Are pianists more likely to spend time on the internet away from actual human contact, because it is an extension of the solitude of practicing?
I don't think so, I think it would be pretty fun if every "active" member on the forum could have a reunion of some kind. I keep imagining everybody from pianoforum, in one old mansion at night, with about five different concert grand pianos and Harpsichords on a big music hall, getting to meet each other, and exchange some musical thoughts (I think I've actually dreamed this before
). But I think practice is a ritual, and I love being lonely in practice. Everyday, I talk to the school's superintendent, and ask him if I can play in this discussingly crappy old Baldwin upright piano (is has a fair sound) in the auditorium, before school starts and during lunch (I actually rush through lunch or don't eat at all so I can play the piano). What makes it cool, is that it is often very cold in there, and in my school there is this old story about the ghost that lives there (people actually keep asking if I have ever seen anything. You know what, I've played there in the darkness, and I have never seen anything (only heard some pretty weird noises coming out of nowhere)- This ghost is said to sit in the auditorium and watch the students rehearse whatever they are doing. I never feel lonely in there... But sometimes people come to listen. I don't believe that there is anything in there.
But at this summer vacation (almost over) I only practice and come to check the forum- Except when my mother calls me to cut the grass, put the trash out, clean something, etc...
Mario Barbosa
TM
Topic: Lonely pianists