Piano prodigy Gavin George, 14, enjoys playing for his mother, Mary, in their home in Granville, Ohio. Gavin, who made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of six, starts practicing at 6 a.m.
For years, drummers have been trying to find a way to practice without waking the neighbors. With the advent of electronic drums, drummers can now practice any time and with the use of headphones, no one else need know about it. While using headphones on digital drums is ideal for an individual practice session, more volume will be necessary if you wish to use the drums in a group setting. The easiest way to increase the volume of your digital drum set is to connect them to a stereo receiver. Connecting digital drums to a stereo is a very straightforward process.
Set up the drum set near the stereo. Y-cables can be as short as 6 inches or as long as 9 feet. Set your drum set close enough that the cable has enough slack to reach the inputs of the stereo receiver.
Locate the connection points on the stereo and the drum set. The control panel of the drum set will have a headphone jack that doubles as an output jack. Your stereo receiver will have multiple RCA input jacks located in the back of the unit. Labels for each set of jacks will include “CD,” “DVD” or “AUX.”
Connect the drum set to the stereo. Insert the 1/4-inch TRS end of the cable into the headphone jack of the drum set control panel. Select a set of RCA inputs on the back of the stereo receiver and insert the RCA end of the Y-cable into the jacks. Match the color of the input jacks with the cable when making the connection.
Adjust the settings on the stereo. On the front of the stereo, select the input that is connected to the Y-cable. Set the master volume of stereo so that future adjustments only have to be made from the drum set control panel.
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Even if you never played in school orchestra or jazz band, it's very likely that you've sat down at a piano at some point in your life.
Maybe you had a piano at home, and your parents insisted on putting you in piano lessons, or your friend was a decent pianist and tried to help you learn a tune or two. But what you might not realize is that your attempts at a moving rendition of Chopsticks actually put you at the end of a long line of a Western European middle class tradition, that starts sometime around Jane Austen, meaning you're basically starring in your very own version of Pride and Prejudice.
Don't believe me? Imagine a time before the Internet (scary, I know). Imagine a time before phones, before TV and radio, before the invention of the gramophone or even recorded sound. Now let's say you're in London, maybe, or Paris - what is there to do for fun? The answer: play the piano.
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For women in particular, playing the piano was not only a socially approved form of entertainment, it was something that might land you a husband, the only real 'prospect' most women had at the time. As the social mores of England and France made their way to the United States and Japan, the good citizens of these countries took on the whims of their European counterparts, and a piano revolution was born.
By 1900, pianos were all the rage, especially in the United States. In the first part of the century, roughly 250,000 pianos were made every year. But pianos weren't immune to market forces, and the Great Depression hit this market particularly hard. To make matters worse, the advent of the record player and radio meant that live performance wasn't the only way the middle class could access great music. The market crashed and never fully recovered to its previous levels.
While that might have been the nail in the coffin, advents in electronic music brought the piano back into the limelight with its brand-new cousin, the digital piano. Cheaper, smaller, and lighter than its analog model, it contributed to the declining sale of acoustic pianos but helped bring the keyboard back to the forefront.
They're such a big deal that you, dear reader, has decided to buy one too! Excellent choice. But how do you choose a digital piano from the hundreds out there?