what are your hobbies other than playing piano?

[pskim]

I practice close-up magic, i.e. cards and coins.  And I find it that using magic as another analogy of how to practice really helps to make my students how to practice diligently.  And they seem to love seeing magic close up and wonder how they are possible.  I just love seeing their surprised and awed faces and that makes me want to practice more magic, of course I practice piano too.

What are your other hobbies?  (Oh, I do sleight of hand  card and coin magic, not those self working tricks.  Sleight of hands need hours of practice, just like piano but love it.)

[donjuan]

I play classical Guitar- taking group lessons from high school.  Not very in depth, but still some kind of an experience...

I also play table tennis- part of a club downtown.  Table tennis is a great sport to develop quick thinking and get a bit of a workout at the same time.

other than that and watching TV, my only other hobby is typing on this forum...
donjuan

[Antnee]

Hmmm...

Soccer, Eating, Sleeping, Going to movies, Ping-Pong here as well (it's great!!), and of course piano forum.  

-Tony-

[Tash]

i paint and draw- love it! thus the reason i'm doing it at uni. also the usual sleeping, eating (the primary aim of me and my friends is to go to as many food places as possible to find really good stuff), etc.

[tosca1]

Jogging for health, reading, learning languages, correspondence, Chinese history and culture, travel, food, photography, cinema, gardening and cars.

Best wishes,
Robert.

[eViLben]

I have some other passions : ganja, and birds (ornithology).

[belvoce]

Well, I'm a classically trained singer, which is more of my life than a hobby. I love school and anything that has to do with learning (except algebra). I am a detail-oriented perfectionist, so I also like working with and collecting little things.

[faulty_damper]

Bicycles, and the racing of them.

[ayahav]

Learning new languages is fun.... I speak 6... Hebrew, English, Dutch, French, German, and Yiddish...... I guess that makes me a sexilinguist...... any girls that like that? (yes, I know the proper term is polyglot.......)

[xenon]

Ah yes, the polyglot.  En français, c'est <<polyglotte>>.  I was staring at that word on a French test, and I was like  .  Many glottes?

Me, I like the sciences.  I do my research in microwave transmission physics and whatnot, as well as longdistance and mass-mesh wireless networking.  Webdesigning and computers are my other favourite.  However, most of my time is consumed with school and music.

[pskim]

wow, 6 languages.  I used to be able to speak 4, but now 3 because I never had the chance to practice my spanish.

Now I only could speak English, Korean, and Japanese.  So that makes me trilingual.

[Locky]

I play the bagpipes and surf .  I want a new hobbie though. Any suggestions?

[nerd]

Learning new languages is fun.... I speak 6...

Try learning Finnish and you'll be in a trouble

Anyway, I spend most of my non-piano time on my computer programming and reading some stupid forums like this. I also like walking in the forest. I should start jogging/running, though; I'm afraid my condition isn't too good

[willcowskitz]

Suomen kieli kaunis kieli.  

[aragonaise]

Hi all.

Besides the piano, I play poker. and soccer.

Somehow I cannot marry the notion of a piano player and poker player together. Any poker players here?

[thedarkpianist]

I like to play videogames, soccer, go to the movies, watch the tv, visit my girlfriend  

[Spatula]

read and draw and PS2 (not much anymore) and housechores

[dinosaurtales]

Ice hockey, growing orchids indoors, and gardening outdoors.  Also play clarinet.  Tosca - you do everything!  holy cow!

I am terrible at languages - I am impressed that you guys know so many.

Mindy

[Regulus Medtner]

Ah yes, the polyglot.  En français, c'est <<polyglotte>>.  I was staring at that word on a French test, and I was like  .  Many glottes?

It's derived from the Greek word "glotta" or 'glossa" meaning tongue.

[bizgirl]

As my screen name suggests, business is my hobby.  Actually, it's a bit of an obsession.  When I was three I told my parents I wanted to open a used car lot!  Now I am more interested in opening... well, what else,... a music studio!

[klavierkonzerte]

playing violin, composing , reading, drawing ,movies, japanese animation, italian food,

and above all parrots  and all birds in general
i love parrots more than anything in the world even music.

[Peachy_Keen]

Tennis, golf, running, soccer, photography (film and digital), graphics design/photo editing, 3d modelling, drawing, lapidary (carving stones for jewelry), and I make sure I read at least an hour every day.

[Pumpkinhead]

Come one ya'll, online videogames over Xbox live can get addicting. Do any of you have that?

[trunks]

Me:
1. Wood-joinery and carpentry
2. PC technician - repairing and upgrading hardware and software
3. Massage, especially foot massage. I am an amateur expert in foot reflexology
4. HiFi and audio
5. Exotic cuisine. My top favourite is Japanese, without a shadow of doubt
6. Natural health-/skin-care. This is my part-time business
7. Table tennis (ping-pong), badminton, cycling
8. Reading
9. Travelling
10. Dogs and cats. I have a male Siberian Husky

[Swan]

Music is my all consuming passion.  If I'm not playing it, listening to it or creating it I'm reading about it.

From the age of 8 I decided my hobby would be to collect instruments and learn how to play them.

So far I own and can play flute, clarinet, recorders - descant, treble and tenor, auto harp, zither, tin/penny whistle, harmonica, guitar -classical, acoustic and bass, keyboard, glockenspiel, drum kit, violin, two pianos and voice (that one was free  ).

I also like writing novels (guess what they're mostly about) and I have three dogs.  I used to like drawing too, but haven't done any for years!  

[DarkWind]

Composing music, and browsing the internet.

[Fastzuernst]

Drinking wine
Oh, I mean studying Foreign Languages :-/

[Tash]

From the age of 8 I decided my hobby would be to collect instruments and learn how to play them.

So far I own and can play flute, clarinet, recorders - descant, treble and tenor, auto harp, zither, tin/penny whistle, harmonica, guitar -classical, acoustic and bass, keyboard, glockenspiel, drum kit, violin, two pianos and voice (that one was free  ).

 

now THAT is COOL!  wish i had a hobby like that it'd be the bomb

[Therese]

hm, juggling, theater, politics and about anything I can think of

[xenon]

It's derived from the Greek word "glotta" or 'glossa" meaning tongue.

Now it makes sense.  Thanks.

[trunks]

1. HiFi audio
2. Woodwork
3. Massage (receiving and giving: especially shoulders, back and feet)
4. PC hardware (repairing and upgrading)
5. Travelling
6. Eating out
7. Dogs (and cats)
8. Reading/Writing

[pianonut]

dinosaur tales - did you say ice hockey?  all the other things sounded like you, but was wondering - do you play ice hockey or watch or both?

my hobbies include:  bicycling, listening to classical music, interior design (mostly watching shows), painting/stencilling, and watching birds/animals (live near audubon trail).

[dinosaurtales]

Hey nut!  Yup bird watching is part of the gardening "thrill" for us, too!  Hard to say why, they are just fun.

And yup.  I do play ice hockey.  Althought I have to confess, with allt he practicing I've been doing for this music festival thing I haven't played more than a few times in the last several months!  But I was playing several times a week.  Great exercise,and it pegs the fun meter!  The guys' gear stinks, thoough.

[paris]

travelling
ancient civilisations, my fav are greek, chinese...
learning languages
composing music
chillin with friends
beach volleyball
buying
...

[contrapunctus]

billiards, golf, physics, reading...

[chozart]

the ones that don't really take much thought include sleeping and eating, heh
but do like to cook every once in a while too

also very much enjoy biking, badmington, volleyball, and archery
not much of a swimmer, at least not much more than the average joe, but I love to watch both it and gymnastics
i'm also awful about just lying there like a slug on the beach for a long time, which is no good for anyone

i love to sing, all sorts of things from a wide selection of genres.

art is also an old past-time. particularly enjoy working with simply pencil or charcoal.

[Chrysalis]

Music (piano/ in a future flute)
Magic (Closeup magic/ coins/cards)
Paint
Maths
Science
and in the near future i am going to kickbox
gg

[Barbosa-piano]

 Other than playing piano I enjoy studying composers' and historic people's biographies, reading, drawing and painting, History, Science, Geography, Biology, collecting fountain pens and antique music books, learning other languages (I speak Portuguese, English, Spanish, and I am learning French and German)... and checking Piano Forum every 2 hours... tsss...

[Triton LE 76]

fishing and soccer

[Nana_Ama]

soccer!

[thalbergmad]

I love to cycle (Armstrong for the Tour)

I got an English Longbow for my birthday, so i will be taking some lessons.

Had a left handed 5 string banjo made. Totally addictive.

[pianojems]

My other hobbies (beside the piano....duh)
Violin
Clarinet
Guitar
Tv Shows
Fine cuisine
figure skating
volleyball
shopping
languages/vocabulary
New Age/Jazz music
dancing
composing and recording
COMPUTERS
and many more...