Of What Is, and What Pretends to BeHoward Smith#note4notethebook Amateur pianist and author of Note For Note - Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered, Howard Smith, recently trained an artificial intelligence (AI) to think and write as Erik Satie. Using a custom GPT, Howard generated a series of beautiful images of the composer together with imagined statements,…

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05.07.2025

Celebrating 15 Years of The Cross-Eyed Pianist – The Cross-Eyed Pianist

This site celebrates its 15th birthday this month, a fact I find slightly hard to believe. It began as a kind of online practice diary for me: a few years previously, I had returned to playing the piano seriously after an absence of a quarter of a century, and by the time I started writing…

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06.07.2025

Yes, the piano really is a percussive instrument – The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Defined as simultaneous playing of at least three adjacent semitone notes, clusters turn up regularly in jazz and contemporary compositions so often as to attract little notice today.

The Cross-Eyed Pianist

08.07.2025

Talented Young Musicians Shine at Weymouth Concert – The Cross-Eyed Pianist

The fifth Young Artist Showcase concert, hosted by Chamber Music Weymouth (formerly Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts) took place at St Mary's Church, Weymouth, on Sunday 6 July. Devised by CMW Artistic Director and concert pianist Duncan Honeybourne and Concerts Manager Frances Wilson, these events offer young musicians who are still in full-time education or are…

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The Music and Poetry of Erik Satie – The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Celebrating 15 Years of The Cross-Eyed Pianist – The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Yes, the piano really is a percussive instrument – The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Talented Young Musicians Shine at Weymouth Concert – The Cross-Eyed Pianist

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