Uh huh! It's great! Always need a page turner though, but good page turners are in short supply...

Anyway...yeah I love accompanying! I just wish I played something else like Cello or Flute or something!

My proudest achievement was doing the Introduction and Polonaise Brilliante in C Op.3 for Cello and Piano with the school strings teacher who specialises in Cello.

IrisH - LoonY

You only have to ask - some of us did DipABRSM page-turning in the summer

How can you not be a good page turner?! You wait til the player nods, and then turn over!

My dad can do it and he can't een read music! Although he does have his dipABRSM in it, like Debroah

It is possible... people who 1) get engrossed in the music and forget to turn 2) turn when they think is best not when the pianist nods 3) people who get distracted and don't notice the pianist is frantically nodding...

etc etc...

Previous page turners I've had NEVER follow the music, even PIANISTS! Most simply get lost and have no idea when to turn, even when I'm yelling NOW NOW in a rehersal at them

I really don't know why page turning for a pianist is so hard for these people

IrisH - LoonY

So frustrating isn't it

Maybe you should tell your erstwhile page turners not to worry about watching the music, and just watch for your nod. Sometimes page turners are no good because the pianist expects them to be a mind-reader and know exactly when the page should be turned, when possibly their reading of the music simply isn't that good.

I'm page turning again tomorrow; my technique is to follow the pianist's score, stand up when they get to the last line, get a finger between the pages ready for the turn and turn at a nod or shortly before the end of the line. The only complication is turn-backs for repeats - for which I remember the page number to turn back to.

Can be tricky if it's a cold yet sunny day though and there's some glare on the music .

It's quite easy to be a hopeless page turner despite following the score. You just get your arm in the way of the pianist's eyes, fumble at the score and end up knocking it off the stand into the pianist's lap.

Or, worse still, turn two pages at once

By far the hardest I've ever done was some Webern. Both soloist and I were counting like %!*%^@. Next worse was turning for an accompanist when the soloist suddenly announced that she had an awkward page turn too, and would I mind doing that for her. I had to discreetly leave the piano at the appropriate point, try to avoid being knocked unconscious by her bowing arm, turn the page, then sneak back to the piano and find my place again.

See, I've NEVER had a non musician page turner...and some have been pianists! Yet they can't follow a simple piano score I even nod for them and some still ignore it! It must be me!

IrisH - LoonY

Your right...it must be you

Yeah, I have very bad luck with page turners, only decent one I've ever had is a music teacher! But seriously doesn't it seem a bit wierd that a PIANIST can't page turn for another player? :-|

IrisH - LoonY

Well a PIANIST as you put it wouldn't be used to do page turnings.

They should do, or at least follow the score for heaven's sake!! Ah well

What time is it? My computer clock is VERY wrong :S

IrisH - LoonY

7.24pm