I wish I can send a picture of my teacher's room.. the floor is covered with sheet music, mostly with things she transcribed. She usually had to dig through the pile to find my next assignment.

Love it! Love it! ... and the photo reveals no surprises.

I presume the extra-wide music desk is for those four- and five-page photocopy spreads of Lieder, right?

Regards,

Less bookshelf, more piano! More piano!!!

Something like that, yes. It also cuts the reflection if I have the lamp aimed at the music. (It's just a double A4 spread of heavy black cardboard)

Ah, I've been to Queensland. Downright tropical!

"Reverb time" is the time sound spends bouncing off surfaces. Hard surfaces like tile tend to reflect more while soft surfaces like carpeting tend to absorb sound. So, if your room has nothing but hard surfaces the sound reverberates for a long time...like an echo chamber.

1937 Kurtzmann??

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And my new digital...

Well, currawong inspired me to clear up the mess in my room... And I think I need a proper bookcase too....
I feel that I posted an old photo of my piano instead of tidying up!

That's very stylish, and the view is really nice.

I love traditional metronomes like yours. I still have a little plastic "Taktell" metronome that I took to college in 1972. It still runs like a clock.

@ Batuhan

That view is gorgeous. I'm curious, what is over that window? A lake? a park? Or just more houses?

I've been having so much fun peeking at everyone else's space that I thought I would share my own. As you can see, it's a big piano in a little room, but I don't usually play with that lid all the way up. I normally keep it pretty tidy, but I did put away two stacks of music books that were on the floor next to the piano bench.

I have a fabulous view out those windows of the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Thats a beautiful Steinway Lauralei! What model is it?

It's a B, most likely a rebuild. Note the Art Deco detailing on the case that would put it in the '20s or so.

I was thinking of buying at least an upright one day, but my apartment is sort of full.... And I am afraid of the neighbours because I play other instruments too. Nobody ever complained, but it would really bother me if they did....

Looks like a re-build, since I've never seen a Steinway where the upper ribs of the metal frame are painted black. Is the entire plate painted black as well?

Regards,

I often do the same thing. The imagination is a wonderful thing!

I see what you are talking about, but I think it is the shadows tricking the eye.

A lake between the houses. Im in the center of Istanbul close to Bosphorus Bridge.

@wdot

I bought this metronome 2 or 3 months ago before this i used digital metronome.

It's actually a 1940 B. The plate is in fact gold...my picture is just a little dark. I wanted to lighten the picture, but just figuring out how to shrink it, obtain the URL, and then post it was at the limit of my technical ability.

Here's a photo of the plate. (And look...I figured out how to lighten it!)

Ah, so I was a bit early. It's a lovely instrument! The reason I guessed so early is that the last B I saw with that Art Deco detailing was a 1916 model.

Love the thread!

My practice room is very simple and almost scant. But I am a minimalist, and that's the way I like it. There is only a rug in there, a couple of pictures on the wall, a shelf for sheet music and a reclining chair that my wife uses when she listens to my playing.

Less things in the room to create mysterious buzzes, SeilerFan--- and that instrument looks like it could seriously make things vibrate.

I love that old Steinway B. Gorgeous! I haven't seen a modern B on this thread yet. Horowitzian, would you mind posting a picture of your B? (It's a new one, isn't it?)

It makes my heart and mind vibrate... other things, too, probably... Our cats are usually noise sensitive, but they love the piano being played, even at FF.

Our street neighbors could probably care less. We live in a neighborhood where I never hear any instrument being played. Sad!

This is my practice room!

Should add that I have all my music neatly put away in the piano studio which is in another room of it's own. Have tons of shelves for all the music. And the shelves roll and are hidden behind mirrored doors. The shelves move because they are on skateboard wheels. Yes you heard right. All the music is on moving shelves on skateboard wheels!

So here's a picture of the shelves on skateboard wheels!

Just the wheels, and not the skateboard! Took just the wheels and so you can see there are 2 shelves, one in front and if you look way down, . . . you can see the small wheels on the shelf in front, and it rolls back and forth! When you first roll the shelves, it kind of scares peaople the first time because they think the shelf is falling or something! Entertaining though!

Nice thing about this is that when you close the mirrored doors, everything disappears! Thank my husband and not me for the skateboard idea!



Mirrored doors closed!

Thanks for sharing Lauralei. That is one beautiful B. I love the deco styling on the side!
My other hobby is collecting antiques. Mainly home appliances, like vacuums and fans. The art deco and space age pieces interest me the most!

Diana, nice practice room and storage!
so you have three pianos? I have seen that with some others too. Is one grand not enough ?

Really neat, Diane! It took me a while to grasp what was going on with the music shelves (fooled by the mirrors ) - but very ingenious! I can think of a lot of things in my house that would do well to be hidden by rolling mirrored doors...

Thanks Brandon, and others, for the compliments on my B. I feel very fortunate indeed to own it; I feel especially fortunate that it was my husband who insisted on getting it for me.

Antique vacuum cleaners? Sounds interesting. My husband likes old appliances, too. We've acquired many old typewriters, portable fans, sewing machines, and even a broken carillon. We've never paid money for any of them...they just seem to find their way to our house. Luckily, we have a large barn where he can store all of his treasures!

Laura