{"id":101,"date":"2012-03-14T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rami.ybarniv.com\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2016-12-22T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:04:01","slug":"endorsements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rami.ybarniv.com\/?page_id=101","title":{"rendered":"Book Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"> <strong>Book Endorsements<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dr. Walden Hughes,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Professor of piano, Northwest Nazarene University:<\/span><\/span><\/span><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large;\" \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large; display: inline ! important; float: none;\">Wow, The book is superb, fabulous work!<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large;\" \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large; display: inline ! important; float: none;\">&#8220;The Art of Piano Fingering: Traditional, Advanced, and Innovative&#8221; by Rami Bar-Niv, fills a tremendous void in the realm of the pianistic world.\u00a0Published in 2012, it is the first book of its kind in the 303 year history of the piano.\u00a0Mr. Bar-Niv, a world-renowned concert artist and master teacher who has performed extensively on 5 continents, has recognized that although virtuoso pianists have learned to figure out the best fingerings as they learn new repertoire, no one has systematized the process over the past 3 centuries in a way that can be taught effectively to others.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large;\" \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large; display: inline ! important; float: none;\">Students are typically simply left to flounder as they wallow and stumble through learning new pieces, with only the standard scale and arpeggio fingerings to guide them.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large;\" \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large; display: inline ! important; float: none;\">Glancing at the Table of Contents, prior to reading this outstanding book, I became very excited and recognized immediately the remarkable contribution Mr. Bar-Niv has made to pianistic society world-wide.\u00a0Only Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach\u2019s Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments comes anywhere near this accomplishment, and although it had a great impact on 18th\u00a0century keyboard players, that treatise was conceived and written for harpsichordists, not pianists.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large;\" \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large; display: inline ! important; float: none;\">&#8220;The Art of Piano Fingering&#8221; is an exceptional contribution to the future of pianism, and should be required reading for all piano teachers and piano students.\u00a0Order your copy today; you will be immensely grateful you did!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large; display: inline ! important; float: none;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u266a\u266a \u266b\u266b <strong>\u266c\u266c<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;\">Jeremy Todd, an adult piano student and contributor to the book editing:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: large; display: inline ! 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