Chopin's pedal marks

[gyzzzmo]

I'm just staying off this topic. Those newcomers are just here to destroy the topic and annoy people with nonsense. I have better things to do than entertaining some grown-up kids.

[stevebob]

I'm just staying off this topic. Those newcomers are just here to destroy the topic and annoy people with nonsense. I have better things to do than entertaining some grown-up kids.

I don't find you entertaining at all, and I've seen no evidence that either you or The Lost One is capable of anything besides grandstanding and projecting your own deficiencies onto other people.

[keyboardclass]

I'm just staying off this topic. Those newcomers are just here to destroy the topic and annoy people with nonsense. I have better things to do than entertaining some grown-up kids.

New to this forum yes, but with two degrees and a diploma not new to musicology.  I'm kinda trained to back up what I say rather than come out with stuff off the top of my head like some 'old hands' here.

[gyzzzmo]

New to this forum yes, but with two degrees and a diploma not new to musicology.  I'm kinda trained to back up what I say rather than come out with stuff off the top of my head like some 'old hands' here.

Interesting, but not really.
I've been playing piano since my 3rd, for 25 years years now and made it my profession for a couple of years as performer/private teacher.
But that is all quite irrelevant, because who with any common sense about music, would state that personal insights are not allowed and that the only good performance would be a copy of the composer's performance?
Plus you have a keyboardclass for crying out loud! I dont know the situation in your country, but in mine every pianist who ends up as a 'keyboardclass teacher' is even too bad as a pianist to give private lessons. And your 'wrist action' youtube video only confirms that.

Hence my advice to stay off the performance board. No doubt you know alot about theory and might have even something to add to the student forum, you might actually 'help' people there.

Gyzzzmo

[keyboardclass]

You're reading rather a lot into an alias.  Rather simplistic? 

[stevebob]

I thought Jizzmo was too grand for this thread and had better things to do.

[lostinidlewonder]

I don't find you entertaining at all, and I've seen no evidence that either you or The Lost One is capable of anything besides grandstanding and projecting your own deficiencies onto other people.

That is only because you can't read and/or selectively read and believe that people care about what you think about them. Oh yes, we are all so desperate for approval from strangers, it is such a matter of importance!!!! perhaps for you lol. Did you know that pianostreet has a fantastic function where you can read what people have posted? Wow, what do we get when we read stevebobs history, wow what is this, so much arguing and complaining when people have different opinion to him, wow why is this!

[stevebob]

That is only because you can't read and/or selectively read and believe that people care about what you think about them. Oh yes, we are all so desperate for approval from strangers, it is such a matter of importance!!!! perhaps for you lol. Did you know that pianostreet has a fantastic function where you can read what people have posted? Wow, what do we get when we read stevebobs history, wow what is this, so much arguing and complaining when people have different opinion to him, wow why is this!

Hmmm ... yet more ad hominem attacks and projection.  Again, I suggest you get help for your problems.

It might feel therapeutic when you lash out in anger and insults because you feel threatened or intimidated, but ultimately you get what you pay for.  Your outbursts aren't constructive, and you would benefit from talking to a paid professional and/or getting medication.  In all seriousness, I do wish you well.

[lostinidlewonder]

Do you think i care that you are pointing out that YOU THINK I am being rude and insulting and that ALL of my posts over the last 6 years have not helped one person at all???

I do not care, so you can say whatever you like about me, it is just making you look a lot more stupid. I enjoy that a lot. thanks!

Maybe you should look for help since a lot of your retorts to people is simple "Stop treating us like idiots and children." The inferiority complex force runs strong in you Lu... I mean Stevebob.

[stevebob]

Do you think i care that you are pointing out that YOU THINK I am being rude and insulting and that ALL of my posts over the last 6 years have not helped one person at all???

I do not care, so you can say whatever you like about me, it is just making you look a lot more stupid. I enjoy that a lot. thanks!

Maybe you should look for help since a lot of your retorts to people is simple "Stop treating us like idiots and children." The inferiority complex force runs strong in you Lu... I mean Stevebob.

You're evidently in a lot of pain.  I'm sad for you. 

By the way, you've made a number of fascinating remarks in this thread.  (”It’s a free world I can do what I want” is so precious that I might put it in my sig line!)  I'm especially interested in your description of Chopin’s “feminine soft touch”—and it would be nice to steer a thread that's been turned into a train wreck back on topic.

I wonder then if you would explain more about that aspect of Chopin’s playing style and how it relates to pedaling and performing his works generally.  I’m particularly curious about whether a “soft touch” is integral to all his works and what qualifies it as “feminine.”