About me....
I started playing piano when I was around 10
years old. At that time, my family moved into a house which had a
neglected upright piano in one of the rooms. The piano was out of tune
and needed several repairs to broken keys. A local piano tuner carried
out the repairs and tuned it as well as he could. There was also a piano
stool, which contained old sheet music and I taught myself to read
music and to play the piano from an old Piano Tutor book. I well
remember the painstaking effort to perfect the right hand and then the
left for my very first piece. Only to be followed by having to play them
both together !
Due to moving house we had to swap the piano for a Yamaha organ and I
owned 3 organs over the next few years, the last 2 being from the
Yamaha HS series, and eventually succeeded in adding some sort of a left
foot pedal technique to my playing.
For a good many years my interest in playing dwindled to just the
occasional session, as I lacked any real outlet for my music. My
interest was, however, renewed when I bought my first keyboard and was
re-awoken each time I upgraded. I particularly enjoyed owning the
PSR2000, 3000 and Tyros 2.