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Q: What's the difference between a Samick and Kansas City?

A: Freight trains slow down when they roll through Kansas City.

Don
Kansas City

Q. What's the difference between a coffin and a Samick?

A. With the coffin, the dead person is on the inside.

Hey come on Samicks aren't that bad!!!!I played on one once in a store and it wasn't that bad I used to play on a very old Estey upright console for years! Now that piano was bad, When I lived in the Keys I had to have 10 of the strings replaced because they just broke without warning, the only explanantion the tuner could give me is well this what you have to expect with a 3rd rated piano that is 25 years and after all it is an Estey..........sorry I don't have better news for you

Seriously, whenever I play the song Candle in the Wind by ELton John I always cry it makes me think of my mom who died of breast cancer when she was only 42 years old. I was 16 at the time. So whenever I think about her I like to play Candle in the WInd by Elton John.

LOL !

To answer the question I don't recall ever crying while playing, be it of joy, pain or sadness. Hearing my sustain pedal squeaking everytime I press it almost makes me cry though, but I'm getting used to it

For me crying isn't an issue, what is an issue is nodding off when playing. This has happened as well with my guitar work...not quite fall asleep but the music lulls you into some fugue state and you lose track of the technical aspect.

what music is it you're playing that's making you cry?.

please don't make statements like that and not give us that info. that's like saying "oh oh i'm eating the best ice cream ever made" and not give us the flavor or brand

ps im about to cry because i want to knowwwww. he he

I've been chocked up many time by beautiful emotional music. A maching band playing a Sousa March, a full orchestra, pianos and choirs playing Carmina Burana gets me every time.

Anyway, I have a cousin with a Samic World piano that is the equal of almost any piano I've ever played. Funny jokes but I would probably substitute some other well known brands.

Well, I usually don't cry when I play. I sometimes sweat when I'm playing something extreme, but I'm not the most emotional of pianists.

BTW, I almost cried just reading this thread, quite funny, the whole Samick bit.


Dakota

It depends on the music for me, particularly if a particular piece (or song) touches your heart very deeply... I started learning to play after seeing Scott Houston's "Play piano in a flash" shows on PBS. I watched, but I did not think his videos would make a difference. Then December 31, 2006. I was at a retreat house for New Years. When 12 midnight came, everyone shouted "Happy New Year" and I started playing "Auld Lang Syne" on the piano. After I retired for the night, I thought "Mamma Mia! I played the piano!!!" I started to cry... I do not doubt Scott anymore! The next morning, I played a little more and cried while playing. I recently played theme from Romeo and Juliet! and I am trying to play "Crying in the Rain" by the Everley Bros. (made famous by A-ha). Wow! I am happy I played... will take lessons soon...

hotkeys, that has got to be one of the most inspirational and touching stories i have ever heard!!!! are you playing totally by ear now or doing both ear and reading? what an inspiration you are. i would love to hear you play, i think you are a natural!!!

ps what a Beautiful way to start the New Year!!!

I did while playing song the World Trade Center theme song from the World Trade Center Movie. Its by Craig Armstrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTWAYjGg-EQ

PS: Not me playing but a good video.

That song would make anyone cry...how beautiful, moving and so haunting. May we forever be haunted by that day.

Thank you for sharing this,
Kathleen

Nope, never cried while I was playing, but was really on the verge of tears when I played back my recording of what I had played.

No, no, no. How could I have done that. It's awful. That piece drags, where it should be spritely, and accelerates in all the wrong places. And those wrong notes. How did they get in there.

It is tempting to blame it on my zoom H4, for being so brutally honest about what it hears.

One could make a fortune if they developed a recorder that automatically edited out all the errors, and replaced them with the correct notes, and revised the tempo where necessary. I would be first on line to buy one.

Well, I don't cry while playing, but sure have to stiffle back the sobs when I hear the recording. Gaby Tu

funburger,

This is a paraphrase of a post I entered back in late December in the "Any hopeless romantics out there" thread. I'm still learning the mentioned song and hope to have it memorized and recorded within a couple of months.

Seriously,

Most definately. If the song is beautiful and the piano 'just right', I get overwhelmed that I am making beautiful music.

It has also happened while performing for a church wedding of a relative or even a Christmas or Easter Service.

I can hardly read the notes.

LL, who sometimes emotes.

Gabytu, ROTFL, that is just much too funny. well, you could always hire a pro editor, then you can brag about your great new recording system, and how your old one was all messed up

Lisztener, your story brought tears to my eyes. sorry about your sister.
i want to hear that when you are finished with it, as i know it will be ever so beautiful.

lilylady, thank-you for sharing, and for your honesty. i am sure all of your music is beautiful!!!

I sang "Everything I Own" by Bread (under my breath) to my Dad at his funeral -1976- every time I play it I tear up...association is the key... even now

Yes, funburger.
It just shows you put all your heart into playing. You have a chance of becoming a better piano player than 99.99% of the people out there banging on keys.

Hotkeys, I just saw your post and you just made me cry! I can't tell you how much I appreciate your post, and how unbelievably happy I am that you sat down and DID IT. Yeah!!!!

The fact that my show had anything to do with it just put a smile on my face for the rest of the week.

My personal tear jerker tune is a beautiful ballad called "I Remember Clifford" which Benny Golson wrote as a tribute to Clifford Brown after his death. Knowing that "back story" while playing the tune slowly and emotionally gets me teared up every time.

If some of you guys/gals haven't learned this tune yet, I'd encourage you to find a lead sheet and give it a try. It's gorgeous...

If anyone wants to, we ought to start a thread to work through the tune! I'd be happy to answer any questions or give any advice (taken at your own risk...) and help any/all get the tune under hand.

Hopefully this is not considered too late to respond to this thread (less than a month okay?). I've choked up pretty much every time I play a Gershwin ballad called Soon. Our new piano is a Kohler & Campbell Millenium. It's a Samick but, according to Larry Fine, boasts top of the line materials and workmanship. So I KNOW you all aren't talking about MY piano!