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And is this a spinet?

It's not a spinet, it's a pianocktail!

For each note there’s a corresponding drink – either a wine, spirit, liqueur or fruit juice. The loud pedal puts in egg flip and the soft pedal adds ice. For soda you play a cadenza in F sharp. The quantities depend on how long a note is held – you get the sixteenth of a measure for a hemidemisemiquaver; a whole measure for a black note; and four measures for a semibreve. When you play a slow tune, then tone comes into control to prevent the amounts growing too large and the drink getting too big for a cocktail – but the alcoholic content remains unchanged. And, depending on the length of the tune, you can, if you like, vary the measures used, reducing them, say, to a hundredth in order to get a drink taking advantage of all the harmonics, by means of an adjustment on the side.
“Do you know any Duke Ellington?…”
“Yes,I’ll play Blues of the Vagabond.”
He had a very sensitive touch and the notes flew up, as airborne as the pearls cast from Barney Bigard’s clarinet in Duke’s version of the tune. The music passed through and came out distilled. He came to the end of his three choruses and stopped.
He got up and opened the front panel by turning the handle. They took the two glasses that were filled to the brim with shimmering liquid rainbows. The soldier drank first, licking his lips with his tongue.
“It’s got exactly the taste of the blues,” he said. “And exactly the taste of those blues I’ve just played. This invention of yours is super!

Apparently this was taken during the first chechen war, in the central park of Grozny, February 1995
Original seems here

http://drugoi.livejournal.com/3052064.html
about halfway down

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_%281994%E2%80%931995%29

What, no MIDI connection?

♫♪I'm always chasing ♫ rainbows ♪♪

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

Well that would be hard to top.....

rada

I said "TICKLE" the ivories, not "TINKLE"!

And you thought YOUR Russian piano teacher was tough!

"I wonder if it has a damp-chaser"?

"When he is done playing I think it would be a good idea to applaud..."

"Benches?, We don't need no stinking benches!"

You guys are clever and funny.
Must have been street pianos day in Grozny. Otherwise I wonder what that piano (which looks kind of funny) be there

That's the award winner!

By the way, anybody familiar with the pianocktail ? Internet search answers prohibited !

Ha! The reference to Tirez sur le painiste is not bad either.

I first "met" the pianocktail right here on this forum. Not sure if it was through you or others.

Maybe G A F F C will get their attention ...

MacDowell's "Woodland Sketches."

"Wow, Islamey is even harder than it sounds."

"One digit off and Supply sends you a piano."

1) "We are family, I got all my Chechens with me..
We are family, Shoot up every body and SING!"

or

2) "I Loooost my Heaaaaart (and all the other body parts here somewhere)"

or

3) "See Boris, if you play an A# first Rach's Prelude C#minor sounds just like the riff from Hendrix's Machine Gun (ratttattattat boom boom boom booooom!)".

or

4) "Watch it Yuri. they've got a Trebuchet hurling old Uprights ---- INCOMING!!!!"

or and since this is the first Chechen War, perhaps it's:

5) "Georgia on my Mind"

or

6) "If there's Something standing in the neighborhood
Who you gonna call?
GROZNY BUSTERS!"

For my first selection I would like to play "Afternoon of a Fawn" and for my next selection something from Alvin and the Chipmonks, and finally I would like to finish with Buddy Holly and the Crickets.

It just makes me profoundly sad...can't think of anything smart and snappy to say about it.

(in thick Russian accent):
"In Soviet Russia, piano plays YOU!"



(pardon if anyone Russian is offended)

"I'm bringing harmony to this war."