Shi`ur Psanter
Piano Lesson

performed by Meir Fenigshtein;
written by Dani Sanderson, Meir Fenigshtein

...You too, dear listener, will be able to play like you have heard me playing before a seconds of number. Good evening to everybody, here with you is Poogy with the first piano lesson for the family and for the neighbours. Everything needed for the first lesson is patience, initiativeness, a bit of talent, and also the piano is advisable. If you have no piano, you can play on your lips.

And lip's now take directly to the first part of the lesson, which is, of course, part A: What is a piano and what is it good for?

Therefore, the piano was invented by Shlomo Krescendo in 1723 when he wished to build an harp and made mistake in proportions. He made mistake also in the date, for it is known to you that the piano was built in 1709, and not by Marc Krescendo; but does it matter? The matter is that there is a piano. Is there a piano?

– No!

– So bring one! And we will take to the next part. All the listeners are invited to sit by the piano.

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Everybody seated themselves?

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The first and the most important thing that you have to know when you are seated by the piano is to play. If you can't – it's waste of my time and waste of your time. But, nevertheless, if you have listened to the previous lessons that I gave, I hope that you have learned something; notwithstanding that there were no previous lessons. Besides knowing how to play, you need also technics. To this I want to dedicate todays lesson. The first our exercise in technics is called 'Trevolacia'. Here you hear Trevolacia by the right hand.

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Now listen to the left hand.

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The next exercise is meant for four fingers and is called 'Trutacipanta'. Tru-ta-ci-pan-ta, tru-ta-ci-pan-ta... Understood?

The third our exercise in technics is meant for development of the quickness of hands. It is called 'Ruti-Ruti' by the name of the pianist Yona Fifo. Please. Ru-ti, ru-ti, ru-ti ti-ti...

And remember these three exercises we have learned – 'Trevolacia', 'Tutracipanta' and 'Ruti-Ruti'.

Mozart in his days have said that not by the technics alone lives the pianist. Thus, my listeners, the theory is also important. The theory is notes. The notes are sounds of the different kinds. And there are also chords. Chords are the nomadic people that in the beginning of the century lived in Northern Iraq. And, surely, the composition. All this we shall learn, my listeners, at the next lesson. And until then – by the way, the pianist that helps me in the studio, mr. Lugi Gresco – Lugi, thank you. And remember: Don't look at the pianist, look at his hands!