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Old 20th July 2008, 10:39 PM   #2
David Spearritt
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Originally Posted by joelpatterson View Post
There's something almost decadent about piano music filling the great outdoors. Maybe there's always inherently something festive about music outside... I tend to think when you can feel the soft breezes blow... and great, rolling piano chords washing over you, at the same time, that's like extra special. Then-- it's my job, who am I kidding!
Joel, you should be a real estate agent.

Describing this sound and playing as above, when it is actually a completely out of tune Winifred Atwell piano in desperate need of a box of matches to put it out of its misery, badly played, fistfulls of wrong or missed notes from a player with no sense of rhythm or phrasing, and a recorded sound that is way too close, is pushing the truth.

But it was the shattering applause at the end that made me laugh the most.

In Amazon.com: Bad Or, the Dumbing of America: Paul Fussell: Books, Paul Fussell defines "bad" as when there is a huge gulf between what something is said to be and what it actually is.

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