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Back in the days when I did play for others, I always found applause to be a pretty strange thing. It really IS a pretty strange thing, if you think about it. How did "I liked what you just did" get translated into repeatedly making a sharp popping noise by slapping the palms together? Bizarre... I checked Wikipedia on clapping - as it turns out there is concert music which consists of clapping. I suppose one could have "full" clapping (palm to palm), "1/2" clapping (fingers to palm) and "1/4" clapping (fingers to fingers), and even get down to individual fingers clapping together ("1/16" clapping). It is not intended as criticism - after all I am not an expert at clapping - but in my belief there is a bit of impression and inconsistency in the clapping techniques and timbres used in this clip  Steve Reich - Clapping Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcFyl8amoEE Elsewhere at Wikipedia it reads: "Mozart expected that people would eat and talk over his music, particularly at dinner, and was delighted when his audience would clap during his symphonies. Mahler clamped down on claques paid to applaud a particular performer, and specified in the score of his Kindertotenlieder that its movements should not be punctuated by applause. Wagner discouraged what he considered distracting noises from his audience at Bayreuth in 1882." I've always thought that the pianist gives the signal to clap by no longer having the hands hovering over the keys and dissolving the appearance of resolute focus, and in this way can even prevent clapping between movements - this is the procedure I've always used effectively but maybe audiences have become less inhibited? p.s. - the changes in convention over this were swifter with French drama thanks to Voltaire and the 250 000 pamphlets he distributed ridiculing particular behaviours during theatre performances! M.
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Nice answer! (It could have turned into a ___ing contest.)  Cell phone signal jammer is an interesting and helpful device when we don’t want to be bothered by the cell phone noise. I just bought myself a cell phone signal jammer the other day,it is working great and BTW, it’s legal here in my country.
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Nice answer! (It could have turned into a ___ing contest.) Cell phone signal jammer is an interesting and helpful device when we don’t want to be bothered by the cell phone noise. I just bought myself a cell phone signal jammer the other day,it is working great and BTW, it’s legal here in my country. It could have turned into a ringing contest.
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Methinks Etta is a jammer spammer.
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Methinks Etta is a jammer spammer. Ah, well, if she is, then she probably thought you meant, "ringtone" contest. Gotta give her credit for chiming in on the topic in context! Welcome to PW, Etta!
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My teacher told me that I should bow after every complete piece, when the audience claps. But I think it's a bit awkward to stand up every time and bow, especially when there's not a lot of people clapping/ small clapping. Maybe I like applause too much.  - Jenny
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My teacher told me that I should bow after every complete piece, when the audience claps. But I think it's a bit awkward to stand up every time and bow, especially when there's not a lot of people clapping/ small clapping. Maybe I like applause too much. - Jenny It's not possible to like all that love "too much"...
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My teacher told me that I should bow after every complete piece, when the audience claps. But I think it's a bit awkward to stand up every time and bow, especially when there's not a lot of people clapping/ small clapping. Maybe I like applause too much. - Jenny Take what you can get, Jenny! Nods suffice, sometimes... But bows are grand! And practicing bows is necessary and good! If you get it, give it!!!
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