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Offline pianist1976

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Playing piano with balls
on: October 31, 2010, 04:53:28 PM
:D

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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #1 on: October 31, 2010, 05:29:44 PM
I rather nervously clicked on this thread.

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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #2 on: October 31, 2010, 05:35:51 PM
Quote from: thalbergmad on October 31, 2010, 05:29:44 PM
I rather nervously clicked on this thread.

Thal

Does the option to click here:

https://www.blueballs.ch/

make you even more nervous? ;D
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Offline birba

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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #3 on: October 31, 2010, 05:41:02 PM
O M G!!!  And here I've been wasting my life learning how to play with my fingers!!!! S...!
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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #4 on: October 31, 2010, 05:52:43 PM
Quote from: pianowolfi on October 31, 2010, 05:35:51 PM
Does the option to click here:

https://www.blueballs.ch/

make you even more nervous? ;D

Yes
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Offline pianowolfi

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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #5 on: October 31, 2010, 06:08:40 PM
Quote from: thalbergmad on October 31, 2010, 05:52:43 PM
Yes

But really it's only a music festival. I'm still not sure if that pun has been intended or not...;D
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Offline birba

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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #6 on: October 31, 2010, 06:21:11 PM
Now THAT flew over my head completely.  :P
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Offline pianist1976

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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #7 on: October 31, 2010, 06:36:19 PM
I was always told that you need balls to do a music career  :P
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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #8 on: November 01, 2010, 04:59:51 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khJaHNocYK0

If you have the patient to make it to a few seconds after 1:50...you'll see that playing with round things was invented a few years earlier :)

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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #9 on: November 01, 2010, 05:14:15 AM
The video is only good for people who have no idea how piano is played. He could throw the ball on the same note and it would constantly change tone according to the preprogrammed piece.
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Offline birba

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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #10 on: November 01, 2010, 08:08:15 AM
OF COURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!  I am SOOOOOOOO gullible... :P
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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #11 on: November 01, 2010, 09:06:11 AM
Quote from: lostinidlewonder on November 01, 2010, 05:14:15 AM
The video is only good for people who have no idea how piano is played. He could throw the ball on the same note and it would constantly change tone according to the preprogrammed piece.

Taking a closer look I think that you are right.
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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #12 on: November 02, 2010, 05:56:10 AM
Lol at the hilarious reverse juggling act. Man I wish I watched this before reading the comments. I probably would have freaked out believing lolllll. My non-musician husband woulda called me a tool and filled me in Lollllll. 
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Re: Playing piano with balls
Reply #13 on: December 27, 2010, 08:19:58 AM
Wow, I learned to reverse juggle 5 balls a while ago -- it's not so hard.  If only I knew to do it on a fake piano I, too, could be on Leno! ; )
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