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[mikey6]

What convinced you all to join PS? advice, socially, boredom?
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Hello all.  I'm currently looking to study overseas for post grad studies (or private).  I live in Australia and was thinking of looking to study in Europe somewhere - Germany or England possibly.  It's rather hard finding out whether a good player is a good teacher without having lessons with them.
Does anyone have e-mail addresses or websites or knowledge that would be useful in helping me decide on a place to go?
Thanks
after which I was accused of being someone named mikeyg

[pianistimo]

all three. 

my first one probably went something like this:

'btw, i have a new name.  it is pianistimo (formerly pianonut).  it is a more focused name.  therefore, i will attempt to live up to it.  speak only of music, piano, and the like - and try to stay off the 'anything but piano' thread for at least one day.'

[thalberg]

all three. 

my first one probably went something like this:

'btw, i have a new name.  it is pianistimo (formerly pianonut).  it is a more focused name.  therefore, i will attempt to live up to it.  speak only of music, piano, and the like - and try to stay off the 'anything but piano' thread for at least one day.'

LOL!!!  Do you think you lived up to your goal of speaking only of music, piano, and the like?

[thalberg]

I came to this board because I was wanting to buy a 7-foot grand.  I was googling piano topics constantly.  This is my first post below.  I did not end up getting the Mason.  I bought a Steinway instead and hated it and sent it back.  Then I decided to change careers so I didn't replace it.  I currently have a Boston that I am waiting to sell.


Piano Board / Instruments / Mason and Hamlin BB    on: June 22, 2005, 12:50:56 AM
Hi All!

I'm on the verge of buying a 7-foot Mason and Hamlin grand.  I like it and I got a reasonable deal on it.  Anyone have any cautions--anything I'm overlooking? Also, what do people think of the brand new ones compared to the new Steinways?

[lau]

i think i joined cuz i wanted to find out where to get sheet music

"essense you values, count the number of times you have failed and channel your flavors. It is what works best for me"-first post

[Bob]

I came here to get better at piano and find answers to questions.  I'm not completely satisfied but I have a better understanding.  I also remember thinking I got more "piano culture" through the site than without.


Here's my first post.  Still looking for "the" answer, whenever I find it...

"How do you balance technical development with playing actual literature?  It seems like if I want more chops, I need to work technical exercises (or play a challenging etude poorly).  This wears me out and takes up my time for literature.  If I work on literature, my technique starts suffering. :-/

Any thoughts?"

[rach n bach]

Here it is...

I agree with Shorty... give it a break for a little while and then come back... you will see the piece in a whole new light.  Also, you might want to pick up something on the easier side just to have fun, it works for me anyhow...

All the best,
     RnB

[mcgillcomposer]

I joined because I am gay, and was, for a time at least, suicidal...

No, but seriously, I was actually looking for a composer's forum and this popped up in the search results. I am also a pianist so I decided to check it out. The rest is history.

[shortyshort]

Unfortunately my first post was the tragic, but common, "What to Play Next".

I was told that everything that I already played was "Overplayed"

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,20938.0.html

Anyway, here it is.

Cheers,

Shorty

[thalbergmad]

I came here to irritate as many of my fellow human beings as possible.

Thal

[beethoven2]

I origionally came here to gain sheetmusic...but those intentions have changed entirely.

[soliloquy]

Philip Glass String Quartet Nos. 2 and 5
Philip Glass Violin Concerto
Corigliano Fantasia on an Ostinato

[counterpoint]

I don't know anymore, what lead me to this forum, but my first post was:


Don't think: I'm not good enough!

but think: I could be better!

and work for this target.

The first will discourage you more and more,

the second will help you  getting a better and better pianist.


It was a reply in a thread named: depression due to competition   

[opus10no2]

Hey im new to this board.
I am very curious as to what you folks think of the music of ALKAN. Have any of you played his music, or even just listened to it?
He is my joint favourite composer along with Beethoven and I love every single piece ive heard by him. My favourite work is his complete op.39 - 12 etudes in all the minor keys - including the symphony and concerto for solo piano.

Aww, cute ^^

[opus10no2]

Hahaha note the Oct the 8th

[jlh]

Here's my first post:

A few weeks ago, I got to meet Olga Kern, the Gold Medal winner of the Van Cliburn, and she said something that I agree with wholeheartedly.  She said that for competitions (or in this case, auditions) she doesn't play with the judges in mind, but she plays the music for herself, and no one else. 

When you get up there, block everything out -- including the judges, and just play the music like you know it should be played.