece for explaining these things.
    If you can find an instructor who is happy to answer your questions
    and show you what you want, you're all set.
    
    Best of luck to you!
    Eric Fultyn
    

    Re: .1 "But you can find a hack or a rocker."
    
    ...like Laurie Anderson?
    
    Edd
    
    

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>    Re: .1 "But you can find a hack or a rocker."
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>    ...like Laurie Anderson?
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>    Edd
 I'm not aware that Anderson teaches.  However, you could try and call her
if like commuting.  A recent photo in the Globe showed in squatting in front
of a rack of 4 or 5 of our favorite keyboards/synths, so she must know some-
thing.  She was a hot teenage violinist (in American Youth Symhpony), but
I don't think she's a hot keyboard player, probably.  She hired Joy Askew for
that in her film.
Tom

    
    	Have you looked into Indian Hill Arts? They are located in
    Littleton in the Shattock (sp?) Street School.  I have been involved
    in their synth music program since it started and I will post a
    note if anyone is interested.
    
    
    Guy Novello
    

Re: .6
Yes, please do.  And thanks.

    
    	I'm sorry Chuck - haven't been keeping up with this notes file.
    	I will call Indian Hill Tomorrow and verify some information.
    
    	Indian Hill offers conventional lessons.  They also have an
    electronic music program (Which I went through).  The studio contains:
    A Drumulator digital drum machine, a Juno 106, a Chroma Polaris, a
    Porta-one 4 track and a MSQ-700(?) sequencer (They upgrade their
    stuff once in a while - they may have new  stuff now).  The course consists
    of 1.5 hours of class time and 1.5 hours of studio time per week. The course
    is designed for people just getting into electronic music.  I learned
    alot from the course and made some purchasing decisions as a result.
    
    	They also have a synth ensemble. I am the bass player, although
    I program my drum machine for the tunes we do.  We try to do original
    tunes that the students write and some of it is pretty good.
    The ensemble has done some "gigs" at area high schools and we got
    paid a few bucks.
    
    	The program is run by Harry Chalmiers. He hold a degree from Berklee
    and has his masters (I forget where he earned it.) Harry also plays
    in a band with Dave Mash who is in charge of the synth program at Berklee.
    The synth ensemble is run by Greg Passler who's band (Childhood) won the
    BCN battle this year.
                         
    I'm not sure if the Keyboard teachers will teach on the synth, but
    I'll find out.
    
    Again I'm sorry for not being prompt.  I guess I should keep one
    terminal running notes and another for doing work like other noters
    do :-)
    
    Guy Novello
               

    
    	After playing telephone tag for several weeks, Harry got me
    out of bed at 9:00 AM to answer the question.  Steve Savage does
    give lessons on keyboards other than Piano.  So give Indian Hill
    a call and get in touch with Steve.
    
    Guy Novello