Pian'er

Banged on the piano today. Got both hands together on this Chopin waltz. I question whether to post the recording. My playing ain't great. But that hasn't stopped me before!

Chopin Op.69 no. 2

A couple of real musicians started recording in the next room. Violinist and guitarist. A library employee came to tell me to stop playing. But he invited me to see the musicians, they were good he said.

His word was the truth. They were good. Mighty fun playing together too. I sat in the studio mixing booth watching them warm up and improvise the musical score. The violinist let loose some sass and flair into her fiddling. The guitarist strummed along and added notes here and there to his music.

Their sound technician adjusted and set up and re-adjusted and configured various microphones, levels, and other acoustics I could not tell the difference. They'd been setting up for an hour and a half. Another hour before they would start recording. The tech was an elderly gentleman who reminded me of my Dad setting up a photo shoot in the way he fastidiously made endless adjustments. We would get tired and worn out, having lost interest in having our pictures taken, by the time his camera was ready.

I saw the musicians rehearsing endlessly and hoped they would not likewise get worn out by the time the recording was ready for them. The librarian tech joked, they would be here till 2 pm, and in fact he was right! When I came back to check on the studio at 2:40 pm, the musicians had left but the gentleman making the recording was still there, pondering over his instruments. I asked the evening shift librarian what time did the musicians leave, and he estimated around 2pm.

I danced and bobbed my head to the duo's jiving and country rhythms. The violinist even brought a huge bag of food to the studio (to make a good impression on the staff). It was just one guy with the library staff, I wasn't even an employee, but I helped myself to one of three sandwiches in the bag. The librarian requested knives when he saw me eating the big ol' sandwich. He asked me rhetorically with bulging eyes, 'I wasn't going to eat the whole thing was I?'

Their music is probably copyright. and this is probably not good to have my private recording. but i honestly think their music at beginning (unrecorded) sounded better. and i was recording myself but left the recording on unintentionally after i walked away from the piano. i didn't know that it was still recording until afterwards, and they'll probably never know... hehe.

Real musicians recording