Question about ages.

[jacobsterling]

Hi everyone,

I am new on this great forum, I am 17 years old and I thought I wanted to introduce myself first. Just one very, simple question: What's the average age around here, or is there none? Am I amongst the youngsters?

Best wishes,
Jacob

[rubinsteinmad]

Hi everyone,

I am new on this great forum, I am 17 years old and I thought I wanted to introduce myself first. Just one very, simple question: What's the average age around here, or is there none? Am I amongst the youngsters?

Best wishes,
Jacob

Your old.

[jacobsterling]

Your old.

Okay, how old are you if I may ask?

[rubinsteinmad]

Okay, how old are you if I may ask?

I'm 2 years younger than Schumaniac

[iansinclair]

Most of the forum members seem to be -- so far as I can tell -- younger, and a good many of them are students, either in high school or in college/conservatory type settings.

On the other hand, there are some members who are older... sometimes a LOT older!  And some of us lie about our ages!

[jacobsterling]

Most of the forum members seem to be -- so far as I can tell -- younger, and a good many of them are students, either in high school or in college/conservatory type settings.

On the other hand, there are some members who are older... sometimes a LOT older!  And some of us lie about our ages!

Haha, that's funny. Another member told me most of you guys where older. Any idea why members would lie about there ages? I know there is one liar. The guy from the 'Warsaw' topic.

[jacobsterling]

I'm 2 years younger than Schumaniac

Haha, and what does two years younger mean?

[thalbergmad]

Ranges from about 8 to 80 on this forum.

Thal

[jacobsterling]

Ranges from about 8 to 80 on this forum.

Thal

Wow, 80?

Guess they have a lot of experience mostly.

[iansinclair]

Ranges from about 8 to 80 on this forum.

Thal

Come on, Thal -- I'm not quite that old!

[kevonthegreatpianist]

Okay, how old are you if I may ask?

I'm the square root of 12*(0.0031176929*3849)+1 \

NO CALCULATORS

[outin]

What's the average age around here, or is there none?

Of course there's one, we just don't know what it is...

[rubinsteinmad]

I'm the square root of 12*(0.0031176929*3849)+1 \

NO CALCULATORS

You look much older

[pencilart3]

Judging by some of the posts on here, I'm guessing the average age is about 10.

[rubinsteinmad]

I do indeed look that young.

[outin]

Judging by some of the posts on here, I'm guessing the average age is about 10.

We seem to have lost most of our more mature members recently...leaving a bunch of us less mature ones, either by age or just...less mature 

[kevonthegreatpianist]

You look much older

i do? so, what race am i?

[ted]

I am probably the active member who has been posting longest. At sixty-eight, I am also likely one of the oldest here. When it comes to pianists and musicians, I would far rather the company of young players than ones my own age, who are mostly fossilised into a habituated musical response, a bunch of dry-balls afraid to try anything lest someone hears it and the piano police arrive on the doorstep. Yes, I know exceptions exist, on and off forums, but I am speaking generally. Mind you, there is also far too much conservatism in the young, or perhaps not exactly conservatism, but rather a timidity, a needless desire for prior permission from some expert about playing the sounds they enjoy. "Is this the 'right' chord ?", "Am I ready to learn xxxx ?", you know the sort of thing.

The fact that that a few older members have thrown tantrums and departed just tells me that there is indeed no fool like an old fool. The wider the spread of age and artistic preference, the better the forum as far as I am concerned.

[jacobsterling]

I am probably the active member who has been posting longest. At sixty-eight, I am also likely one of the oldest here. When it comes to pianists and musicians, I would far rather the company of young players than ones my own age, who are mostly fossilised into a habituated musical response, a bunch of dry-balls afraid to try anything lest someone hears it and the piano police arrive on the doorstep. Yes, I know exceptions exist, on and off forums, but I am speaking generally. Mind you, there is also far too much conservatism in the young, or perhaps not exactly conservatism, but rather a timidity, a needless desire for prior approval from some expert about playing the sounds they enjoy. "Is this the 'right' chord ?", "Am I ready to learn xxxx ?", you know the sort of thing.

The fact that that a few older members have thrown tantrums and departed just tells me that there is indeed no fool like an old fool. The wider the spread of age and artistic preference, the better the forum as far as I am concerned.

That's the wisest post on this thread until now.

[josh93248]

Being in my 20s I sometimes wish for a few who are more my age...

However, let us consider that MATURITY is the more important factor here really, not Age and in that regard...

I'll admit, there is a correlation between the two 

Let us just say some of the younguns here could stand to be a little less frivolous or at least confine their playful nonsense to private messages or at least stop taking over threads with it...

[jacobsterling]

Being in my 20s I sometimes wish for a few who are more my age...

However, let us consider that MATURITY is the more important factor here really, not Age and in that regard...

I'll admit, there is a correlation between the two 

Let us just say some of the younguns here could stand to be a little less frivolous or at least confine their playful nonsense to private messages or at least stop taking over threads with it...

I agree with you totally here. However, my music teacher always said I was very mature for my age when I was about thirteen or something. She said this because I always used to think very deep about the music, analyze it thoroughly and use some of my reflective work to put new life into the pieces I played. But I just think I was too young back then to understand what she really meant.

But about the taking over thread thing, I agree.

[kevonthegreatpianist]

Being in my 20s I sometimes wish for a few who are more my age...

However, let us consider that MATURITY is the more important factor here really, not Age and in that regard...

I'll admit, there is a correlation between the two  

Let us just say some of the younguns here could stand to be a little less frivolous or at least confine their playful nonsense to private messages or at least stop taking over threads with it...

the age clues the maturity. like you don't feel that the five year old in the playground would act like a twenty year old, but you wouldn't feel that a sixty-year old would be watching Dora and playing Skylanders Giants. same as the appearance cluing (is that a word) the personality. a person who dresses nice probably wants to stand out and be normal. a person who dresses different probably wants to act different, and a person who dresses terribly (in the eye and mind's opinion) probably doesn't give a damn about standing out and stuff. styles change over time. i still occasionally see people wearing 1960s things. whats hot now would be terrible-looking in 100 years. take kendamas, for example. in my school, they were like god popular last year. everyone was talking about dry spikes and lunars and stuff like that. but this year, there's like 5 ppl playing it.

just my fifty cents. but i have more  

and if you guys were talking about maturity in MUSIC, oh well

[pencilart3]

stop taking over threads with it...

...kyle and emily.

[kevonthegreatpianist]

...kyle and emily.

except emily supposedly killed kyle

[rubinsteinmad]

except emily supposedly killed kyle

Unfortuantely, he regained his Karma Danger Powers

[chopinlover01]

Which older members left? I wasn't aware that such a thing happened.

[outin]

Which older members left? I wasn't aware that such a thing happened.

Some left with a bang, but others have more like just disappeared...

[kevonthegreatpianist]

Some left with a bang, but others have more like just disappeared...

yeah, like what happened to ms and m james?