Comments on: The piano, and making time to play https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/ Writer, Author, Speaker Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Marcia (Organising Queen) https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-81792 Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:14:14 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-81792 In reply to Kristen | The Frugal Girl.

You could do it as part of your monthly goals, Kristen, and then it would tie into your blog!

]]> By: Terry Wellman https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-79920 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 22:03:04 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-79920 As a former professional musician who now makes industrial models and prototypes, I recently had my old piano tuned. While I don’t have a regularly scheduled practice period, I do find myself being drawn back since I just dropped some coin to the tuner. I’m getting my chops back. Thus, I am having fun with music again. I see it as self-generated entertainment and therapy away from other stresses in life. Sometimes I’ll sit down at 6AM with a cup of coffee and bang out some blues or jazz. Then you might find me reading through a baroque or classical piece in the evening. It all depends upon when the mood hits and whether I’ve got a few minutes to spare. The goal for me is to keep playing on a daily basis and make it fun. If it makes me smile, I will continue to do it. Life is too short, do have fun while you’re here.

]]> By: Kaethe https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-79669 Thu, 25 Jul 2019 19:06:59 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-79669 In reply to Kathleen.

I love this idea!

]]> By: Frances Levenderis https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-79637 Thu, 25 Jul 2019 08:48:11 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-79637 As someone trying to create a career out of music, it is one of my primary tasks every day that I spend 3-4 hours on every day. Even then, I find it incredibly difficult to schedule in. It is so much easier to sit at my desk and get absorbed by mindless emails than have to do a physically and mentally draining task like practice!

]]> By: Debi Simons https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-79620 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:22:19 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-79620 Hi Laura–your post brought back memories for me. I too had a weighted-key digital piano for many years and used it for practice. I now have one of those shortened keyboards that can sit on my desk when I need it which I use for plinking out my choral part for my choir. I wish I were the kind of person who likes to play the piano just for my own pleasure, but I have to practice religiously to be good enough to play anything, and if I try to play in front of people (as I did for a number of years at a small church) I get so shaky and nervous that I make lots of mistakes and feel terrible. So I gave that up and said, never again. So strange–I love, love, love speaking in front of people–just not playing the piano! I wish you the greatest of success, though, in your desire to play!

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-79607 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:14:15 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-79607 In reply to Kristen | The Frugal Girl.

@Kristen – I think your readers would enjoy it! At least this one would.

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-79606 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:13:41 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-79606 In reply to smh.

@smh – I know, right?

]]> By: Lisa of Lisa's Yarns https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-79604 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:11:02 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-79604 Wow, your son is really good at making predictions!! Impressive!

I bought a piano about 7 years ago when I finally had enough room for one. I honestly do not play it as much as I thought I would or would like to. I have played it more since having our son. When he was less squirmy (< 1 year), he enjoyed sitting on my lap while I played. And I played it more during Christmastime as I love playing Christmas carols. Our piano is in our office so it's kind out of sight, out of mind. We are house hunting and I'm hoping our next house has room for it in the living room area. We'll see! But I'm still glad I bought it because some day our son will take piano lessons so I know it will be put to use. And as someone who grew up with a piano in my house, it's something I want to always have in the house even if it gets played less in different seasons of life!

]]> By: Kathleen https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-79600 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:21:06 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-79600 I play one song and sing it, too, each day while my lunch heats in the microwave. A few minutes of joy in the middle of busy days!

]]> By: Kristen | The Frugal Girl https://lauravanderkam.com/2019/07/the-piano-and-making-time-to-play/#comment-79599 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:17:55 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17316#comment-79599 I’ve played piano since I was 6, but I find that as an adult, I usually do not make time to play unless there’s something I need to practice for! I played every week at church for 10 years (from 2008-2018), but now that I’m not playing at church, I rarely play.

And that’s despite having a very lovely piano sitting right in my living room.

Maybe I should promise my readers a piano video once a month or something…a self-imposed thing to play for. That doesn’t really fit with the themes of my blog, though!

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