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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.
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My name is Daniel... A clue: look at the letters which are musical notes.
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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.
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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)
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Originally posted by seebechstein: Sarabande, you didn't explain your login name, or did you do so somewhere else? Originally posted by sarabande: By the way I keep getting addressed as Sara on the forums which is fine as short for sarabande but my real name is not Sara. I picked sarabande because I like the dance-form as in Bach's Suites and I thought it made me sound sweet along with the flower. Tulips are one of my favorite flowers. http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/19/156/4.html#000080
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Thanks Sam and/or pianojerome, "you took the words right out of my mouth"!
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Sarabande, I own, and love, my Mason and Hamlin CC2 9 foot Concert Grand...............and ADORE Chopin, above all other composers. Pretty straightforward, huh?
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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.
...I asked my mother if I was a gifted child...she said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
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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.
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. (1 Pet 4:7-8 NIV)
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hmm.. i sold a dog (we briefly tried) I had named apple the day I joined.
accompanist/organist.. a non-MTNA teacher to a few
love and peace, Õun (apple in Estonian)
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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.
Some men are music lovers. Others make love without it.
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"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.
"These are the good old days" --Carly Simon
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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?
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Beethoven Sonata Op. 10 No. 2 in F, Haydn Sonata Hoboken XVI:41, Bach French Suite No. 5 in G BWV 816
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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
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Originally posted by John Citron: Sarabande - Which era? The happy early version or the stoic later version? John 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.
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Sarabande - do you live any where close to KC?
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love and peace, Õun (apple in Estonian)
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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.
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I have two little ones, that's why a picked a picture of a baby. That's how my daughter looks like now
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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!
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You think pianos are expensive? How about $200 for a plant? LOL!
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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]
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