in defence of the piano

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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
cos it isn't all secondary school parents getting their children to impress other and make a mockery of themselves or girlboss showoffs in year 11 assembly.





and the best one of them all. Majestic.

 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
cecil taylor later. just need to listen to unit structures again because i forget if it's track 1 or 2 which is the most gangsta.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
Does the piano need defending? Who hates pianos?

Not that I have a problem with you posting killer Art Tatum and Cecil Taylor tracks, but I don't think you'll have an uphill battle making this case.

Vibraphone, maybe.
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
I can find solo piano a bit hard work over the length of an album.

Any love for Keith Jarrett? Hard not to mention the Koln Concert in a thread about solo piano though I've heard Jarrett being criticised for being overly sentimental, too kinda warm and mushy, much as his technical ability is not in question.
 
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martin

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craner said:
Who hates pianos?
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Me. Boring, wanking instrument. Come the glorious day, anyone owning a piano will be garrotted by the wires as we smash their monstrosities to matchwood.

Is there anything worse than being in a pub with a piano, then some cunt jumps on it to perform a rendition of Let It Be? Well, yeah, there is - avant garde piano pieces.

The ONLY exception is Chas N Dave.
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
craner said:
Does the piano need defending? Who hates pianos?

Not that I have a problem with you posting killer Art Tatum and Cecil Taylor tracks, but I don't think you'll have an uphill battle making this case.

Vibraphone, maybe.
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I only like 3 pianos max in a hardcore set. anything more is overkill. no pianos in a UK drill set. that hasn't been done yet though, although there are playlists.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Piano owners to be garroted, goodness. As if coronavirus, everlasting Tory rule and impending world doom wasn't enough, pfft.

Who knew so many piano haters were in our midst.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
I'll give you that one, that piano sound is bloody awful (from Love Story), tho I quite liked the speeded up garage version for some reason, whoever did that.

You'll find more exceptions..house and rave are full of great pianos
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I'll leave my no doubt tedious advocacy of classical music aside here - and leave jazz to the experts.

Some of the greatest hip-hop beats ever sample the piano. QB - Mobb Deep/CNN, etc. especially stand out.

And a lot of great house music - again, New York house of the Mood 2 Swing variety springs to mind. And as mentioned already, hardcore.

I play the piano btw, but not in pubs/public. I'm not a monster.

It's definitely died out as a sound in modern music, right? Other than hideous crooners and damp indie music. But the same is probably true of most acoustic instruments.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
The anti-piano faction has been split already. Victory is within our grasp.

Hip hop - C.R.E.A.M. might be the most famous of course
 
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martin

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From personal experience, people who had piano lessons as kids were the types who used to grass everyone up for funning around. Strong crossover with performative art types who'd go "Look mother, I'm a tree in the breeze" while waving their arms around and pelvic thrusting.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
The piano is bad as a symbol of musicality (I had lessons as a kid, and am still trying to deprogram myself from them to play the thing properly), way too much muso credibility. But as an actual instrument, lots of possibility.

Even piano singer songwriters can sometimes come good - 'Blue'
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
martin said:
From personal experience, people who had piano lessons as kids were the types who used to grass everyone up for funning around. Strong crossover with performative art types who'd go "Look mother, I'm a tree in the breeze" while waving their arms around and pelvic thrusting.
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It's uncanny.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
I think those were the kids who enjoyed piano lessons. I used to loathe them, but now I appreciate them (sort of), like some kind of dreadful cliche.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Do you wear a leather jacket, Martin?

That's how I picture you. Leather jacket, grizzled, texting dissensus from the boozer.
 
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