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nowaypablo  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you looking forward to, Hubski?

Maybe i've gotten tired of it. Glad you like it though :)





humanodon  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is very beautiful, but it does seem like a pain in the ass to practice. Do you get to practice on the stage before you do the real thing?

nowaypablo  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll get a couple minutes to warm up and see what the piano feels like. Not much of a preparation. But honestly, pianos at stages like that have the tendency of being quite... incredible. An average model D steinway costing upwards of $90,000 carries a bit of comfort and adaptability with it :D still, its not easy

kleinbl00  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I made the mistake of wandering into a Bosendorfer showroom once. Even a $20k yamaha seems like a toy after that.

nowaypablo  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My upright at home was <$4k. Seeing people with bosendorfers and steinways, I think that no one man should wield such power.

kleinbl00  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My father forbid piano music from being played in the home, let alone the possession of a piano. When I was 17 I traded my oboe straight across for an RS505 and never looked back.

As soon as I left the house, of course, my mother brought home some raggedy-ass YMCA upright. Nobody knew how to play it. When she left my dad 10 years later she and her new husband bought a Kimball, just to entice people over to their house to play quartets.

Me? I've got an A-80 and a K2500XS so y'all can bite me. ;-)

nowaypablo  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A. You show 'em chief

B. Why did your dad forbid piano music!??!

kleinbl00  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He hates piano. At least, this is what my mother said. I've never asked him about it. I grew up avoiding, rather than questioning, my parents.

nowaypablo  ·  4021 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've tried questioning my parents for the longest time. Hopeless. Now I just learn from their mistakes as much as my own and hopefully turn out okay :D

humanodon  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow, that's not much time at all, even if Steinways are nice instruments.