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Post by Arlon10 on May 20, 2017 15:00:28 GMT
Is there a piano in your residence and does your family gather around it to sing?
My parents had an upright piano, or my mother did, my father didn't play. My mother had loads of sheet music. She played often and sang, but the rest of us just listened mostly.
It was something quite many more people did in times gone by. Often a movie would have a song from it available on sheet music.
Now not so much?
I think that a family singing together helps connect the individuals with the family and by extension with the community.
Of course family meals can do that too, but notice how seldom those are these days as well.
Perhaps the prevalent loss of religious tradition is partly the result of the loss of those traditions as well.
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Post by Catman on May 20, 2017 15:04:03 GMT
Catman's grandparents had an upright, but the only one who ever played it was Pepper the Cocker Spaniel.
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Post by thefleetsin on May 20, 2017 15:10:22 GMT
no piano. i often wonder if there had been one, would my autism have gone in another direction. for i often times scribble to the meters of classical music, especially the piano.
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Post by Arlon10 on May 20, 2017 15:18:07 GMT
Catman's grandparents had an upright, but the only one who ever played it was Pepper the Cocker Spaniel. My aunt (mother's sister) also played well and I think maybe there was a competition between them growing up.
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Post by Arlon10 on May 20, 2017 15:45:47 GMT
no piano. i often wonder if there had been one, would my autism have gone in another direction. for i often times scribble to the meters of classical music, especially the piano. I still don't have a "5.1" channel audio system. I do have a 2 channel system with adequate speaker size and amplifier power to fit a medium sized room. Everything; TV, computer, CD player, Tape player goes to it. The woofers are larger than anything except maybe, just maybe, the "subwoofer" on those 5.1 channel systems. Anything less sounds too thin, and that's in a small room. When I go to the movie theater I notice the volume is too high, and that spoils the quality a bit, but if I had a room that big I'd want a sound system that big, just played at a lower volume.
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Post by maya55555 on May 20, 2017 16:06:40 GMT
Nope.
We have an Oud, riq, doumbek and sagat.
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Post by Arlon10 on May 20, 2017 16:30:29 GMT
Nope.
We have an Oud, riq, doumbek and sagat. And an avatar.
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Post by progressiveelement on May 20, 2017 16:50:31 GMT
I have an electronic keyboard but it has been collecting dust for the past 15 years.
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Post by Arlon10 on May 20, 2017 17:01:06 GMT
I have an electronic keyboard but it has been collecting dust for the past 15 years. If it was major presence in the living room you might have been more pressured to play it.
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Post by phludowin on May 20, 2017 18:03:45 GMT
I have a Yamaha C2 with Silent System. It's a 173 cm long grand piano; so it can be considered a big baby grand, or a small parlor grand. I checked the "parlor" box.
I live alone, but I sometimes sing while playing the piano.
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Post by Terrapin Station on May 20, 2017 18:57:10 GMT
I'm a musician, keyboard is one of my primary instruments, and both at home and in my studio, I play keyboard more often than anything else (even though I gig more on drums and bass). I own 12 different keyboards at the moment--workstations/synths/samplers--Roland, Yamaha, Korg, Kurzweil, Dave Smith, Moog, Alesis, with many different piano sounds (via software, too), and a few have 88 key keyboards.
My parents had an upright piano for me, a Yamaha, but it's still at their home.
Re the family gathering around and singing, no, but my folks used to listen to me play (and listen to my bands practice, etc.) when I still lived at home.
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Post by maya55555 on May 20, 2017 19:56:46 GMT
ARLON10
I studied the dance and all of its forms for 30-ish years. Love it!
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Post by blade on May 20, 2017 20:00:26 GMT
ARLON10
I studied the dance and all of its forms for 30-ish years. Love it! So now you're a dancer, a magician, a doctor, a paleontologist, a geographer, a circus clown, an explorer, a swimming instructor, a scientist, a language expert, a singer, an actor, a chef, etc. etc. Did I leave anything out?
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Post by lowtacks86 on May 20, 2017 20:03:38 GMT
No. If there was I'd probably just make up All in the Family theme parodies (Surely we could use a man like Paulie Shore again)
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Post by Arlon10 on May 20, 2017 21:49:18 GMT
As I just said on the general music board it's little wonder the family is not the center of life it once was. Home cooks no longer competing with the restaurant chains, fewer home mechanics, fewer home musicians and that is all very sad.
When a movie is popular these days people buy the video game of it. When a movie was popular generations ago people bought the piano sheet music for some of the songs.
You know what happened to homemade video games, the X-Box and Nintendo.
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Post by Arlon10 on May 20, 2017 22:58:09 GMT
I have a Yamaha C2 with Silent System. It's a 173 cm long grand piano; so it can be considered a big baby grand, or a small parlor grand. I checked the "parlor" box. I live alone, but I sometimes sing while playing the piano. The piano made famous by John Lennon singing "Imagine" was a baby grand.
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Post by maya55555 on May 21, 2017 0:07:17 GMT
blade
Yeah.
Your intellect.
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Post by OldSamVimes on May 21, 2017 0:18:04 GMT
blade
Yeah.
Your intellect.
Maybe I was wrong about you being vapid maya..
Here, you seem so smart. Such a well phrased put-down. Blade will never recover!!!
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Post by maya55555 on May 21, 2017 0:27:31 GMT
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Post by Arlon10 on May 21, 2017 0:55:12 GMT
[1] Maybe I was wrong about you being vapid maya. I learn something everyday and maybe you can too. I'm guessing we've all seen better days.
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