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The Piano Project – Part 1
It’s been almost eight years since I last blogged here about piano-playing (have we really been blogging for that long?!). A new home project started though that will likely see an emergence of new...
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The Piano Project – Part 2
Truth to tell, when Hannah decided that she’d like to learn the piano rather than the violin, I was probably the more relieved – even happier – of the two of us parents. Ling’s neutral since she can...
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The Piano Project – Part 3
I don’t have the faintest recollection of the purchase or delivery of our first family piano, 38 years ago from 1978. My mom did write in her diary though that the piano cost $3,950 – not $4,200 as...
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The Piano Project – Part 4
More notes on my returning to the piano after a decade of hiatus! Scores Of all the whole bunch of things that’s different today compared to 38 years ago, the forms of sheet music probably offer the...
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One of the key things I was looking forward to with our new piano was composing again – with the last piece I wrote being just about 20 years ago. Unlike trained composers though, I write while playing...
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Learning Music for Kids
Both Ling and I started our formal music and piano lessons when we were in junior Primary school, which is about the age that many parents here today still get their children started at too. Both of us...
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The Piano Project – Part 6
There are two things I’m especially grateful my parents did when I was a child: buy us an Apple II computer, and let my two brothers and I learn the piano. Both of these things had immeasurable impacts...
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iPad Pro 12.9 (2017)
While the stunning form factor and premium design language are traits no longer exclusively in Apple’s purview, Apple fans will still have us believe that the Cupertino super company creates products...
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The Piano Project – Part 7
Hannah has been attending piano lessons using the Suzuki method for about a year now. From the looks of it, I reckon she’s at a level of technical competency higher than what I was able to reach at her...
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Home Recording – Part 1
One of my life-long ambitions has always been to do a proper studio recording of pieces I play on the piano. There’s been sporadic occasions over the years where I’ve attempted to do variations of...
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Home Recording – Part 2
Coming out a crash course on home recording equipment, the basic outlay seemed to be: Microphones: two basic types are dynamic, and condenser – with the former more suitable for low-frequency audio...
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Home Recording – Part 3
I didn’t think for a moment that home studio recordings were going to be easy. Never mind that I wasn’t going to do both video and audio recordings and any mistakes would be very hard to correct. I...
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Creative SXFI
I taught an introductory subject to computer games to freshmen classes for several years some time back. One topic of discussion centered on key turning points in video games, and one such would be the...
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Home Recording – Part 4
Ling mused the other day whether we should get Peter started on a music instrument, like his older sister. Apparently, the same question was asked by Hannah’s piano teacher, who actually resides at The...
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Casio Privia PX870 – Part 1 – Decisions
I wrote my first music compositions – and specifically piano pieces – almost 25 years ago, and largely working off a Korg music workstation at my old family home. This particular digital keyboard was...
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Casio Privia PX870 – Part 2 – The Piano
My requirements for the digital piano were relatively few: most of the models in the price roughly SGD1.5K to 2K bracket were all offering pretty decent sound, so the quality of the piano sampling...
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Home Recording – Part 5
With the the new digital piano happily sequestered in our master room, it was easy deciding which of the three ways I was going to get recordings: record video and audio on separate streams, then sync...
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