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Topic: Doing a research project.. Help please.  (Read 2308 times)

Offline timmah01

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Doing a research project.. Help please.
on: October 07, 2017, 02:51:31 AM
Hi guys,

Just doing a small research project - if you can, could you help me by answering a couple of questions? Thanks heaps.

1. As a pianist, what would you say is the most painful thing you encounter related to your music?
2. Do you meet up with other pianists regularly? If so, where?

Again, thanks a lot for your help.

Offline ted

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Re: Doing a research project.. Help please.
Reply #1 on: October 07, 2017, 03:21:58 AM
1. Musicians
2. No
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

Offline beethovenfan01

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Re: Doing a research project.. Help please.
Reply #2 on: October 07, 2017, 04:51:53 AM
1. Failures in performance.
2. Sometimes. There are seven pianists in my chamber ensemble group.
Practicing:
Bach Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue
Beethoven Sonata Op. 10 No. 1
Shostakovich Preludes Op. 34
Scriabin Etude Op. 2 No. 1
Liszt Fantasie and Fugue on BACH

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Re: Doing a research project.. Help please.
Reply #3 on: October 07, 2017, 02:40:54 PM
1. Tuition, cost of rare and imported scores,  and piano tech compenation for upkeep of my grand
2. Yes on pianostreet

Offline chopinlover01

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Re: Doing a research project.. Help please.
Reply #4 on: October 08, 2017, 11:12:08 PM
1. As a pianist, what would you say is the most painful thing you encounter related to your music?
String players.
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2. Do you meet up with other pianists regularly? If so, where?
Classical pianists are generally at each other's throats in my experience. A constant game of who can play the more difficult repertoire.

Offline iansinclair

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Re: Doing a research project.. Help please.
Reply #5 on: October 08, 2017, 11:30:10 PM
String players.....
Oh no.  Elderly sopranos and tenors with a wide vibrato...
Ian
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