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Originally posted by keystring: It is unfortunate to see the other party then goaded into responding in kind. I'm sorry but I'm just an human ... I get irritated too sometimes I know, I know ... count to ten ...
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Danny,
I must say I am a little confused by your postings because they differ so much depending on whom you are talking to.
In the pianists forum and piano teachers forum, I find you aggressive and quick to strike, almost a challenge to a duel, and I find you ever present.
When telling us about how you work with your students, it sounds like a pedagogue wrote the answers, not a young person, coming to teaching while still in his teens.
It makes me doubt that you are an 18 year old student, for instance.
I have trouble believing that you have come to these conclusions from your own experience, since this kind of growing has it's questioning period and testing period. You come fully expounding on so many subjects.
I also think it's unfortunate that you challenge so strongly and insult some of the very people who have earned their "badges" in music or music teaching.
We're just human too. Some things cause me to react too. I make mistakes in discretion. I very much learn from reading PWF postings. I don't think you've learned it all yet, because I'm still learning, too.
Please don't use your verbal power against us. It alienates rather than brings us together. Discussion is better communication possibilities.
I may regret being so clear here, but the subject is coming up here, so I'll take the opportunity to say something that has been bothering me for a while. I more than counted to 10, and it is still with me as a concern.
So here it is - expressed.
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Hear hear Betty, Just like in high school, using long words doesn't make you cool. And try not to be so agressive. Would you talk to someone like that in real life? If you would, you're not exactly a very likeable person are you. This is totally off-topic but I can't stand it when someone talks as if they own the place. Even if you really did own the place what gives you the right to talk to someone like that? Because of your attitude, you're now being treated like the 18 year old teenage boy that I highly doubt you are.
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Originally posted by keystring: Could those of us reading silently be permitted to consider the suggestions by merit, without being peppered with words such as "total nonsense", Keystring, I appreciate your good intentions in this debate but I can only repeat - If anybody says that posture (apart from something totally bizarre) can have an effect on the breaking in of the nail joint they are talking total nonsense. The only influence on that joint is the tendon which attaches to it. To think anything else affects it is to believe in some sort of mumbo-jumbo.
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I'm sorry Betty but you're being unfair. I noticed you got kind of offended by replied to your point in the other threads when you said that "I forgot to disagree with a point of yours" and yet you're the one who started disagreeing with a point of mine. So why the double standard? Why am I supposed to accept disagreement (and I do regardless) but you are supposed to get offended by mine?
I have replied all your questions without compaining. And if I have "insulted" it was directed are people who (I don't care if they earn their leaving teachhing or cooking hamburgers) showed disrespctful and discriminative attitude against the very people they should respect and trust. If you have no problem with teachers discussing of their students as little brats, feeling superior or talking about breaking fingers to boys who wants to reason with their own minds then your sensitivity is very differet than mind. You think that respecting creepy behaviors and ideas from teachers (for the sake of them being teachers? do you want to build an elite?) is more important than defending the people who must endure such behaviors and ideas?
I'm very strong about discrimination of any kind. The idea that I shoulnd't react strongly to racist remarks for example and be nice is insulting to the victims of those remarks. Should the respect for people discriminative opinions be more important than defending who is harmed and belittle by those opinions?
My age is the one I have written in my profile. My profile is the one I have created when posting on this forum for the first time about playing by ear. I didn't know circumstances would eventually bring me to discuss different matter so there's no reason for me to lie, because nothing about these discussions and the controversial on the teachers forum was planned. We could have a video audio conversation so you could see that I'm indeed a young man, as in fact I have still some growing to do.
Your idea that you can't have certain ideas when you're young is completely flawed. Not only because children as young as 2 year old have the mental and emotive ability to contemplate about life, its meaning and people. But also because there are many adults out there who everyday for 30 years have worked in the same factory and consumed in the same bar and there are kids who in their first 10 years old their life have made lot of experiences and travelled a lot or get involved with many concepts and tasks. Even one year when many things like the illness of your mother, the death of your aunt, the loss of your house, three journey on foreign families, an after school in a bakery can teach you more than 30 years lived in a predictable and repetitive way.
I have been taught to be responsible and I thank my family for such a gift. I used to take my own bike and go at the supermarket at 8 year old to make my own food shopping and cook my own food. My mother would go to work at 5.30 am and I learned at 7 to wake on my own, prepare my breakfast and go to school walking for 2 kilometers. At 10 I had already been involved with the green party spending the weekend clensing rivers of the junk people and industries would throw, with trascendental meditation and reiki, with yoga and international competitive gymnastic, with hygienism and alternative medicine and with hospital volunteering work. My father chose to give up any chance to earn any money and make a career by becoming a volunteer in Africa eating nothing but rice and sweet beans everyday. My mother studied medicine and renounced a career to be a volunteer. I was playing the piano to accompany my aunt towards death the day that cancer take her away in the sofa of a living room and I have been plagued with heart disease. I chose to spend less time with my classmates to offer my company and friendship to down children and I experienced the death of four of my best friends. I have interacted with lot of people of any age and listened them talking and teaching me things for hours, I have read and travelled around a lot.
I don't find anything remotely strange in a mature young people and most young people are way more mature than older and their parents to begin with. But if the problem is one of time available to make experience then let me tell you that within two years I have made more experience than the average adult do in 20 years.
Besides I have provided links to books and websites that show that when given a chance, when treated seriously as individuals and when given freeomd and allower to make good choices children of very young age are capable of extraordinary maturity.
But oferring a video/chat to show how young I am sounds like one of those absurd offers created to proove something that we have heard about lately. Please notice that I never emphasized my age and in fact you're the one who focused on it with your questions which I have kindly answered to. The post I'm replying to sound actually discriminative and if you can't sense the discriminative vibes on it I understand why you feel more like defending the teacher priesthood more than protecting the victims of harmful and shamefull discrimination.
There no "us" Betty. People who teach are individuals and each of us is different and have different ideas. So there's no reason to depict a "you vs. us teachers" scenario because there's no unifying group of teachers, there are just different people and I treat and react to them differently according to what they say and what their attitude is. So of course Betty my posting differ so much depending on whom I'm talking to. I don't want to fix myself into some kind of constructed fake personality. I am elastic enough to be able to react differently according to unique nature of each circumstance and each individual.
The cutest cat can become the worst beast to deal with when you try to harm the kittens and I do become aggressive when I see people or artifically contructed groups of people being discriminated, patronized, insulted and treated without an hint of respect. Discrimination and hypocrisy are what I never tolerate and the only things that make my blood really boiling. And I don't plant to forgive for this.
It is clear that keyboardklutz is a leg puller that gets turned on by harassing others and it is clear that I have all the rights to react (sometimes excessively but again I'm just an human) when my legs are pulled. It is also clear that some of his ideas are questionable and that people have the right to disagree with him just like people have the right to disagree with me.
I answered kindly to keyboardklutz and he is the one who forgot to treat me in a civil manner and indulge in his hideous bitterness and sarcasm he must believe to be very funny.
Your unbalanced support of keyboardklut unforgivable attitude and blaming it on me just tells me that you really believe in this "teacher elite" nonsense to the point that klutz for being part of this elite is without sin and always right and defendible and while I (being new, young, atypical or just a liar ... depending on what's going on in your mind) am the one to blame, the one that should respect arbitrarily the holy klutz without expecting the same respect in return.
I'm very disappointed and offended by your post and I'm don't believe I will trust again the well-meant nature of your questions or intentions. I rest my case that my reply to keyboardklutz was not at all inappropriate and that many others would have reacted in way worse ways. Keyboardklutz just wasted my time and was just throwing a bait at me looking for a chance to act as a clown to attract attention and feel so funny and I don't accept being used in such a way. Seeing how you got so easily offended by a post of mine just because I dare not to agree with your words I don't how how better your reaction to klutz leg pulling would be. I would think twice about throwing stones and would first try to imagine myself in someone else shoes.
I will keep helping the people who appreciated my help and getting help from people who appreciate helping me. I'm not here to create controversies, to feel superior, to promote my theories or to prove anything about me. I'm here to learn what I can learn and to help when I can. But if along the way I see injustices and discrimination and sick patronization I will react because every cell of being tells to and I would feel disgusted at the idea of ignoring that and stop reacting just I like I would feel disgusted at myself if someone on the street would being attacked and asking for help and I pretended I didn't eat and nothing happened just to be safe.
Some of us prefer prefer to be everyone's friend, popular, nice, esteemed and not react to injustices. I prefer to react to injustices even if that means collecting enemies, being criticized, threatened, insulted and called aggressive and a liar.
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Originally posted by keyboardklutz: If anybody says that posture (apart from something totally bizarre) can have an effect on the breaking in of the nail joint they are talking [b]total nonsense. [/b] And yet I have never dared to call many of your questionable superficial claims "nonsense". I haven't because I know what respect is, all you know is loving yourself and mistreat other people just for the sake of showing-off your witty sarcasm.
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Originally posted by nUtChAi: Because of your attitude, you're now being treated like the 18 year old teenage boy that I highly doubt you are. What's the different between claiming that someone is "treated like a teenager" or claiming that someone is "treated like a [censored]"? I'm just appalled by how you are unable to see how discriminative your words are and how painful they are for someone who can tell discrimination when he hears it. Please nUtChAi this discussion is not your business and it's not very mature of you to intervene when you're not part active of it and you never had a chance to interact with me in the forum.
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Originally posted by Danny Niklas: Originally posted by nUtChAi: [b] Because of your attitude, you're now being treated like the 18 year old teenage boy that I highly doubt you are. What's the different between claiming that someone is "treated like a teenager" or claiming that someone is "treated like a [censored]"? I'm just appalled by how you are unable to see how discriminative your words are and how painful they are for someone who can tell discrimination when he hears it.
Please nUtChAi this discussion is not your business and it's not very mature of you to intervene when you're not part active of it and you never had a chance to interact with me in the forum. [/b]You really ought to go cool off there Danny. There are no keep out signs here.
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Danny said at the end of his posting directed to me:
"Some of us prefer prefer to be everyone's friend, popular, nice, esteemed and not react to injustices. I prefer to react to injustices even if that means collecting enemies, being criticized, threatened, insulted and called aggressive and a liar."
My reply: Injustices really are my melting point, it's the dynamic that makes me pursue the situation, not to win, Danny, but to help provide a place where each member of the situation can find some thing to agree about and to look at the contributing parts for what the disagreement is about. I hate it when someone gets hurt by things said - I hate it when I do it (inadvertently, believe it or not)and I hate it when it's done to me.
You have disclosed a lot about yourself in your post and I would like some time to read carefully and understand what you have said.
nUtChAi is representing himself - he is a reader and a poster here. I don't know nUtChAi well either, but let's not scold him/her for what he has posted. I take it this way, you are saying to us - What audacity that he gets into something he knows nothing about, wasn't involved with, and certainly because you do not know him. - You say "it's not your business, it's not very mature of you". What are we to think - this seems like a control issue - and this is an integrated forum for the most part.
The most discomforting part is that we go to devices that undermine our own integrity when we use them.
I hope nUtChAi is not intimidated to receive his/her public scolding from you. I think nUtChAi simply said what he felt for whatever reason he/she had. From the birth date given in the profile, you and nUtChAi are contemporaries in age.
I am sorry to see you upset over so many things, Danny.
Betty
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Originally posted by Betty Patnude: I hate it when someone gets hurt by things said - I hate it when I do it (inadvertently, believe it or not)and I hate it when it's done to me.
I am sorry to see you upset over so many things, Danny. Let's make a summary here so it can become clear why I'm upset. I have never disagree on technical, musical and theorical matter calling someone else ideas, beliefs and tastes "nonsense" or "idiocies". When I have disagreed I have pointed out it was my personal opinion and did it politely and respecting the person I'm talking about. The only instances in which I have become more aggressive in my disagreement is when Gyro claimed that people who suffered from tendonitis faked it and when I saw people discussing of students if they are worthless brats without brain to patronize and turn into submission. They were all strong discriminations and injustices and I'm a bit more outspoken and tough when I deal with those and when the person/people I feel the need to defend are not there to defend themselves or have been made unable to defend themselves. You questioned things I have said and disagreed with me and I accepted your disagreement but felt the need to respond myself with respect and in a civil manner again pointing out that everything was "in my opinion". You got offended by the fact that I replied to each of your point but I didn't say anything and replied nicely and politely to your provocation. I still find strange that I'm not supposed to be offended when you disagree with me but you are when I disagree with you. The last thing occurred here with keyboardklutz expecting a reply for me as if it was my duty to. The truth is that when I reply I use my time and I hope to use it constructively. keybordklutz is free to disagree with me but not to insult me and reduce all the posts into a "you're wrong and I'm right" superficial concept because I do feel that my time has been wasted and I hate wasting time. nUtChAi post finally has not been very polite or respectful. He is free to disagree with me and I'm the first one to be grateful to people who are able to show me my mistakes. But the way she phrased the whole thread as if I were the rude troll and seasoning it with a good dose of ageist discrimination wasn't nice at all and that's why I asked him, if he has to insult and make easy judgements, to refrain from such lack of respect at least till he doesn't interact a bit more with me and get aquainted with the circumstances. This is all. In all other posts I have both offered my help or have been helped. I'm neither rude or aggressive for the sake of it. But I'm a very frank, genuine and direct type of person and very pretty outspoken. I hate hypocrisy with a passion.
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Keystring, I appreciate your good intentions in this debate but I can only repeat - If anybody says that posture (apart from something totally bizarre) can have an effect on the breaking in of the nail joint they are talking total nonsense. The only influence on that joint is the tendon which attaches to it. To think anything else affects it is to believe in some sort of mumbo-jumbo. I disagree, because of what I, in turn have been taught and shown outside of this forum. However, I believe that what is happening is that people are talking past each other. It is a very common thing to do, because there is nothing as faulty as human language. We use words as primitive, imperfect symbols locked within coding devices called syntax and grammar, locked within our expectations created by our backgrounds, and then we attempt to codify our thoughts, and decode the thoughts of others. We do not understand what others say: we understand what we interpret others to say. The bulk of communication often lies beyond words, yet we believe in the words first. In fact, we believe in our interpretation - the decoding - as being the understanding. THEN we react - not to what has been said - but to what we have decoded. It is a most frustrating thing to see people talking past each other, and thinking they are communicating, and being able to see commonalities. I will not presume to argue the issues, because I am beginning my journey, and you are all experienced pianists. However, I believe I do understand what Danny is saying, it does make sense. But I am probably not understanding it in the same way, and possibly in a less exaggerated manner. If I'm understanding this, there is no contest between your two views. They are different aspects. As far as my being a student is concerned, my learning path lies outside this forum with a competent teacher who can watch and guide me. EVEN if someone is teaching the proper thing, the chances are they will not be understood through the medium of words and outside of observation. EVEN if the person on the Internet does manage to understand, chances are that he or she will not reproduce what he understands. In my mind, the most dangerous of all to experiment with unguided are those which lie at the foundation of our playing. I do know this: I have been told in the live world to sit at a height that will allow my forearms to be even with the floor, to have a relatively straight line (no big curve at the wrist), to not hunch my shoulders, and that there is a strong arch immune to collapse which has its high point at the knuckles. Here I am coming from what I have been taught - not what I'm reading on the Net. That's as far as I will go. But you can see perhaps why this discussion has interested me.
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It sounds like you've been taught very well!
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It sounds like you've been taught very well! I spent most of my first years doing the wrong thing, paying attention to the wrong thing, tying myself up in such knots that it took over a year to function anything to normal. Piano is my second and recent instrument. It is only dawning on me recently where wisdom lies. Yes, it seems that I have.
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Um, Mr. Kitty, were you one of the folks stressing the arch a while back? I was still so new to all the avatar-faces.
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I personally consider the arch to be the only way. The Russians tend to think differently and we all know they've produced many of the greatest pianists. The arch IS godly.
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Mr. Kitty: So you were the arch-person. And it's stressed by the Russian pianists? I have a reason to ask. Danny: Somewhere in one of the threads that I think you participated in as well (?) there is mention of the arch (of the hand?) (by Mr. K?) which explains an arch. Intuitively, knowing the arch is a strong supporting shape that holds up bridges, and the more force that is applied, the stronger it gets ... which I think somehow ties in to your non-collapsing nail-joint if you follow the various dotted lines. My salted salad from reading you guys. Keyboardklutz is either the sliced tomatoes, or the main greens in the mix. Everybody gave a different side of the puzzle. Or, taking your earlier metaphor - turning a 3D object round and round and round.
There is the parable of the three blind men who argued about the nature of elephants.
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Keystring, I think you missed out on this thread (edit - Sorry, I see you didn't): http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/2/16856/3.html Here are some extracts: Originally posted by keyboardklutz: You can approximate this position by forming a triangle with your hand, the knuckles being the top of the pyramid, Disciple, if you are 'forming' your hand you have tension there. Originally posted by Mr_Kitty: "forming" the hand does not necessarily mean tension. Many great pianists appear to have flat, square-looking palms (Horowitz, Michelangeli, many others) . They were not born this way. I was taught to call it support from the INSIDE of the hand. Support comes from having feet flat on the ground, the pelvis tilted forward so that you are sitting properly, (not "slouching"). The shoulders support the arms, which hang free completely free of tension. Lastly, support comes from the centre of the hand (this takes the most training) so that all 5 fingers are equally supported. You can see this type of technique in Disciple's playing-palms flat, knuckles raised. You can see it in Horowitz, Oscar Peterson, and Martha Argerich as well (especially in her earlier performances from when she studied with Maria Curcio) . Originally posted by keyboardklutz: Originally posted by Mr_Kitty: [b] "forming" the hand does not necessarily mean tension. If you have any idea of a 'shape' for your hand, you have tension. Anything other than total resting of the hand on the keys will involve tension. I don't know why you're so defensive about it, nearly every pianist does (though I don't).[/b]Originally posted by Mr_Kitty: yes. the natural shape of the hand is simply NOT suited to playing the piano. With this technique things like the Ossia Cadenza from Rachmaninoff 3rd concerto FEELS EASY AT FULL SPEED. So do things like Scarlatti and Haydn. The dynamic range available at the fingertips seems almost superhuman to people hearing it for the first time. As for speed.... lol.... things get pretty darn quick. Over time the "unnatural" shape becomes less and less noticeable-right now in my playing it is fairly easy to spot, but in the playing of someone like Disciple, who is much more advanced, the shape is more subtle. Give me a few months
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Didn't miss it - just didn't remember which and where it was. I read that, and a few other threads, with interest. I stand by my salted salad.
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Sorry, I just noticed you were in on it. It's worth keeping an eye on, I think it is Mr_Kitty's, Disciple and my final words on the subject. Not to mention excellent contributions from Jerry, secondo and Jazzwee.
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