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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: How do I get my 6 yr old to practice
Message-ID: <328@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 10:41:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 10:41:47 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 06:33:27 EDT
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Reply-To: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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Before anyone even thinks about learning to play the piano, he should
be informed that he will spend about 2 years playing the dinkiest
music he has ever heard. After 6 weeks it will become almost
unbearable. It is not a pleasant experience to spend hours learning
something that sounds stupid when you play it before Grandma.

After the second year, one gets into some better-sounding songs, and
can begin learning more modern popular music. The first 2 years are
necessarily filled with dinky songs because the songs must be easy
to play and therefore must have very simple melodies and (especially)
rhythms. It is important that one realises this before he commits to
piano lessons. The first two years or so are the hardest.

A child should be encouraged to play around on the piano, "picking out"
the melodies of songs he has heard and likes, starting at day one of
the piano lessons. Unfortunately, many piano teachers discourage this,
because they are teaching the student to TYPE the music instead of
PLAY the music. As a result, most piano students can play music if
it is written down, but they have never learned to LISTEN to what they
are doing, and are nothing more than just typists who use an 88-key
keyboard. I have seen too many music students that can play the most
complex and difficult music from a sheet, but when asked to improvise
"Happy Birthday" they are totally lost.

I say all this because I know from experience that there are "good"
piano teachers that teach piano, but not MUSIC. Students of these
teachers are most miserable when they practice, because they haven't
learned to love music-making. My piano teacher was unique in that she
would allow me to play the music by ear, instead of insisting that I
always play exactly note by note. Under her I learned to UNDERSTAND
what I was playing, because I added my own embellishments to the music.
Then, after I had played the piece for her by ear during the next lesson,
she would say, "That's real good. Now let's do see if you can do it
exactly by the music, and then we'll go on to another song." Because
of this, I enjoyed piano. She allowed me the freedom to enjoy what I
was doing, but she also gently disciplined me to learn the techniques
of playing note-by-note. This is the kind of teacher to look for, and
they are few and far between. But if you can find a teacher who has
this ability to instill love for music in children, you will have 
very little problem getting your child to practice.

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Reply-To: pls@soessx.UUCP (P.L.Sullivan)
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Summary: pipe size

In article <239@drivax.UUCP> alan@drivax.UUCP (Alan Fargusson) writes:
>> How big is the pipe?  I read somewhere pipes use the root file system,
>
>Pipes use an inode on the root file system. They are limited to 5120 bytes
>on System V, and 4096 on some other systems, by code in the kernel.

On System V, pipes are 10 physical blocks long, with the 11th thru 13th
block pointers reserved for pipe activity des


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