Along the same lines as avatars, I have been curious for quite some time how some of you derived at your login name. Please explain.

My name is Daniel... A clue: look at the letters which are musical notes.

Sarabande, you didn't explain your login name, or did you do so somewhere else?

I had found a C. Bechstein very much to my liking (as opposed to the other very different piano by the same last name) so I chose it for a login, even though I own an Estonia.

I play the piano. Jerome is a nickname.

(most of my friends call me Sam, but one of my best friends in middle/high school used to call me Jerome)

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/19/156/4.html#000080

Thanks Sam and/or pianojerome, "you took the words right out of my mouth"!

Sarabande,
I own, and love, my Mason and Hamlin CC2 9 foot Concert Grand...............and ADORE Chopin, above all other composers. Pretty straightforward, huh?

I am a member of a trivia group. At first, my name was Fruitcake~twinkle. Two nicknames I had from bosses/friends put together. Then, after Christmas in 2002, Fruitcake got replaced by Shamrock in honor of St. Patricks Day. Shamrock~twinkle was eventually shortened to Shammy.
Thats my story and I'm stickin to it!
PS - I am NOT a car polishing cloth. Thats Chamois.

Even though I don't post here much at all, I feel I owe Sarabande something.

Our first piano (in my married life) was a Kincaid, bought on the advice of my choir director because it sounded the best at our price point of $650 (thems 1998 dollars). After buying the piano I found PW when I was trying to find out more about the piano. Imagine my chagrin at finding the quote, supposedly out of Larry Fine's book, that Kincaid was "possibly the worst piano ever made" or some such thing.

Anyway, we sold that piano and after a year of searching just bought a 17+ year old Kawai 601-T.

hmm.. i sold a dog (we briefly tried) I had named apple the day I joined.

In my childhood, we had a very large pianobench, and in it was a ton of old sheet music.Among them was a song from the cabaret theater "Chat Noir" in Oslo, and on the front was a funny drawing of a big, black cat. It fascinated me as a child, and I was equally fascinated when I, as a very young man, paid my first visit to "Chat Noir" to see the annual revue. So my log-in name is just a fond memory of a time gone by.

"Octavia" is a reference to the largest interval I can play with my small hands. My avatar is a cropped portion of the Vermeer painting "Young Girl Seated at a Virginal". I was unable to find an image of the painting online that I could turn into avatar-size to include the virginal, but it's there in spirit.

This is a pretty cool part of the forums! I've never posted here before.

No explaination here... I haven't picked a picture for an avatar yet.

Octavia - I like your avatar. I've seen that picture for real before.

Sarabande - Which era? The happy early version or the stoic later version?

John

It's my name. Otherwise, I would get too confused. I have met some of my online buddies in real life. It's tough when you've know them for several years as something other than their actual name. It's hard to call them anything different!

Jodi

Sorry my music history knowledge on the two must have faded out of memory or I never learned it. I first studied and listened to Bach's English Suites in a Piano Lit. course and fell in love with the work. There is not a single piece in the work that I dislike. So which era would that be considered? Must be the stoic version. Suite III is my favorite work. Anyone have a recording of it or parts of it posted on PW? John C. -appreciate your musical knowledge.

PS - I wanted a name that sounded "nice" as a login name I had on another piano forum I felt made me sound like I was "snobbish" or mean-spirited which I'm generally not.

Sarabande - do you live any where close to KC?

apple*,
Springfield, Mo. - only get to KC about once a year if lucky or when passing through on vacation. Very nice city, however. Our favorite places we make a point to hit are KC Masterpiece and The Cheesecake Factory.

I have two little ones, that's why a picked a picture of a baby. That's how my daughter looks like now

This is fun.

I often wonder where others get their secret names.

Well, I guess my name is not really much of a secret.

I hybridize daylilies and grow over 1000 cultivars. Am I obsessed? LOL! Not in the daylily world...

To my neighbors I am known as the Lily Lady!

;-)

You think pianos are expensive? How about $200 for a plant? LOL!

Frycek was Frederyk Chopin's Polish nickname. The avatar is from a sketch of him at 26 by his sometime fiancee, Maria. (She dumped him.)

[img]http://www.tinkersviews.com/fredchair.bmp[/img]

It's my nickname from a DVD collectors forum. DVDs are my other obsession now have over 2500 and counting.

How do you pronounce it Frycek?

This is a copy of PJ's post on WTF when Muffin asked the same question.


"In Polish, the y is a long, slightly back in the throat 'e'. If there is no mark over the 'c', the 'c' is pronounced 'ts'. There is a Polish name "Fryc" which is pronounced like the German name "Fritz".
"Frycek" should be pronounced FREE-tsek."

Chopin referred to himself and signed his boyhood letters both Frycek and Fryc.

Dreaded double post

From Scientific American 1/17/2006:

"according to a group of researchers who compiled data on [Copper's] extraction, use, recycling and discard to estimate whether there is enough copper available to make a developed standard of living available to all the world's people. The short answer is: no. "

"In fact, residents of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. required an average of 170 kilograms of copper per person. Multiply that by overall population estimates of 10 billion people by 2100 and the world will require 1.7 billion metric tons of copper by that date--more than even the most generous estimate of available resources. "

So there's not enough Copper in the whole world, mined or unmined, for everyone to have a developed standard of living.


This has little to do with how I chose my name, but I thought it was interesting.

I chose Copper because it was the name of a place near where I once lived.

For some reason people assign me nick names and Stevester seemed to fit in for use on this forum. If I had to do it all over again I would use my real name which I do on other forums.

Steve Ries

My login name comes from the word nunatak. When you have a mountain with snow, but there's no snow on the top, this top-with-no-snow is called a nunatak (at least in Dutch). The plural is nunataks, which sounds the same as nunatax. So it's got nothing to do with a traumatic childhood experience with an aggressive nun

I thought a nunatak was when you were assailed by a bunch of ladies in habits
Performingyak stems from high school when I made up a little cartoon character called Sven - he was a yak. Eventually I drew Sven doing other things, like riding a bicycle and such. Now he is more of an impersonator with characters like Svenghis Khan, Sven and Stimpy etc.
The picture is because I am too lazy to make up my own and it seemed fitting to the name.... kinda.

Canaday is the name of the library at Bryn Mawr College; I used to spend a lot of time studying there. Good times...

I didn't give my forum name much thought. As I was registering, I quickly came up with the name. Actually, I realy also like Beethoven. In fact, I might prefer Beethoven over Mozart. Beethoven has such a wide variety of music styles!

Currently, I really like the CD: Beethoven "Kreutzer" "Spring" Violin Sonatas - Perlman and Ashkenazy. Absolutely beautiful listening!

And, I recently purchased Beethoven Piano Sonatas Klaviersonaten Op. 53 "Walstein" with Alfred Brendel.

Please give me your opinion of Alfred Brendel as a pianist?

Thank you, ILM

Well, I have played since I was nine, and now I work a lot with my son. When I signed up I tried to get PianoDad, but that was already taken by someone (who no longer seems to post). Hence Piano*Dad. That's actually better because it separates the two parts of my relationship with music.

My Parents picked my forum name for me.

At the time, I had absolutly no say on the matter.

JosephS. is my name: Joseph Sanchez.

I usually don't use that for internet screen names.

There's Iaelean, which is my AIM name and most of my other message board names. It means nothing and was an act on impulse thing. It came about by putting lots of vowels together.

Ravelez is my newer SN and I use it more so than my other names. It's just a play with Ravel's name.

Some guy at work used to page me over the loud speaker. I go by Joe to everyone, but he always paged me as joseph. However the way he pronounced it it sounds like Josuff and we found it funny. His extention was 247. SO he'd page..."Josuff 247 Josuff 247"

I'd explane mine but, I'm still not exactly sure why I picked it for a piano forum.

Mine is my name. The avatar is a reminder of how I'll end up when this adventure is finished.

Well, mine is also just my name and surname - really boring. I didn't really think of a nickname when I signed up, just automatically typed in my name. But I'm glad, coz I get confused pretty easily.

I chose the Mona Lisa, coz I'm almost always smiling - not like her, but actually showing my teath. And I couldn't really relate to the other avators available.

In my signature is one of my nicknames - It's actually pronounced "lal-ly".

Interesting posts so far!

Hi from South Africa

Just a nickname my brother and I came up with. He's "Fuzz". No particular reason, we just wanted short nicknames for something like forums.

I sail and race Hobie 16 catamarans as well as other sailboats. I love fast sailboats almost as much as I love the piano.

Mine is all-too-obvious. When I first began thinking about selling my Grotrian, I created an e-mail account specifically for that. Obviously, I was going for clarity, not imagination! When I began posting here, I didn't expect to be around much, since I'm not expert and serious like most of you (although I liked the chatty forum that was eliminated) ... so I just kept the same handle. Handy if someone is looking for a Grotrian. I don't like it particularly, but I'm too lazy to change it.

:rolleyes:

Where can I get an avator?

Lagin, go up to the top of this page, just to the right of "Piano Forum" you'll see "my profile", click on that, next click on "edit profile," on the next pages scroll down until you see "Profile Fields." About 2/3's of the way down you'll see something like "select a new avatar image." That will take you to the avatar selections. There are several pages, see "next" at bottom. If you see one you like click on it, and then on "select this avatar" to the left of the page.

I used to use this name when login on in online games and other forums.

Good question... why did I choose this name?

Well, probably because I like fun and lol in English stands for "laughing out loud" and in Dutch the word itself already means "fun".

The "_nl" is obvious, I come from The Netherlands, abbreviated NL.

No surprise here - it's my e-mail addrss. I really value the PF community and wanted to be accessible.

Pretty self explanatory. I will have to change it after tomorrow. Maybe to novice*player*? Never played but got an itch now that we will have it for dd's lessons! Always a dream. michele

I called myself swingal as swing style jazz incapsulates my general jazz style most. My previous login name was alanjazz but the website suddenly stopped accepting it after quite a long time so had to re-register.

Alan

jazpianizt - the power of positive thinking! (and I liked the offbeat spelling). What can I say, it just came to me.

PW is the first and only internet forum I belong to, so when I went to register and it asked me for a login name, it didn't even occur to me to use anything other than my name. (My husband often accuses me of being way too literal, and he is right about that.)

My avatar I chose because my kids are the most important part of my life, so I liked an image that expressed who I was outside of piano. Plus, if you squint a bit, I vaguely resemble the woman in the picture.

Monica, you may laugh at this - I actually thought your avatar was an actual photo of yourself... until I saw someone else with the same one (then I was thinking 'huh?!')!

I also chose my name for my username - it was the first thing which popped into my head! Am looking around and seeing all these other, cool names and am thinking on choosing something else myself. Maybe I could put up a shortlist and get people to vote for their favourite for me. Not sure yet...

I was driving thru Texas with a friend of mine and he asked me to stop by his grandfathers place. It was a large ranch and had a slew (slew as in many) sheep. The were run thru this apparatus with a large pool at the end that was filled with a substance to detox them. I always thought that the name would be well remembered.

me............me........am........c........cr....cra.....cra.....crazy!!!!! me like psycho, me like piano, me a man!!!

I am pretty much out there. I do not like blending in and am attracted to weird people. I always go against the majority and seek to be myself in music, religion, personality, and life in general.

I am always acting weird and saying crazy stuff. People always say I am strange and crazy because of my views on life. People do tend to miss me when I am not around though because I can make any situation a good one and I am always joking and cutting up.

I was recently given the opportunity to go to another department at work for a week so I took it. I came across a guy and asked him if he had ever met a crazy person. He said no and then I told him that I was. You should of seen the look on his face. We have gotten to know each other and debated politics, ethics, and government.

I am crazy but not in a real way. Just crazy about having fun. Most people say I act the way I do because of the music. I am obsessed with it. People think musicians are a little weird.

Do you think this is true about musicians or is this due to a few nut cases like me.

It comes from the ancient game of go where it is a strategic concept. Here is a partial explaination:

"One of the most common amateur mistakes is getting locked into the local fight and continuing to play there when there are larger plays elsewhere."

tenuki means 'to play elsewhere'.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?Tenuki

I like the word 'Sonata', I like its writing, pronunciation and its meaning. I try to use this name all the time, but sometimes it's been taken, I also use it as my hotmail 'MSN'name, anyway, I like the name in any languages

:D Me too!!

My avatar is a photo of myself. How do I look?

Like a nonplussed chicken

Me like chicken! Yum!

Cannibal.

I shall take the origins of MY, login name to my grave. :rolleyes:

I don't think I explained my avatar. I am always eating chicken. Today I had a huge chicken club pizza.

I like chicken the way bubba gump liked shrimp. You can eat chicken a hundred different ways!!! People at work call me the "chicken man" everytime they see me eating chicken.

I chose Phantom because I am a huge fan of the Phantom of the Opera and Andrew Loyde Webber. Great Movie, and for those of you who already read some of my former posts know that I love Emmy Rossum who stared as Christine in the movie.

May you shadow always be at your side

Well my parents were very farsighted and knew this child of theirs would someday work with computers (born in 1957! ) and also could foretell the future that a company named Microsoft would develop an operating system named 'NT'. Hence they named me Nelson T and when I became engrossed in computers (especially the Windows systems) I gave myself the nickname of NTman. Somewhere on some system Ntman must have been taken so I took Ntman2. That's the long and short and stupid of it. :rolleyes:

Nelson

My login name: Need I?

My avatar: I've posted this elsewhere on PW. A friend on another music forum saw this profile photo of me in the SDO 2000 production of Lohengrin:



...and thought it would be fun to photohsop it into a group shot of the MP gang from Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail:



I agree. I thought he did an outstanding job!

One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite artists.

Oh no, I have to explain it again.

I drive a Torch Red 2002 Corvette Z06 with vanity plates ROSSO Z. I spent my younger years (1952 to 1957) in Italy, a country I love. So, ROSSO (Italian for red), Z (as in Z06). Many sites no me by that handle. I even get snail mail addressed to ROSSO Z.

My name is Cindy. I teach piano in Musicmaker Piano Studio, hence the tag. I chose an hourglass for my avatar bacause everything takes time.

This was a nickname given to me back in my competitive diving (springboard) days. Member and silver medalist on U.S. mens diving team 1997. (1M, 3M).

Ke Lang Fei is a Chinese name. I'm originally from the northeast part of the United States now living and teaching in China. Chinese given names tend to be things like "new song" or "will be a professor" or "lucky flower". One of the office people in my school tried to berate me for using too much electricity, water and gas (free in my contract) and called me "langfei" - waster, which I immediately liked. "Ke" is the beginning of my English surname which also happens to mean "guest" in Chinese. So, I have become Ke LangFei. Most Chinese really cannot understand why I would choose such a name but I like it because it fits so well.

It's my first name and initial of my 2nd name.

People call me Frank. I don't know why.

Maybe it's because it's my frickin' name... Hrmmm...

I would call you "Frickin" Frank!!

It's my first name.

well we all come into the world and we all have to check out the key as erol flynn said is that, I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

I think that says it all.

tris

I use to be involved with drag racing and racers would get free stuff , tee shirts, hats, etc. I had gotten a tee shirt from Accel which had a picture of a tachometer on the back with the name of it across the shoulder area which read... MONSTER[/b]... the M&H came from ... (real original) Mason & Hamlin (kept ya in suspense ya)

because it is my name.... pronounced Gil-ud, g for glad, no one ever gets it right, If i had my way id be james or jack. nut i kind of actually like me name.
It means eternal happiness in hebrew.
And my avitar, well, Im in Africa.

I picked my nick from one of my favorite book: "The Farseer" trilogy by Robin Hobb - a must-read for every fantasy fan!

Lord Chade is the kings old assassin, but the book is really about his apprentice (Fritz). I mostly picked it because I think it sounds cool, and also because he is a character you get to like when you read the books.
I often use any of "LordChade" "Lord Chade" "Chade" "Lord_Chade" "Chade Fallstar" or "Lord Chade Fallstar" on web forums... :-)

Really strange coincidence. I really don't remember picking out a name when I signed up and somehow I was "assigned" Dame Myra. What is strange is that my first teacher many years ago was a student of Myra Hess, so I kept it.

I chose "Super-Hunky" because "Monica Kern" was already taken!!

I got my name from a derivation of the musical term, Andantino, which means moderately fast. One of my favorite pieces that I have been playing a lot lately, is Liszt's Etude XI: Harmonies du Soir which is Andantino.

Mine references my favourite key signature: D major. I'm also partial to its relative minor too, during moodier moments .

I used to play TimeSplitters 2 quite a lot and thought that the character Ozor Mox from Planet X would make quite a good online name.

my name is ryan greene. simple as that.

I do go by CompuRyan on many many other forums.

At one time I wanted to junk this screen name but it's not such an easy thing to do. Then I remembered why I even came up with it.
For any who have seen the Chris Rock movie "Pootie Tang". The screen name comes from the character's name. Pootie Tang is basically a community hero on a grand scale. He is basically worshipped for anything he does and is known for being "for the kids." When Pootie records his latest song live at a radio studio, he takes the mic and makes some elaborate gestures and clearly pours his soul into the mic.....without ever uttering a word or making a single sound. After this 'debut' the producer loses his mind because he can't believe how amazing Pootie's latest creation is. The narrator describes it as "Pootie don't need no words, Pootie don't need no music!" The DJ starts throwing out all the other tapes and CDs and starts chanting like a madman, "Pootie too good! Pootie too good!"

Hope that made some sense. And apparantly Pootie needs no avatar =D

My name is Fran. Many yeras ago, when working as a nurse, this oriental physiscian cornered me and said "Flan... you shop (sharp) nurse" He was a ditrty old man type of guy. My friends and family started to call me Flan (a pronounced like short "o") as a joke. It has taken on a life of its own. When people called me Flan I would usually repond with "ya"... thus the Flanya. Then my huband started to call me Flanya. We really should retire the name as one of my childen told his friend tht he could call me Flanya

Me again! I chose my avatar because my favorite thing to do is ballroom dancing.

Fran

Dies Dominicus is Latin for Lord`s Day i.e Sunday. My middle name is Dominik, which, deriving from Latin Dominicus, means either somebody born on Sunday or dedicated to God.

If you are a pianist and do not know who Clara Schumann was then you need help.

That is all! lol

I like to play ADOM a lot.

ADOM is a roguelike game, in case you've never heard of it.

I love piano and I'm a woman...lol enough said! and my avatar is a DJ because I work at a radio station.

I bet nobody can guess mine.

That's easy - it's an anagram for 'likes atonal' (music, I suppose).

As to mine:
As you may know J.S. Bach walked all the way to Lübeck in northern Germany, close to the now Danish border, in 1705 to hear the Danish composer and organist Diderik Buxtehude. Buxtehude offered Bach his chair if he would marry one of his three spinsters. Bach wouldn't (for some reason) - but a forefather of mine would, 9 or 10 generations ago, and here I am today as a result of Bach's 'no thanks' ...

You were on the right track with the first 5 words, then you faltered so badly after that...

My name is Alan and I play jazz on a swing style.

Incidentally, this is my second user name as previously and curiously, I lost my user-name overnight, Could not log on due to a message saying the user-name was taken! I could not even use my original email address and luckily had another. So this is my second batch of posts and I was a previous member. A bit like reincarnation!

Alan

Tana is a Mother/Moon Goddess, and sometimes a Goddess of inspiration, which seemed appropriate for a struggling pianist

Hence the moon as an avatar of course...

Tana

My display name refers to the tallest flowering tree on earth, the Eucalyptus Regnans, which is abundant to the East of Melbourne.

And, I identify with height - I'm 6'5" myself.

Alright - you have a vietnamese girl friend, La'an To. And you like her ofcourse: 'Likes La'an To'.

way off

My last name is Bassiouny.
Bassio is to shorten it. My friends call me Bassio.

One friend used to call me Bassanio (from the Shakespeare play)

Likes a talon?
Likes an alto???

brojek.

LOL! That's very funny. Nice one! :-D

It doesn't begin with "likes" anything. It's the name of a person.

Ahah! I bet its Nikola Tesla am I right?

Matt (goes to a science/technology camp for 2 weeks each year)

I'd give it to you there, going to school must actually be useful(I still am always going to stay away)

brojek.

Ah, finally a smart one in the bunch.

Ahhh, the joy of being young...

You mean joy as in:

No job,

No money,

Living at home with your parents?


Mel

Too young to have a job, therefore no money, and living at home with my parents is fine by me, so yes, lots of joy

Matt

Applies to me too, but how is that a good thing?

That would only be a problem if you were to say, reverse the digits of my age.

brojek.

It's the name of my husband's first wife. Good thing I'm his first wife!

Actually got the login name mixed up. . . well the rest is history! Can we actually change our login name once it's set in stone?

____________________________________

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving's not for you!

OK, I see I misunderstood. I read "first five letters" instead of your "five first words"...

Name of a composer that is?

[Ed: Oops, hadn't seen smart Matts' answer. Bravo, Matt! (So you don't like La'an To after all? That's a shame.)]

:D
Reminds me of the bewilderment in peoples' faces when I say "he's got that from his biological father" answering their questions about my son's piano playing for example.

Usually I remember to add: "that's me too..."

I find it truly shocking when people don't like their girlfriends. :p

I love my Boston Terrier so much I took part of his name--Lord Brummell.

Mines from a song by the band 16 horsepower

We keep walking
And thinking things to talk about
Down on our prayers bones in line

I owned a Boston Terrier whose name was Lord Brummell. (Actually, he owned me.) I loved Brummell as much as he loved me; we were the closest of friends and I'll never forget him.

I got mine from a very stoned drummer and it stuck

Betty Patnude is my real name having used BPPS for my piano studio (initials)and added the zip code bpps98374, and Piano Power on other sites. It was getting hard to remember which one to use at which site even after writing them down. Absolute confusion. Why couldn't I have chosen one and stuck with it? So I used my name this time thinking I won't forget this one.

The Patnude part: I met my future husband and heard his last name indistinctly, looked it up in his college yearbook where it was spelled several different ways, and I had no idea which was correct, or how you said it with all those extra letters in the spellings. It was 6 dates later, I asked to see his drivers license. Fortunately, he laughed about it and showed me his legal name which had been anglicized from lots of letters in a French spelling.

My other passion is motorcycling and I have owned two cruisers, both Honda Valkyries; but not any more. Now I've got a BMW R1150R, but I still like to 'cruise'... oh, never mind, here it is anyway:



My avatar represents, perhaps unfairly, my current efforts to progress on the piano... one day I'll change it to a running greyhound!

Mine's from my favorite contemporary music group, the Moody Blues - and keys for keyboards. They use Kurzweil K2500X and PC2, I play a PC2 and K2661 (and SP88X and computer music system), also 4 & 5 string bass guitar and autoharp.

I'll eventually code up an avatar, right now I use the BMW logo for my 96 328 convertible.

A broad interest in music - classical (especially baroque era), contemporary worship music, complex rock like Rick Wakeman's playing, the Moodies, dance music (my wife and I are into Ballroom Dancing).

I serviced electronic organs, keyboards, and amps for years. Did a little playing also. Taking piano lessons along with my wife and granddaughter (playing the S&S B at the college got me a case of GAS - gear aquisition syndrome). Play with the church worship band. Getting better is slower than I expected, but worth it!

Jim

Well...

My name is Murray, and my nickname is Muz. The extra 3 Z's are figments of your imagination / silent.

Double-post
Oh well, you can hear it again!

Well...

My name is Murray, and my nickname is Muz. The extra 3 Z's are figments of your imagination / silent. As for my avatar, I got it from the selection that Piano World offer. I'm sure it has some kind of deep and meaningful significance...

Mine is because when I joined this forum, I was still (and still am) in awe of my first piano (as in, first piano paid for by me socking away money for three years). This piano happens to have hammers in it, but no strings. It's a Roland HP201 digital.

As for the avatar.. ole Ludwig is the composer I most closely identify with, for various reasons.

I hold Bach's music in the highest possible regard, Wolfgang makes me smile no matter how bad the day has been, but when I feel like chopping people's heads off, when I feel this world is utterly and completely ruined, when I feel my anger boiling over, it is Beethoven whom I seek.

And then I find It. As angry as he was, as terrifying as his music can be, then I remember It. His 9th Symphony. And I remember that no matter how badly this world treated that man, his last big work was one of hope. The 9th is his eternal hope that this fractured, hostile world can become one. A united, peaceful world.

That's why his mug graces my avatar here.

I chose my name as I am a fast typest on a computer keyboard and hoping to transfer this energy to learning the piano. The avatar resembles tickling the ivories as this is the goal. I play piano for the joy and not to be a concert pianist; though I do not mind exploring classical music as a challenge.

- Mark

Capsule is my cat's name, and I'm a pharmacist. 1979 is the year I was born.
I chose that Avatar only because I liked it most.

Stringless - I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Without Beethoven my life would be missing
so many things. Overcoming obstacles, first
of all; but most of all the powerful and
thoughtful example of form and craftmanship
in his writing. One could go on forever about
him but we ALL understand it here on this
forum.

My avatar doesn't need much explanation.
However, some musicians get confused about
how to play "tenuto" correctly. Especially
when there are many tenutos in a row.
Should we still hold the note for its full
value or should we detach the notes, or
play them with a slight marcato? I guess
I'll just throw this question out to the
rest of of you....

^^^
"Tenuto", I think has a different definition depending on which period you look at. I think that baroque composers wanted us to literally hold the note for its full value, whereas in, say, the romantic period, it's more of an expressive technique, where you should really 'lean' into the particular note, so tenutos could be clues as to where the music should ebb and flow, especially with the rubato of the romantic period.

But that's just my understanding...

By nature I'm very pessimistic and introvert.

So, I'm trying to boost my ego a bit.

Pathetic, isn't it?

Actually the one you see here is just what my family and close friends call me "'fredo" though my real name is Alfredo. My login name is actually THUNDER BALLS. I picked that because thats a hilarious name LOL..sorry mine isn't all deep in meaning and introspective. But it makes me laugh every time I see it.

mine is a combination of my name and my favorite number.
13 is a bad luck number but after i accepted Christ, i don't fear that number anymore, so my login name is a testament to that and other things.

Well mine is pretty straightforward, I like Bosies although i don't own one

88 is just my year of birth, 1988 which also happens to be a double of my favorite number 8

My name is the title of a song by Eppu Normaali, the greatest rockband in Finland ever.

There is a video of it in YouTube if you care to watch. Just search with the words 'Ripa rapa' and you'll find it.

Mine is easy. I am a very new beginner and I am a girl. As for the avatar I just liked it.

first name (danna) 1st letter of last name (chiasson)
creative ... ain't I.

I started out as Steph_in_FL because when I first created my account I wasn't feeling all that creative or whimsical. Just put "I am" in front of it and its pretty self-explanatory.

I changed to "asoalin", which refers to the song A Soalin' by Peter, Paul, & Mary. Its the first song I ever learned to play on the guitar, and my mother taught it to me just by her memory, so its a special song to me. I can actually play guitar a lot better than I can play piano. I've been playing guitar a lot longer.

Cool idea for a post

It's my nickname and age.

I am so ashamed of my uncreativity in creating it.

LOL

I have used vayapues since 1998 as my nickname on just about everything. If you email vayapues@ just about any address, ie, hotmail, yahoo, gmail, it will come to me.

For many years I was the only one using it. Now there are a few others, which irritates me, but what are you going to do.

I served an spanish speaking mission for my church. Vayapues was a common phrase that was basically a nice way of telling us to get lost.

Cute thread!
The currawong is an Australian bird - nice song, kind of melodious but a bit wild and melancholy. Apart from the fact that I always aim to make the piano sing, there's not much connection. I certainly don't scavenge leftover cat food and mug baby birds...

And vayapues, I like your signature line. That is, once my son had explained it to me

Nice to know more about the (nick)names.....

Mine is quiet simple.....My first name is really Johan and my familyname starts with B

Johan B

Again.....forgotten something....my avatar is my digital piano with a rose,....just a selfmade picture.....

Johan B

Vogel refers to the baby-grand I dreamed of owning. When I retired my dream came true...I bought myself a baby-grand and so I chose that as a screen name. The 54 refers to the size...5'4" although the actual size is 160cm which converts to a little over 5'3" so I rounded up to 5'4"... the apple indicates my passion for teaching. I retired after 34 years in the classroom.

Best Regards,
Nick

After one of my favorite classical composers -- for piano, voice and guitar.

duh...

When I first came here, it was because I had been banned from PS, for a silly joke. :p

I wanted a name that was cryptically similar to my PS name.

I have been, and still am interested in the history of Native Americans.

"little-big-man" was obvious to me.

I spend a lot of time on the left side of the piano bench . . .

As as grey-haired engineer, my main expertise is in the analog domain (continuous physical systems) rather than the digital domain (although I use it.) Hence the contraction of "analog dinosaur"!
Also, I'm an aviation buff and ex. pilot, so my avatar is a WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt... It rivalled the P-51 Mustang but I'll concede the P-51 to be "the greatest ever" fighter plane, even over the Spitfire (but not by much!)
Cheers,
Roger

Boira means 'fog' in Catalan.

"Innominato" means "Unnamed" and is the non-name of one of the most popular character of the most famous novel ever written in Italian, Alessandro Manzoni's "I Promessi Sposi".

I cannot even try to explain to you the divine beauty of Manzoni's prosa, or of the characters he has created.

The "non-named" is one of the characters dearest to me in this very dear book, and it is obviously very apt in a forum (where you choose a nickname because you want to remain, ehem, un-named....).

Jovial is a word I like.

I like to pick arbitrary logins that are pleasant to me and then just stick with them.

I think Jovial sort of describes my public demeanor as well, which makes it a pretty ok handle for me, according to me.

It's just my name.

I love the piano works of Liszt---and he had more talent in his pinky than I'll ever dream of--so, "liszt's pinky"!

I was being creative the day I signed up. :rolleyes:

I was being uncreative and totally lacked imagination the day I signed up. I'm learning piano and violin - keys and strings.

We Chinese back in Asia, are very well-known to include food seasonings into everything that we cook...be it a simple side dish...if one were to actually taste it, one can surely tell the number of teaspoon of salt (monosodium glutamate=MSG) added into it...

The culprit is a company by the name of Ajinomoto, which mass produces food seasoning and artificial flavouring in Asia...

My mom was one of those Chinese cook...though not so bad now...I was eating one of her vege side dishes, oozling with salt...when I was trying to come up with a name for my blog...

Hence...Less Ajinomoto...

Great thread! Kawai is my piano ( a play on words for the island Kauai, Hawaii). Kawai can also mean cute -like the Hello Kitty stuff, but not my intended meaning. My avatar is a picture of my 5-year old son in my cowboy hat.

I was asked to give a tutorial on public key cryptography as a lunchtime seminar at my company (that's the basis of the HTTPS protocol, among other things). As an opening graphic I included a picture of the old Ovaltine secret decoder ring which I used to demonstrate a basic symmetric cipher (I'm a big fan of the movie "A Christmas Story" in which Ovaltine plays an important role). After that talk, I still had a copy of the decoder ring picture stuck to my cubicle wall; it stayed there for a few years.

I had to create a login at some other site, and chose "Ovaltine" because that picture of the decoder ring was the first thing I saw when I rolled my eyes around looking for some creative inspiration.

I now use the name as a default whenever I need to create an online identity.

Red Ryder BB Gun? You'll put your eye out kid!

This is a fun thread...when I first registered, for my login name I chose Albee Bach. It's a cheesy pun on the Terminator tag line, the writer Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and J.S. the composer. I quickly decided that the joke would get old, so I decided to have my screen name just be my name. But every time I log in, I still have to deal with the joke, and yes, it's still ridiculous and getting a little old.

Billy Shears is the name of the man who replaced Paul McCartney in the Beatles after he "died" in a car crash in 1966... hence the "66". I'm a huge Beatles fan... duh, but I don't believe the story, though it is fun to ponder

Why, Paul has done well, then. All those tunes since '66, and he gave Larry King a lively enough interview for a corpse a couple months ago...I hope I'm cranking out gems like "Blackbird" and "Maybe I'm Amazed" after I've gone feet-up.

Never heard the "Billy Shears" story before. Whatever floats people's boats, I guess.

Hello everyone! I'm new and just delighted to be here!
I've gone crazy trying to play some pieces by Debussy hence the screen name. I know, it's a really bad pun...

Ongaku roughly translates as soul or essence of music or sound. It's Japanese, although I'm not, at least this lifetime. But I do cherish transcendent experiences involving sound and music, live and recorded, including Piano.