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You might be addicted to piano if...

when your wife tells you she will leave home if you buy another piano you think: "gosh, I'm really going to miss her"

LOL! Can't believe this is becoming a sexy thread.

...sometimes you feel guilty for enjoying an activity so intensely.

strange i never gave my piano a name. Maybe because its a rental haha.

anyways...

haha, i just thought of a good one that i think about

.....when you hesitate to carry anything heavy that may potentially harm your hand. (I had this happen to me once when I was on some date, the girl ended up complaining to my friend how ungentlemanly I was hahhaahhaha)

I don't know if it's addiction or just self (hand) preservation, but I've become a lot more conscious of doing silly things with my hands than I used to be. (and they seem weaker)

For example, like carrying a case of beer (cans) with a single finger or without the handle but using using an "ocatave" like grip on the box. My hands immediately scream "NO!".

Pretty soon I might have to resort to asking my wife to open jars for me.

You might be addicted to piano if...

You can't decide what's worse: reading the Piano World Forums at the expense of practicing or practicing at the expense of reading the Piano World Forums.



That reminds me of this old Russian saying:
You can't drink all vodka in the world and you can't do (you know what) to all women in the world...
But you should try to!

I had a feeling I was developing an addiction. Now I'm sure.
.....and loving it.

.... how about you know you are addicted when you dream about being in a hotel and strolling up to the grand and flawlessly playing....... your beginner pieces lol!

I think I'm in excellent company!

I'm not exactly sure how this is in any way equivalent at all to being addicted to playing the piano...

And repeating it here would tend to make one think that the post was made by one of those old drunken, mind-numbed Russians.

Perhaps instead of a verbatim quote (with a couple of cheesey asterisks) you might have chosen to substitute the phrase "can't make love to..." just for the sake of good taste (and being a little more discretely subtle), and the fact that this is a Forum where "family values" are allegedly the ruling credo.

End of unsolicited, but good (and badly needed) advice.

JF

I'm absolutely sure that it is not equivalent. I wrote in the context of another poster's text:

and that was just my association, not comparison.



May I point out that the title of this forum contains the "Adult" attribute (and I'm not at this moment frivolously referring to the second, euphemistic meaning of that word).

I sincerely apologize you, John Frank, and everybody else who might be offended by my post.

You might be addicted to piano if...
...when you’re pulling groceries home in a little backpack with wheels, you notice the regular rhythm of the wheels clicking over the tile floor at the mall & try to figure out the time signature ...

I'm 100% addict, and this one is my #1 nightmare. I have this all the times and they're scary!

...you sneak into a church at night to play on one of their piano's because you can't afford one of your own

I think churches are locked at night, but you will be even more addicted if you manage to BREAK IN somehow...

well the ones i go into are open...

after a weekend away from home you think about how many minutes you need to spend greeting your girlfriend before you go to the piano...

like someone scolding a drunk the morning after a night of excessive comsumption, your girlfriend says "do you have any idea how many hours you spent practicing the piano yesterday...?

when watching a movie with a scene with a piano, you rewind repeatedly and strain to read the name on the fallboard

when arriving at a luncheon were you are the guest speaker, you notice there's a piano in the room, and you go over to find what kind it is before you greet the attendees.....

you imagine having to live in a small mobile home some day, and are convinced you could put your 6'4" grand piano in it.

you actually look forward to doing Hanon exercises

you set the furnace humidity control to suit the piano, not the comfort of the residents of the house

the piano is the only piece of furniture you have ever cleaned or dusted

you want your piano teacher to give your eulogy

Ha ha! My husband reproached me this morning: "You were up really late last night playing the piano." But I was only playing 'til 1:00 in the morning!

yep, that's me!

....addicted to piano if...

1. Your practice log audit software tells you that:

Start date: 19/03/2009
End date: 11/03/2010
Time(mins): 14745
Time(hrs): 246
Days in period: 358
Days of Practice: 200
Avg pract time: 74
Avg daily time: 41

2. You've formally asked your IM&T department to change the "tune" on the bar-code readers attached to PCs to something else other than Paul McCartneys 'live and let die'. Your co-workers have also asked you to not whistle the rest of the tune ofter the bar code reader plays the first few notes every time you boot the PC.

3. You've spotted that the main riff in Jimi Hendrix's machine Gun is very, very similar to Rachmaninoffs Prelude in C# minor.

4. You've noticed that Pedestrian crossings are never a whole octave

5. You've bought closed back headphones for the digital piano, and can get through life by nodding your head when someone speaks to you and looking vaguely interested then muttering "Uh huh", or "Yes of course".

6. The others in the house complain that the noise from the piano (just the clatter of the keys) is too loud (and remember your wearing headphones)

7. You go to work very early to get home to practice when no one else is in the house.

8. You take long lunches to go home and practice (and no one else is there).

9. You scratch built a Leslie speaker to play the Piano part from Pink Floyd's "Echoes"

10. You've told your wife that the cost of the Garden Office/Studio she wants is £45,000 (because that includes the cost of a Grand Piano) ;-)

11. Something sexy must have three wooden legs

12. The only health issues that worry you are carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, rotator cuff syndrome and focal dystonia.

13. Your car has balding tyres, the silencer blowing, various warning lights (dead headlight bulb), head gasket may be gone... but you only book it in to be sorted when the CD player starts playing up.

14. You've figured out that you can copy pianists (given the right camera angle) from youtube by downloading the video, converting the format, loading it into Movie maker (which seems to break it up into sections and phrases automatically), save them as individual video files (one per phrase) which you watch in continuous cycle mode in media player on slow speed...


15.... All the above but "its still just a hobby"...