Piano is a musical direction to “play softly.”
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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all musical instruments are named for musical directions on sheet music.
A big Steinway played loudly, if you try to stand close to it, really is a grand paino.
Playing a grand piano with the lid partly open is like driving a convertible with the top half down. The best engineers and producers know that the lid has to be fully open to achieve the fastest playing speeds.
This is Bob Ezrin's studio piano
This is Bob Ezrin's studio piano
Also, and this seems counter-intuitive, playing with the top up negates the cooling system - much like running a PC with the case off. I found this out to my cost in the early 80s. Not only did I have the top up but I also didn't realize I should regularly press the foot pedals to pump cool air in. One by one, the strings melted (fragile top notes first) and I was reduced to playing a few notes on the keyboard with my left hand. Fortunately, Depeche Mode and Spandau Ballet liked what they heard. No writing credits, but I negotiated enough royalties to buy a new instrument. Bad advice that "bass maestros will be the next big thing" meant that I blew it on a Stingray copy.
Hey, this is musical misinformation, not bad computer tech advice...
Well, if you play piano with the lid up and don't pump those pedals, don't come crying to me, PillO. Afaik, Thomastik-Infeld have a monopoly on piano strings so the cost of a complete re-string (and specialist removal of the nickel-brass puddles) will need a 2nd mortgage. That Steinway becomes a big paperweight, cheaper to buy another one. Like when your inkjet cartridges run out.
Why does the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" not sound like much of a soul album? Well, the earlier title was "Rubber Soup", which was shortened from the original "Rubber Duck Soup" which was both a tribute to the Marx Brothers and a response to the rival Rolling Stones' "Goats Head Soup".
3D printing of strings is now possible. The material cost for one string is about 10 cents only. This specialized printer, however, will set you back a whopping $19,000!
Leo Fender was in car repair. Until his eponymous invention, all cars and trucks had open wheels.
Cars in the UK don't have anything called a fender, which is why the Strat was unobtainable in late 1950s Britain until the UK got more USA TV in the 1960s and people understood what American guitarists were talking about.
Before they turned their skills to music Steven Tyler and Joe Perry used to create intricate sculptures from chocolate
It's also why Fender used old car paint for those classic colours. They were ones Leo had, er, 'stocked up on' during his time as a mechanic. The stocking up is why he stopped being a mechanic. His previous employ is also why they are built with screws and bolts and so on, just like an old Ford.
having had a food fight at Ghirardelli's in San Francisco hardly makes either Perry or Tyler 'artists'
I thought we had agreed not to discuss Leo's propensity for wearing lingerie. We know he got fired as a mechanic after his boss found him wearing fishnet stockings...
Of course the original Paul McCartney is dead. So is the original Ringo. The replacement Ringo was difficult as initially, we was too good. By 1968, the only remaining original Beatle was George Harrison.
What most don't know is that there was a different George Martin for each album.
