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me? playing piano at 12:36 am? more likely than you think

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“I […] come home at nightfall, tidy my hair, put on my evening shoes and then go off to a party. About ten or eleven, sometimes twelve but never later, I come home, play the piano, have a good cry, read, look at things, have a laugh, get into bed, blow out my candle and always dream about you all.”

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Frédéric Chopin

’s night routine, from a letter to Jan Matuszynski, Dec. 25th 1830. (via

giardinonymphe

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@frycek-chop

(via hath-thee-in-thrall)

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When you’re practicing and your intonation is shit, so you instinctively check your instrument’s tuning, only to realize it’s been perfectly in tune the entire time

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The Boston Symphony was performing Beethoven’s Ninth. In the piece, there’s a long passage about 20 minutes during which the double basses have nothing to do. Rather than sit around the whole time looking stupid, some bassists decided to sneak offstage and go to the tavern next door for a quick one. After slamming several beers in quick succession (as double bassists are prone to do), one of them looked at his watch. “Hey! We need to get back!”

“No need to panic,” said a fellow bassist. "I thought we might need some extra time, so I tied the last few pages of the conductor’s score together with string. It’ll take him a few minutes to get it untangled.“

A few moments later they staggered back to the concert hall and took their places in the orchestra. About this time, a member of the audience noticed the conductor seemed a bit edgy and said as much to her companion.

“Well, of course,” said her companion. “Don’t you see? It’s the bottom of the Ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded.”

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You: kiss my ass!

Me, an intellectual: Mozart K. 231

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Ron would be a viola, hands down

The instrument chooses the musician, Mr Potter. It is not always clear why.

on a related note I think harry would be a trumpet player

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Unpopular opinion:

Not all dogs…

Are good boys.

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People: “Classic FM is the UK’s foremost broadcaster of classical music and has a dignified reputation that should be taken seriously”

Classic FM:

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Tuesday’s are alright, but fuck Thursday’s, those are the worst. And Sundays

Hey best friend. I had a rough day. Hoping yours was better than mine. Here's to Tuesday being over! Is it just me, or do Tuesdays suck?

best friend! tuesday’s can be pretty rough, this one was pretty good for me though. im sorry you had a bad day, here’s hoping the next one is better! if you ever want to talk about it, im all ears :)

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god i love the celestial seasonings sleepytime tea bear so fucking much

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Shoutout to all the 1997-2001 kids who are somehow hybrids of millennials and gen z. We are the Ultimate Generation of 90’s nostalgia and new age internet depression.

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If you don’t make futile attempts to learn pieces that are way above your skill level and weep at your own inadequacy are you even a musician

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Funny, how a melody sounds like a memory❣️

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People always talk about musical prodigies, I’m way more interested in late bloomers. And that’s partially because I am one - I did start learning piano around 5 or 6, but didn’t take it seriously and basically had to be forced to practice for 20 minutes a day by my mother. I only started putting any effort in around 19, which is supposed to be after the cut-off point but clearly isn’t since I got into one of the most competitive music programs in the country. But, again, 19 wasn’t anywhere near my first exposure to learning and playing music.

Now I have heard about other people like me, who were exposed to music at a young age but weren’t serious players until they were older - Wes Montgomery didn’t play the guitar until age 20 for instance. But are there any masters who didn’t have any musical training until their teens or later? Traditional wisdom says the cutoff point is very young but I’m curious if anyone knows any counterexamples.

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Shelf? Pshawwwww dream house gonna have a whole damn library for scores

Dream house will have a special room that is just a practice room. and it will be sunny with huge windows and a built in shelf to store scores