Do You Play the Piano?

How many of you play the piano? Do you have any pictures?

I've been playing since I was four. My piano is currently held hostage at my brother's house. My parents said I could have it once I buy a house. They don't want me lugging it from apartment to apartment because a) it's expensive to move it and b) it's expensive to have it re-tuned every time it's moved.

I miss it. I'm in withdrawal. If I don't get my hands on a piano soon, I may lose it.

I took this picture while at my brother's house. Those are my sister-in-law's Precious Moments figurines, their wedding pictures, and her sappy taste in music. I wouldn't be caught dead with Precious Moments figurines or sheet music from Celine Dion and church collections.



I really wish I had some shots of me playing it.

[Edited on Jul 22, 2004 by Sorcha]

pale_blue_eyes does. quite beautifully in fact. i'm jealous of you both.

Play? Hell I even invented the "holding a tap-dancing baby who stomps on the keys cranking out a ragtime beat" style.

You should paint your piano black and put stickers on it to exorcise all the evil that your brothers wife has subjected it to.

I used to play when I was younger.

I grew up with this among other things in the family home...replete with primitive drum machine and rotating speaker....

as well as this:

which is an old pump organ...my dad also had various concertinas and accordians......so, I did play quite a bit growing up but always felt more intune composing on my guitar...

That had me laughing until I got short of breath over the idea of painting a piano. I HATE when people do that, especially since they're wood for a reason. Paint keeps the wood from vibrating properly, which affects tone. Plus it looks like crap.

Although not as crappy as Precious Moments figurines...

http://suicidegirls.com/groups/Keyboarders/

i play a little, just enough to get my face slapped really.

My best advice is to get a cheap keyboard so you can fulfill your musical needs and then work on what you want to try when you Can get to the real thing

I have a keyboard. It's not the same.

Playing a keyboard and a piano is like driving a go-kart and a Porsche. The differences are astounding, especially if the keyboard is slightly smaller than a piano keyboard.

I COULD get a keyboard that has hammer-weight action, is the right size/octaves, has pedals, has perfect piano sound (even that bit of percussive tone), and so on. I've heard them and played them, and damn if they aren't a great substitute. I just need about $1600.

I have a really really shitty keyboard but it doesn't do it... I miss the piano so much. It's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to going back to school. They have pianos scattered all over the school that I have free access too. I have all my music, just nothing to play on.

I too feel the withdrawl...

i have been playing since i was a tiny child.
i have a rhodes and a wurlitzer, and a hammond.

all be jealous, yes, be jealous.

i love keys

i took some piano lessons back in the day when i was a wee lil lass

This is mine:





It needs refinishing from sundamage, but it still plays wonderfully

i wish i could play well. i cant tho but i can play the theme song to the pink panther. thats about it

Can I move in with you?

That's GORGEOUS.

[Edited on Jul 24, 2004 by Sorcha]

*bumped in honor of the news story*

Adding a question: What are some of your favorite composers/artists to play and/or listen to?

I love to play Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. Chopin is my absolute favorite to play, but I like Beethoven's sonatinas. I WISH I could play Rachmaninov. I swear that man was born with eighteen fingers because I sure as hell can't hit all of those notes at once.

[Edited on May 16, 2005 by Sorcha]

i do

One of my favorites is Debussy's Children's Corner Suite. It's witty and technically difficult, and he makes extensive allusions to children's piano exercises and other styles of music. He wrote a little about having to experiment with technique in order to make the piece playable, including shifting his weight on the bench to allow his hands to play in different tempos.

My sister gave me the (piano) score of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures At An Exhibition". Now I need a piano, and about 15 years of practice...

I've played for the last 12 years.

I was reeeeeally into playing Aphex Twin/Amon Tobin style stuff on it, but I haven't seen one since I moved a few months ago.

*sigh* Good times.

NO, but Jet Li does in UNLEASHED

I ADORE the piano :\
But alas I can not play.
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