Aimed at everyone with an interest in pianos amateurs & professionals alike this is a thorough but highly readable technical guide to the worlds most influential musical instrument. Most people even competent pianists have no idea how a piano works yet understanding a pianos truly remarkable technology can greatly increase the pleasure of owning & playing one. Even though the most humble upright has thousands of working parts this innovative manual explains how straightforward it can be to maintain & improve a pianos performance. ...

The Piano Prep Test has been specially designed to be taken by pianists who have been playing for a few terms. Built into it are all the sorts of skills they will be developing at this stage such as a sense of pitch & rhythm controlled & even playing accuracy & quality of tone. This book contains all that the player will need to do the Test explaining how each part will help in the development of their musical skills & giving advice on what the examiner will be looking for. As well as the tunes pieces & musical games it

Includes:: some entertaining illustrations & a fun page
- so practising for the big day will always be enjoyable!


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Piano Time 1 starts at the very beginning with simple five-finger tunes for hands separately & together many with duet parts. It gradually addes more notes & techniques to cover sharps & flats simple scales & keys & a range of dynamics & symbols. ...

Piano Time 2" builds on the techniques acquired in " Piano Time 1" extending the range of notes & time signatures & including tones & semitones chords & triads arpeggios major & minor scales & keep-fit exercises for the left h&. It also introduces simple pedalling new signs & symbols & pieces to help players get around the whole keyboard." ...

With The Picador Book of Love Poems award-winning poet John Stammers has created a unique collection: by pairing some of the finest love poems from centuries past with modern counterparts he presents a book of surprising connections echoes & juxtapositions where classic & contemporary love poems shed new & unexpected light on one another. Here old favourites from Spenser to Tennyson sit side by side with poems by Carol Ann Duffy & Michael Donaghy the distance between the poets closed by their single timeless theme. Whether you're feeling tempted seduced tormented or rejected or falling in love or out of love -- this is the perfect book to inspire console & give a voice to every facet of our deepest & most complex human emotion. ...

It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim
- nights on the town roistering headlines in the gossip columns
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Thomas Chaloner is relieved to be summoned back to London. His master the Earl of Clarendon has sent him to Tangier to investigate a case of corruption. Chaloner will be glad to be home to be reunited with his new wife but the trivial reason for his recall exasperates him
- the theft of material from the construction site of Clarendon's embarrassingly sumptuous new house just north of Piccadilly. Within hours of his return Chaloner considers these thefts even more paltry as he is thrust into extra investigations involving threats of assassination a stolen corpse & a scheme to frame the Queen for treason. Yet there are connections from them all which thread through the unfinished Clarendon House...
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The second fantastic book about ten-year-old FRANKIE FOSTER -- the girl who wants to help but ends up causing chaos! Frankie Foster loves fixing peoples problems. Her help might not always be welcome -- & she might cause the odd total disaster -- but Frankie always fixes things. Eventually! When Frankies mum agrees to have a friends daughter to stay for a fortnight it falls on Frankies shoulders to look after Amelia. Having another girl share her broom cupboard of a bedroom is one thing but wherever Amelia goes trouble seems to follow however hard Frankie tries to keep her out of it! Frankie certainly gets more than she bargains for with Amelia but in typical Frankie fashion she soon realises how being different is no bad thing & learns some important lessons along the way! like the true meaning of friendship & how to keep life sweet! ...

The Grunt & The Grouch are two of the most disgusting & badly-behaved trolls in the world
- & the most fun! They keep bogies &
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A tried-&-tested programme to help men become confident & skilled at approaching & talking to any woman. Imagine having the confidence to approach any woman. Imagine knowing exactly what to say to her. Imagine looking forward to a date rather than it filling you with dread. With Robert King's methods all of this can become a reality. Robert King is an ordinary guy who has become a master of picking up & dating attractive women & has brought dating success to thousands of men. In The Pick-Up Game he shares his methods. Learn what to say to a woman you like how to interact socially & how to handle the logistics of approaching & spending time with women. Then learn the Zen way of letting go especially when under pressure socially & how not to try too hard to make something work
- simply let it all unfold naturally. With Robert's techniques you will gain total confidence in yourself learn to read & understand women & maximize every date you go on. Whatever your goal
- whether it's to have more fun more sex or a serious relationship
- look no further than this invaluable book. You really can become a success with women.


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