do you date or have you married someone who is also a musician?

[jpianoflorida]

Question: if you are single do you like dating someone who is a musician or someone not in the field? if married, are you both musicians?   My answer: I have never dated a woman who plays piano, never wanted to...I guess I like the "opposites attract" idea....then again, I'm 41 and single, so maybe i should date a piano playing lady! lol

[pianistimo]

you could date a person who isn't a pianist but still a musician?!  is this a puzzle? 

my husband sings and i feel no competition whatsoever with him at all in piano.  if he did play piano it would take away from our 'together' time.  first one would practice and then the other (unless a two piano household). actually the idea sounds kind of nice.  a piano on one side of the house and a piano on the other.  but, realistically - who wants someone to come home and go directly to the piano.

it's nice to share hobbies, though.  for instance, we enjoy concerts together.  we can still have pretty good conversations about music.  and we share bicycling.  i like it when he comes home and asks 'what do you want to do?'  if i said 'practice three hours' (which i did a few years ago) it would be solitude for him and me - so i try to practice in the morning or afternoon when he's gone anyways. 

i'm sort of mad at him tonight.  i was off pianoforum and actually waiting for him and he stays on the computer researching something til 2am.  so when he comes, i leave.  i know tit-for-tat.  he's getting careless.  whenever i say i'm tired - he thinks it means that he should leave me alone to sleep.  he doesn't realize he's likea  teddy bear and i can't really sleep unless he's there.  am mad tonight.

[penguinlover]

I agree with pianistimo, sharing a piano would be awful.  My husband sings, so it is nice to accompany him.  He doesn't know as much about music as I do, so I talk music with my son.  The only thing I have to watch, is that my husband gets a bit jealous of my time spent on the forum, and the people I talk to here.  I will have to watch that.

[le_poete_mourant]

My girlfriend isn't musical at all.  I love her singing, although it's terrible, because she enjoys it so much.  I think the advantage is if you date someone who doesn't know music as well, they'll be more impressed. 

[leucippus]

I have five pianos in my house.  I could afford to marry five pianistic wives.

Of course, if I did that I'd have to spend all my time practicing the violin. 

But that's cool.   

[debussy symbolism]

I have five pianos in my house.  I could afford to marry five pianistic wives.

Of course, if I did that I'd have to spend all my time practicing the violin. 

But that's cool.   

Greetings.

5 pianos; thats alot. I am sure that fights may occur about who gets to practice. I can say right now that no date is going to want to continue with me, simply because there is no way she is taking up my practice time.

[penguinlover]

Five pianos!  I can't even afford to keep one tuned.  That's one for every room.  What do you do with all of them?  Piano class, group therapy?