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Offline Bob

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Do you name your piano?
on: August 16, 2005, 01:01:39 AM
Like people name their cars?






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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #1 on: August 16, 2005, 03:06:44 AM
if my piano had a name it would be 'petrov the great'  (but, i have a kawaii, so that wouldn't work).

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #2 on: August 16, 2005, 03:45:45 AM
I'v named my piano...


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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #3 on: August 16, 2005, 03:49:22 AM
respect

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #4 on: August 16, 2005, 08:22:09 AM
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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #5 on: August 16, 2005, 06:20:09 PM
This is my piano there are many like it but this one is mine, I shall protect my piano with my life as it will protect me.
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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #6 on: August 16, 2005, 07:22:01 PM
I call my piano Theresa after my ex-girlfriend for the following reasons.

1. It is easy to turn on.

2. It is always ready for action.

3. Never does what i want it to.
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Offline luc

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #7 on: August 16, 2005, 07:41:37 PM
My girlfriend calls it Sarah   ::)
but I've no idea why. ;D
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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #8 on: August 16, 2005, 07:43:01 PM
I named my Benedict. My previous was Atticus.

Offline Floristan

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #9 on: August 16, 2005, 09:45:26 PM
My piano's name is Ilse.  I'm not sure why, but that's her name.  It's a "nickname" for Elisabeth in German.  So are Liesl and Lili.  But she's neither a Liesl nor a Lili (at least I've never heard her called by those names).  She's Ilse.  Ilse Schiedmayer.  She's 170 cm tall and about 600 pounds.  A petite thing, really.  Oh, and she has the most beautiful voice.  8)

Offline twinkletoesfaery

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #10 on: August 17, 2005, 12:58:48 PM
Never did.

Offline leahcim

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #11 on: August 17, 2005, 02:09:02 PM
No car names yet.

Vauxhall Astra 1.3....suits it.

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #12 on: August 17, 2005, 11:07:31 PM
I call mine stupid when i mess up. But other than that no. If I did i think i would name it Lottie.

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #13 on: August 18, 2005, 04:18:49 AM
I named the one at school: Stupid little piece of *cough*. That was when the lid fell shut on my hands while I was playing. Not in front of anyone though. Luckily.
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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #14 on: August 18, 2005, 11:48:46 PM
i call mine " Piece of old crap"...a quite fitting name i might add :D...its about a hundered years old...i think a white barnes upright

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #15 on: August 19, 2005, 02:11:36 AM
I don't name my piano nor my car. But out of curiosity, for those who do, are you male or female? There is a stereotype that men name their cars. Just wonder if this stereotype is true and if it extends to naming their pianos.

Offline Bouter Boogie

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #16 on: August 19, 2005, 12:06:53 PM
I named mine Yamaha..

Just kidding, of course I don't name my piano ::)
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Offline jeremyjchilds

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #17 on: August 19, 2005, 09:08:24 PM
I named mine, the "seiler"

I have names for almost everything in my house, but I coulden't think of anything for my piano.  :-[ :'(
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Offline Appenato

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #18 on: August 20, 2005, 05:30:38 PM
I named the one at school: Stupid little piece of *cough*. That was when the lid fell shut on my hands while I was playing. Not in front of anyone though. Luckily.

ouch.

i've been trying to think of a name for my piano. i need something unique. if chopin had a cat, you can bet my piano would be christened whatever the cat's name was. my guy viola friend named his viola arty.  :-p


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Offline classicarts

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #19 on: October 23, 2005, 04:33:03 AM
I call my piano "Bob." :o

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #20 on: October 23, 2005, 11:43:40 AM
I don't. "Piece of crap" is probably how I refer to it most frequently, though. If I'm having a bad piano day it's always the piano's fault, you see, not mine. ;)

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #21 on: October 23, 2005, 05:24:25 PM
I just call it "piano". Simple as. :D
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Offline Etude

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #22 on: October 23, 2005, 05:34:39 PM
Nope.

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #23 on: October 23, 2005, 05:46:16 PM
OMG!! Her name is like,  Amber, and what's like, AWESOME is that at her job on Friday night she can pull in like 600 dollars in tips. She's that hottttttttttt!!!

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #24 on: October 26, 2005, 10:30:41 PM
Mine's called "Johannes the Great".   8)

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Re: Do you name your piano?
Reply #25 on: October 27, 2005, 02:19:23 AM
I was never really a person to name my things.  One of my composition frineds at university named his pencils, erasers, books, etc.  and I have no idea why. 

My old Kawai, I could probably call that "punching bag" :)  Well that's what I felt like doing to it so many times. 

My current piano.... I christen you "Yamaha Version 2.0" ... you can tell I'm so creative with names  :P
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