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not always. our old piano wasnt in very good condition so didnt sound that good and wasnt worth much (about £100). it depends on the instrument.



what kind of grades are you talking about? the only music grades i know about are the associated board ones, and the highest in that is a grade 8... *looks puzzled*

Anyway, i play the piano too not anymore unfortunately as i dont have a piano here, but i still have a go when i'm at home with my parents. I played for about 3 years, but i had tought myself some stuff because i'd played the cello (and still do) and done music theory before i started piano lessons. i've taken up to my grade 5 in piano and then i stopped doing exam stuff and myteacher taught me pieces i wanted to learn because i wanted to concentrate on my school work and have piano as something fun to do.

Yay for a fellow cellist! I'm not especially serious about it, but I still take lessons and perform with my university's orchestra...I could never completely give it up.

I never learned to play the piano, but I wish I had. It would have helped me understand some of the fundamentals of the cello and develop my ear quicker. I did have a keyboard for a while, but I think my parents eventually gave it away because I never learned to play it. If I had learned to play the piano, I could have also possibly gone into music education...I would have loved to have been a middle or high school orcehestra director. Oh well, law school it is instead for me...thank goodness I'm interested in many different things.

not always. our old piano wasnt in very good condition so didnt sound that good and wasnt worth much (about £100). it depends on the instrument.



what kind of grades are you talking about? the only music grades i know about are the associated board ones, and the highest in that is a grade 8... *looks puzzled*

Anyway, i play the piano too not anymore unfortunately as i dont have a piano here, but i still have a go when i'm at home with my parents. I played for about 3 years, but i had tought myself some stuff because i'd played the cello (and still do) and done music theory before i started piano lessons. i've taken up to my grade 5 in piano and then i stopped doing exam stuff and myteacher taught me pieces i wanted to learn because i wanted to concentrate on my school work and have piano as something fun to do.

Yeah, Royal Conservatory of Music is a Canadian thing.
http://www.rcmexaminations.org

It only goes up to grade 11/ARCT though. ARCT (equal to a master's degree in performance, apparently) is awfully stressful (memorisation of pieces, I believe five of them, each 10 pages or so, is compulsory, compared to other grades in which you lose 6-10%), even one mistake can cause you to fail. It also requires a lot of music theory, which I haven't taken- so I've shifted to London College. Although it's lesser and more equivalent to a bachelor's degree in performance, memorisation isn't compulsory and there's a lot less music theory to take.