"You can tune a piano,
but you can't tuna fish" ~ Sure you can,
you just adjust its scales!
The audience at a piano recital were
appalled when a telephone rang just off
stage. Without missing a note the
soloist glanced toward the wings and
called, "If that's my agent, tell him
I'm working!"
Having a slow day? You sound board.
I'm not calling you a lyre!
Boy, you are really putting a damper on
things.
What does a Steinway? ~ About 800 pounds
(Steinway)
Why do pianos get so many headaches? ~
their strings are under so much tension
Why was the piano laughing? ~ someone
was tickling it's ivories
Why do party goers love the inside of
the piano? ~ because that's where the
action is
What has 3 legs, 52 teeth and loves to
make music? ~ a grand piano
What has 88 keys but no locks? ~ a piano
When wrapping your
music teacher's gifts at Christmas, wrap
them with cello-phane
Life is like a piano - what you get out of
it depends on how you play it.
In 1988, Ms. Spelke won the Wilson Page
Turning Scholarship, which sent her to
Israel to study page turning from left to
right. She is winner of the 1984 Rimsky
Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee Prestissimo
Medal, having turned 47 pages in an
unprecedented 32 seconds. She was also an
1983 silver medalist at the Klutz Musical
Page Pickup Competition: contestants
retrieve and rearrange a musical score
dropped from a Yamaha. Ms. Spelke excelled
in "grace, swiftness, and especially poise.”
Ms. Spelke performs both the finger-licking
and the bent-page corner methods. She works
from a standard left bench position, and is
the originator of the dipped-elbow page
snatch, a style used to avoid obscuring the
pianist's view of the music. She is page
turner in residence in Fairfield Iowa, where
she occupies the coveted Alfred Hitchcock
Chair at the Fairfield Page Turning
Institute.
Mrs. Spelke is
married, and has a nice house on a lake.
