My piece on Music Recognition for the Beeb went out this week – it’s available in the UK on the iPlayer, type Click in there (it’s the 18th July episode) or you can click on this click link by clicking this word: Click.
I am attempting to track down the link for the world version as we speak.

Tinkling the iVories on the iPlayer!
Here’s a pic of me at a big white grand piano – kindly provided by the players bar in Charing Cross at about half a day’s notice. Cue me turning up at 0900 with too much kit and not enough coffee. They were nice to me, even in my kraken-like pre-caffeinated state.
The piano looked lovely, apart from 4 of the notes which weren’t quite there. 2 went plunk, one went baow and one went pffff, so I transposed some of the music. You shouldn’t hear any plunks, baows or pffffs
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There’s also an instrumental arrangement of Europe’s “The Final Countdown” in the piece which I played especially :-)
More piccies below

plinky plunky

Blah blah blah plinky blah blah - my piece to camera
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July 23, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Having only seen you on QVC before giving your very interesting advice re computers, I was very pleased to see that you are now with Click.
It is wonderful that you are not only very knowledgeable re computers but also a very accomplished pianist, which I did not know about before. I enjoyed your playing very much. I am very impressed.
Keep normal as you seem to be and I am sure you will do very well in the future with your talents. All the very best.
July 30, 2009 at 12:03 pm
There are many similarities between recognizing a pattern of music and recognizing pronunciation, which is an essential but neglected component of teaching both reading and speech.