What % of your friends are pianists?

[opus10no2]

Include online friends if you consider them friends.

Also comment if other friends are non-pianists but still musicians of some kind, or even enthusiastic listeners.

[pianistimo]

i fail to see how the poll relates directly to pianist friends. 

if you want to write a thoroughly disturbing story - mine is where i've met them and then they died or i moved away - or else they got into traffic accidents.  there was this really great church pianist guy who always wore a carnation in his pocket and a spotted bow tie.  unfortunately - someone creamed him at a traffic stop.  i mourned him for years.  before that - there was this jazz pianist who let me just sit and chill in his office and listen to him play jazz.  he died of old age.  i guess we mourn people like that forever.  lately - it has been a dear friend back in lancaster - who also was in a traffic accident several years ago (which makes me really sad) and recently found out that he also has cancer which could be metastasizing.  anyways - he played ragtime and chopin.  strange combination - but he was widely read and knew about poetry and lines and how something should be said.  we are currently in a disagreement over God - but i called him the other night because i thought his cat was on my front porch.

i've met and had close friends of all degrees of playing piano.  the sad thing is that over time we've lost contact because of distance.

funny - but i was pondering making some kind of CD to send to my friend with the chopin fettish.  i never used to play chopin much.  now -i am attempting to learn preludes and the another etude.  the first one is coming along .  it's not that terribly hard as i thought.  constant fluctuation between george and fredricka for chopin.   

[thalberg]

I'd say for me it's about half.....but I've been out to restaurants many times with 10 or more pianists all in a group.  I diversify my friends through church--I meet a lot of non-musicians there.  I was good friends with some string players a while back.

[rc]

Friends:  my teacher
Acquaintances:  A girl who won some competitions and now teaches at a local music store, another who dabbled when she was young and has given some lessons to beginners but I don't think is anymore.  Though I know them both more as crazy partiers who get far too drunk.

Yep, that's about it.  That might be why I hang 'round here

[pianistimo]

i want murray perhiah to be my best friend.  nothing more nothing less.  i am married you know.  i heard him play a duet of something or other with radu lupu.  it was amazing.

avetma - i need to come over here right now and tell me what to do with this etude when it returns to the C G C E part.  kind of stalled in terms of interpreting this etude correctly. if i wait until the 'development' it seems kind of boring to play both sections before it - loudly.  must have some pianissimo. but the development is mp.  only a pianist can help me.

do you think it is rude to sit on a piano teachers doorstep at odd hours with a sign 'will work for piano lessons.'  i want piano lessons forever.

if i consider everyone on piano forum my friend - i suppose i could say 90% of my friends are pianists.  the other talk about carpooling and such.

[thalbergmad]

I have 2 friends and 1 plays piano.

Therefore 50%.

Q E D

Thal

[nortti]

I have one friends and they all study music 100%:ly

[jlh]

Since I basically live in the music building on campus, most of my friends are musicians, but only a smaller percentage of them are pianists -- I know quite a lot of vocalists since I've been in the choirs, and quite a lot of other musicians since I taught several required piano classes to them.

[shortyshort]

I don't have any friends 

0%

[ganymed]

 I just have one friend in my grade who plays piano :/

[pianowolfi]

Well I have more or less three or four friends that are pianists. One is like two friends so I count him/her double lol perhaps 30 %? I really have no clue. My neighbour is a pianist and we use to meet frequently for what we call a glass of wine well more like two or three I mean.

[pianowolfi]

I don't have any friends 

0%

 

[philippa]

I have one real-life friend who plays piano, two online friends who play piano. This is excluding people who play but are really crap

[elspeth]

I don't really have any pianists among my friends, although many among acquaintances and colleagues (I work in a theatre, be strange if I didn't!). So, 0% among proper friends but something closer to 50% among people I associate with.

[ahinton]

i want murray perhiah to be my best friend.  nothing more nothing less.  i am married you know.

Just HOW many times have you told us all that last bit?! (and why?...)

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

I have 2 friends and 1 plays piano.

Therefore 50%.

Q E D

Thal

OK - so, since I'm the one that doesn't, who's the one that does? (and where does Susan - your self-confessed from-time-to-time "sweetie" - fit into all this?)...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

alistair -i have a feeling that you and i are not involved in this.  perhaps he is speaking of 'mental martin' and 'rebby.'  rebby plays the piano, right?

thal is very secretive.  it's sort of his way of controlling the odds of something going wrong.  like friends gone bad - or something like that.  i think he is fearful of sabotage.  from you by being asked to buy manuscripts of which he might have no use for - and me - for the fact that i am a married woman. 

i actually want to meet both of you - but not in the same place.  i want to see thal at the top of mt blanc from a helicopter.  and, i'd like to see you at jonathan powell's performance in june.  unfortunately or fortunately (one can never predict these things in advance for either side) i am strapped for cash.  i had thought of just asking you for the money - but it seemed rude. 

[thalbergmad]

OK - so, since I'm the one that doesn't, who's the one that does?

My teacher, Richard Meyrick.

Thal

PS I am sooo drunk

[pianistimo]

he looks like a nice teacher! - www.thepianostudio.co.uk

not as good looking as mine, tho.

mr meyrick has played the samuel barber sonata?  he's ok then.  did you know samuel barber's house is right near west chester university.  i haven't officially visited it yet - but there's a lot of info about him - and his music at west chester.

what do you do when you get really drunk?  play the banjo?  can you post something in the audition room now?  say a godowsky transcription? 

[thalbergmad]

he looks like a nice teacher! - www.thepianostudio.co.uk

not as good looking as mine, tho.

Perhaps you should provide a pic.

Thal

PS I don't think Godowsky composed for the banjo

[pianistimo]

i hope he doesn't mind and that i don't embarrass him by my hiatus and come-back.  at least i haven't 'over practiced' and lost it totally.

www.carlcranmer.com/bio.html  (click on gallery)

something i don't understand is that the 'schedule' has not been updated for a year.  perhaps this is due to large teaching load?  wait.  i see something interesting here.  'carl is getting married...'  i think i know who the lucky lady is - but have to wait and see.

click on listen and then francis poulenc's 'le charm ...'  or one of the others that suits you.  i think he plays soooo well.

[thalbergmad]

I think he looks like sting.

[stephanie-piano]

um...... i have three friends who are pianists....... two in training



one of them is at Eastman, I think and the other one's at Curtis


all of which are my teacher's students