Dean Taylor
33 posts
Aug 01, 2012
4:05 PM
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Several harp teachers have advised for the use of a piano in various facets of the learning process.
Here is a free download link for a remarkable virtual grand piano. Perhaps you've seen or heard of it: Pianoteq?
The sound quality is simply unparalleled--shy of purchasing a Bösendorfer this may be the most useful keyboard tool in your learning kit.
It is useful for, e.g., repeatedly playing the target note while attempting the overblow or overdraw. In that striving, there may be an uncanny autonomic neural pathway being set up (pardon me for that mouthful).
I use the word "uncanny" advisedly, as just about every accomplished player speaks of surprise, astonishment--even something approaching shock--at the moment he hits the target overblow or overdraw note. And, this amazement when he had been working at doing just that for, possibly, months--even years!
Some part of him was undergoing a process of sorts. The piano simulator may, in fact, hasten the process!
Try the Pianoteq--it's free.
[I have no affiliation whatsoever with Pianoteq].
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