Most hilarious thing a student has said

[thalberg]

The other day one of my students who is 8 years old said..."Do you have a real job?"
I've never felt so low in my life...

LOL!!!!!  Priceless.

If it makes you feel any better, someone walked up to Maria Joao Pires after one of her wonderful concerts and said, "That was lovely, Ms. Pires!!  Please tell me, what do you do for a living?"

[lagin]

Nanabush's and Thalberg's posts made me laugh really hard!

[lagin]

While teaching 'Little Boy of China."

Me:  Do you know where China is?
4 year old boy (English is his 2nd language):  Yes, I have one gob.
Me:  You have a......globe?
Him:  Yes, a globe.  (As though that was precisely what he said the first time, though it wasn't!)

[elevateme_returns]

this isnt something someone said. but its still funny.

i set someone Bb major 2 octaves both hands together, and wrote it in their notebook.

and when they came back i found that they'd scribbled out the flat after the B. so they then played B major

[jinfiesto]

Hahaha. That's hysterical. I have an 8 year old and I was teaching her note values... and she wasn't really paying attention. So I decided to have a quiz. I pointed to a quarter note and said.... What's that. She replied " Well that's a quarter note". Then I pointed to a half note and said "So if the last one was a quarter note then this one is?". To this she replied "Heck if I know.... A nickel note?"

[pianowolfi]

cute and logical after all.

[pianochick93]

Oh, I have one finally. I started teaching my little sister today, and I was teaching her out of a book with Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven. It had the names on the front cover. I told her "those composers are really really good composers" and she replied

"What about Shakespeare???"

I almost fell off the piano stool from laughing.

[soliloquy]

Years ago I taught piano part-time, and was helping my nephew practice for an upcoming recital.  He kept hitting the same wrong note in some G-major piece, and I stopped him and said, "David, you keep hitting F-natural here, where it's supposed to be F-sharp." 

His reply: "What difference does it make?"

He later became an electrical engineer. 

Teresa

ahahahahaha best one yet.  "He later became an electrical engineer."

[thalberg]

this isnt something someone said. but its still funny.

i set someone Bb major 2 octaves both hands together, and wrote it in their notebook.

and when they came back i found that they'd scribbled out the flat after the B. so they then played B major

 

[m]

Little girl was playing some happy piece from Bartok Hungarian Folk Tunes, so in order to give her some historical background and understand the character I explained her who was Bartok and that he lived in Hungary, where people loved folk music and dance (or something like that).

Next lesson she brings the piece and it does not sound quite right , so I ask her if she remembers what we talked about Bartok. She answers--not really, the only thing she could remember that he always was hungry.

[m]

It is a policy in my studio that all the parents sit at the lessons (and then supervise kids in their home practicing).

There was one very lively and cute kid, who ones during the lesson started making faces. His mom tells him: "Tymothy, don't make a faces or you will get stuck and remain like that for whole your life". His response: "Is that what happened to you, mommy?"

[pianowolfi]

It is a policy in my studio that all the parents sit at the lessons (and then supervise kids in their home practicing).

There was one very lively and cute kid, who ones during the lesson started making faces. His mom tells him: "Tymothy, don't make a faces or you will get stuck and remain like that for whole your life". His response: "Is that what happened to you, mommy?"

Lol smart. I mean, why do parents still say such things? 

Recently one of my students said while struggling with his Chopin nocturne "can't we play the Schönberg pieces now? There at least the mistakes sound right..."

[thalberg]

It is a policy in my studio that all the parents sit at the lessons (and then supervise kids in their home practicing).

There was one very lively and cute kid, who ones during the lesson started making faces. His mom tells him: "Tymothy, don't make a faces or you will get stuck and remain like that for whole your life". His response: "Is that what happened to you, mommy?"

My parents never said that to me, but I had a babysitter who used to say that when I was very young.  How do ridiculous statements like that somehow make it into the mainstream and travel across countries, continents, and generations? 

[lostinidlewonder]

I've had students ask me, "What do you do for work" too

I've had a beginner 7 year old say to me very confidently when I try to teach her fingering,
"I'm telling you that's not how you do it"

[amelialw]

one of my 6 yr old students has asked me this a few times:
:"Why do you teach if you know that your teacher is better than you?"

[amanfang]

When I asked a student she wanted to play first, she replied "Ummm, the Sneezero."  I sat puzzled for a moment trying to figure out what she was talking about.  Of course it was Scherzo. 

[penguinlover]

This isn't hilarious, but it is a first for me.  After about half way through the lesson, my student stopped and said "Now it's your turn.  You play now!"  I asked him if he was tired of playing now, and he said "sort of".  So, I played for him!

[amelialw]

oh yeah...which reminds me of something that 6yr kid said to me too.

I regularly play a piece for church now and then to practise my performance skills.
One day i played Mozart's Sonata in c minor. After church, he said " wow, that piece sounds really hard, do you think i'll ever be able to play it?" I told him that maybe eventually, as long as he kept practising the piano for years to come (considering his progress). Then he said" But by then you might be my auntie, not jie jie(big sister) anymore"

[nicco]

It is a policy in my studio that all the parents sit at the lessons (and then supervise kids in their home practicing).

There was one very lively and cute kid, who ones during the lesson started making faces. His mom tells him: "Tymothy, don't make a faces or you will get stuck and remain like that for whole your life". His response: "Is that what happened to you, mommy?"

Haha, brilliant! 

[danny elfboy]

I had a 5 year old drop the "F bomb" once.....that was the end of that lesson.

You have to explain this to me

[ganymed]

i dont get it aswell that relieves me danny haha

[thalberg]

It means he said the vulgar English word that starts with "F."  If you need more explanation, let me know.  The word filter will not allow the whole word.

[danny elfboy]

It means he said the vulgar English word that starts with "F."  If you need more explanation, let me know.  The word filter will not allow the whole word.

Why ending a lesson for saying the "F" word?
I feel that when children are allowed to know and use vulgar words they learn better how inappropriate is to use them in certain situations  (but still every human has anger and frustration that makes him/her use vulgar words, nothing wrong with that)
On the other hand when children are scolded for using those words and one reacts with indignation or scandal at them, they grow up to become professional cursers that love to be as vulgar as possible most of the time.

Forgive the OT

[wotgoplunk]

I've dropped the "f-bomb" a few times at lessons, it seems a bit extreme to me to end one for it. Does anyone not swear

[pianochick93]

This was a 5 year old though...

My teavher drops a lot of F bombs. She knows I am used to it being in high school and anything. I'm sure that if I asked her not to she wouldn't. I don't really have a problem though.

[ganymed]

i still dont get it . f-bomb is a swearword. but which one ?

[danny elfboy]

This was a 5 year old though...

Yeah, that's the point.
Teach a 5 year old that telling a bad-word gets your lesson ended and you are teaching him to love the prohibite thrill of bad-words and he will grow a person loving being vulgar.
Teach him that it's not a big deal, that everyone does that but it's still better to think before impulsive swearing and he will understand and will grow a way less vulgar person.
After all the "adults" we complain about nowadays, the sexist, the arrogant, the vulgar, the homophobic, the greedy, the egotist, the egocentric have all be educated through the orthodox way of telling children not to swear, punishing them for whatever thing they do, allowing them no freedom to explore there's a violent and bad side to the world, talking down to them, asking them to be always polite even if adults rarely are ... and it just haven't worked. Maybe, just for the sake of getting better results, it's time to try something new and to admit that whatever experts and non-experts believe to know about educating children is just plain flawed. There's this myth that when you meet a superficial and aggressive teen his parents must have been too permissive, absent and allowing him to swear and watch bad movies. It's actually the opposite: those are the children of non-permissive and easily scandalized parents who infantilize their children, treat them ike delicate flowers, supervise their lives strictly and doesn't allow children the same human mistakes adults get away with all the time.


 

[danny elfboy]

i still dont get it . f-bomb is a swearword. but which one ?

as in "what the eff!"

[thalberg]

i still dont get it . f-bomb is a swearword. but which one ?

To give you a clue, try unscrambling the letters fcuk.



Also--Here is an article on the f-bomb
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/23/AR2006062301378.html

[n_n]

wow, Thalberg did research on f-bomb! repect! 

To go way off topic - I remember a long time ago i was working w/ a bunch of colleagues at a conference room. Guys in that room said a lot of F words. So someone put out a jar. Everyone contributed a dollar to the jar for every f bomb he/she dropped. End of the day we buy candies for everyone with those money for the next day (believe me that was a lot of candies we bought everyday)... funny thing was - some ppl would prepay for their f bombs to come...

now i think i should start an internet business... for every f bomb you drop, you come to the site and pay a dollar. imagine when we have millions of "income" everyday, the interest on the money would be great. If things go wild, we may go public! Imagine the wall street people buying futures and options on the prediction of the # of f-bombs on our site! Then i, as the CEO, send you monthly checks for your "F dividend" or we can donate the entire to some schools for the speech or hearing disabled... how does that sound?

[danny elfboy]

how does that sound?

Great and educative (for both young childrens and adults) idea 

[penguinlover]

I don't swear, and wouldn't tolerate it in a lesson.  I would try to reason with a five year old, he may not even know what he did.  A warning once,  not to do it again in my home.  I don't see the need for swearing.  To me it makes one sound very uneducated.  There are so many more adjectives out there that aren't offensive.

[elsie07]

I have an eight-year-old student who is learning Silent Night for Christmas.  She loves the piece, but decided she dislikes the B-flat...so she crossed it out. lol  Her mother told me this today, so I think I'll have to explain things a bit more at the next lesson.  I actually had not planned to teach sharps and flats for awhile more, but she really wanted to learn this piece, so I decided to go ahead with it anyways.  She's funny - "I don't like this note - *slash*" She certainly keeps me on my toes!




Another thing by the same student...

"Piano is like school.  School is fun, but it's still school.  And piano is fun too, but it's still piano."  I'm still trying to figure out what she meant by that!

[gilad]

"Piano is like school.  School is fun, but it's still school.  And piano is fun too, but it's still piano."  I'm still trying to figure out what she meant by that!

Hahahaha.


I thought the F bomb was a fart. Oops. my bad.

[thalberg]

"Piano is like school.  School is fun, but it's still school.  And piano is fun too, but it's still piano."  I'm still trying to figure out what she meant by that!

I think she meant there is still some element of obligation involved.

[minor9th]

OK, not a piano teacher story, but a teacher story nonetheless. I used to teach junior high English (switched to high school about nine years ago), and one day I was going over comma, semi-colon, and colon usage. After a while a boy said, "You sure know a lot about stuff that isn't important." 

[joyfulmusic]

I said ever so tactfully to a student, that was pretty good, now you need to focus on practice time.  She is six.  Oh no, she said I'm doing very well and I only like to play when you're here.  She later did start practicing, but I loved the innocence of her reply.

[point of grace]

I'm on the floor laughing at this.

would u explain that?
i´m from argentina... sometimes i dont understand english jokes and that´s awful for me!!

i also have many funny stories, but they have todo with language mistakes they commit, so they woulndt be funny for u! =)

thanx people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

[thalberg]

would u explain that?
i´m from argentina... sometimes i dont understand english jokes and that´s awful for me!!

i also have many funny stories, but they have todo with language mistakes they commit, so they woulndt be funny for u! =)

thanx people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

The F-bomb is what they nicknamed the most vulgar English swear word.  It starts with an "F".  If you read ahead in the discussion, we talked about it a bit.  Basically, just try unscrambling the letters fcuk.

[point of grace]

The F-bomb is what they nicknamed the most vulgar English swear word.  It starts with an "F".  If you read ahead in the discussion, we talked about it a bit.  Basically, just try unscrambling the letters fcuk.

oh thanks you really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i got it now =P

but that´s not funny! i dont remember the story in this board hehe

[thalberg]

oh thanks you really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i got it now =P

but that´s not funny! i dont remember the story in this board hehe

Well it's funny if a five year old says it because he has no idea what it means.  When kids don't know what they're saying I find it funny.

[pianochick93]

I wouldn't call it the most vulgar though.

I wouldn't find it funny, but I have an old fashioned belief that kids under 11 or 12 shouldn't swear at all.

I didn't know what the 'F-bomb' meant 'til I was about 11, and then I didn't use it for another 1 1/2 years.

I was an innocent child. That disappeared when I went to high school.

[point of grace]

Well it's funny if a five year old says it because he has no idea what it means.  When kids don't know what they're saying I find it funny.

yah, really true!!!!!

lol

[danny elfboy]

I wouldn't call it the most vulgar though.

I wouldn't find it funny, but I have an old fashioned belief that kids under 11 or 12 shouldn't swear at all.

I didn't know what the 'F-bomb' meant 'til I was about 11, and then I didn't use it for another 1 1/2 years.

I was an innocent child. That disappeared when I went to high school.

Innocence is the quality of not being guilty.
It has little to do with an unhumane adherence to a fake and discriminative victorian myth of cherubs and self-imposed naiveity. To me a person is innocent when he/she is "true" and maintain a free spirit, and free spirits do curse from time to time ... because it is just human to vent it when you can't help it. In fact if a very young child is taught that it's okay to curse when you really feel like it and you can't restrain yourself because we're humans and it's normal to have such reactions, he/she will be very unlikely to abuse such word and won't just become someone who do nothing but cursing and show it off. The opposite happens when one suddenly discovers cursings and for some strange reason feels "old enough" (what the hell age has to do with cursing anyway) to use and hyper-abuse it. Such person is more likely to become one of those that curse for the sake of it or to show off a fake arrogance as a why to feel more secure about himself/herself.

[amanfang]

Today I got this:  "I'm having a hard time keeping all those sharps and neutrals straight."

[puddy]

We had a lady examiner one year. The music examination supervisor reminded me to instruct my candidates to wish her good morning madam as opposed to sir. I told my eight year old student that this year the examiner was a woman and he should wish her as instructed. When the supervisor came out of the examination room, I was told the greeting came out: good morning, woman.

[quantum]

We had a lady examiner one year. The music examination supervisor reminded me to instruct my candidates to wish her good morning madam as opposed to sir. I told my eight year old student that this year the examiner was a woman and he should wish her as instructed. When the supervisor came out of the examination room, I was told the greeting came out: good morning, woman.

   

[amanfang]

From a piano festival:  "Hi, my name is XXXXX XXXX, and I will be playing Chopin's Waltz in A minor, composed by Posthumous."

[m19834]

hee hee ... today one of my students told me (after some mistake) that sometimes her mind has a mind of its own  . 

[communist]

once when i was at a lesson a while back i was playing Chopin's first ballade and wheni got to the coda i played it slower and jazzier and my teacher looked like he was about cut out one of the strings and strangle me with it