10,000th member is.....

[lagin]

Hey, pianolist, is the 10,000th member, congratulations!

[lagin]

Doh, someone beat me to this post.   Sorry guys.  Didn't mean to be repetitive.

[pianolist]

Pianolist just read this thread in amazement. He is deeply humbled at being accepted by 9999 friendly pianists and piano technicians. He reckons he may be the only professional pianolist on the site. He posted a recording of Medtner on piano roll to the Auditions Room in the early hours of this morning in London.

Congratulations, webmaster, on being so successful.

Pianolist

[nilsjohan]

We celebrate the 10 000 member mark  with a little gift to Pianolist in form of a free...

10 Years Piano Street Gold Membership

Congratulations!

[pianogeek_cz]

Ack, lucky man... 

Enjoy your stay!

[rimv2]

Ack, lucky man... 

Enjoy your stay!

We may, very well, never see him again.

Ironically

[pianolist]

Oh, oh, yippeee! Pianolist is jumping up and down with excitement. He is truly grateful for everyone's welcome, and particularly to Nils (or is it Johan?) for his generosity.

The Piano Street sheet music library looks like a wonderful resource, even to those who play their pianos by means of piano rolls. Most of you will not know about piano rolls, of which Pianolist has about 1,000 more than his membership number, but in the coming months, you will, trust me, you will.

Now for the serious bit: I am amazed and delighted to have become Piano Street's 10,000th member, which certainly underlines the developing importance of the worldwide forum and its resources. It is especially interesting to be in contact with pianists, piano teachers and technicians in far-off countries, all at the touch of a button, and I'm sure Piano Street can only help to improve the general standing of the piano and its music.

There, I said something quotable. I like to earn my keep, you know.

Thank you all once again.

Pianolist

PS: I tried to attach a little present in return, but the "Anything but Piano" list doesn't like it, so I'll send a  separate posting to the Audition Room section: https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,15738.0.html
 It's a roll I made of of the Finale from Pineapple Poll, a ballet score created by Sir Charles Mackerras from the music of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. It's on one of my CDs - oops, I shouldn't advertise. Naughty boy!

[rimv2]

Oh, oh, yippeee! Pianolist is jumping up and down with excitement. He is truly grateful for everyone's welcome, and particularly to Nils (or is it Johan?) for his generosity.

The Piano Street sheet music library looks like a wonderful resource, even to those who play their pianos by means of piano rolls. Most of you will not know about piano rolls, of which Pianolist has about 1,000 more than his membership number, but in the coming months, you will, trust me, you will.

Now for the serious bit: I am amazed and delighted to have become Piano Street's 10,000th member, which certainly underlines the developing importance of the worldwide forum and its resources. It is especially interesting to be in contact with pianists, piano teachers and technicians in far-off countries, all at the touch of a button, and I'm sure Piano Street can only help to improve the general standing of the piano and its music.

There, I said something quotable. I like to earn my keep, you know.

Thank you all once again.

Pianolist

PS: I tried to attach a little present in return, but the "Anything but Piano" list doesn't like it, so I'll send a separate posting to the Audition Room section. It's a roll I made of of the Finale from Pineapple Poll, a ballet score created by Sir Charles Mackerras from the music of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. It's on one of my CDs - oops, I shouldn't advertise. Naughty boy!

Bernhard?

[pianolist]

Bernhard - who he?

[invictus]

Probably going to be your fav member on information about piano and repetoire.

[stevie]

hahaha, my removed post, an obvious conspiracy.

[gruffalo]

welcome. lucky git.

[pianolist]

Hello Gruffalo,

Git? Git? Summink tells me you live not so far away. I never 'eard a Yank call me a git.

Nice to see you being kind to pianogrl, I thought.

Pianolist

[Siberian Husky]

wow..so much attention...

funny how alot of fame is simply a manifestation of being at the right place at the right time unknowingly.

[gruffalo]

sorry, if it meant harm. thats just a funny way of expressing small amounts of jealousy. im UK by the way. you will probably find that the people on this forum are from all over the place.

Welcome

[Siberian Husky]

im totally a jealous bastard 

10 years free of gold member PF..thats like a..200 dollar value or somethin i dont know someone do the math for me

i hope you find it useful and resourceful i know i did...most of the time

HINTS:
1.)stay away from religious threads
2.)never believe the verbal diarrhea that comes my the mouths of
Siberian Husky
Stevie
Rob47
I Love Xenaxis
rimv2
3.)dont let Henrick catch you cursing in the chat room
4.)try your best to follow Pianistimo's replies..squinting your eyes while you read helps
5.)Copy "Bunny" into your signature to please the trend
6.)familiarize yourself with european scenary in thalbergmad's picture contributions
7.) visit www.dasdc.net and get acquainted with this forum as it will answer many grammer related questions you might conjure up in regards to some people's strange lingo
8.)Dont start "whos a better composer" threads or "am i ready for the fantasie impromptu?" threads
9.)start building your Bernhard shrine ASAP in your closet..this can easily be done with chewing gum and coat hangers..you can add on detailed features like eyes, nose, teeth later when you become more creative..also make sure you bow down to Bernhard every 30 minutes of your breathing life

And last but not least

10.)HAVE FUN 

[pianolist]

Well, good morning, folks!

OK Gruffalo - it was my shabby attempt at humour. I'm 57 years old, yes 5-7, which probably means I am utterly ancient in the eyes of most of you. I was actually rather touched, both by your welcome and by the way you didn't mock pianogrl. I learned long ago that a few people over a certain age can look really serious and almost threatening, when what they are really doing is enjoying a little humour. I have a best friend, whom I have known for 25 years, and I glower at him and call him a git and far worse than that on most days. He just laughs, and then I do too. Anyway, pleased to make your acquaintance, old chap.

Thank you also, Siberian Husky (and I just love your photos) for all that advice. To a 57-year old, one of the diseases of contemporary piano playing is that there isn't enough fun in it. There's Lang Lang, of course, but he's a bit too self-orientated for my taste. But there's too much concentration on the right notes, and on authenticity - it's a bit like religious conformity. So I certainly intend to have fun, oh yes sireee.

Now, my bag is the pianola. It is very widely misunderstood, and as I have been saying, most of you probably don't even know what it is. This publicity from being the 10,000th member is an unbelievably good opportunity, a real kick-start. If anyone thinks this is a conspiracy (and I actually doubt anyone really does), then I would say to you that your webmaster is most unlikely to have come to a secret agreement to let a pianola player into such a position. I can tell you that it's great fun to be wild at the age of 57, and I don't mean being desperately wild in order to pretend that you are younger than you are. True wildness has no age, and we certainly need more wildness in the world of piano playing.

But you can be wild and polite at the same time. Frontal attacks are not very effective, in any case. To insult any composer or musical style does far more damage to your own cause than it does to the area that you are insulting. If you really want to change people's views, then gentle humour has a lot going for it.

Right, enough for now. I've started a Sorabji and the Pianola thread, and I have gallons of composers whom I can link to the Pianola in due course. You seem like a friendly community on the whole, and I think we shall get on just fine.

PS: How do you get the smileys to work? - my Mac OSX browser gives me a javascript void message when I drag them across.

[nilsjohan]

hahaha, my removed post, an obvious conspiracy.

Yes, it was removed. It is so extremely rude of you to suggest such a thing.

PS: How do you get the smileys to work? - my Mac OSX browser gives me a javascript void message when I drag them across.

Don't drag. Just click the smiley and you will get something like ": )". This will show up like a smiley image in the post.

[pianolist]

Thank you! 

[lagin]

im totally a jealous bastard 

10 years free of gold member PF..thats like a..200 dollar value or somethin i dont know someone do the math for me

i hope you find it useful and resourceful i know i did...most of the time

HINTS:
1.)stay away from religious threads
2.)never believe the verbal diarrhea that comes my the mouths of
Siberian Husky
Stevie
Rob47
I Love Xenaxis
rimv2
3.)dont let Henrick catch you cursing in the chat room
4.)try your best to follow Pianistimo's replies..squinting your eyes while you read helps
5.)Copy "Bunny" into your signature to please the trend
6.)familiarize yourself with european scenary in thalbergmad's picture contributions
7.) visit www.dasdc.net and get acquainted with this forum as it will answer many grammer related questions you might conjure up in regards to some people's strange lingo
8.)Dont start "whos a better composer" threads or "am i ready for the fantasie impromptu?" threads
9.)start building your Bernhard shrine ASAP in your closet..this can easily be done with chewing gum and coat hangers..you can add on detailed features like eyes, nose, teeth later when you become more creative..also make sure you bow down to Bernhard every 30 minutes of your breathing life

And last but not least

10.)HAVE FUN 

This made me laugh alot.  Good one.