Re: [linux-audio-user] Thesis: Playing and making music

Hi Frank, Frank, you can't be serious! All that kid is obviously trying do to is to rhythmically sync playing 9 huge buttons with his whole hand to the 16th notes of the right hand part of the Fantasy Impromptus of Chopin (among others). Have you ever seen somebody do a Chopin, controlling 88 rather small keys with ten fingers in a predefined order? Not even the mechanical issues can remotely be compared to the complexity of piano playing (or any other instrument). And apart from common belief, the sportive aspect is not really the hard part of playing an instrument: Yesterday a friend of mine came over to check out my new Grand Piano. Unlike me he is an (admittedly exceptional) professional pianist and it was quite frustrating to hear him play a piece lying on the note stand, which I had been studying before he came. After 20+ years of training I'm more or less able to play such a piece, but to hear the subtelties of his dynamic and harmonic control was mind blowing, especially as he was sight reading a virtuoso piece from the 19th century, (which took me quite a while to learn). Telling him my frustration he told me that he can relate to that quite well as he experienced the same when he had lessons with his his former teacher (who had studied at the Paris Conservatoire at age 12)... -- Orm