The Great Keyboard Swap

As I’d mentioned previously I currently have 2 keyboards, and they both serve very different purposes. And, because we don’t have the space in our motorhome to leave both of them set up I have to switch between them every so often. Today was one of those days. (I need to add a note here: …
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Thursday Thoughts – Playing Keyboards

I got my first electronic keyboard in 1998. It was a Casio WK1200 and I was in awe of all of the sounds it made, the arrangements I could create, and the flexibility I had in playing any type of music authentically. It served me well for a number of years…then I discovered the Yamaha …
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About The Music…

I never knew how much I’d love playing the ukulele once I got old. My Gram gave me a baritone uke when I was a teenager and I played around with that through college, but piano was always my #1 instrument. I had studied it throughout my childhood, teen years, and college (my degree is …
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Saturday Morning Possibilities

I woke up at my usual time today (10:30a +/-) and am enjoying some coffee with the window open and the sun streaming in. It’s supposed to be in the mid-70s today so we (Maisie & I) will be spending much of it outside. I’m hoping that I will be mobile enough to do some …
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Oh How I Love Making Music!

I love playing, specifically, my keyboards. And my ukuleles. But today it’s about the keyboards. Because we don’t have space for me to have both keyboards (a Yamaha PSR-S950 and a Yamaha PSR-EW410) set up at the same time, every so often I switch them around. Each has its own charms and benefits, and neither …
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How I Do Music

I love music. I started on the piano when I was quite young – too young to remember, now – and studied seriously throughout my formative years. I also wanted to sing, but wasn’t gifted with the right voice for that, so I stuck with piano and became an accomplished accompanist as well, which kept …
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