Why Do You Play Piano?

[musicsdarkangel]

I play piano because I want a beautiful woman at my side at all times.

[musicsdarkangel]

actually, I'll answer this question fully.


I play piano because I love it; love composing for it; and love the challenge.

I was much better at violin but quit in 8th grade because of a teacher who made me practice for 5 hours a day in his studio; he made me realize that I like piano more.

Violin was easier for me because it is all feel and ear, whereas piano has this intense intellectual challenge as well, not to mention more hand-eye coordination is required.  I love that.

I will quote Derek Andrews (who's on this forum).......

"The piano has got to be the single most beautiful object that the human race has invented.  That is because of how intimate it is.  Even the most bombastic romantic music on the piano is still being played by one man".

I couldn't agree more. 


On a side-note...... what instrument's teachers is highest in demand?

...and I don't mind always having a girl by my side......

 

[Derek]

Hehe I'm flattered 

I play piano because...uhh...yeah...its fun?     and chicks do dig guys with mad skillz.

[infectedmushroom]

Nah, just play a nice tune like "To Zanarkand" from Nobuo Uematsu, and the chicks will dig you.

Play a fast, classical piece, and they won't really dig you. 

[Derek]

YOU ARE WRONG! HOW DARE YOU CHALLENGE OUR CHICK MAGNETISM-IVITY-ATIOUSNESS!?

jk...I actually find chicks who dig video game music are in the same vein as those who dig classical music.

[leonthewolf]

This is an interesting thread.  Why do I like to play the piano?

Well, first I should say that we Australians play THE piano; we do not just play piano.  Don't ask me why that is so.  It just is.

Although thinking about it it probably has a bit to do with the more Germanic influence in American language.  But that does not really make sense either.  I thought momentarily of the way Americans say "write me" instead of "write to me".  But the Germans say spielen das Klavier - not spielen Klavier.  So bang goes that theory! (German or linguistic scholoars please correct me as necessary)

I think I play the piano for many reasons similar to those given but there are obviously important factors in me that I cannot clearly articulate.  I say this because I suffer from depression which varies in strength from month to month; sometimes week to week or day to day.

I have observed my behaviour over the years, to the extent that one can have objective insight into oneself, and noticed that, when I start playing the piano more frequently, my depression is lifting and, when it becomes less frequent, I am going down again.

Now, if I take medication to improve my depression I DO NOT increase my piano playing.  It is as though the medication dampens down my creativity along with my depression.  To play the piano more I have to recover naturally from my depression.  That can be tough but is probably better for me. 

I well recall my experience, for example, with Zoloft.  Once I started taking that my depression was quickly gone but so was everything else.  I was a zombie and zombies do not play the piano (not even in films).   Obviously everyone has a slighty different experience with antidepressants and my experience was just the interaction of Zoloft with my particular circumstances.

So does that say why I play the piano?  No, it does not.  If the above sounds like a load of hogwash I am sorry about that.  It is probably because of my inabiltiy to express myself accurately.

I think it says that piano playing and my psyche are inextricably linked.  I shall obviously have to think more about this.  If anyone has some additional ideas on this I would be grateful.

How about now?  Am I playing the piano?  Well, yes.  I am playing the piano daily so, for the moment, I am OK.  But the downward slope is somewhere just ahead.

Leon
Australia

[I Love Xenakis]

With my hands.

[musicsdarkangel]

Nah, just play a nice tune like "To Zanarkand" from Nobuo Uematsu, and the chicks will dig you.

Play a fast, classical piece, and they won't really dig you. 

how wrong you are.

2 days ago, I played the Scarbo from Gaspard (just 3 minutes of it) for a beautiful girl named Alissa.  Well, she LOVED that I was learning that, and just last night, I was sitting at the piano, and she came and sat sideways on my lap and we kissed for who knows how long.

Now, we have been in a relationship for two days, but it seems like it's been two years.

We are pianists, the elite, women find us incredibly attractive.


Isn't it wonderful that such a great instrument also attracts the opposite sex?

Tonight I shall bring some Chopin to her room and we will have quite a time.