Oolite Bulletins

Today is the 88th day of the year, which means it's Piano Day.
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8 should serve, methinks!


Eight is such a nice number!

Cody wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:13 am

Today is the 88th day of the year, which means it's Piano Day.
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8 should serve, methinks!


Eight is such a nice number!

Good choice. It struck me halfway that KISS once lifted that one theme into a song.

You steered me to listen to quite a bit of my collected piano works today. Schubert's Erlkönig was a fitting finale.

Old Murgh wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 5:08 pm

Good choice.

I was torn between that and Leyenda (which Robbie Krieger used to such good effect in Spanish Caravan).

Cody wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 5:32 pm

Old Murgh wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 5:08 pm

Good choice.

I was torn between that and Leyenda (which Robbie Krieger used to such good effect in Spanish Caravan).

Did you try Keeper's film?

Keeper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:11 am

Haven't played any of my pianos (I own three now) in quite some time, but I do arrange stuff for my MIDI-controlled player piano, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxG4zzX56_g

Keeper composes his own music which used to be played by his good chum, Tom Brier, who got mangled in a car crash back in 2016.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 5:44 pm

Did you try Keeper's film?

Keeper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:11 am

Haven't played any of my pianos (I own three now) in quite some time, but I do arrange stuff for my MIDI-controlled player piano, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxG4zzX56_g

Player pianos make weirdly hypnotic viewing.

Almost ghostly!

Cody wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:13 am

Today is the 88th day of the year, which means it's Piano Day.
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8 should serve, methinks!


Eight is such a nice number!

nice, it always puts me off a bit at first with classical musicians ( not all of them) with the smug superior attitude . They take themselves too seriously.
Besides Beethoven would have killed to get a piano like that..

https://www.kcrw.com/music/articles/bee ... his%20work.

Nice? She's drop-dead gorgeous! More importantly, she plays beautifully!

spud42 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:40 pm

Beethoven would have killed to get a piano like that..

Beethoven would've killed to get a Hammond organ with a volume control that went up to eleven!

Cody wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:55 pm

Beethoven would've killed to get a Hammond organ with a volume control that went up to eleven!

Can you do fortissimo on a Hammmond? (besides turning it up to 11..)

No idea, I was a drummer!

I thought, as cool as it sounds, you can't express the force of pressure on the tangents, which may dissatisfy Beethoven. At least reconsider killing for it.

In the land of E pluribus unum, today is New Beer's Eve!

I'll drink to that!

Today is International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day! Can you dig it?

Cody wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 11:25 pm

Today is International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day! Can you dig it?

Really? In the southern hemisphere surely?
Guerilla gardening sounds a bit dangerous.