What if one of us were a famous pianist?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

What if J Menz was Lang Lang?

What if Outin was Valentina Lisitsa?

What if Chopin2015 was Yuja Wang?

What if Ajspiano was Yundi Li?

Wouldn't that be kinda cool?!

[m1469]

And what if I was just my plain ol' self  

[unholeee]

and rachmaninoff3_forever was david helfgott.

[outin]

What if Outin was Valentina Lisitsa?

And I've been SO careful of not revealing my indentity to avoid stalkers 

Oh, for those of you who may have heard my recordings here: I had just got out of a hospital after falling down the stairs, had an amnesia, broke a few fingers and was also on heavy meds, so it didn't really sound like me 

[j_menz]

What if J Menz was Lang Lang?

He'd sit still and stop making faces!

[outin]

Being famous is sometimes quite stressing you know, so we like to create alter egos. And I have a lot of time to hang out here on pianostreet since I am already so good that I hardly ever practice anymore. And when I do it goes straight into Youtube or DVD.

[49410enrique]

ooh i hope yeol eum son is one of us!
oh man she is one of my absolute favs!

mad props if you identify the concert hall she's  in here (pete's pic in the background is a dead giveaway so maybe it's not that hard. but mad props nontheless)

[scherzo123]

He'd sit still and stop making faces!

LOL

What if Ajspiano was Yundi Li?

AWWWWW...I wanted to be Li Yundi... 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

AWWWWW...I wanted to be Li Yundi... 

Well how old are you?  like six?

I tried to find a famous six year old pianist, but I couldn't sorry...

[perprocrastinate]

I bet you're secretly Marc Andre Hamelin.

[chopin2015]

What if Chopin2015 was Yuja Wang?

 I would have a piano career and/or a boyfriend

[Bob]

There was Robert Henry on here a long time ago.  And there were twins too.

A concertizing pianist most likely wouldn't have time to spend on the forum and probably wouldn't get much out of it besides an ounce of amusement.

[iansinclair]

Um... your attributions are a bit odd, but...

Just how sure are you that none of the more obviously knowledgeable folks aren't, in fact, famous pianists?  To be honest, I wouldn't be sure unless I heard a recording -- or better yet, a video -- of them, positively identified in some way.  It is clear that we have some very knowledgeable people on here...

And there is nothing log a blog/forum or whatever for being inherently anonymous!

[chopin2015]

well then, go get back to work, sir!

[Bob]

A working musician would be pretty busy.... And what would this forum have to offer them, except for some "slumming?"  And why would they bother contributing much here?  Someone will pay them in real life and they'll probably have some results in real life.  Here some teenage might start arguing or harassing them.


If the pros are here, they don't contribute much.  The most I've seen is more "blue collar" accompanists and music teachers. 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

A concertizing pianist most likely wouldn't have time to spend on the forum and probably wouldn't get much out of it besides an ounce of amusement.

A good counterexample would be J Menz.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I bet you're secretly Marc Andre Hamelin.

Rachmaninoff had an affair with a black woman.

I'm his grandson. 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

No but seriously though, if anyone here was a famous (or not famous) concert pianist, it would probably be Perfect Pitch or Fnork.

[chopin2015]

awe, why'd I get dropped?? X)

[scherzo123]

Well how old are you?  like six?

I tried to find a famous six year old pianist, but I couldn't sorry...

I'm 13, dude... -.- If this is based on age, then I'd want to be Derek Wang...

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I'm 13, dude... -.- If this is based on age, then I'd want to be Derek Wang...

Lol okay but for real though, I thought you were 14.  The six year old thing was a joke.

[scherzo123]

Lol okay but for real though, I thought you were 14.  The six year old thing was a joke.

OMG! Why can't I take a joke! 

[quantum]

mad props if you identify the concert hall she's  in here (pete's pic in the background is a dead giveaway so maybe it's not that hard. but mad props nontheless)

Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory?

Valentina Lisitsa should have her own concert hall and conservatory.

[ted]

Speaking for myself, the fame or otherwise of a poster is completely irrelevant, or at most of no more than passing interest. Then again, I haven't attended a concert for forty years, don't really like most classical music and wouldn't know most musicians from a bar of soap anyway, so I am hardly typical.

[ajspiano]

What if J Menz was Lang Lang?
What if Ajspiano was Yundi Li?

Then we would not be the same person. So no different to how it is now.

[j_menz]

So no different to how it is now.

Except we'd both be fluent in Chinese.

[ajspiano]

Except we'd both be fluent in Chinese.

And one of us would be a fine enough actor to make a short appearance on home and away.

[ranniks]

You are forgetting the greatest of them all:

- hfmadopter / David - The Bach of this age

I am but a simpleton, and a simpleton I shall remain. Dedicated to the ones who thoroughly had patience with me and helped guide me to the right direction.

One can only hope I'll be as good as him one day. That's a really big statement, seeing as I've never heard David playing.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Then we would not be the same person. So no different to how it is now.

But you guys are the same person!

Ever wonder why you never see Yundi Li and Lang Lang in the same place?