New fingering book published & getting great reviews

[ramibarniv]

Yo guys,
Time flies, did you miss me...?
Happy to tell you that after 3 years of hard work my fingering book is finished, published, and available.
https://pianofingering.tripod.com/
Also good news are the great reviews the book is getting:
One is on the book's site and another just came out in California Music Teacher, issue Summer 2012.
Best regards,
Rami

[ramibarniv]

I am confused... sorry to trouble anyone... I received an email saying that there was a reply to this topic by someone, but no reply appears here...
Regards,
Rami

[zezhyrule]

Shameless plugs ftw, yay for self-promotion and even bumping one of your own threads! 

[p2u_]

I am confused... sorry to trouble anyone... I received an email saying that there was a reply to this topic by someone, but no reply appears here...

Could have been a SPAM-bot who "replied" and was terminated afterwards, along with his message.

Paul

[chopantasy]

Shameless plugs ftw, yay for self-promotion and even bumping one of your own threads! 

Not nice.  Rami's actually a consummate professional.

[pytheamateur]

The website says the book is one of its kind in the 303 years of history of the piano.

Well, there is already a book by Penelope Roskell called The Art of Piano Fingering, which I have got already.
https://www.peneloperoskell.co.uk/apf/default.html

If someone can compare the contents of the two books that would be most helpful.  I am very much interested in purchasing a book on good fingering, but obviously prefer not to buy another one if it is covering similar material, for example, fingering charts for all scales and arpeggios.  I have already got 3 or 4 of those.

[ramibarniv]

zezhyrule,
Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone.
Best,
Rami

[ramibarniv]

Could have been a SPAM-bot who "replied" and was terminated afterwards, along with his message.

Paul

Thanks, Paul. I do have the name and it is someone here, not spam. However, what you wrote makes me think now that he changed his mind and deleted his own reply.
thanks,
Rami

[ramibarniv]

Not nice.  Rami's actually a consummate professional.

Thanks, chopantasy, for the good words.
Best,
Rami

[ramibarniv]

The website says the book is one of its kind in the 303 years of history of the piano.

Well, there is already a book by Penelope Roskell called The Art of Piano Fingering, which I have got already.
https://www.peneloperoskell.co.uk/apf/default.html

If someone can compare the contents of the two books that would be most helpful.  I am very much interested in purchasing a book on good fingering, but obviously prefer not to buy another one if it is covering similar material, for example, fingering charts for all scales and arpeggios.  I have already got 3 or 4 of those.

pytheamateur,
I would have done it for you, but I know nothing about the other book you mention. If you had asked the same about the Musafia book, I could have done it and it's actually compared in the review my book received in the "California Music Teacher" magazine.
https://www.ortav.com/images/CaMusicTeacherReview-BarNiv.pdf
I can tell you that my book is not the usual "fingering charts for all scales and arpeggios".
If you read my description of the book, the parts that I offer on the book site which are "Preface", "Introduction", and "Contents", you'll understand what the book is about.
This quote: "the book is one of its kind in the 303 years of history of the piano" is from another review which wasn't published yet except for as part of the book. A few more reviews of the book are on the way to be published in various magazines.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Rami

[p2u_]

Thanks, Paul. I do have the name and it is someone here, not spam. However, what you wrote makes me think now that he changed his mind and deleted his own reply.

I think we can safely exclude that scenario; a board user cannot effectively erase his/her already existing post from the forum. He/She *can* delete the contents but not the post itself; there will always be a trace of his/her action (deleted, sorry, double post, oops, etc.).

A SPAM-bot (I have seen too many of those for comfort lately), on the other hand, has a regular user name (otherwise he cannot post his junk), and since the board is set to get automatic notification for ANY reply, you will be notified as if a living person "user X" replied. I changed my settings to never get anything from anyone.

P.S.: Another scenario may be that someone notified about "abuse", the moderators found the post indeed offensive and erased it.

Paul

[thalbergmad]

P.S.: Another scenario may be that someone notified about "abuse", the moderators found the post indeed offensive and erased it.

Paul

That could well be the explanation. Rami's tendancy towards "adverts" have caused eruptions before.

Incidentally, I am writing a book on the lost public toilets of Kent. It's crap but interesting.

I will post the link when it is published.

Thal

[ramibarniv]

Thanks for the explanation, Paul.
Best,
Rami

[ramibarniv]

I looked up this guy. Here is what I found (I deleted the name):
Name:    
Posts:    0 (N/A per day)
Position:    PS Silver Member
Date Registered:    June 14, 2012, 11:25:40 AM
Last Active:    June 14, 2012, 11:29:41 AM

[p2u_]

Posts:    0 (N/A per day)

That's easy, Watson: that is indeed either a SPAM-bot OR a personal enemy who created a profile especially to annoy you.

Paul

[ramibarniv]

I doubt anyone will go to this trouble just to annoy me, so I guess the spam theory is what it is.
Thanks,
Rami

[pytheamateur]

pytheamateur,
I would have done it for you, but I know nothing about the other book you mention. If you had asked the same about the Musafia book, I could have done it and it's actually compared in the review my book received in the "California Music Teacher" magazine.
https://www.ortav.com/images/CaMusicTeacherReview-BarNiv.pdf
I can tell you that my book is not the usual "fingering charts for all scales and arpeggios".
If you read my description of the book, the parts that I offer on the book site which are "Preface", "Introduction", and "Contents", you'll understand what the book is about.
This quote: "the book is one of its kind in the 303 years of history of the piano" is from another review which wasn't published yet except for as part of the book. A few more reviews of the book are on the way to be published in various magazines.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Rami

Thanks for your response.  Looking from the contents page, your book does look very comprehensive.  I realised rather too late how important it is to work out a good fingering when learning a piece of music so I think your book will be very useful for me.  Do you know if it is available on Amazon.co.uk.  It would be great if it is as it would save me some shipping costs.

[ramibarniv]

pytheamateur,
Wrote to you also privately.
Sorry, my book is not on Amazon anywhere.
There are only 2 places the book is available:
1) https://pianofingering.tripod.com/
2) https://www.ortav.com/sunshop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=430
BTW, in #2 the book is a little more expensive.
Best,
Rami

[pytheamateur]

Just to confirm that I did get this book shortly after last year.  It is indeed very good.

[ramibarniv]

Thanks for posting this, pytheamateur.
By now the book is available also on Amazon's CreateSpace https://www.createspace.com/3991324 and on Amazon.com (Europe and England too) with the "Look Inside" feature https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=rami%20bar-niv&sprefix=rami+%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Arami%20bar-niv&sepatfbtf=true&tc=1368024717109 , where they offer it now for a discount price. A couple more wonderful reviews are out too, like in the AMT magazine and on Mary Gae George's site.
Regards,
Rami