Bernhard's library

[Bob]

Bernhard, I remember hearing you have a library of materials your students can borrow?

Can you tell us what's in it?  In general, or if you could easily post a full list that would be awesome.

I'm curious what's in there.


How do you go about protecting the materials?  from students writting them, things like that.

[bernhard]

What is in it:

Books
CDs
DVDs/videos
Scores

I don't need to worry about the other questions, basically because no one (well, almost no one) takes advantage of it. 

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[quasimodo]

What is in it:

Books
CDs
DVDs/videos
Scores

I don't need to worry about the other questions, basically because no one (well, almost no one) takes advantage of it. 

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

  (Imagining Bernhard's devilish smiling face while posting that reply)

[Bob]

No one uses it?  Sounds nutty.    I thought you were lending out a lot of music to your students Bernhard.  I was wondering what the pieces were and how the system worked. 

Does anyone have a library of materials?  Can you give us an idea of what's in there?

[bernhard]

I am prepared to lend, but apparently the children and the teenagers have little or no interest in borrowing anything. The adult students may some times take a book (at my insistence), but usually they tend to buy copies for themselves of the things they like.

At one point, for a few students I was even lending keyboards and recorders! (until they could get round to buy their own)

I cannot be more specific about the materials because the list would be too long (I have over 3000 CDs and probably twice that much in books and scores).

However, I am more than happy to answer specific questions.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[ptmidwest]

I used to keep a "library"  (it consisted of just four shelves of material ), but I don't think it was what you're thinking of, Bob, for two reasons:

                    -----it wasn't so much standard repertoire as it was beginner and intermediate materials, pieces and books with "fun stuff" that we don't usually do in lessons  (hogwash, I say!), and leftover materials that had sat around too long and I never had given out to students.
                    -----While students enjoyed going through it and choosing for themselves, I pulled out as much as they did, to lend to students for a while.  Maybe they couldn't afford a whole book, or we just needed one piece out a book, or to provide a fresh something new that they hadn't seen before.    It is much too expensive for me to keep standard rep up there;  if they are playing advanced level, they will have to purchase or borrow elsewhere.

[jeremyjchilds]

Anytime I want to  givce a piece to a student..to try.. I print out the whole series it came from. provided that I have found a good quality file.

As for recordings, I have a whole laptop full of multiple recordings, so that we can discuss why or why not we like the varying levels of quality of playing.

[m1469]

hmmm, Bernhard, I really hope you will not be angry with me, but I have a confession to make to you...

You know how sometimes you find books that are not in their proper place or recordings that were missing and then suddenly re-appear ? heh... well... you know that little chirping cricket you sometimes hear in your library walls ?  he he, well, that's me  .  But, maybe you already knew that. 

Anyway, I am so afraid you will kick me out that sometimes if I hear you coming, I have to suddenly leave a book I was reading and hide.  I hope you are not mad at me 


m1469

*wishes she were a cricket*

[bernhard]

hmmm, Bernhard, I really hope you will not be angry with me, but I have a confession to make to you...

You know how sometimes you find books that are not in their proper place or recordings that were missing and then suddenly re-appear ? heh... well... you know that little chirping cricket you sometimes hear in your library walls ?  he he, well, that's me  .  But, maybe you already knew that. 

Anyway, I am so afraid you will kick me out that sometimes if I hear you coming, I have to suddenly leave a book I was reading and hide.  I hope you are not mad at me 


m1469

*wishes she were a cricket*

Beware of the frog.

[BoliverAllmon]

LOL