If this doesn't bring a smile to your face AND tears to your eyes, I give up!

[GeoffW]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBbRTRBY4D4

I guess she was then able to play the very low notes.

[BobH]

Maybe her career is on the rise!

[GeoffW]

She's a treble raiser.

[ChrisGreaves]

I guess she was then able to play the very low notes.

She should've been driving a Bösendorfer. =https://standrewstoronto.org/events/mu ... St Andrews (Toronto), rolls one out for their free lunchtime concerts. The Grand has extra keys at the left hand end for those very low notes.
Way beyond my technical knowledge, but I'll be surprised if someone here doesn't know about them.
Cheers
Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

So why did you bring mustard into it? We having hot dogs?

OK Bob. You got me!
It has taken me almost 24 hours to understand your post.

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Cheers
Chris

[BobH]

I recall seeing Victor Borge in concert. He insisted on a Bösendorfer grand and pointed it out claiming it to be the best piano and the only one he would use. I think it might have traveled with him on tour.

[ChrisGreaves]

I recall seeing Victor Borge in concert. He insisted on a Bösendorfer grand and pointed it out claiming it to be the best piano and the only one he would use. I think it might have traveled with him on tour.

I must have heard Dan Biclke (St Andrews) refer to their Bösendorfer at the start of some 50 concerts before he added to his announcement that "today we will hear the full range" because one of the pieces used that lower octave(?). I can be so blind to quality until it up and slaps me in the face.

I did not know that factoid concerning Borge, but I can believe that at his level he could insist on the hair colour of the cat whose gut supplied the strings. If piano's have strings.
On my pension I can't afford the toy xylophone down at Riffs.
Bösendorfers go for quite high prices

Amazon didn't turn up any Bösendorfers ...

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... although a hard-copy BOOK that MIGHT contain a reference to a Bösendorfer is listed at $902, and that's probably $US. The book CAN be shipped to Canada, but at that price I'd expect it to be delivered to my door by MY choice of member of Eileen's Lounge, at Amazon's expense.

I didn't check eBay; I have heard that sometimes stuff via eBay can be quite flaky.

Cheers
Chris

[kdock]

Well of course it has strings. The little hammers have to hit something. So a piano is often considered both a string instrument and a percussion instrument.

Kim

[ChrisGreaves]

Well of course it has strings. The little hammers have to hit something. So a piano is often considered both a string instrument and a percussion instrument.

Something else they didn't teach us in programming school!
Although with these recent releases of Windows, i have often felt (ha hah!) like hitting something.
Cheers
Chris

[BobH]

Yes, pianos have strings but not made of cat gut. They are made of the finest steel wire.

[kdock]

Well of course it has strings. The little hammers have to hit something. So a piano is often considered both a string instrument and a percussion instrument.

Something else they didn't teach us in programming school!
Although with these recent releases of Windows, i have often felt (ha hah!) like hitting something.
Cheers
Chris

Code: Select all

Dim sResp as String
Dim sChris as String
If sResp = "felt like hitting something" then
	sChris = "hammer."
ElseIf sResp = "felt like hit by something" then
	sChris = "string."
End If
MsgBox "Today Chris is the piano " & sChris, vbOKOnly, "What is Chris today?"

Not my best code, but I threw it together very quickly. Kim

[ChrisGreaves]

Not my best code, but I threw it together very quickly. Kim

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Thank you, Kim, for making me feel like forte again!
Cheers
Chris

[GeoffW]

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Dim sResp as String
Dim sChris as String
If sResp = "felt like hitting something" then
	sChris = "hammer."
ElseIf sResp = "felt like hit by something" then
	sChris = "string."
Else
        sChris = "player."
End If
MsgBox "Today Chris is the piano " & sChris, vbOKOnly, "What is Chris today?"

[ChrisGreaves]

MsgBox "Today Chris is the piano " & sChris, vbOKOnly, "What is Chris today?"

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Thank you, Geoff, for this everlasting compliment.
Given the link at the head of this thread, that is the ultimate compliment
Cheers
Chris

[John Gray]

Thank you, Kim, for making me feel like forte again!

Would that you were piano
though...

[ChrisGreaves]

Would that you were piano

Nah then
Cheers
Chris