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Topic: happy birthday to you  (Read 1931 times)

Offline pinklemonade

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happy birthday to you
on: August 21, 2007, 07:42:59 PM
anyone know where i can find a difficult piano arrangement of happy birthday? (and not some child's tinkering music)

Offline thalbergmad

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Re: happy birthday to you
Reply #1 on: August 21, 2007, 08:06:53 PM
I have collected about 15 versions (can't remember where i got them from) which includes a moronically difficult take by Michael Habermann.

The Katsaris version is more managable and perhaps more pleasing to the ear.

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Offline ganymed

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Re: happy birthday to you
Reply #2 on: August 21, 2007, 08:35:18 PM
here is a very vey nice arrangement of "happy birthday" which deserves the attribute difficault including many octaves, tremoli :). I found this "version" recently.


https://www.pianop.be/p/happy%20birthday.pdf
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