What's on your mind now?

[birba]

tanjobi? compleanno?

[birba]

I'm betting that today is Littletune's birthday.
A leo: "generous and warmhearted, creative and enthusiastic, broad-minded and expansive, faithful and loving"!

[littletune]

Not today, tomorrow is my...  birthdaaaaaay   

[littletune]

Oh really it says that for a leo? that's cool!  I'm glad I'm a leo!     

[birba]

I printed it last night because I didn't think you would go on line before today!   
Anyway, Happy Birthday!   

[littletune]

Oh  well thank you very much Birba!!     

[littletune]

I have a cake on my profile!!     

[pianowolfi]

happy birthday littletune!! May the piano force be with you  

[littletune]

  Thank you Wolfi!!     
Oh and happy anniversary too you! for being on Pianostreet exactly 5 years!!

[birba]

Guys, be prepared.  Let's face it, one day littletune is going to grow up and forget us all! 

[littletune]

No no no no nooo I'm never going to forget you guys!!    why would I??  you think cause I would grow up?? well maybe I should stay 12 forever then      and besides you said that leos were faithful ! so I will love you all and Pianostreet forever!!      

[oxy60]

Also adding Birthday greetings to Littletune from the Southwest corner of the USA where it is now morning on 11 August. 

[littletune]

Thank you very much Oxy!!      I wish here was still morning too!  Then my birthday would last for longer!   

[littletune]

What if today I just don't go to sleep, and I stay up all night  I mean it's my birthday! that's like beginning of a new year  so I think I should just stay awake and celebrate 

[littletune]

I really like the cake from Pianostreet that I had on my profile  yesterday    so I took a picture 


And I also remembered that on August 1st it was exaclty 6 months since I got my piano!!! Don't know how I could forget about that then!  well now I remembered! So happy half year anniversary to my dear piano!!   

[thalbergmad]

I don't remember getting an online cake on my birthday.

I am gonna complain.

Thal

[pianowolfi]

I don't remember getting an online cake on my birthday.

I am gonna complain.

Thal

[go12_3]

Hey, Littletune!     I was out of town on a vacation and read about your Birthday!
Well, I hope you had a great Birthday and that you'll continue to love playing your
piano!      

[littletune]

Thank you very much Go!    Yes I had a great birthday I hope you had a great vacation too!  And my piano says hi     

[littletune]

Oh Thal yes I saw you didn't have a cake on your profile, I looked that day when you said it was your birthday  Because I know Pianowolfi had a cake on his birthday too   But you probably didn't get it cause you didn't give your real birth date cause it's not like you're really 553 years old   

[go12_3]

Trying to get more piano students this Fall season....

[oxy60]

Trying to get more piano students this Fall season....

I remember both of my childhood piano teachers had signs on their front lawn; "Teacher of Piano."
They didn't do any other type of advertising. These days a friend teaches in of several studios in the back of a music store. Except for a sign in the window of the store that says "We teach all instruments," he does no other type of advertising. He can still fill a Saturday with lessons but the after school spots during the week are empty.

Hope you fill up for the fall..

[Bob]

This kid's not a prodigy.  I thought he was starting off simple and then would burst into something virtuosic.

https://video.yahoo.com/watch/145612/812639

Very good for a five year old though but...  I think someone wants him to be a prodigy.


This kid seems more like a prodigy.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100813/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_painting_prodigy_2

[Bob]

I'm wondering if this is the first appearance of snails on the forum.  I think it might be. 
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=4751.msg44902;topicseen#msg44902

October 08, 2004


I found some others later in that month.

[littletune]

WOW that's a lot of snails!!  But where was Ahinton then? I didn't see any snail eating comments from him.

Do you get muscles on your hands from playing piano?? I really wanna know! Because I think sometime in January or something like that I put on this plastic bracelet and I just had it on all the time, and you know what? Yesterday I tried getting it off and it just wouldn't go off anymore!!!!  cause my hand is too fat or something!      and I thought it's maybe because I got some muscles under my pinky I mean on the side of my hand under it cause I can really see them and feel them!  but I'm not sure if I had them before too or not  or did my hand just grow so much?!  but I don't think so! and it doesn't look fat either so I'm just not sure... well I guess I'll just have it on forever now... for the rest of my life! It's nice it's got glitters and butterflies well I think maybe i could get it off if I really tried for a long time with soap, yesterday I just tried for a while and it got half off but then my other hand started hurting from pulling it off so I put it back again... I just hope my wrist won't get fat too!! cause that wouldn't be cool cause the bracelet would get to tight then!  Oh well I don't know... Did I get muscles? Or did I grow so much? Or did I just get so fat?!  but I don't see any fat on my hands just bones and muscles  Oh well whatever!   

edit: I just saw this was my 500th post!!!!! I can't believe it!

[Bob]

There are muscles on the hand that pull the pinkie down and the one for the thumb.  If you move your whole pinkie downward you can see it on the side.  The rest are in your forearm.  I think they can get stronger, but there's also developing more coordination and control -- physical control over the muscle and mental control.

If you're still growing that might be part of it too.

[littletune]

Yes I can see that muscle on the side It's kinda a big muscle for such a little finger   

[Bob]

Cool piece.  I doubt it would work the same on piano.

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[littletune]

Hm well last two or even three nights I had dreams about death!!!!      And first they were scary of course. But today it was kinda funny    I know thats weird... but it was like... well first I was dreaming about being locked somewhere oh and before that about a really big garden and about a dolphin and then about some people with some special powers. And then death came!!  It was a guy... Mr Death (which is kinda funny because in my language death is really female) and he was really tall and he was kinda scary and he tried to look really mean and everything but then I don't know why I just didn't think he was all that scary anymore... it's like I knew  he was just pretending to be all mean and scary but he wasn't really    And also he started asking if we have a piano there      like he wanted to play or something  well then he looked at me and it was like he wanted to take me with him (but i don't know if he was serious or if he was just joking). And he lifted me up so I could see his face (cause he was really tall) and I just said: Well you know right now I'm still very annoying and everything so I don't think you really want to take me with you, and I think I'll be annoying for another 100 years or maybe even 200 and after that you can take me with you, but make sure that when you do take me with you there will be a really good piano there where you're taking me. I think he laughed a little and then he let me go... and then I saw there was really a lot of people with him... and they had some papers and it was like something about their lives written on them. And I looked at one guys papers and I saw that he died in war! (I think it was World War but i don't know which one). And I think there was something different about the people who died in war (but I don't remember exactly what). And then when I saw that I said really quietly (don't know why) like I whispered: Oh you were in a war... and then I woke up. And after a while I knew why I woke up. It was becuase the electricity was gone and it become really really quiet! and I heard my clock ticking really really loudly! And what was also weird was that before I had this dream I woke up and I looked at my watch and I saw it was 12 already! (I have to sleep a lot now cause I'm sick  ) and then I fell asleep again and had this dream and when I woke up I looked at my watch again and it was again exactly the same! exactly 12!    But maybe I just saw it the wrong way the first time    Well whatever, but I sure never ever thought I could think Mr Death was kinda cool          I think that can really only happen to me         

[birba]

You have a very mature conception of death!  It's only ugly when it arrives at an untimely moment, I guess.  And that's only because we're not prepared for it.
Have you tried to dream "lucid"-ly?  I bet you'd be good at it.  Try to remember to look at your hands when you're dreaming the next time.  Just bring your hands up to your face and observe them.  And THEN, the fun starts...!

[thalbergmad]

Put lavender oil on your pillows. No more nasty dreams.

Perhaps even hang a dream catcher from your bedroom ceiling.

Thal

[Bob]

Wow.

https://www.fastcompany.com/1683302/iris-scanners-create-the-most-secure-city-in-the-world-welcomes-big-brother?partner=yahoobuzz


I have a feeling it's not going to be the government watching.  It's going to be business.

[oxy60]

That dream of Littletune's doesn't seem so unusual. Dreams like that are in fact very common.  Sigmund Freud wrote a book that seems to have fallen out of fashion but for dream analysis can't be beat.

[littletune]

Dreams like that are common? really? Well I just hope it doesn't mean something scary!  but it didn't really seem scary. 

And thanks for the advice Thal

And Birba I looked in Wikipedia for "lucid" dream. That means you know you're dreaming? Cause that does sometimes happen to me that I kinda know I'm dreaming Why do you have to look at your hands? What happens then?  well I'll try to remember
Oh and well I was never really thinking about death that way.... until this dream that's why it was really weird and funny 

[oxy60]

 No, those dreams aren't common but still occur now and then. One thing Freud pointed out was that dreams are seldom about what they are about. In other words in dreams real is not real, rather more like an analogy.

In a Freudian sense, a dream about death is actually about something other issue in your life.

And Birba, how is Roma these days? About 35 years ago I lived on the IV Fontana  near the intersection of the Via Tritone. Do they still have four rush hours a day? The big issue then was getting the shops to stay open all day. Standa/UPIM(?) was the first to try it. These days I hear nothing from over there.

[birba]

35 years ago?  Well, Rome has changed a lot since then!  IV novembre?  The quirinale hill.  Beautiful. I remember when I arrived here 40 years ago, the city was pure magic.  You wouldn't want to see it now.  Nothing has changed architechurally-wise, but the chaos is unbearable and I thank god I also have a place in the country.  Most of the little stores still observe the "siesta", and now in mid-summer almost everything is closed up.  Despite the inconvenience, it's the best time to visit!

[doctor_ivory]

What's on my mind right now? . . .

The thought of my next piano lesson on Monday.  If you read my post "Problems with Piano lessons" on the Teaching Board you know why.  I could really use some suggestions.  Should I have a long sit down with my instructor and talk about it?  I don't really want to waste a lesson on that because lessons are expensive and since I am in Canada and my lessons are on mondays I frequently loose a week because of some pointless holiday.  So I only get about 2-3 lessons a month.  That in conjunction with the fact that latley my instructor has been cutting off my lessons exactly at the 1 hour mark (which she doesn't do for the student just prior to me) means my lessons have been of a far lesser quality than they used to, which is another reason I don't want to waste a lesson.

[oxy60]

35 years ago?  Well, Rome has changed a lot since then!  IV novembre?  The quirinale hill. 

Don't I wish. I had a flat on the IV Fontane which was right in the middle of the chaos, near the corner of the via Rasella. I started out with a flat on Monte Mario which WAS pure magic but the traffic getting into town whether by car or bus was terrible.

Thanks for the update, Birba. I'm glad I was there when I was.

[Bob]

the future, practicing, organizing, money....

[Bob]

Gershwin in the style of the Beach Boys. 

Sounds interesting, although this youtube clip makes it sound like it's the greatest thing ever written.

Although... I don't think I'd buy it.  I smell some corporate BS.  Disney.  And Brian Wilson in the second youtube clip here says he didn't know Gershwin wrote songs.      And I don't know what he's singing.  One of the clips of him singing makes me wonder if it's him singing.  Something feels a little off. 

I see this guy has posted some.  No Rhapsody in Blue though.

[oxy60]

Yes, there is some not quite right about this. I can't figure out that when he talks he looks like he had had a stroke on his left side, but when he sings it seems to disappear.

If he can now sing that high, then why did the band need to hire another singer to sing his part?

[Bob]

I think I figured it out.  I found some other clips.  At first I thought someone was dugged over him in those videos -- which is probably partially true.

He can sound like that, or similar, while singing.  I found an audience member youtube video where he sounds similar.

I was thinking he must have one speaking voice and another more developed singing voice.

And then I found a few where he sounds pretty awful.


Here's what I think -- They took his better takes, maybe cleaned them up -- altered pitches, etc. -- and that's him singing in the video, but him singing along with a cleaned up version of him singing as the audio track for the video.

I hate it when they do stuff like that.  It seems unethical and dishonest.  At least say or make it obvious about what they've done or just leave it raw and honest (like some of the horrible singing I heard on those bootleg youtube videos).


I just wanted to hear Rhapsody in Blue arranged for voices.

[Bob]

Rawr.

This just cracks me up.

[doctor_ivory]

Rawr.

This just cracks me up.

Press play on this YouTube video below and then press play on the Cat video immediately after! And then watch the Cat!

[Bob]

Yes, a little funnier that way.

Is there a dramatic message in that the cat has trouble and cannot get back into the box?  A visual message perhaps -- Once transformed it's impossible to return to the original state?

The box does kind of look like a monolith.



Try it with this music.

[go12_3]

I'm so happy!  I have a new piano student     His sister has been taking lessons
from me for 3 years and now her brother wants to begin lessons.  Hooray!  Things
are starting to pick up in getting more students   
Also, I am getting more serious about my artwork.  I will have several oil and watercolor paintings, graphite and colored pencil drawings to be professionally framed.  I plan to get my artwork on display throughout the year.  So, making plans and getting excited about selling my artwork...

[Bob]

[oxy60]

Frankly, Bob I don't know what we'd do without you finding these curiosities on the net. I'm not kidding, really, thank you. You never fail to come up with things that are tasteful, interesting and sometimes funny.

How do you find the time to look up these items?

[Bob]

Just google for them.    And find time by taking a break from everything else.

[Bob]

This reminds me of that video where the guy walks along the cliff.

This one does not remind me of the cliff video.