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#1075118 - 05/25/07 01:16 PM
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30. It's good mental exercise to keep that dreaded mind thingy from happening. What is it, I can't remember?
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#1075119 - 05/25/07 01:35 PM
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31. There is an intrinsic sound from a piano that just hits a sweet spot in my brain...Its hard to describe...
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#1075120 - 05/25/07 01:38 PM
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26. Because no other instrument you've ever heard sounds so much like the music that is in your heart.
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1889 Mason & Hamlin screwstringer upright
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When life hands you lemons, throw them back and add some of your own. Stupid life.
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#1075121 - 05/25/07 01:46 PM
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33. You can fall in love with a Piano, or with loads of them, because they're all different!
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#1075122 - 05/25/07 02:17 PM
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34. Because to play once is to pray twice.
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#1075123 - 05/25/07 02:24 PM
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Originally posted by IrishMak:  26. Because no other instrument you've ever heard sounds so much like the music that is in your heart. [/b] Wow, MAK! You sure hit me right in the emotional wheelhouse with that truism.
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#1075124 - 05/25/07 03:01 PM
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35. To surround your children with the gift of music and the incentive to learn.
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#1075125 - 05/25/07 03:10 PM
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36. Gives you a wonderful useful piece of furniture to take over your lounge, Dust etc
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#1075129 - 05/25/07 05:39 PM
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40. So you can make your friends and relatives jealous.
Kathleen
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own." Oscar Wilde, 1891
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#1075130 - 05/25/07 05:41 PM
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41. So you can be called "arrogant."
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own." Oscar Wilde, 1891
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#1075131 - 05/25/07 05:43 PM
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42. So when they ask a musical-piano-composer type question on Jeopardy, you can shout out the answer before the contestant.
Kathleen
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own." Oscar Wilde, 1891
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#1075132 - 05/25/07 05:49 PM
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43. Endorphins, and a boost to the self-esteem, too, on those good days. (Don't try to "feel the burn," though!)
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Chopin: Allegro de Concert Op. 46
Schumann: Toccata Op. 7
Fauré: Ballade Op. 19
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#1075133 - 05/25/07 05:51 PM
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44. So you can get injured in odd ways. (I just messed up my finger by inserting about 50 octave glissandi into an improvization)
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#1075135 - 05/25/07 06:17 PM
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46. It'll save your sanity, if not your life!
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#1075136 - 05/25/07 06:22 PM
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46 So the muscles of your palm look way more impressive than those of Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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#1075138 - 05/25/07 07:31 PM
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48. So you can beat everyone at those music games that are like Dance Dance Revolution for the fingers.
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#1075139 - 05/25/07 07:32 PM
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#1075142 - 05/25/07 08:07 PM
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51. To feel better about the object taking up 25% of your living space.
52. Just when you think your fingers will never move how they're supposed to - they do.
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what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying "And another thing ..." twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument. - Douglas Adams
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#1075144 - 05/25/07 09:00 PM
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Hold on a minute...
We're off count!
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#1075146 - 05/26/07 12:28 AM
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55. Because it is the most noble and sophisticated of all instruments, capable of the richest and most wonderfully expresive sounds.
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#1075147 - 05/26/07 12:29 AM
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