congrats! how does one steal a piano? (assuming it's a grand?)
i just have a baby grand but it's at my dad's
it's such a pain lugging it around
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Monday, 5 June 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
we think he spotted it in storage and swapped the labels while no one was looking, so the designated moving men did all the lugging
(it's a boudoir grand i think: four inches longer than a baby, four shorter than a concert)
― mark s, Monday, 5 June 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
that's fantastic news mark, really great
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Monday, 5 June 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDs369vCIAEOKYz.jpg
all the story is missing really is an appearance from this guy^^^
― mark s, Monday, 5 June 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
piano (not this^^^ one, mine) being tuned now in the front room: sound of same thru two closed door is soothing and takes me back to my childhood
― mark s, Thursday, 24 August 2017 09:18 (six years ago) link
Nine dampers remain, said the younger, and an equal number of hammers. Not corresponding, I hope, said the elder.In one case, said the younger. The elder had nothing to say to this. The strings are in flitters, said the younger. The elder had nothing to say to this either. The piano is doomed, in my opinion, said the younger. The piano-tuner also, said the elder. The pianist also, said the younger.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 August 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
pleasant cultural update on this story: the piano that had the adventure is currently doing service as a practice instrument for contestants in the hastings international piano competition, which is nice for everyone
(i mean the contestants have been playing it in my sister's house for the last few days, final is fri-sat) (they are all literally a trillion times better than anyone in my family ever was)
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 12:48 (six years ago) link
ok so i am grabbing this space in all our lives to get back in shape maybe
i: check with downstairs neighbour he doesn't mind sound of piano now and then -- he is fine with and says he likes it ii: dispense with scales etc so as not to encroach on that iii: choose pieces i need to polish (out of ones i have already worked on, so not just hours sight-reading badly) iv: but also think thru my project to work on improvisation
front and centre of three is first movement beethoven sonata op10 no1 ("a la comtesse brown") which is not particularly technically demanding but has a bunch of minor moments i can v easily fuck up. i am not a huge beethoven fan, but when i told my teacher this lol he set me this piece. he is less than half my age and much too indulgent of how rubbish i often am but good to talk to abt weird bullshit that goes on in many musicians' heads (which i always assumed was just me and was why i "wasn't actually musical". he says i am. i say hmmm to that.)
― mark s, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link
I know that movement really well (as a listener), one of my favorite early Beethoven movements
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
my son is trying to learn “dance monkey”
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
also by beethoven iirc
― mark s, Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link