{"id":87,"date":"2005-08-08T17:23:37","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-08-08T17:23:37","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T21:23:37","slug":"thats-nothing-you-should-hear-me-play-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"That’s nothing – you should hear me play piano*"},"content":{"rendered":"

I played piano for about 4 years in my pre-teens. I have long fingers and as far as I can tell, that’s the only advantage I had. I could read music all right and had a definitive sense of mathematics. I could not, however, hear a few notes and then repeat them on the piano. Much less could I hum a random tune and then key it into the instrument. This frustrated me very much. Though I was a bit sad when I had to drop the lessons upon our move to Canada, I did not see it as a catastrophe. Do I ever intend to play the piano again? No. <\/p>\n

Going to a piano recital is a bit of a blast from the past. I find it quite different than going to a string quartet or a brass band – instruments that I’ve never played. I ended up buying a CD at the Chamber Music Festival.
\n\"Ligeti\"
\nIt is music of Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti played by Lucille Chung with Alessio Bax backing up on the second piano. I am enjoying the CD quite a bit. It is a bit modern but still tons of fun. <\/p>\n

* from The Queen is Dead by the Smiths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I played piano for about 4 years in my pre-teens. I have long fingers and as far as I can tell, that’s the only advantage I had. I could read music all right and had a definitive sense of mathematics. I could not, however, hear a few notes and then repeat them on the piano. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p278IQ-1p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}