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I’ve always wanted to learn the piano but we didn’t have enough money so dad sent me for organ electone classes instead. It was cheaper to get an organ and it fulfilled my desire to learn some music. Dad bought the organ on hire purchase terms. It has served me very well and been with me for a long time. I’ve since sold it. I learned the organ around age 12, I think. I can’t remember!
Anyway, back to my organ. It has moved several places from Kuantan to KL to Penang and to KL again. It has been played by my cousin in Penang who loved it so much that she later took up some Clavinova lessons. It has been played by my nephews who loved it so much that they took up organ lessons of their own and got their own organ later on.
I stopped my organ lessons when we were moving around so much but took it up again when I was working. I was able to pay for my own lessons then. I studied till Grade 6. Later on I even taught a little girl till she took exams for her First Level, (that would be Grade 13 if I’m not mistaken). I was very happy to be able to achieve that.
What is this all leading to? The story of my very first pop piano lesson of course. I will save that for another post. Hehe.
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This morning I tried to listen to my personalised internet radio station on Yahoo Music’s Launchcast but got this message instead.
LAUNCHcast Is Off the Air - It’s a Day of Silence
12 midnight EST to 11:59 pm EST. A recent COPYRIGHT ROYALTY
Today is only one day of silence — but if you don’t speak up, this could be the only sound we’ll hear from online radio.
Apparently because of the drastic increase of royalty rates, July 15 2007 will be the day the music dies, music on the internet that is. Thats really very sad. I can’t do much about it accept help to spread the word on my blog so something can be done hopefully.
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My mum used to listen to beautiful harp music on her old record player. So naturally I listened along with her as a child. Its really soft soothing music and I love it.
She had this old harp record. You know those things which looks like a huge disc. If you’ve not seen one before, you must be young and not old like me. Haha. So I’ve included a picture for my young readers. The picture is sourced from http://freenet-homepage.de/plattenwechsler/Â
We used to have one like this at home. The disc will turn and then you can manually place the needle at the start or on that part of the record that you want to listen to. (But my mum always told us not to do this. She said we had to place the needle at the beggining and listen from start to end or we would spoil the record. But we kids always got impatient and tried to skip songs. Hehe.)
I couldn’t find the music of her old record in any other form so I searched the internet for some free harp music and found some links. You can listen to the full song for some of them but some have only an excerpt or part of the song. Anyway, here are the links. Have a quick 5 minute break and listen to one or two harp music pieces from the following links. They’re really relaxing. Enjoy!
Alice Howe’s Harp Music
Maui Harps Listen to Harp Music by Kristine Snyder
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