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How Piano Was Invented
There’s an old joke that goes
Like this
The piano was only
Invented so the musician would have a place to put his beer
I tend to think
Otherwise about this and music in general
Yes it is another language one
Without words but full of emotion
One without grammar but full of structure
sonatas have definite sections and preludes
Used to be introductory pieces
Your fingers are an orchestra
Left hand, the bass, crammed with cellos, tubas, and other instruments in the lower
register
Right hand, brilliance, vibrant, the color in the painting
Violins, flutes, and more delicate instruments inhabit this area.
It’s a lot like writing
Practice is in solitude, performance is solo
There are many talented but few inherently gifted
It’s for anyone, any age, any skill, any ethnicity
Universal to all but oblivious to many
It’s not for reluctance or doubt
It was composed for passion, for effort
and diligence, for torment and frustration
But when you feel the exhaustion
in your hands, or the noise of the audience, you know you’ve done
your duty to those geniuses behind you who
wrote the foundation for your version
whether its Beethoven or Ravel, Chopin or
Rachmaninoff, commonalities exist
but difference create the beauty we’ve
come to love.
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