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post Jun 1 2012, 11:09 PM
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My student aged seven:

"Whenever I see you, I think you've got a cold. Your nose is very red!"

"Err...maybe I've caught the sun, as I've been looking after my sister's dog this week and have taken her out for lots of walks."

"No...it's always red."

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post Jun 10 2012, 09:22 AM
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Not just what they say but what they do and say. Last Thursday evening, penultimate lesson before Grade 6 piano. I have made a point this year of rather going on about going on - I mean not stopping in the sight reading whatever happens. I have been sitting there yelling "Don't correct it - hit the next note - get across the barline - use any old finger - leave out that left hand note - guess - cheat -" And many other things besides.

So when a delightful but cheeky fourteen year old boy got seized with a fit of sneezing in the middle of a sight reading example he merely turned his head away from me and the piano, sneezed, and carried on. I told him he could stop but he took no notice. He battled on through 5 sneezes. When he got to the end he collapsed with laughter and so did I. He then said "Well, you said I mustn't stop whatever happens!"

But what pleased me most was that he hadn't made a single mistake in the sight reading! I can't say it was very musical, but the rhythm and the notes were all correct!
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post Jun 14 2012, 09:58 PM
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My daughter's playing piano at school tomorrow and claims she's playing "Eclaire balloon".
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post Jun 15 2012, 08:47 AM
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Message left on answerphone yesterday by elderly adult pupil who'd forgotten to leave the lesson money:

"I'm in Waitrose and I've just realised I forgot to leave your money...again...I would bring it round straight away but I've just bought ice cream so I need to get that home and put it in the freezer first"

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pupil 6years; is it a kind of fish?
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post Jun 15 2012, 06:24 PM
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QUOTE(Seer_Green @ Jun 15 2012, 04:47 AM) *

Message left on answerphone yesterday by elderly adult pupil who'd forgotten to leave the lesson money:

"I'm in Waitrose and I've just realised I forgot to leave your money...again...I would bring it round straight away but I've just bought ice cream so I need to get that home and put it in the freezer first"

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Maybe my priorities are also wrong but that doesn't seem at all unreasonable to me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)
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post Jun 15 2012, 06:34 PM
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QUOTE(grandadsboots @ Jun 15 2012, 07:11 PM) *

me: I'm sure you know what a gavotte is.
pupil 6years; is it a kind of fish?
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And of course a pollock is a type of dance...
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post Jun 15 2012, 06:56 PM
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QUOTE(ansatz496 @ Jun 15 2012, 07:24 PM) *

QUOTE(Seer_Green @ Jun 15 2012, 04:47 AM) *

Message left on answerphone yesterday by elderly adult pupil who'd forgotten to leave the lesson money:

"I'm in Waitrose and I've just realised I forgot to leave your money...again...I would bring it round straight away but I've just bought ice cream so I need to get that home and put it in the freezer first"

There's priorities for you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)


Maybe my priorities are also wrong but that doesn't seem at all unreasonable to me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Only joking about the priorities (IMG:style_emoticons/default/party1.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) It seemed a funny story though!
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post Jun 15 2012, 07:16 PM
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QUOTE(Seer_Green @ Jun 15 2012, 07:56 PM) *

QUOTE(ansatz496 @ Jun 15 2012, 07:24 PM) *

QUOTE(Seer_Green @ Jun 15 2012, 04:47 AM) *

Message left on answerphone yesterday by elderly adult pupil who'd forgotten to leave the lesson money:

"I'm in Waitrose and I've just realised I forgot to leave your money...again...I would bring it round straight away but I've just bought ice cream so I need to get that home and put it in the freezer first"

There's priorities for you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)


Maybe my priorities are also wrong but that doesn't seem at all unreasonable to me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Only joking about the priorities (IMG:style_emoticons/default/party1.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) It seemed a funny story though!

What you should have suggested is that she brought you a tub of ice cream as an apology for forgetting to pay you again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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post Jun 15 2012, 07:37 PM
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One student asked me what I want to be when I grow up

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When I gave a demonstration of a grade 3 study, said with an air of surprise - 'wow Miss, you're really good at sight-reading...' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
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post Jun 15 2012, 08:15 PM
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QUOTE(lorraineliyanage @ Jun 15 2012, 08:37 PM) *

One student asked me what I want to be when I grow up

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Well I suppose you could see it as flattering as I guess it means they don't see you as really really old (for small children I think that means anyone over about 25).

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When I gave a demonstration of a grade 3 study, said with an air of surprise - 'wow Miss, you're really good at sight-reading...' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

'Really good' is defined as anyone 2 grades or more above you.
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post Jun 15 2012, 08:20 PM
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When I gave a demonstration of a grade 3 study, said with an air of surprise - 'wow Miss, you're really good at sight-reading...' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Almost as good as my daughter (aged about seven and just started playing) saying in wonder when we arrived to find her cello teacher practising: "I didn't know you knew how to play using all four fingers" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Jun 15 2012, 09:50 PM
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QUOTE(Roseau @ Jun 15 2012, 09:20 PM) *

QUOTE(symphonic @ Jun 15 2012, 10:02 PM) *

When I gave a demonstration of a grade 3 study, said with an air of surprise - 'wow Miss, you're really good at sight-reading...' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Almost as good as my daughter (aged about seven and just started playing) saying in wonder when we arrived to find her cello teacher practising: "I didn't know you knew how to play using all four fingers" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)



Ah that's brilliant! And it just reminded me of another one, a school saxophone student who, a couple of months into his lessons went 'Oh, do you play the saxophone too?' when I got mine out!
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post Jun 15 2012, 10:09 PM
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QUOTE(lorraineliyanage @ Jun 15 2012, 08:37 PM) *

One student asked me what I want to be when I grow up

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Yeh..So...What do[b] you want to be? ..A cellist ? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Me: So X . How was school this week....?

Him (Aged 13). Not Good.

Me: No? Why not ?

Him:Hmm.. Well....I got my exam results back. They weren't good. PAUSE. Well...they were. Well, the ones I worked for were .......


Me: (Po faced) : D'you reckon there's a lesson in that somewhere ? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
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