Piano paraphernalia (slightly OT)

ShiroKuro · 2024-06-04T09:59:00+00:00

Some of you may remember that we’re moving soon (from the piano placement thread). So of course, as I pack, I’m trying to get rid of some things. And I recen...

Rubens

@ShiroKuro How could you not use that bag? It's a great conversation starter! I know if a lady carried that bag I would approach her from across the room and start talking about piano! But maybe you don't want to be approached by piano sleazeballs like myself🤣.

ShiroKuro

Rubens
Rubens, I would love to be approached a "piano sleazeball!" 😆

Now you've made me rethink... I haven't taken the stuff to Goodwill yet, but it's in the box.. maybe I'll go fish it out!
(This is why I have way too much stuff!)

Adagiette

Rubens I was actually at a Goodwill recently when a young man came in to donate a very nice-looking keyboard, stool and accessories. It was all I could do not to be a "piano sleazeball" myself!

Stub

Will your new house have a garage? The wall in your garage would be a good place for the Ltreble clef. It would save you from having to decide about tossing it and it would class-up your garage.

Love the clock.

twocats

Stub Will your new house have a garage?

That's a great idea! Or the laundry room or some other less public room. I actually have some artwork in a walk-in closet 😂

Regarding the purse, I'm sure there's someone out there who would love it! I'm pretty active in my neighborhood Buy Nothing group (on Facebook) and it's so heartwarming to give stuff to people who are thrilled to be the recipient.

Pallas

What I like to do with objects I don't want to keep any more is stage a very nice still life photograph featuring the items. With good lighting and good composition, a photo can be printed and hung in the room or placed in a scrap book. Then those things can be given to people who will love them. My house is positively choked with artwork, and my closet is very small, so I've got to make hard decisions about what to keep/add. Good luck with arranging your new space!

shawarma_bees

I can relate to this, but from the other side. Our Bluthner is coming this Friday, and I've spent the last few weeks preparing the space it'll be going in. Setting up bookshelves, furniture, drapes, decorations, lighting, acoustic panels, etc. Trying to make the space feel as cozy and refined as possible, within the limitations of what we can accomplish in a rental.

Thankfully it's finally starting to come together. Last night as I stood proudly in the room's entrance admiring our handiwork, my wife playfully remarked that I was acting like an expectant mother preparing a nursery. 😆

brdwyguy

Shiro, check your private message?
brdwyguy
Joey

Rubens

ShiroKuro 🤣If you carry that bag and we meet one day, I'll give you a pair of these to match:

TC3

We bought this painting from a talented young local artist:

The funny thing is, he claims that he wasn't thinking piano when he painted this. But his mom is literally a professional piano teacher at a university! 😃

kanadajin

Brother-in-law is an arquitect turned visual artist. Knowing my passion for piano, he painted this for a special occasion. Very thoughtful of him.

twocats

Loving the paintings that people are sharing!!

Thankfully no one has given me any piano or music related gifts, as I'm pretty particular about clutter. But last year one of the members of the chamber music workshop made us all little representations of ourselves! It was so sweet and I treasure my little pianist ❤️

I also have the cheesy trophy I got from my first piano competition, which makes for a handy bookend.

Thankfully the later competitions only gave out certificates. I don't think I would want a bunch of trophies but I probably wouldn't have the heart to throw them away. I have an RCM silver medal somewhere (Canadian provincial top score for piano exam) and that was a really big deal to me back then, maybe I should find it and put it out!

Gombessa

My favorite bit of kit is an action model I picked up off ebay a couple of years ago. I have grand (and very ill-conceived) plans to make some modifications at some point, and am using this to get my bearings. And it's just a lot of fun to see how an action works.

shawarma_bees

Gombessa
This is awesome. Remind me what piano you have? I'm curious to hear what modifications you're hoping to eventually make!

navindra

Gombessa Wow! I've always wanted one of those...

FrankCox

My wife makes fancy quilts.

She made this little wall hanging for me a couple of years ago. I have it beside my piano, of course.

She said there wasn't a good way to make budgies that would fit into the available space, but the singing birds are appropriate anyway.

ShiroKuro

@TC3 and @kanadajin , I love those two prints/paintings!

@TC3 maybe the artist wanted you to think it was a Bigfoot footprint?? 😄

currawong

I'd be inclined to keep the bag, and use it to store all those little musicky things that can clutter up shelves - pencils, notebooks, stickers, erasers. But you're probably so techy you don't use these any more ... 🙂

twocats

Rubens or even better, you wear the heels and it'll be like a secret piano club code.

Rubens

twocats I tried but they don't go well with my old hairy legs.

ShiroKuro

If only I wore heels…

I dunno, you all are convincing me to keep the piano bag… 😅

Gombessa

shawarma_bees

I have a Bose 214VC with a Disklavier system. That system has a silent play feature, which employs an alternative letoff that lets you have the "best of both worlds" in terms of action integrity between acoustic and silent play. The "problem" I see with the alternative letoff is that it's a single rail that affects all keys the same way, and I can definitely tell that the regulation is a bit "off" on some keys in silent mode. So at some point I'd love to replace the silent letoff rail with one that has 88 individual felts or buttons, so the silent regulation can be as dialed in as possible--given that 99% of my playtime is in silent mode, getting the touch right matters a lot to me!