December 21 2021, 16:14

I have a reason to rejoice – my first major purchase (well, besides a house) in six years. The family decided to support my dream of a new electronic piano to replace the old Yamaha P-120 — a Kawai CN39, and now, I’ve set it up and am playing. I haven’t connected it to the computer yet to properly record the sound, so this time the sound is from the microphone. Behind me, the gas heater turns on periodically, but that shouldn’t spoil Bach (only I am skilled enough to do that). Thanks to everyone who gave advice and helped choose Ivan Shapovalov Piano Studio Tatiana Loisha Nadezhda Shulga

There’s a Mac Mini 2012 in the background. It’s so slow that it’s only good for the metronome and music sheets. Yes, everyone asks about the numbers on the screen – it’s a visual metronome. I invented it to avoid turning on the tick-tick-tick, although it can do the tick-tick-tick too. I usually use it during “practice” sessions at a slow pace, so by the second half of the recording, I already stopped hitting it (regrettably, of course, I need to practice more)