Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Composer's Lounge What would be a musical torture chamber for you?

For me its rap or acid rock.

Having to listen only to Strauss waltzes... Rap and Acid Rock take a close second, but the Waltz King (yeah right) hits a nerve with me...

1. Being forced to listen to RAP music for eternity.

2. Being forced to play an ancient dead upright for an eternity in front of people who cannot hear it.

3. Being forced to play an out of tune spinet that hurts my hands sometimes, in front of people, for eternity.

4. Losing my beloved shrine to elephants, my Henry, for an eternity.

5. Not being able to sing or play any instrument, for eternity. Duh!

6. Getting kicked out of Piano World for eternity.

7. Having no money to spend on music, for eternity.

8. No music at all, for eternity and beyond.

9. Being forced to listen to bad karaoke singers for eternity. ( I had to judge a contest for a casino one time, that is a story I'll save for another day. LOL)

10. Losing all my playing gigs to canned music for eternity.

11. No pizza, for eternity.

wolfindmist,
Sounds like the Twighlight Zone. Of course I only watched it once in my entire life but the episode I saw was a guy who had to sit at a restaurant and eat Chinese food - for an eternity.

For me, probably any kind of heavy metal music. Then there's old style "twangy" country. Maybe Dixieland - I went on a mini riverboat/dinner cruise once (well it turned out to be a fried chicken picnic-style dinner) and the constant Dixie style music from a live band the whole time about drove me nuts. Then there's opera. For classical, maybe Wagner.

In general as well, just about any style that sounds the same no matter the song. Also, on one of those songs that gets stuck in your head that you can't get away from - having to listen to it over and over, for example, Feliz Navidad. Just the title gets the song going in one's head.

Oh, and speaking of instruments, having nothing to play but a 61 key, weightless keyboard, for eternity.

Oh, and speaking of instruments, having nothing to play but a 61 key, weightless keyboard, for eternity.
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That isn't polyphonic....
LOL

For ETERNITY

hehehe

What is your favorite pizza place? Maybe I could order some and have it sent to you in one of your "eternal" musical torture chambers. No, seriously, what's a good pizza place recommendation?

I miss the old Pizza and Pipes place they had. The pizza wasn't great but the "Pipes" were awesome. Big old pipe organ like the Morman Tabernacle Choir has wrapped around the pizza place. Sadly the place burned down, I belive it was arson or an accident.

In town there is a place that makes pizza with Groendahl Swiss Cheese (I think that's how they spell it). 7 bucks a small chunk at your deli.
The parlor has a 50's decor and juke box too, with a Patsy Cline concert poster I would hanker for. It's just a small local place.

Gotta have good pizza to make good music.
So it is a musical torture chamber to me.
Pizza is life. Life is music. No pizza, no music.
It's in my contract.

12. I order a Bosie piano and it never gets to my place; ends up in some hotel room in the middle of a cat 4 hurricane where it stays there for eternity.

(I JUST COULDN'T RESIST, FORGIVE ME FATHER FRANK FOR I HAVE SINNED )

Having to learn theory or study music "properly" at a university or school of music.

Being confined to a room with professional musicians and academics without recourse to a few stiff drinks.

Being confined to a room with a lot of boom-boom pop music without recourse to earplugs and a few stiff drinks.

Being forced to sit through hymns,oratorios and Beethoven slow movements, with no presentable women in sight and without recourse to a stiff drink.

Ted2,
You might want to order some pizza to go with all those "stiff drinks"!

I don't particularly like pizzas. I prefer jambalaya aux chaurices (rice with garlic, peppers and chipolatas). That, together with a large Napoleon brandy, would see me through the most gruelling slow movement.

Music torture? Here goes....

1. Richard Clayderman

2. Rap and R'n'B music

3. Losing my Schimmel upright

4. Losing my Arcam/Quad hi-fi and having to make do with some cheap rubbish

5. Losing my CD collection

6. A Celine Dion concert

7. Donna Summer records

8. If Beethoven had never written his 32 piano sonatas.....aggghhh!

9. If Chopin's music was banned or deleted from the world.

10. If the BBC Proms ever ceased.

11. If BBC Radio 3 ever turned into Classic FM

12. If my subscriptions to Gramophone, BBC Music and International Piano got lost.

Oh and the worst thing of all, if my partner ever lost her gorgeous singing voice.

Matthew wrote:
"6. A Celine Dion concert"

I nearly upchucked my pizza on your torture #6; thanks for the belly laugh.


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I think Ted2 is gonna need a helluva agent to get all that into his contract. Especially living so far from south of the Delta.

BTW What the heck are chipolatas?

Polkas

for even a minute

Add this to my list...

12. Having to work at Guitar Center in the Keyboards Sales Room with all the keyboards turned on full blastisimo at the same time for eternity. And no earplugs or headphones in sight.

* Sometimes, I feel for the employees of that place on the loudest days. It's enough to drive a sane person crazy.

12+. ... and standing at each Guitar Center keyboard playing full blastisimo is a first year student playing Chopsticks - poorly

Chipolatas are small sausages, usually spicy. What is the Delta ?

Anything by Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Grieg, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, or Prokofiev.