Piano Answers

(I’m 16 now…almost 17)
well I was okay at piano. I never liked it very much because my parents made me play it & I didnt appreciate it at all when I was little so I goofed around.
Last year, my teacher finally made me see how much I really loved piano & I wanted to be better. So last summer, I came to be the best that I had ever been.
This summer, I moved & my parents got divorced so I stopped taking lessons. I still have piano/sheet music but I feel myself getting worse & worse… also I had a 3-month lapse because my piano got lost in the shipment
So how can I at least mantain my piano skills? I don’t want to lose them…

So Ive been thinkin about it….My dad is all for it but my mom wants me to do music since thats where my area of expertese are. She wants me to be a famous/professional musician but I dont want to be a “one trick pony” since well….thats all I can pretty much do is play piano n sax plus she doesnt believe me when I told her this 7 months ago. I want to join to see the world, pay off my college tuition, & for job security reasons. This is what I REALLY REALLY want to do. I dont know what I am suppose to do at this time so could someone help me??!!!!

I started when I was 8, now im 13!
I prefer playing upbeat pieces & classical!

As I said in the question, I’ve been playing piano for just under 4 years (mostly classical pieces) & I’m just curious for what label the average person would put on me, ex-beginner, intermediate, advanced, & so on. I know it always depends on the individual person to really attach a true level of skill but if you know about these things from experience & observation & could simply take a guess considering how long I’ve been playing then that’s great!

I really like the song, but I don’t know if it will be too easy or too hard.

I’v been playing for 10 years & I cant decide on a favorite song. I love Beethoven’s sonatas & Rachmaninov’s Moments Musicaux & Chopin & Liszt’s Etudes.

I feel as if i have left it too late but all my other friends have done at least 3 gradings & understand how to play their musical insturemts correctly. I have been playing piano for a year but I have never done any grading. Is it too late for me to start now?

I am a Duke student, & I have been frauded of close to $3000 recently. So the gist of the story is: I have recently posted on craigslist.com that I am offering piano lessons. Then some guy contacted me via e-mail, saying his daughter needed piano lessons, & offered to send me the tuition fee first. I agreed. Then he sent me 3 checks of $950, asking me to please help him transfer the money to his “flight agent” so that his flight agent can book the ticket for his daughter to come to New York. Initially I was skeptical as well, so I deposited the money into my savings account. But the number went up the next day, so I thought the checks were cleared, & went ahead to help the guy out by sending money to his flight agent cash through Western Union. But then a few days later the Bank put a hold on that transfer because they think the check is fraudulent. I have called Bank of America, & they said that the checks are most likely going to be fake. I just lost $2850.
My question would be: what should I do in this situation other than filing a police report? Because I strongly feel that Bank of America should NOT have given me clearance on the money, if the money was not real. And once the money was in my account, there was no indication that those money were under investigation. So I really feel like Bank of America is partially at fault here.