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Coffee Day at William Sanders Village

 This was the Club's first visit to this beautiful Village. An excellent turnout of our members and enthusiastic residents enjoyed a great day of music on their superb Yamaha grand piano. Our President, Gordon Sutherland, also brought along his Korg Pa5X Arranger Keyboard to add an orchestral dimension to the entertainment. The Management made us most welcome, and we had full use of their PA system in the expansive lounge area. All in all, a very successful day sharing our music/musicians with the residents.

The Photos:

Claude Moffat playing the Yamaha grand piano

Patrick McMillan playing the Yamaha grand piano

John Mercer on debut playing the Yamaha grand piano.
Well done, John!

Murray McLachlan on debut playing the Yamaha grand piano.
Well done also, Murray!

Gordon Sutherland playing his Korg Pa5X arranger keyboard,
with orchestrations and vocals to boot!

Mary Barrett playing the Yamaha grand piano

Graeme Webber playing the Yamaha grand piano

Denise Gunson playing the Yamaha grand piano

Club Night for September 2025

 What a great night of musical entertainment. We had visitors from all around Auckland that came especially to listen to our guest artist, Taka Iida, play his Yamaha Electone Stagea Portable two-manual keyboard and pedalboard. What a great performance Taka gave us on his magnificent keyboard - a mixture of very melodic Japanese orchestral ballads and jazz standards. Arrival music was kindly provided by Patrick McMillan on our Clavinova - thank you so much for your beautiful arrangements.

In the second set, after a refreshing coffee break, we were entertained firstly by member and music teacher Wu Liu and two of his students with both solo songs and duets. Wonderful music and very talented youngsters playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809. Next, Linus Treefoot brought along his Korg Havian 30 ensemble piano and entertained us with four songs and vocals - some original compositions and all very musical and fun to listen to! Finally, Warren Levick played the Clavinova using both the styles and in one case splitting the keyboard to play chords on the lower manual and melody on the right-hand manual - keyboard style. Great choice of songs and executed very nicely indeed. Well done, Warren.

The Videos:

Our guest artist, Takashi [Taka] Iida playing his

Yamaha Electone Stagea Portable Keyboard

Warren Levick playing our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano

Linus Treefoot playing his

Korg Havian 30 ensemble piano

Wu Liu and two students giving a mini concert
L to R: Jayden Zhang, Gordon Sutherland, Wu Liu, Orianna Jing

The Photos:

L to R: Jayden Zhang, Gordon Sutherland,
Wu Liu, Orianna Jing.
Jayden and Orianna
played a sole piece and a duet with Wu for us. Delightful.

Linus Treefoot on keys and Len Hancy vocals

Linus Treefoot playing his Korg Havian 30
with added vocals

Arrivals Music provided by Patrick McMillan
on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Member and music teacher, Wu Liu
playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Wu Liu duetting with his student

Wu Liu duetting with his student

One of Wu Liu's students playing solo on our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

One of Wu Liu's students playing solo on our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Warren Levick playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Our guest artist, Taka Iida, playing his Yamaha Electone Stagea
two-manual portable keyboard and pedalboard