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Offline gipsypiano

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gipsy style life
on: August 27, 2021, 05:43:13 AM
hello my friends.

how does a full time traveller live? Without piano, at the mediterranean coast? Gipsy style,
in nature and abandoned places is full paradise for me and the sacrifice of having no piano is one of the hardest things for me to do. The rest is relatively easy.

Montseny natural parc spain


doing some trash art not far from the beach, catalunya

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helping sick animals to get better


schubert in spain


after transforming a wild trash dump into a new paradise, i took out many cubic meters of trash from this parking


this life is better than paradise, i wont exchange it against any amount of money, confort or against the prettiest castle in the world!

stay young

Offline j_tour

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Re: gipsy style life
Reply #1 on: August 27, 2021, 06:45:09 PM
One word:

plastics


guitar.

I actually take my Ibanez archtop into bed with me many nights and fall asleep practicing fingerstyle patterns.  Yes, that means making room for one's mate du jour in one's bed, but it depends on whom you're with.

I never crushed the guitar accidentally, and I never heard complaints about snoring.  Which are specious complaints, without a doubt.

Can one do it with a keyboard instrument? 

Yes, of course.  But, in that case it's more a mental exercise in composition, ear-training, and so on.

Since that's the case, I propose, the "keytar." 
My name is Nellie, and I take pride in helping protect the children of my community through active leadership roles in my local church and in the Boy Scouts of America.  Bad word make me sad.

Offline gipsypiano

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Re: gipsy style life
Reply #2 on: August 28, 2021, 06:21:52 AM
Good morning and thank you.
The best things I found to do without piano for months or years is
to imagine just playing or every time I got a flat surface like a table I can play fingers on it. Then I like to play other instruments, especially drums and flute helped me get much better in playing piano without touching a piano.
Its mainly when I do lots of different creative work with my hands and avoid machines, that this energy is what gives piano playing its intensity. Even good creative dancing helps improving piano playing an, of course, singing and overall creative hand work to increase consciousness and creative flow like creative writing, sculpture and painting/drawing.
All this makes the piano playing more interesting.
I got an accordion but no way i can take it with me cause my life is just too wild and a plastic (!) flute is the max I can have without breaking/damaging it with sand, dust, heat, humidity and all kinds of heavy duty shocks on it.
So I end up building new instruments like drums which is easy with old buckets and cans but then often I finish by getting so excited playing those that I trash them completely in little time.
Finger drum maybe a good thing for travellers pianists since empty cans and such can be found almost everywhere.

 

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