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Antie Em wrote:

Rob wrote:I don't understand why you need a belly button to learn to play the piano!

Middle C has to be in line with your bellybutton

Bit like learning to touch type and keeping your fingers on the "home keys"

On the piano I tried to learn to play on had a chip on middle c! Made life a bit easier.

snoopysue wrote:

Antie Em wrote:

Rob wrote:I don't understand why you need a belly button to learn to play the piano!

Middle C has to be in line with your bellybutton

Bit like learning to touch type and keeping your fingers on the "home keys"

On the piano I tried to learn to play on had a chip on middle c! Made life a bit easier.

Perhaps that was there for a reason for that then - for help in touch typing there is a raised mark on the home keys - F and J

Antie Em wrote:
Perhaps that was there for a reason for that then - for help in touch typing there is a raised mark on the home keys - F and J

Never noticed that before now!

My belly button is very useful - I like to eat celery in bed and it's a convenient place to keep the salt.


Not original I'm afraid, I got it from the very great Gerard Hoffnung.

SRD wrote:My belly button is very useful - I like to eat celery in bed and it's a convenient place to keep the salt.


Not original I'm afraid, I got it from the very great Gerard Hoffnung.

SRD wrote:My belly button is very useful - I like to eat celery in bed and it's a convenient place to keep the salt.


Not original I'm afraid, I got it from the very great Gerard Hoffnung.

Who's Gerard Hoffning???

snoopysue wrote:Who's Gerard Hoffning???

Mrs Hoffning's son you silly person!

Doesn't help much Mark!!

Gerard Hoffnung - Oh, yes! Every so often I just have to listen to "The Bricklayer's Lament" and I cry laughing every time, although I know perfectly well what is going to happen. Check it out folks, if you haven't heard it (or even if you have):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI8ft3oZ ... re=related

snoopysue wrote:Who's Gerard Hoffning???

Oh the ignorance of youth! In my youth, one of the few compensations of going away to boarding school on the North Kent coast was the visit to the cartoon cinema on Victoria station where one of the films based on the cartoons of Gerard Hoffnungs orchestral characters was bound to be playing. If you have 8 minutes to spare there is one of them, albeit rather poor quality and the sound is out of synch, here. The books of his cartoons are still readily available. A little later, in my teens, a friend introduced me to the double LP that contained various comedic interviews (some of which are seriously weird) and his famous 'Speech to the Oxford Union' which contains, amongst a lot of other stuff, the Bricklayers Lament mentioned above. Some of this is available on Youtube, just type in Gerard Hoffnung. Google throws up a lot of stuff too.

SRD wrote:

snoopysue wrote:Who's Gerard Hoffning???

Oh the ignorance of youth! .

Flattery will get you no where!!