I'm working on a song. Quite possibly I need lyrics for the upcoming PT recital! How would you fill in the blank?
Never ________ while playing piano
If you have a true-life story you'd like to share, I'd love to hear it!
Never ________ while playing piano
"pick your nose" LOL!!
Think about how nice a snack would be right now. You will need to stop playing, get up and get your snack, eat it, then wash your hands and sit down at the piano again. Meanwhile, twenty minutes has gone by.
I would say I'm looking for a kid's song vibe. An activity that plausibly you would want to do while playing a piano.
Still, if you have an idea that ventures into PG-13 or R territory, I will consider it!
Drive
I was initially going to say ‘smoke,’ as I had in mind a certain piano that had an ash tray built into a cheek block! But given it’s supposed to be for kids, maybe ‘watch cartoons’ or ‘eat a big Mac’ or ‘eat a Dairy Queen blizzard’.
— wash your hair
— brush your teeth
— do your nails
— sign a cheque
— throw a fit
— scratch an itch
— call the cops
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--- pet a porcupine
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Answer your phone.
You see videos of orchestra performances. All of a sudden somebody’s phone starts ringing. Sounds like it’s coming from the clarinet section. The person who owns the phone keeps playing and pretends not to notice. Then the conductor stops. Everybody look towards the direction of the ring. The clarinet player smiles and gets embarrassed…
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Sgisela I was initially going to say ‘smoke,’ as I had in mind a certain piano that had an ash tray built into a cheek block!
It is interesting seeing some older pictures or videos where musicians were smoking. I think of a Bill Evans photo where he's got a cigarette hanging out one side of his mouth. I think of several videos I've seen of Frank Sinatra workin' on a cigarette as he's performing on stage. And there are others.
Can't lie, sometimes the raspy tone of some of those smokers is kinda appealing to some of us who don't smoke and don't have that "edge" to our voices. But I'm still not gonna take up smoking.
Oh, and I almost forgot... there are the Oscar Peterson types... I don't know if Oscar ever smoked, I didn't think he did, but he always had his towel perched somewhere on the piano and would grab it and wipe the sweat off his head, didn't matter if it was in the middle of a song or not, the other hand just kept on playing and most people would never know the difference. LOL!
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Store your chewed gum on the fallboard.
Not based on a true story by the way, but on a song my father used to sing when I was a kid:
Never drink coffee (or tea). If you have a spill, it's going to affect the action. Coffee into a DP would ruin the internal circuit.
Animisha sneeze!
There's a passage in Patrick Süskind's book Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer where the fictional author, remembering his childhood, tells the story of a fatal piano lesson with Fräulein Funkel. He is playing a duet with her, and keeps playing an F natural instead of an F# at a particular point. She gets angry at him and hits the note several times, saying "That is an F#". Then she has to sneeze. She wipes the snot from her nose with her finger and hits the note several more times. She thus deposits a large booger on the F# key. When they repeat the passage, the boy cannot bring himself to touch the disgusting mess on the key, and therefore in desperation once more plays an F natural. Fräulein Funkel goes into a tantrum of rage and throws him out.
Drink coffee!
I said that from experience - some of these suggestions had me spit out my morning coffee I was laughing so hard. Fortunately I wasn't at the piano and the computer keyboard is used to that type of abuse and proven it can take it 