


The three syllables of Elephant representing the triplet, the Hippopotamus representing the quintuplet and the tiger for the final two notes. I’m learning from book 4 from the ABRSM’s ‘More Romantic Peices for piano’, and my copy my piano teacher has written ‘Elephant Hippopotamus Tiger’ above bar 21. I’m finally feeling that I’ve broken the back of it.īars 17 – 24 have been giving me some of the most grief, especially bar 21. To be honest when I started it was a little above my ability, generally regarded to be an ABRSM grade 6 piece, although it is often described as one of his ‘easier’ works. It is this latter one published after his death that I have been learning on and off since the end of July. There are two different A minor waltzes by Chopin, the first is numbered Op.34 No 2 and the second is normally referred to as ‘Op Post’ or by it’s Brown Index of 150.
