Let's imagine what it would be like.......

[janice]

Let's imagine what it would be like if we all lived together in the same house (like a frat house).  Who would be doing what?  Let me start, I know that I would be in the kitchen, making chili for all, and I would be arguing about the Nazi's with Bernhard.  LOL  So imagine what it would be like.  Just imagine what it would be like.  Who would be doing what?  I'm sure that most of us have developed a "mental picture" of the others, so let's do a "spin-off" of sorts............

PS--keep it clean.  We each have our separate bedroom.

[donjuan]

hehe your idea sounds a little like Big Brother!

I think I would make a lot of friends and enemies.

[kulahola]

hehe your idea sounds a little like Big Brother!

I think I would make a lot of friends and enemies.

sharing house with bernerd ? no way...

[Tash]

hahaha do we all have our own pianos cos i think there'd be a lot of arguing over practice times otherwise! god it'd be a noise fest- poor neighbours having to endure so many pianos all playing for all hours of the day!

ok what am i doing- creating everyone's pianos into artworks to suite their personalities- you can request whatever you like to have painted/sculpted onto it! and then someone can compose a work for however many pianos we have and we'll all play and it'll be like a giant performance artwork and we'll get put into all these art books for revolutionising piano playing and performance art!!

oh and janice of course would know everyone was as soon as they walked in the door (i'm still rather freaked about the whole photo thing!)

[janice]

First, we need to evict Kulahola from the house!

I think Tash would be walking around and socializing with everybody, because I envision her as being cute & perky, sort of a social butterfly!!(Relax Tash, I immediately figured out who you were in the pic, because you look EXACTLY like a Tash that I know.  She's even the same age as you) Kulahola would be trying to pick fights with everybody!!  Bernhard wears an argyle vest and smokes a pipe, and walks around in deep thought!!

Any thoughts on any others?

[Saturn]

The way I picture Bernhard (in relation to the rest of the people in the house) is kind of like this:  he is like Xavier to the X-men.  In other words, old, crusty, and in a wheelchair.  

Also, if comme_le_vent were in the house, he'd probably end up inadventently burning it down.

[squinchy]

I'd be the one trying to subtly ask people for advice and playing simple pieces annoyingly or difficult pieces with disgraceful technique. I also have a tendency to skip around places and skip (with my fingers) around the keyboard. My role in the house would be: Pokey Inconvenience.

I disagree that Kulahola should be evicted. Every house needs a chronic nay-sayer and controversy-creater. Eviction is much too civil, anyhow.

It'd be fun!

Also, if comme_le_vent were in the house, he'd probably end up inadventently burning it down.

His practice room would need to be ultra-soundproofed and we'd all need locks on our rooms. XP

[janice]

Shagdac and I would hang out together, cuz we are fairly close in age.  We would be in the kitchen (I would be making chili for all!), where we would gossip and giggle about everyone else! LOL  So beware!!!

LOL

[thomas_williams]

What a fun idea, living with others who share my passion for classical music!    I like Tash's idea of a work for a LARGE piano ensemble-- a piano orchestra, if you will.  And I hope there would be plenty of other musicians too (other than pianists) so that we could have lots of chamber and vocal music.  Where would this place be located?

[Tash]

a castle in germany, maybe of of king ludwig's cos they're COOL

[DarkWind]

(i'm still rather freaked about the whole photo thing!)

Link please.

I would be the guy composing and staying in my room. I would also be the one that doesn't shut up about Ravel. I'd invite lots of people who don't play piano, but another instrument to my home. I would also talk a lot with donjuan about Liszt.

[Tash]

link for what? oh let's make a page of photos and everyone has to guess who everyone is! hahaha

just imagine every night we could hover around the piano and sing folk tunes...and then everyone would argue over who should play

[DarkWind]

I would have my hands covering my face and pushing away the camera. I am not model material .

[Tash]

what'd be interesting is what we all call each other. like for me it's ok cos my name is tash but for other like darkwind and donjuan for example, would we call them darkwind and donjuan or their real names? cos that would be random hahaha

[donjuan]

no, if I shook your hand and saw you with my own eyes, I would have to tell you my real name..

donjuan (for now.. )

[Tash]

oooh the mystery of revealing identities. chances are my visions of everyone are completely and utterly wrong and thus will turn up and be like who the hell are these people? if this weren't a pianoforum with many many posts that only a decent musician could write then you could be crazy stalkers waiting to murder me...or you could be a piano playing stalker waiting to murder me...or better yet I could be a piano playing stalker waiting to murder YOU mwahahahaha. however my visual identity has been revealed to janice who should confirm that i do not look like  murderous stalker...unless that's not really me...
btw don't get any ideas i'm not a stalker i swear!!

[janice]

however my visual identity has been revealed to janice who should confirm that i do not look like  murderous stalker

You looked like a muderous stalker to me!!  

LOL--naaaah, your'e cute!

[Tash]

i'll only stalk you if you steal my stuff! and chances are that won't happen cos nobody here lives in sydney

[Peachy_Keen]

What would it be like? Bernhard would sit on a big golden throne and we'd all fan him with big leaves and peel grapes for him. He'd bonk us on the head with a great big staff a lot.

Everyone would get into flaming rows over their favorite pianists/pianos etc.

We'd try to discuss philosophy and fail miserably.

Our neighbors would hate us.

It'd be chili or starve.

Kulahola would be the guy inside the walls of the house who bangs on the pipes and keeps us up at night.

We'd own a lot of dogs who howl along to the music.

...I can't think of anything else.

[janice]

What would it be like? Bernhard would sit on a big golden throne and we'd all fan him with big leaves and peel grapes for him. He'd bonk us on the head with a great big staff a lot.

ROFL--that is SOOOO funny!!!!!  (Watch Bernie get a big head now!!)

[Motrax]

No, Bernhard is really an impetuous 7-year-old who pulls the piano bench out from under you when you make a mistake (and he does it sometimes when you're playing well, just for fun).

I'd be somewhat reclusive, not out of spite for anybody, but just because I enjoy my own company. I'd practice a whole lot every day, and I'd bring in a ping-pong table so I could show off my ninja-like skillz.  

I'd also be the one sitting on the porch, reading a lot of the time.

[janice]

I'd be somewhat reclusive, not out of spite for anybody, but just because I enjoy my own company.

Even though I am a social butterfly, I prefer solitude.  I live in solitude, but I have moments where I am very outgoing, but I want to do it on my own terms.Hey,  maybe we should have a separate room just for "deep thinking".  No talking allowed!  If we are all going to be living together, I bet that it will be noisy, so it would be a welcomed retreat to have a room like that--a "deep thinking" room!

[Shagdac]

I'd be waiting till everyone fell asleep, then secretly replace their scores with that of Gottschalk! Running to Bernhard with questions every 5 seconds, and CLEANING!!! I'd be the neat-freak who made everyone's bed, did the dishes and went around picking lint off the floor, and made them take their shoes off at the door! I'd be kicked out after the 1st night!!!!


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[Clare]

I would like to take the role of the hermit in the garden.

[janice]

I'd be waiting till everyone fell asleep, then secretly replace their scores with that of Gottschalk! Running to Bernhard with questions every 5 seconds, and CLEANING!!! I'd be the neat-freak who made everyone's bed, did the dishes and went around picking lint off the floor, and made them take their shoes off at the door! I'd be kicked out after the 1st night!!!!


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Good!!  We all will be too busy to make our beds anyway.  (I make mine at midnight, just before getting in it! lol)  We need to have other chores assigned.  Like cooking--unless you want to live off of my chili.  Anyone here a good cook?  Who will mow the lawn? Etc etc etc

(I talk in my sleep, I hope that doesn't bother any of you!)

[Tash]

oh yes someone to clean for me! i like that idea i HATE cleaning.
i'm also thinking our rooms are sound proof since many of us like solitude. maybe we could have a few meditation rooms and ponder the meaning of life...

OMG i just noticed the 4 stars under my name! haha yay i'm a senior member now! i feel so old...'senior'...

oh and i think clare should get her own little mini house in the garden and occasionally pop inside for a comment or two

cooking...i suck at cooking actually no i can do stir-fry and pasta provided i have someone to help me. do you like hacked up food cos i'm quite good and cutting up food really badly i have a great reputation for it. could you imagine if someone cut their finger?! everyone'd be having a heart attack going OMG you can't play the piano OH NO
my sis is good at cooking provided you don't mind it all being completely fat-free!

oh can i do the interior design of each room?! i'll paint them and everything and they can have borders aroundthe tops of the walls of floating music playing the piece of your choice!

[janice]

oh can i do the interior design of each room?! i'll paint them and everything and they can have borders aroundthe tops of the walls of floating music playing the piece of your choice!

Ok, Tash you are our interior decorator.  Shagdac will be the fanatical cleaner.  We need someone to mow the law and shovel the snow.  I also think we should have a garden.  Fresh veggies are wonderful!  We need someone to wash the cars.  Do we each have our own car? or is it really necessary? since most of us don't have a social life, we could just pool our money together and buy ONE car for us all.  Or how about a van?  Then when there is a concert (or Maksim--lol) in town we can all pile in the van and go to the concert.  Oh, I want to do this for real!!  

[Tash]

OMG let's get a BUS and have 'PianoForum.net' written on the side with lots of music. OMG and we can get a really good stereo system in it and BLARE classical music out in contrast to 'normal' people blaring rap! just imagine, a mass of us sitting in a bus with Beethoven's Symphony no.5 or something really really loudly!!!! actualy i plan on doing that as soon as i get myself a car anyway and embarressing all my friends by playing choral stuff and opera mwahahaha
omg i'm so excited i want to do it for real too!!!

[Peachy_Keen]

Well, we'd all have to wear capes and carry opera canes when we go out together.

[thomas_williams]

and we can get a really good stereo system in it and BLARE classical music out in contrast to 'normal' people blaring rap! just imagine, a mass of us sitting in a bus with Beethoven's Symphony no.5 or something really really loudly!!!! actualy i plan on doing that as soon as i get myself a car anyway and embarressing all my friends by playing choral stuff and opera mwahahaha
omg i'm so excited i want to do it for real too!!!

AWESOME!!!!

Check out what 16-year-old soprano Heidi Sauser has to say about doing this!
https://www.fromthetop.org/gr_pages/gr_ym_Sauser_Heidi.html

And listen to the audio which you'll find linked from the page to hear her talk about it!  It is SOOOOOOOOOO cool!!!!

[janice]

I'm excited about this!!  (Too bad it's not for real!)  I think Tash is the most enthusiastic person here!!  I can just picture her!

Ok, we need to assign chores--let's start with this one:  who will be willing to mow the grass?

[Tash]

NOT ME!!

yes i'm very enthusiatic i think it comes from me and half my friends continuously imagining what it would be like if i won the lottery, or we went to europe or if the teachers went crazy and tried to steal Bean's spleen...we can be very imaginative sometimes!

i'll wash the bus and make it nice and shiny!

[Motrax]

I'd mow the grass. I do that anyway, and I hate it, but I'll do it...   :-/

[janice]

I'll clean the bathroom, because I just love to do that at home (weird, I know!).  I'm obsessed with details and I like to get all the spots off of the mirror, the faucets, etc.

To all the guys here--I'm not cleaning up any of your "messes"!

Do we have a piano tuner amongst us here?  If so, speak up!

[Tash]

janice you got me enthused to revive this with a new generation of members cos it's the funniest. ok people add yourself to the house- what are you doing?!!

[pianonut]

i'd be out with thalbergmad, bicycling.  he'd probably ok with it for a couple miles and then take off and do his normal 60.  so, i'd turn around, dejected and suddenly cheer up when i see siberian husky pass by on his motorcycle with his dog in doggles.  then, torp would pass on his motorcyle.

feeling energized, i would go to the fridge.  no food.  so many people.  then, i would go out in the garden with claire and start planting lots of veggies and strawberries.  people would depend on us for food.  we would grow herbs and flowers, too.  so the house would look nice after all the cleaning shagdoc did.  we would scatter rose petals near the pianos.

in the evening, when the house becomes entirely noisy, claire and i would go to a corner of the the house and exchange pedicures (annoying everyone by the clipping sounds).  we would check people's fingernails for correct lengths.  have a drink, talk about music, gardening, and children, and i'd cell phone my hubby and say "just a few more days without the kids."  then, when i couldn't stand not being around my kids anymore, i'd cycle from germany to england and take a flight home to pennsylvania. 

this was as exciting as the piano camp in siberia. 

[mikeyg]

The house would not run very smoothly.  That is guarnteed.

I dunno what I'd serve, I'd more or less piss people off untill I get voted out ater the first week.

[c18cont]

Well, I don't know many of you very well,

But I would likely be trying to organize a vocal ensemble..I don't care who directs....

John

[Tash]

vocal ensemble cool i'll direct, provided i don't have to sing!!

[pianonut]

i don't want to sing either, can i play the piano?  i've actually done a lot of accompanying.  (wonders what a choir of pianists will sound like?) 

after the choir practice - lets check out peoples ears (testing to see how good they can hear)  we could perform a sort of test (like vision test) where we play a really really really soft note and see who can hear it.  (may need a digital keyboard - with volume control).  then, of the people who hear very well, we'll ask if they are music teachers or not.  (pianonut wants to prove her indisputable point)

what if... what if we stuff everyone's ears with cotton and then play gottschalk and ragtime as loud as we want. 

[ted]

The house would have to comprise at least two wings, or wards if you wish to be cynical - the musical ward and the quiet ward. The former would contain insulated playing rooms with a wide variety of pianos and recording equipment, and listening rooms, sufficient in number to accommodate our musical desires without our having to squabble too much over timetables.  The decor would be tasteful, with large paintings and photographs of callipygous nudes and fruit. The latter ward would contain separated private living quarters and communal living quarters. These would be sufficiently separated to enable choice between company and privacy. Cooking and cleaning would have to be done on an individual basis - too much argument otherwise.

The grounds would be large, though not excessively so, with access to river or beach, and at least big enough to permit solitary meditation.

As I neither teach nor perform, and income from my eccentric compositions and recordings is likely to be very low, I therefore volunteer to mow all lawns with a handmower, wash dishes in the communal kitchen (but not the private kitchens) and clean communal dunnies (but not private dunnies). I shall also do the rough work in the garden and be responsible for special errands to the neighbouring village to fetch the regular Baileys, Bombay Sapphire and cigars for Pianonut, Bernhard and Janice respectively. However, I do not wish to drive at all and want no more to do with computers.

I see my role as resembling that of Gaffer Jarge in the Rupert books. I can also accost unwelcome strangers with indecent proposals and lewd gestures, which will very quickly discourage any visitors likely to interrupt the others' practice.

[pianonut]

you mean like heidi klum coming to visit mikeyg.  what would he say?

well, most of the other things sounded useful - except the cigars for janice?  janice doesn't smoke cigars does she.  i think you meant lemonade or something.

ted...do you really want to mow the lawn with a hand mower?  you sound very perfectionistic.  moreso than my neighbor kittycorner.  he's got a perfect yard.  i mean perfect.  of course, he took out all the old grass.  put in lots of fertile topsoil.  replanted fresh green sod. planted all kinds of flowers.  and, today, i see an arbor over there.

your wife must appreciate all the hard work you do.  why don't we just ask if we can bring our spouses along to the castle - and then go for the private quarters.

*now why didn't my husband bring me to france on his last business trip.  should i try to get even now and leave him at home with the kids?  hmmm.  no. must make him feel guilty.  will let him sing for everyone - since he will be the only known singer and can drown out bad noises.  he has often sung the national anthem, and last did it for a ballgame in california (jethawks in lancatster) and most recently with everyone during a philadelphia orchestra rendition of america (thankfully they didn't do all the verses, but he knows all of the star spangled verses). 

[ted]

Yes, I love mowing lawns with handmowers - very therapeutic - no noise, no smell, no danger, mild exercise, cheap, not much to go wrong. No, my wife does not appreciate it, but if I am negligent there is discipline.

No, not special, desired visitors - only irritating bastions of orthodoxy - we don't want critics and professors eternally on the doorstep telling us how to play - do we ?

[Torp]

Since Ted mentioned that there will be a recording studio I can safely say that I would be splitting my activity evenly between the recording studio, trips on the motorcycle, and stealing....er....borrowing CDs from Siberian Husky's collection in an attempt to overcome the deliterious effects of my white, middle-class, suburbanite upbringing that has led to a general illiteracy regarding any music outside of the Progressive Rock genre.

[c18cont]

From Ted...

"..photographs of callipygous nudes.....?...WHAt kind of nudes....(maybe he means California nudes....

John

[Torp]

From Ted...

"..photographs of callipygous nudes.....?...WHAt kind of nudes....(maybe he means California nudes....

John

Nudes with nice ***es, or using more politically correct terminology:

callipygian, callipygous
a. having well-shaped buttocks.

Its origin is in Greek kallipugos, used to describe a famous statue of Aphrodite; that comes from kallos, beauty (as in calligraphy, or callisthenics, or the lily called hemerocallis) plus puge, buttocks.

[c18cont]

Yessss, I can go with that....!      ;DLike I said...California nudes.... ,

(I better cut this, before I get in REAL trouble.... )

John

[Torp]

Yessss, I can go with that....!      ;DLike I said...California nudes.... ,

(I better cut this, before I get in REAL trouble.... )

John

It's ok to imagine it, just don't post pictures of it...

[BoliverAllmon]

Let's imagine what it would be like if we all lived together in the same house (like a frat house).  Who would be doing what?  Let me start, I know that I would be in the kitchen, making chili for all, and I would be arguing about the Nazi's with Bernhard.  LOL  So imagine what it would be like.  Just imagine what it would be like.  Who would be doing what?  I'm sure that most of us have developed a "mental picture" of the others, so let's do a "spin-off" of sorts............

PS--keep it clean.  We each have our separate bedroom.

give me a piano in my own room and everyone else can do whateer they want to.

[Jacey1973]

Well considering how many people are on piano forum - we're talking like a community! We'd have to have policing and everything! We could have learning centres - where we would have the "Bernhard lecture series" and Bob would be the Prime Minister.

I would like to have my own piano, plus i wouldn't mind helping out with cleaning and cooking and my speciality - ironing!

It would be great for recitals - we'd have millions of them, also we could probably between us learn all the music written for piano duet and 2 pianos ever written and we could also have internal competitions! However this may cause lots of competitiveness and rivalry (hence why we need a police force lol!)

I would practise all day and ask for tips off Skepto.