Years of play?

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How many years, months, weeks, or days has every member of this site been playing.

I've been playing for 2 years.

Just out of curiosity and boredom.  

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[liszmaninopin]

around 4 years

[Motrax]

Almost exactly 12 years and 10 months.

The next logical question would be your age (or a range if you don't want to express how youthful you are  ). I'm 18 and 11 months old.

[bachmaninov]

Lets see.. im 17 years old... ive been playing since I was 4...so hmmm.. better draw the calculator for this one!!

13 years? my goodness how the years fly by!!!

[liszmaninopin]

Well, I'm technically still 15, but will be 16 in a few weeks.

[pies]

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[Tash]

well i'm 18 and started when i was 8 so this is my 11th year. actually no i started when i was 6 but only did it for about a month and then quit again cos i didn't like the teacher so promised mum i'd start again when i was 8 and i acutally did! wow i've been playing quite a significant part of my life! and then i remember all those cute little kids who started when they were 3

[tickledivory]

I started when I was fifteen. That was thirty five years ago. My teacher, at the time, said I should give it up--She was used to teaching more talented pupils.

Well, I'm still playing. I don't know what happened to all the gifted ones. But, I hope they're still playing too.

[liszmaninopin]

Your teacher told you to give it up-what an ignorant thing to say to a student.  It's good you didn't listen!

[Pumpkinhead]

I'm barely sixteen, and still playing after 9 years. Man, i haven't won competitions until this year. I'm a definite late bloomer.

[Tsegamla]

I just turned 17 on July 14th and basically started playing around that time, so it's been just about a month.  Gah!  My mom is a music teacher (pianist) but she never forced piano lessons down my throat growing up and I was never really interested.  It's times like these when I wish my mom was a bossy woman to me as a little kid.  

I'm basically teaching myself.  It'll be difficult, though, since guitar is my primary instrument and I have to devote a lot of time to it, too (been doing some gypsy jazz lately).  But I'm just working through my mom's music for piano.  I'm hoping to begin working on Moonlight Sonata first movement next week!    

[Shagdac]

Roughly 40 years.






S.

Hmmmm...(Can I still get away with saying I'm 29? )

[Balakirev]

Roughly 40 years.






S.

Hmmmm...(Can I still get away with saying I'm 29? )

Sure I am not good at maths.

[larse]

19, getting 20. Played since I was 5.

I think it's a funny thing. Many people don't feel this way, but as I have played piano my entire life, it's surely difficult to imagina NOT playing the piano. At all. It seems like a natural thing to do. And I cannot quite imaginge the lives of the common man.

Many old acquainted have asked me whether I'm still playing or not. When they ask, at first I don't understand the question. Do I play? well... I guess I do, don't I? Don't you play? I thought everyone played.. If not, what the hell are they doing? I certainly do not NOT play, so I guess I do play indeed. Just don't seem possible not to play. I play, I've always played, I'm still gonna play. It's actually no question at all.. It's just the way it is. Just like I was born by my mother, I do play the piano. I can't really change it. Or be unsatisfyed with it.

[jbmajor]

8 months; started when I was 24.  Like everyone, I look back and wish I woud've started at 5, but that just wasn't the case.  Maybe under different circumstances, but there's no looking back; only forward.

[Sketchee]

Everyone always asks me this and I honestly don't have any idea when I started.  I should make up an answer from now on.  It's at least 12 years I think...

[rph108]

Im 19. Started when I was 15.

[ivoryplayer4him]

Hmm...i'm 17 years old, about to turn 18 on the 30th of this month (August) so that will be just about 11 years on that day.  I've been playing for churches for 6 years now.

[westman]

Been playing about 40 years. Started at 8 or 9. Took lessons till 18, then basically just dabbled till about 6 months ago when I got real serious. During my "off" years I played guitar in rock bands. Nothing annoys teenage daughters more than having a rock musician for a dad  . Now I annoy them by playing Choping and Liszt  

[thierry13]

I'm just had 15, and began when i was soon turning 14... so only a bit more than a year. But began to play seriously since 4-5 months with lessons.

[in_love_with_liszt]

Just turned 16, been playing for close to 10 years. I wasn't serious about it (not to the extent of today anyways, doing 20-30 diff. technical exercizes a day) until a few years ago, although I did compose before then, but the compositions were pieces of crap. 3-note chords my butt!

[DarkWind]

I'm 14, started when I was around 11. Luckily for me, although I started a few years later than most of everyone, I got up to speed very quickly this year to a very high technique .

[goalevan]

I'm 19 and started about 6 months ago

[belvoce]

I'm eighteen, and have been playing since I was 12.

[Eusebius_dk]

Well, I'm 23 now, and I have played since I was 11.



Eusebius

[larse]

in love with liszt

eyh, I also used to compose when I was little. I was too lazy to write the notes, though, and the music were...well.bobob. But don't underestimate three note chords. it usually depends on the chords rather than the fact that it is three notes.