Piano Pounder Gifts

Pile of Music Notes

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

'Good girl, Carol - now hands up all those who have lost their pens.'

"You'd think he hated music by the way he tortures it."

Touring Cyclist

Edvard Grieg

Angel Music

'Man, I'm age 21 now and so far, I haven't done anything important. Things can't go on like this or I will have to forget my plan to become rich and famous by writing my autobiography at age 35!'

'Derek was extremely pleased with his new piano stool...'

"Oh, we've got to nip this little trick in the bud right away."

"Yes, we do have an incentive scheme - fall below that line and you're sacked."

Editor. Short. Sweet.

A family choir

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach

"I appreciate you have a real passion for music Mr Hibberd. . . but I can see you're going to struggle with the piano."

Sir Elton John

'Elton John'

A-Hem! I'm still singing here!

Pianist-boxer

'The good news is, you write what you know. Unfortunately, you don't know much.'

Prodigy - Woofgang Amadeus Mozart.

"O.K., class, next we'll pound out the dough until that ungrateful, self-centered son of a bitch realizes he's not the center of the world, and maybe, just maybe, he doesn't deserve an attractive, well-educated woman with a wonderful sense of humor."

"Keep it up Kevin, you're really improving."

Dmitri Shostakovich

Victor Borge.

An Ottawa Christmas

"I wasn't very interested in numbers 'til I discovered you could make money out of them."

'I swapped the piano for Stewie's guitar.'

Freddie Mercury

Sergei Prokofiev.

'I'm sorry I didn't practice this week, Mrs. Tinklemeyer. I just had so many distractions!

Aaron Copland.

'...and now I will sing Schumann's lovely...'

'Your back is never going to get better until you stop playing the piano with a walking band.'

'Stay out of this Piano Man, I got no beef with you. But you - I don't like yer tone one bit.'