An evening with my daughter...

Thanks for sharing that with us Ridzwan, I hope you and your daughter enjoyed the experience,

Regards

PB

Why not let your daughter audition the CD555 and she may change her mind in the vinyl vs. CD debate

Young ears are a great determinate of quality.

I took my 12 year old son with me to audition a new system before committing to a new Naim entry level system. A good father & son bonding session enjoying quality music.

Don

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Why not let your daughter audition the CD555 and she may change her mind in the vinyl vs. CD debate

ROTF,

No, no it's not about vinyl & CD debate. It just how does she so attached to music eventhough the music she should listen..i.e from britney spears?!.

CD555 eh!, I don't mind giving up my TT for that...cheers

My 5 year old daughter asked me to put on the Laughing Gnome (David Bowie). They don't make them like they used to...

My eight year old was listening to Dead Kennedys last night. Kill the Poor is a great fave. I have tried to explain that it's a comment on American foreign policy rather than some sort of chav bashing but I think it fell on stony ground!!

Nigel

beware your music can cause your children to be severely embarrassed in later life

i started playing kraftwerk michael jackson( it was just weird to like him in the 8os not sick like now )and jean michel jarre and now they re still in counselling and have a secret mj habit ..

Actually both my sons now in their 20s both play guitar and keyboards and one works as a record industry something or other,he gets more bloody money than me

seriously nurture that youg talent now and we could have a new naim recording artist in a few years

mike

Hi Ridzwan;

Your post has absolutely nothing to do with Hi-Fi which is most refreshing.

That you are able to fire your daughter's interest in music, and enjoy it together is what it's all about.

John.

Ridzwan

This is similar to a discussion I was having on another thread with Joe Silva and Kuma. The point was made that an industry figure had bemoaned the fact that there were fewer younger people interested in hi-fi these days who would ensure the future of the industry.

Both Joe and I had commented that we had inherited our fathers LP12s and that they are now family heirlooms.

Like you I often listen with my daughter who is 12 and will be taking her to Heathrow this weekend as she enjoys comparing the presentations of different systems.

Hopefully she sees good hi-fi as a supplement to and not a replacement for her mp3 player.

When I 'move on' I would like someone who cares to have the LP12.

Mark

I really hope I can interest my daughters (3 and 5) in music - my wife is not interested at all

Guys,

Thanks for sharing with me.

I guess to let them love the music or having an interest in music is quite important. As I found that "normally" I can get attached to (my wife) or be friend to someone who also loves music. It could be due to chemistry or the way of thinking and something to talk...IMHO

living in lancs yearning for yorks, just let the music free flow in the house, sooner or later they fall in love with music.


cheers

My kids like Cygnus-X1, by Rush.

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Originally posted by prowla:
My kids like Cygnus-X1, by Rush.

The greatest band ever!!!cool.....

My nieces have come out with some classics in their time.

Lucy's (7) favourite song of all time is "Cigarettes and Vinegar by Oasis"

Also, a teacher at their school commented to my brother that Amy (5) walks round singing "Death Is Not The End" by Nick Cave

Jonathan

what a lovely topic. i have had many a nice evening with my daughter who is more into classical music than i am (she plays double bass in the county orchestra) --and she has helped me to explore some music that i dont think i would have got to on my own, shostakovich, smetana, stavinsky (still struggling with this), faure, etc...

she appreciates my naim system, regrets me going back to passive and is an excellent second opinion when things are not quite right...

enjoy
ken

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Originally posted by ken c:
what a lovely topic. i have had many a nice evening with my daughter who is more into classical music than i am (she plays double bass in the county orchestra) --and she has helped me to explore some music that i dont think i would have got to on my own, shostakovich, smetana, stavinsky (still struggling with this), faure, etc...

she appreciates my naim system, regrets me going back to passive and is an excellent second opinion when things are not quite right...

enjoy
ken

Ken c,

How I wish my daughter could play that double bass..cool!. She's more keen into piano or Cello.

cheers

I am the most uncool dad in the world according to my boy and he will refuse to sit and listen to music in the same room as me. He likes Green Day and Nirvana (both of whom should be retro for a 12 year old kid) but I came back into the room one day to find him sitting in my 'listening chair' taking a keen interest in The Coral's Invisible Invasion that I was playing. 'Not bad I suppose' was as good as it got as he stomped back upstairs to his MP3 player.

My 6 year old loves 'Jimmy Jimmy' and always requests it when she wants a bop. She usually gets her toy microphone (on a stand) and sings into it along with Fergal. She often dances along to other stuff (not always obviously dancable stuff e.g. VdGG!).

She is also a good random music selector, if I cannot decide what to play I ask her to pick an LP she usually comes up trumps.

seagull jr (nearly 18) is always borrowing my CDs I seem to introduce him to more music than the other way round - he was playing my Editors cd last night. I've taken him to gigs too and it was a case of both of us wanting to see the band (e.g. Porcupine Tree).

Mrs S hates my taste in music - 'funereal' she calls it. The only major concert we've been to together in over 20 years was The Cure at the Albert Hall earlier this year - she hated it!

I grew up without much music in the home. I clearly remember us getting our first radio. Music at junior school was a matter of feeling favoured if you got the triangle. Most of the time, we got two sticks to bang together. At secondary school, music was totally absent. So it was not until my teens that my interests developed, first with pop, then swing, jazz and classical.
My children, now in their twenties and thirties always had music. They were sung to as babies, they enjoyed as toddlers (IMHO) the best children's record ever made - Drunken Sailor and Other Children's Songs by Tim Hart and Friends. My first grandson now loves it, and he is only just one year old. My kids studied music in school, and play more than one instrument in more than one musical genre.
So like Ridzwan, give them plenty of good music now, and they will enjoy it throughout their lives.
What other records I wonder, have been a hit with young children?
Ken

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Ken c,

How I wish my daughter could play that double bass..cool!. She's more keen into piano or Cello.

cheers

ridzwan, not so cool when you consider that i am the upaid porter whenever she has a concert! and try to fit that thing into our car!

however, i have to say she enjoys playing double bass, and the attention that she gets --

enjoy
ken

Ridzwan - I too share my music with my 8 year old daughter as my wife isn't at all interested in serious listening. We settle in and listen to all sorts of stuff and it's one of the teasures of parenthood that I hadn't anticipated. Her current favorite album is Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball. It's pretty magical to spend this time together and it's especially precious as it's hopefully a time she will remember too. I never had any time with my parents myself, nor was there any music around, and I don't plan to be like that with my children.
My 4 year old son and baby daughter have yet to understand the love of, and in, music. Bless you for your post Ridzwan.

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Her current favorite album is Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball.

great album! does she like 'red dirt girl' too...

enjoy
ken

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Originally posted by ken c:ridzwan, not so cool when you consider that i am the unpaid porter whenever she has a concert! and try to fit that thing into our car! ken

You're the coolest!!

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Originally posted by ken c:
does she like 'red dirt girl' too...

Don't know it Ken. Do I need it?

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Originally posted by Rasher:
Ridzwan - I too share my music with my 8 year old daughter as my wife isn't at all interested in serious listening. We settle in and listen to all sorts of stuff and it's one of the teasures of parenthood that I hadn't anticipated. Her current favorite album is Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball. It's pretty magical to spend this time together and it's especially precious as it's hopefully a time she will remember too. I never had any time with my parents myself, nor was there any music around, and I don't plan to be like that with my children.
My 4 year old son and baby daughter have yet to understand the love of, and in, music. Bless you for your post Ridzwan.

Rasher,

We had the same childhood situation and we also share the same objective for the childrens....cheers