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A number of people have emailed me saying they
would like a Pianist Corner for the non-classical players.

It seems the regular Pianist Corner tends to lean toward the classical and they find it a bit intimidating.

Should we start a separate forum for other pianist, to be used for music (popular, jazz, blues, rock, etc.)?

Sure, why not?

Sounds good, have a:

'Pianist Corner'

and a

'Pianist Corner (non-classical)'.

Good luck, and thanks for all your efforts Frank.

Sounds like a good idea to me, Frank...no more ignoring people because they want to know what classical "songs" to play. No more rolling of the eyes when someone mentions "Shine" as their single point of contact with classical music. In fact, hardly any discussion of classical music at all! Seriously, I think it would be a great idea. Us classical pianists are a pretty serious and at times intimidating lot. I wonder sometimes how many forum members we lose because of it.

Such a forum, I believe, would provide a very useful service to the non-classical pianist we may inadvertently be chasing away.

Then, the rest of us could REALLY go to town intimidating just each other. Hmm... I think I'm too thin-skinned to last too long under fire. Perhaps, then, business as usual here, with a separate forum for the non-classicals.

Good idea. Thanks, Frank

Regards,

Sounds like a good thing....but based on my observations, it must then be pronounced " Pee -unist's Corner"!

Rick

Sure. You can call it the "Close enough for..." room.

Actually, a lot of questions cross the Jazz/Classical lines, for example improvisation. I like to read the threads that discuss Jazz, even though I'm out of my depth, and I might not look at them as much if there was a seperate room.

Just one opinion.

It's a good idea, Frank. Maybe try to make it clear that it's not strictly a "jazz" room either...there are a lot of non-classical players who don't specialize in jazz either.

It would probably be very good for everyone except types like me who tend to view their music as one connected landscape of sound. But it may save much of the fruitless argument which takes place among more specialised posters and therefore I acquiesce to the majority.

There is, however, the conundrum of how to define "classical" and "non-classical" for forum purposes.

I hope nobody minds my posting this (if so, let me know and I'll take it off), but I thought I'd give a link to a forum for those interested..

http://www.musicplayer.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

The Keyboard Corner--you might have to search around a little on the page--is moderated by Dave Bryce and is catered almost exclusively to the "gig keyboardists" who are in to all sorts of music (including Classical, but don't expect any great advice in that area; instead, you have the typical jazz, blues, rock, pop...anything). When I first started out on piano/forum-surfing, this was my original hangout (under the screen name Striker1080...), but I've long since abandoned it (and, for those interested, that was after I went to the Classical side and switched over to Piano World a few years ago). When I started, I was quite into synthesisers, sound modules, digital...stuff...etc., and I've never seen a group of people more knowledgeable about THAT sort of stuff than at that forum.

Anyhow, it's basically in the same format as this forum but, in my opinion, it's not as "clean," meaning it just gets a lot of traffic and sometimes its hard to keep up with posts, not necessarily that it's filled with swear words.

The idea of adding such a board here is not bad at all, of course, but I just thought I'd throw that one out for people interested in getting away from us classical snobs. Please don't take it as an "endorsement" or anything; I haven't really visited for almost a year now and I personally find little there that I enjoy anymore, simply because I've switched over to the Light Side of Music...

Frank, I think a forum for non-classical piano-playing would be great.

Excellent idea!

I say no.

Wouldn't a separate forum reinforce the polarization that exists between classical pianists and everyone else? It seems to me that anyone who wants to discuss pop or jazz could simply start a thread anytime they wish. Why the need for a separate forum?

While it is hard for me to understand how anybody can be intimidated by any sort of music or by anything anybody posts, it seems quite a number are. Therefore these people should be catered for. I can see many administrative problems swapping posts from one section to another and, for the poster, trying to decide where a particular new thread should go.

i'm glad they invented another forum like that, b/c i can't identify with classical music right now, nor am i that into it.

Yes, please. A jazz forum would be great! Most players fall into one category or the other and seldom is there a cross-over. At present, a great number of players are simply excluded.

Thanks.