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To me, quite an interesting observation in how moderately increasing friction can change behavior!
Have you found anything that helps you practice or play more/better? Yes, a teacher. The applies friction by yelling in my ear to slow down.
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To me, quite an interesting observation in how moderately increasing friction can change behavior!
Have you found anything that helps you practice or play more/better? Yes, a teacher. The applies friction by yelling in my ear to slow down. Yes, instruction and accountability tend to result in improvement!   
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Indeed!  Imagine trying to set it up! 
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Rather than start another irreverent Friday thread, I thought I'd just add this here: I have some lingering allergies (welcome, late Spring!) and have been sneezing a bit. Is it "normal" for the piano to "respond" to a sneeze? I mean, it doesn't talk, but I can hear (and feel) the soundboard/strings/something reverberate and resonate if I sneeze while sitting at the bench. Suffice it to say, the digital doesn't do that 
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Mind if I add?
The hinge on the music stand gets tighter and looser sometimes. It’s a wood hinge I believe?
I’m talking about the stand for the music desk not the hinge that moves the whole music desk back and forth. (Music desk prop maybe?)
I think it’s humidity? It’s summer so getting dryer! Looser since I first got the piano.
Anyone else?
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Rather than start another irreverent Friday thread, I thought I'd just add this here: I have some lingering allergies (welcome, late Spring!) and have been sneezing a bit. Is it "normal" for the piano to "respond" to a sneeze? I mean, it doesn't talk, but I can hear (and feel) the soundboard/strings/something reverberate and resonate if I sneeze while sitting at the bench. Suffice it to say, the digital doesn't do that I've experienced this too. I try not to sneeze into the piano though. Man, we just spent 5 days in New Orleans, and the "foreign" (to me) vegetation was in full bloom. Hay fever really wore me out.
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Rather than start another irreverent Friday thread, I thought I'd just add this here: I have some lingering allergies (welcome, late Spring!) and have been sneezing a bit. Is it "normal" for the piano to "respond" to a sneeze? I mean, it doesn't talk, but I can hear (and feel) the soundboard/strings/something reverberate and resonate if I sneeze while sitting at the bench. Suffice it to say, the digital doesn't do that Ja, it's also the same key that you are sneezing in, the same key responds. I noticed that since the action is not in the piano. So now I'm singing in a certain key and then I'm guessing which string it is 
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Rather than start another irreverent Friday thread, I thought I'd just add this here: I have some lingering allergies (welcome, late Spring!) and have been sneezing a bit. Is it "normal" for the piano to "respond" to a sneeze? I mean, it doesn't talk, but I can hear (and feel) the soundboard/strings/something reverberate and resonate if I sneeze while sitting at the bench. Suffice it to say, the digital doesn't do that I've experienced this too. I try not to sneeze into the piano though. Man, we just spent 5 days in New Orleans, and the "foreign" (to me) vegetation was in full bloom. Hay fever really wore me out. I always sneeze away from the piano!!
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I've experienced this too. I try not to sneeze into the piano though. Oh me too, I always turn away and sneeze into my elbow. But I still feel the piano kind of rumble (and when it does, I feel it in my chest).
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It must be 15 years or so since I last suffered from hay fever. But this year in central London I have once or twice found myself developing a paroxysm of coughing, due to some sort of pollen - probably, I think, from the plane trees. Anyway, I have discovered a marvellous cure, and I thought I would report it here, so that other hay fever sufferers might benefit. The answer is simple - I put on my FFP2 face mask, and the coughing stopped straight away!
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If my uprights the top lid is open and I speak loudly facing the piano I can hear some sort of echoe or reverberation not from the strings but the soundboard.😆 (at least I do not think it's the strings.)I need to try it again sometime again.
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If my uprights the top lid is open and I speak loudly facing the piano I can hear some sort of echoe or reverberation not from the strings but the soundboard.😆 (at least I do not think it's the strings.)I need to try it again sometime again.
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Ok where is the mechanical sheet music (paper/book) page turner? Yes I would love one! I have become too lazy to memorize 9 pages never mind a whole sonata like I use to.
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