Finally, here is my millennial post. It has taken me almost six years to get here (and when I see what Monica K. has done in roughly the same period, I sort of shrivel). I suspect I said everything I really have to say in the first year or so and have been repeating myself ever since. So now I'm reduced to just posting about my post count. Still, thinking about six years of PianoWorld is pretty surprising to me.

Congratulations, and keep on posting. I for one keep learning new things from you. Though I might even have read about the same subject before, things develop new relevance to me as I progress. But as long as you stay ahead of me and keep on posting, I should do fine .

Six years of good posts. When I see your name I make sure I read it Congratulations - a valuable member!

Cathy

Congratulations . . . I think.

Congratulations, packa! And speaking from personal experience, 1000 posts is much more sensible and a sign of somebody who has a life, in contrast to 10,000.

Congrats from a newbie just getting to know people here!:)

Can someone direct me to the 2 post club? I seem to have gotten lost.

LOL, Scott D! Welcome to the forum. We don't have a 2 club but there is indeed a 1 thread.

Hey, stop hijacking my thread. Let's stay on topic here: ME ME ME

You asked for it...

So what are you working on as you make your 1001st post? For that matter, I don't know anything about your piano story. Are you another adult returner? In what context did you learn all the helpful tidbits you share so nicely?

Congratulations are in order. I think 6 years in a forum is an indication of just how great a place this is.

Thank you for all your contributions!!!!!

LOL!! But don't you realize that thread hijacking has a long and honorable tradition as one of the best post count boosters available to the average forumite?

You're right, and I hadn't thought of that when I was so quick to complain. I was, however, reminded of an episode with my first granddaughter when she was still a pre-schoolaged youngster. The extended family was gathered in our living room and enjoying a spirited conversation. She walked into the room and stood in front of the fireplace for a minute or so just looking at all of us. When our conversation continued without much change, she suddenly widened her stance a little, put her hands on her hips, and announced in a loud voice: "Stop talking! Look at me!". Which we all did, of course.

For her next birthday, we ordered a T-shirt for her that had those immortal words printed on the front. She has just started college, but we still remind her of that sometimes and ask her if she needs a new T-shirt yet.


I am just another adult returner after childhood lessons. I have been restudying piano for about ten years now. When I began this journey, I decided I wanted to take lessons from formally trained classical players so that I could experience the "traditional" route as much as possible. I have been extremely fortunate with my teachers, both of whom have been excellent performers as well as good teachers. I am still mostly interested in classical music and have recently been working on one of Bach's French Suites, a few pieces from Liszt's Annees de Pelerinage, and one of Schumann's Novelettes.

I am also pursuing a doctorate in information science with a special interest in the ways creative artists use performing documents like musical scores. So I have done quite a bit of work in the area of music notation, how is has developed and how it is interpreted by the reader (I've also done some work on the ways in which cooks use written recipes, so my research interest isn't related exclusively to music). I don't have a final dissertation topic yet, but I'm aiming for something involving musical scores.

Hehe, congrats on your 1000.

I'm also pretty slow-going, 4.5 years and not even 500 posts!

It helps maintain the illusion that I do indeed have a life (which I most certainly do not).

That's not much, check out this guy:
http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/users/46923.html

Random tangent from someone who enjoys making things out of string: this also reminds me of how needleworkers use patterns. There's a range from those who feel it's necessary to follow patterns exactly, to those who still use patterns, but mostly as a stimulus to creativity. It's also interesting how pattern writing has changed over the years. Modern patterns are more specific and detailed than century old ones. Older patterns assume a wider and deeper basic knowledge of the needle art in question -- reasonable if pattern consumers spend most of their days doing fancywork.

Yikes. Of course, he's listed in his profile as a shrink, so perhaps he just needs somebody to talk to.

(Actually, Mark_C is a great poster and a wonderful pianist. I usually enjoy his contributions here a lot.)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm always looking for different threads to explore in this area (forgive the pun). My sister-in-law is a spinner, weaver, and dyer, and we've talked on a few occasions about similar kinds of attitudes that she has encountered in workshops and also about the ways in which instructional books and videos approach teaching such things. Of course, this can take you right back to music too. There has been some interesting (to me) research about the ways music students and music teachers conceptualize scores. If you are classically trained, you can adopt a lot of unconscious attitudes about scores during your training. In music education, there are definitely different schools of thought about the prescriptive and suggestive roles of written notation.

An interesting subect.

Something that I have found fascinating is the different ways that recipes are formulated in different countries.

In the States, a recipe calls for a cup of red wine, and one gets out the measuring cup.

In France a recipe calls for a glass of red wine. But what glass ?

It is probably true, however, that in both countries there's one glass for the sauce, and one for the cook !

Congrats on the 1000 !