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heritage-instrument-insurance · 1 year ago

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Understanding the Role of Oboe Insurance in a Musician’s Life

Musicians or musical instrument owners share a precious bond with their gear, driven by passion and, most of the time, livelihood. Are you also a paid performer? Do you play the oboe or any other tool? Instrument-specific insurance will protect your device at home, during your performances, and wherever you go.

Most reputed musicians, orchestras, and musical bands choose standalone musical instrument insurance to cover their musical paraphernalia. For example, you are an oboist looking for an insurance product to insure your woodwind. So, whether you are a beginner or a professional artist, an Oboe Insurance plan from a reliable insurance provider will come to your rescue in case of damage, loss, or damage.

Why purchase dedicated oboe coverage if you already have home insurance in place?

Home insurance policies are undeniably a savior for personal belongings, including musical instruments. However, do you even think of covering your car or office under your home insurance policy? No. Right? Similarly, an oboe may be one of your belongings. However, it is a separate entity altogether, with different possible threats and insurance needs.

Most importantly, in the event of damage or loss to your woodwind, a dedicated music gear plan covers many aspects that home insurance often does not cover. Answer the following questions for better clarity.

● Do you want your insurance policy to cover the financial losses that occurred because you were not able to work due to your damaged oboe?

● Do you want your insurance plan to cover your musical instruments across the world?

● Do you want an insurance product to ensure protection against accidental damages?

● Do you want your coverage plan to cover the best values of your musical instruments?

● Do you want your protection plan to compensate for the replacement or repair of your gear?

● Do you want an insurance product to cover your musical instruments during transportation?

If your answer is yes to the above questions, you should always choose a dedicated Oboe Insurance policy. Always remember! Your home insurance policy is least likely to cover these aspects. So, should an unfortunate event happen, your home insurance plan will extend the minimum possible coverage, unlike comprehensive musical instrument insurance. And, as you know, the cost involved in repairing or replacing a gear can be huge. A standalone music gear policy ensures your financial interests are safe.

Buying oboe insurance is a smart move

Many people refrain from buying dedicated musical instrument coverage, considering it to be an expensive feat. However, it is a long-term investment that saves you money in the long run in case a stroke of bad luck strikes you. So, what all does a standalone musical gear insurance policy offer? Here is a rundown of the features of the all-encompassing cover you will benefit from:

● It offers flexible protection should your oboe be stolen, lost, or damaged. ● It extends your financial help in case of a public liability scenario. ● It covers the cost of replacing an old musical instrument with a new one. ● It does not ask for excess unless you go for a premium reduction. ● It also provides personal accident cover. ● It covers your paraphernalia worldwide.

Does an instrument-specific plan cover the accessories?

Yes, it is one of the best things about dedicated musical equipment insurance plans. A comprehensive insurance product covers everything right from vintage pianos to cutting-edge woodwinds and strings, including the accessories, such as sheet music, amplifiers, and other associated devices. Isn’t it a good thing? Most importantly, you will not get this feature with your home or renter’s insurance plan, no matter how much money you have spent buying it.

To conclude

An independent musical instrument protection plan ensures your finances are secure in unforeseen cases involving your musical equipment. So, find a reliable insurance provider in your state and ask for free quotes. Do purchase a plan after researching and comparing your options.

#oboist #oboe insurance #musical instrument #musicians #music #insurance

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rswitz · 2 years ago

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Now that my 2.5-year art journey has come to a close, I thought I’d share the lessons I’ve learned to hopefully help fellow beginners:

Art is a conversation.

I took piano lessons for several years during my adolescence and became fairly good at reading sheet music of songs composed by other people and playing them. However, I have yet to compose an original piece, which had me under the impression that I had no creativity, which I also thought was an unchangeable aspect of myself. But someone I talked to postulated an alternative conclusion; art is a “conversation” - it involves taking influence from others and putting your own spin on it. In a sense, “creativity” isn’t something you’re “born with” as much as it is something you develop over the course of practice.

There will always be someone better.

Now, this doesn’t mean there’s no point in improving at all. It’s a reason to never stop improving. Also, “better” is subjective - someone might excel in some aspects but still fall behind you in others.

You likely won't live up to your idols. And that's okay.

This is one I still have trouble with. I was comparing myself to my inspirations, saying things like "[artist] didn't start when they were already 18. Therefore, it’s too late for me. [artist] didn't need the internet to learn how to draw. Therefore, I shouldn't rely on the internet either." You aren't your idols - you are you. And who knows - you could be an “idol” to someone else yourself one day. That doesn’t mean they’ll have to emulate every step of your journey.

It isn't "too late".

This is another behavior I'm still guilty of and am trying to stop; whenever I see art online, I immediately take to the artist's profile to make sure they're older than me, and if they aren't, I become depressed and discouraged - I feel like I’ve wasted time. However, I try my best to remind myself that just because I’ve been alive longer than someone else doesn’t mean I’ve been drawing as long as they have (I started at 18 years old), and even then the amount of time one has been drawing still doesn’t necessarily equate with skill. There will always be young prodigies in every creative discipline, but just because they’re the majority of the ones you see “retweeted” or “liked”, doesn’t mean that represents their proportion to the general public; for every artist half your age on Instagram with thousands of followers there are dozens of people twice your age who don’t draw at all. Your own path is incomparable to others. Again, I’m still struggling with this myself - I remember freaking out a couple of years ago when I found out an online artist I looked up to was the same age as me. I felt like I didn’t want to become good in the future - I only wanted to have already become good in the past while I was still young, and I remember thinking “why didn’t I start earlier while I was still young?” (the reason being that it had simply never crossed my mind). It’s tough, but I try to remind myself that I can only affect what I can do right now.

In a sense, there are no "original" ideas.

Continued from the 1st point, art (in all senses of the word, not just visual) evolves throughout the human civilization's lifespan by being communicated from person to person in the exact same way language does; at one point in history the first word in “modern” English was spoken, but it didn’t come from nothing; it came from “Middle” English, which itself had influences from “Old” English and Norman French. Some people coin entirely new phrases, but most are derived from pre-existing words and go through so many generational changes that the original template is unrecognizable, giving off the false illusion that it is completely original and that it required no outside influence.

Depression doesn't necessarily spark creativity.

I say this because used to be under the impression that since one of my favorite artists wrote and recorded my favorite album of his while suicidal and on cocaine, that would mean if I was depressed for long enough, I would have a "creative spark awaken in me". This actually isn't as common as you'd think, and when it does happen it happens to people who have already built up the skills anyway (that album wasn't the artist's first album, for example).

References are your friend - the only way to "cheat" is to pass off someone else's work as your own.

Most artists don't advertise what resources they use the same way a magician never reveals their secrets, but this fact used to have me under the impression that I had to draw everything from memory if I wanted to get good. There was a long time when I thought I wasn’t creative enough to be an artist since I couldn’t draw anything from memory. Obviously, that is not true. Now, you shouldn’t post work that’s been traced faithfully to the point that someone who saw the original work would easily recognize it without crediting who you traced, and you especially shouldn’t post someone else’s unaltered work on the internet and pass it off as your own, or say things like “IDK the artist, I found this on Pinterest”.

Take advantage of as many resources as you can.

Despite what I used to think, it isn't "disrespectful to artists who lived before the internet" to learn via online learning resources - it's not like Van Gogh limited himself to painting on cave walls. If you lack the time and/or attention span to watch educational videos as I do (which is why I could never learn from YouTube tutorials or anything like that), there are always books. I personally recommend Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards, Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson, and Figure Drawing for all its Worth by Andrew Loomis.

Practice as often as you can.

Not much to elaborate on. Just common sense, really. If you can never think of what to draw, simply look around you. Try drawing the trash can to your left, your computer monitor, or even the pencil you're drawing with. A lot of these practice drawings will, to be blunt, suck ass, but even though artists rarely post these early pieces of theirs doesn’t mean they don’t exist. That’s why I’ve posted some of my early bad pieces on the internet in the past ([1] [2]) so that there will be at least one piece of evidence that every artist goes through this.

Practice a variety of different aspects. Just drawing repeatedly isn't enough on its own.

For the two years I was drawing, I only ever copied pictures of cartoon and anime characters, so naturally, those became the only things I could draw. I also used to scoff when I heard people say “Anyone can get good if they practice”; my go-to response was “Practice what? I can’t practice what I don’t know.”, because my skills were completely static for the couple years I drew, as I hadn't learned any fundamentals and was only "practicing" while still unskilled. This is where classes and/or learning resources come in. Try to spread yourself out and become versatile. Personally, I think that those motivational comics that say "Just draw/practice!" [Exhibit A] [Exhibit B] should also say "also learn some fundamentals as well because just practicing without them won't get you anywhere".

There's nothing wrong with needing some help.

I used to think being able to call myself "self-taught" as some badge of honor was more important than improving, due to all the online artists who brag by putting "self-taught" in their profile descriptions. My stubbornness in this aspect once got to the point where I refused to use external resources, as I thought I had to only rely on myself in order to be worthy of being considered a true artist. Some people learn best from researching on their own time, and others learn best from being taught by someone else, myself being part of the latter. Despite what some may say, neither is necessarily better than the other.

Be humble, but don't sell yourself short either.

Try to adopt a neutral and objective view of your work - rid your mind of thoughts like “I’m the worst, so what’s the point of improving?” or “I’m the best, so I don’t need to improve.” I’m still struggling with this myself, particularly the former.

Try to learn to take criticism.

This is yet another one I'm still trying to work on, seeing as I'm pretty thin-skinned. However, it's necessary for improvement. The best kind of criticism is specific and detailed. Try to ignore criticism that’s vague, as that critic does not have your improvement in mind.

You don't need a "good reason" to start drawing.

I personally started because I saw a character in a story who also happened to be an artist that resonated with me, and I kept doing it because I wanted to be good at something for once, even though I didn’t enjoy the process itself.

If you feel like putting yourself and/or your work down in front of others …

… Just keep in mind there’s a possibility someone less skilled than you who admires your work as something to emulate could be listening, and that you are now insulting them as well. Sincerely, spoken as someone who very often sees artists leagues better than them putting down their own work and thinks “If that’s considered “bad”, then what does that make my art?”.

"OP, these are 'Captain Obvious' points; everyone already knows these things."

Maybe. Maybe not. Several months ago, when I myself was a young and naïve artist just starting out (as I still am now…), I would've definitely needed to listen to these pieces of advice.

#art advice #artist help

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tenaciouskittenanchor · 5 days ago

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Vanessa Manson

Name: Vanessa Manson

Middle: Lenore

Also Known As: Nessie

Birthday: June 13th

Nationality: American (3/4 White, 1/4 Mexican)

Species: Human

Blood Type: AB

Astrological Sign: Gemini

Gender: Female

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Personality: Cheerful, Ambitious, Studious, Bookish, Intelligent, Bibliophilic, Hardworking, Clever, Determined, Assertive, Logical, Reserved, Introverted, Friendly, Demure, Academic, Brainy, Bright, Sweet, Happy, sometimes arrogant, Perfectionist

Occupation: High School Student in Gatorhaven High; Honor Student

Likes: Chocolate, Reading, Flowers, Werewolves, French Cuisine, Werewolf romance, Getting good grades, Spicy Food, K-pop, Theatre, Playing the piano, Jello, Kittens, Puzzles, Pop Music, Classical Music, her family, her friends, her sisters

Dislikes: Swimming, Getting bad grades, Practical jokes (especially from Hannah), Superstitions, Fortune telling, Snakes, Bad hair days

Hobbies: Studying, Chocolate making, Gardening, Darts, Mountain climbing, Geocaching, Reading, Learning French

Fear: Water, Snakes, Bad hair day

Favorite Color: Red

Favorite Food: Coq au Vin, French toast, Bento box

Aspiration: Microbiologist

Strengths:

Weaknesses: Perfectionism, Arrogance

Talents/Skills: Gifted piano player, French beginner

Education: 9th Grade Education in Gatorhaven High School

About Vanessa Manson

- Vanessa Manson is the younger twin sister of Hannah Manson

- When Vanessa was 5 years old, she nearly drowned while at the public pool. Hence the reason why she was afraid of water

- She is the girly-girl to Hannah’s tomboy

- She keeps a collection of books about werewolf romance, including her favorite series, “Girls & Werewolves” and “Werewolves & Mistresses”. In fact, she has a thing for werewolves. She especially has a massive crush on one of the main characters in “Girls & Werewolves” named Aaron

- An A grade student

- Addicted to sugar

- Is musically gifted in the piano

- Always 10 minutes early

- Is great at problem solving

- Has a voice like gently lapping waves

- She wears hair rollers to bed. In addition, she also watches YouTube videos on DIY perm. Also uses a curling iron and hairspray

- Her relationship with Hannah are like: Bart & Lisa Simpson and Mabel & Dipper Pine

- Is a massive fan of a K-pop band called Clockwork ORNJ. She also has a crush on one of its members named Song Young

#anime #character sheet #future manga series #manga #original character #character design #drawing

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thestarpilot · 11 months ago

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had to write a bunch of poems for class so i'm posting them here to make you all suffer "Noise of Shapes" Wood grain and mill marks,

or other shapes to glance and gaze,

even in noise, are meanings to be made

"Cry 'Hunger!'" Anxious dogs will celebrate you,

for waking or walking, but most of all,

for duty, for duly known: food is soon

"Used Lots" Hands of seconds, on time to reflect,

rejoin your other's selves with whom

shared tastes, now or then, tend collect

"Peanuts" There's a three-quarters washy, pink-grounded Snoopy cut-out, pinned up on my wall,

in first three, he and pinks are discrete, as before him Schroeder's unplayed piano calls,

in four, he performs, his pink world's repletion, ascending quaver marked by notehead paws.

"Notes on Portuguese" My notes began on old sugarcane, a spiral bound book of sweet recycled pulp,

some marked point, ebbed my novice jottings on present tense, as practice took their place,

reasons beginner's may possess, yet nothing beats the familiar sense; of voice, case, and face.

"Dead Language" If you love the world's words, the cold and blue and lifeless ones especially, many, or maybe most, will gut you like a fool,

most give whys, never taking much heed or 'huh', but forgotten words remain so much in life, these bygones' own and ours,

here to stay, more yours now than ever their inceptors'; latent prizes, heirloom rubbish of tongue and bone and stolen tool

"Portraits" Our likeness comes out in many varied forums, in words and deeds and any and many other things: the portrait form of people and the portrayals many and any other things, especially,

an expectation is stuck in our eye in our photographic age, laden with endless industrial image and ubiquity of self-publicity, about how things ought to appear, how we as ourselves, especially,

despite the private sense of ancient 'camera', the mechanical image, like cultivated authenticity for profilicity's sake, in all its truth and falseness, pervades, but the liminal remains in us, our likenesses, especially.

"Fishing Out of Water" A submarine has a lot of trouble out of water, and in its domain, cars and trucks and cats fair no better, as all things have places to be,

as you no doubt do too, but may not know, or you may be yet to learn, or you do, but most fish don't know their fitting place is the sea,

finding that fitting place for you is no easy thing, as first you need to know if you are a car or a cat, a fish or submarine; or yet some other thing.

"Cynics" Cynics get a bad rap, probably for playing out open hands and refusing to bluff, often rather avoiding to bite, bearing our teeth,

most often of all by modernists, the optimisers and pessimisers, the Paradisians and Ragnarokians, each defending their attendant belief,

but cynics aren't phased, as ancient underdogs born with our bone in the doghouse, since weaned we're weened to be barking up the wrong tree.

"Of expectation" There's tremendous beauty in life's everyday mundanity, great gifts of the ordinary experience, as those most discerning often tend to know,

gold veins amidst trash-heaps, saplings and great old trees where near fledgling people play, in gutter virtue, and furrow-working virtuousos,

these places least anticipated are often where humanity flourishes best, despite what all those narrow expectations within us might suppose.

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frilly-interference-dazzling · 1 year ago

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Orchestral Violinist ⚗

The reason I'm interested in orchestra is partly because I wanted to sing when I was age 5 years old and was in church choir age 7-11 and 14-18. (They didn't have it at school or in public or my church age 12 and 13.) I sat in an orchestra with my violin and played a little of 2 songs, in the end. I started off better, but I would stick out. I'm a good sight reader. I always wanted to play and was an adult beginner but already was a piano/organ major. I also sing by myself but disliked singing around my family. When I played in that community orchestra, said it was so large, it was so cool and sneaky with my skills from having to sing in choir all those years. I quit church choir when I came home from college so I could be a solo singer and tour and record videos and CD's and collaborate etc. If I acted in movies in movie theaters or popular as DVD's/streaming, I wanted to be featured with other girls etc. as much as me, overall. They were pretty uncomfortably treating us about it, girls acting my age around 2005. It's hard to get in, and you have to make it your only thing, no dancing maybe? So, when I played violin I was all surrounded by things I could not even pinpoint, like it was all under me, what I did from what I took in because of all those years in choir growing up every week, with practice and mass usually every week. I knew the choir directors well sometimes, sorta, daughter or teacher or I played or music major. It's so funny, I am so good at it, playing violin in an orchestra, and you shouldn't hear me stick out ... I don't do much in choir til now since I used to sing softly ... I make a difference and the whole orchestra, changes and lights up! I like orchestral music a lot. I don't know about a lotta violin soloing. Flute is pretty good solo. I can probably play solo, not sure how good for myself, as an aspiring violinist. I was considered a professional musician, as a teenager. I did play in 3 pit orchestras and keyboard instruments for 3 Catholic masses in high school. I played keyboard in band in 8th grade. I was in band 2nd semester of college, and last year of high school at a small school, didn't travel for the football games but did play home games, bells (glockenspiel or glox/glocks.) I'm not great, but I blended musically in college.

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econ23econlive · 2 years ago

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The Economics of Pianos

When I was 5 years old, my mother began to teach me the piano, which I strongly disliked. I also took lessons for a few years while hating every minute of it, until eventually I was allowed to move onto a different instrument. Years later and the piano is by far my favorite instrument, as it produces the most beautiful sound I have ever heard and playing it is one of my favorite pastimes. I live in a small space, so there is neither space nor the funds for an actual piano, so I make do with an old keyboard. Taking this class made me wonder about different piano producers, as well as how the market reacted to digital pianos (keyboards) since their introduction in the early 1980’s.

There are currently nine piano producers in the United States, with Baldwin Piano & Organ Co., Steinway & Sons, Yamaha Corp. of America, and Kawai America Corp. dominating domestic production. Korean companies Young Chang and Samick, as well as Yamaha and Kawai, are leading suppliers from Asia that import pianos into the US, though for some of these companies most pianos are manufactured on US soil in order to save on the cost of transportation, as though not as heavy as grand pianos (700-1200 lbs), upright pianos are still 300-500 lbs. The market for pianos is divided into 7 groups: parents of beginner piano students, parents of advanced piano students, married, young, childless professionals with dual income, adult piano students, professional musicians, educational and cultural institutions, and the hospitality industry. Each group looks for a different and specific type of piano at different qualities, functions, and most importantly costs. There are also demographic factors that affect the overall market size, being the number of children between ages 5-14 and the number of retirees. More children in the age group of 5-14 increases the size of the market as this is the typical age when children begin to play the piano, and a greater number of retirees in a given period increases the supply of used pianos and decreases the demand for new ones. This was especially evident in Japan as the aging population as well as a financial crisis caused a large increase in the availability of used pianos, and strong demand in the United States led to an increase of imports of these used pianos from Japan in recent years, from aforementioned companies such as Yamaha and Young Chang.

Interestingly and very different from my prediction, the emergence of digital pianos since the 80s came to represent an entirely different market, wherein these pianos are considered substitutes for vertical pianos for beginner-level consumers or to consumers who lack a strong preference. In these instances, the price is the only factor in purchasing. Because there is such a large disparity between musicians and music teachers that heavily prefer the quality, touch, and longevity of acoustic pianos and young people and beginners that like the technology and cheaper price, it appears that while electronic pianos are in demand as substitutes for acoustic pianos, they also represent a separate market. The greater availability of substitutes tends to make demand more price-elastic.

Digital pianos have gained market share at the expense of beginner-level acoustic pianos, though this trend has stabilized since due to the rising demand for acoustic pianos has matched that of digital pianos. In essence, digital keyboards appeal to a larger market of beginners and casual players with disposable income that do not know nor care for the quality of their piano, as opposed to the smaller and more passionate market of musicians and music teachers that specifically search for such qualities.

Source: Lundy, D. (n.d.). Pianos: Economic and competitive conditions affecting the U.S. Retrieved from https://www.usitc.gov/publications/docs/pubs/332/pub3196.pdf

Sean Yoon

UCI ID: 91422545

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merriammusicinc · 2 years ago

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Piano Buying Tips: 10 Common Mistakes People Make When Buying A Piano

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Piano Buying Tips - 10 Mistakes to Look Out For

Purchasing a first piano can be fairly intimidating, especially if you don’t already have a lot of experience with pianos.

Fortunately, here at Merriam Pianos, we’ve seen the piano purchasing process through with literally thousands of customers since our inception, from beginners to concert-level piano players, so we can safely say we know a thing or two about what people ought to look for when buying a piano.

Today, we’re going to tackle the 10 mistakes shoppers often make when buying a piano. We feel this list should be helpful to anybody who's embarking on the process of selecting an instrument for their home, school, church, studio or wherever it may be.

Avoiding these common mistakes will go a very long way in ensuring your long-term satisfaction with the instrument you end up choosing.

Mistake #1: Used is Better Value than New

The very first mistake is a common assumption many people make, which is that a used piano is automatically a better value than a new piano.

While there are cases where this is true, most of the time the overall marketplace has already factored in the value a buyer is getting for used versus new - as long as you understand the street price versus the list price of a new piano that you’re looking at, you'll simply be getting what you pay for.

For example, a used Yamaha U1 in a certain age category has a particular market price point that’s been largely set due to the fact that any used piano performs at a certain level markedly lower than a new counterpart.

If a new 48-inch Japanese piano is worth $9,000 to $10,000, the cost of a used model directly dovetails with this and will be anywhere from 1/3 to 2/3 depending on age and condition.

The main reason for this is that all pianos degrade, depreciate and wear out over time, without exception.

There is no such thing as a 20-year-old piano that is as good as a brand-new piano, with the exception of those rare barn finds where someone unearths a 20-year-old instrument that was never played. Obviously, something like this would be a killer deal, if you could find one.

In most cases, a used piano has received hundreds and even sometimes thousands of hours of use. The hammers are harder and have started to wear down, plus there's more play in the hammer action, meaning it’s going to be looser and less responsive.

The soundboard will have already received decades of down-bearing tension, which affects the soundboard crown, which in turn affects the dynamic potential of the sound.

Tuning stability may also be sub-optimal due to a variety of reasons, such as the humidity of the environment in which the piano is stored. The piano technician/tuner bills can add up quickly.

Finally, the aesthetic condition of a used piano is pretty much always going to be inferior to a new piano unless the instrument has been refinished.

However, this can be costly and would be reflected in the price. For most people, when they invest several thousand dollars into an instrument, they rightfully want it to look good.

All of that put together is to say this: when it comes to used versus new pianos, you get what you pay for.

New pianos are more expensive due to their superior musical potential, aesthetics, durability and warranty coverage. Used pianos cost less, and in the case of many Spinet pianos are available for free, for a reason.

Mistake #2: Buying Based on a “Discount”

This is another one we see all the time - the allure of a big percentage discount from the list price set by the manufacturer. This is an old sales technique that stretches across many industries, automobiles being the most common.

The piano industry is certainly not immune from this, and there's been a lot of good ink spilt on this subject over the years - Piano industry expert Larry Fine for example has opined on this with a great level of detail in several of his highly credible publications.

Here’s what this mistake comes down to; MSRP stands for manufacturer-suggested retail price, and is 100% set by the manufacturer without measure against any type of objective standard.

In the marketplace, there seems to be an inverse relationship between a piano's reputation regarding quality and how high or low the MSRP is.

The better the piano, and the more established the reputation of that instrument, the closer MSRP is likely to be to the actual legitimate street market price of that instrument, to the point where some instruments literally have no daylight between MSRP and what people are actually paying for these pianos.

For many decades, you could say that Steinway & Sons was the only manufacturer who achieved this, but these days there are a number of other manufacturers marketplace who have achieved this as well.

Estonia for example has set their MSRP very close to what the market actually pays for their good high-quality pianos, meaning they haven’t artificially inflated the MSRP to a point where dealers have an abundance of room to discount.

On the flip side of the equation, situations exist where lesser-known and lower-quality brands often dramatically inflate the MSRP of their pianos to achieve two things; for one, they're looking to achieve the perception of equivalence with much more established brands, by listing a high MSRP to artificially inflate the value.

Secondly, this gives less experienced and less established dealers a sales tool that can be effective at generating excitement, i.e. a large, time-limited discount.

This is a common tactic with lesser-known Chinese and Indonesian lines. Very rarely do you see this approach occurring with either North American, European or good-quality Asian-built pianos.

The market pricing is so well-established that people's impression or need for a sense of credible pricing on these instruments handcuffs the manufacturers in a way that is advantageous for consumers.

So, don't be allured by a super high discount based on MSRP from a slick salesperson because there's a very good chance that if you're getting something like 50% off the list price, this MSRP was artificially inflated in the first place.

Mistake #3: Underestimating a Piano’s Volume

Do not underestimate how loud a piano is!

We can’t tell you how many times every single year we get a call from a customer who was thrilled about their piano purchase only to receive delivery and a couple of weeks later be begging for some type of a solution due to the sheer power and volume a piano generates, especially when you dig into the key action and have the sustain pedal engaged.

Pianos are loud. They were built to be loud, and there’s no way around this.

Don't underestimate this and instead, actively plan for it. If you're in a small space or if you've got neighbours, carefully consider the size of the piano because size has a direct relationship to the volume that it produces.

You can also consider other mitigating strategies such as installing a silent system or going with a top-tier hybrid piano that’s actually able to produce a musical experience on par with a fully acoustic piano.

Mistake #4: Not Measuring Piano Size Correctly

This one might seem obvious, but just as often as we have people calling and looking for strategies to mitigate volume they weren't expecting, we get even more calls about this one - the piano won't fit. Measure!

This comes up a lot when we're talking about getting pianos into or out of basements and onto second floors.

Pianos are large and heavy so you need more than a centimetre of clearance to safely move one up and downstairs.

If you have measured at the music store and it's literally going to be within an inch, there's a very good chance that you are going to be taking on damage to the instrument itself or to the walls of your home.

This should be an expectation, and it is not a reflection on the moving company that you have selected if a problem occurs.

The vast majority of piano movers really care about the work they do, and often times issues arise simply due to folks having selected a piano too big for its desired end location.

Mistake #5: Allowing For Acclimatization

This next one has less to do with a shopping mistake and more to do with a misconception right at the same time as a shopping purchase.

Acoustic pianos, not so much digital pianos, need to acclimatize. There is a huge amount of tension on an acoustic piano, and the primary materials, wood and iron, are prone to shrinking and swelling with changes in humidity and temperature.

The humidity and temperature in a warehouse will be different than the humidity and temperature in a piano showroom, which in turn will be different from your home.

When the piano finally arrives in your home for the first time, there will be a period where the instrument goes through some changes while settling into the new environment.

This process often results in piano keys that are slightly sticky or at least a little stiffer than you might expect them to be. You may also find some ringing on certain strings, or a damper that isn't quite damping perfectly.

These are all signs of an instrument that is generally acclimatizing.

It's certainly a good idea to notify your dealer if these things occur shortly after delivery, but your first reflex should not be to think that you have bought a lemon as this is very common. and stretches across all piano brands and types of pianos.

If the humidity continues to be quite dynamic in your home, you can expect a lot of these behaviours to continue.

Creating a humidity environment that is stable can go a long way in preventing these issues from occurring, but even if they do, there’s no need to panic. Just keep in touch with your dealer and they can get the issues remedied.

Mistake #6: Not Considering The Mechanical Sounds Of A Silent System

This is one that wouldn't have needed mentioning even 10 years ago, but the increasing popularity of silent pianos has changed this.

And it makes perfect sense - people want to be able to enjoy all of the sound quality of an acoustic piano without making enemies of their friends, family, and neighbours.

With that in mind, it’s not surprising that we're seeing so many silent systems installed on acoustic pianos since the technology has really evolved in the last few years.

But here is what you need to keep in mind; the mechanical sound of a piano's action is anything but silent.

While the 80 decibels of tone that the piano produces due to the hammer striking the strings is eliminated, the marked mechanical noise that the action itself produces can’t be done away with.

Plus, most silent systems still have the hammer striking some type of bar which also produces noise.

With this in mind, we would encourage anyone considering a silent system to make sure you play one in a piano store and pay attention to the mechanical noise that isn’t done away with by the silent system.

Mistake #7: Buying Based On A Country's "Sound"

Often times we have customers visit one of our showrooms and the conversation starts something like this "I hate Japanese pianos, they're too tinny and the American sound is just a little too brash for me.

I really prefer the high-quality European piano sound."

The problem here is that countries don't really have sounds.

There is as much variety in the German piano-making industry as there is in the Japanese piano-making industry for example.

Instead, countries have general quality standards that can translate to musical perceptions.

When you are competing in a marketplace where your consumer is accustomed to a particular standard of quality, you will generally find that all manufacturers will rise to the occasion. Otherwise, they simply won’t be able to compete.

Europe is steeped in musical culture, and as such the standards that the buying community apply to the piano manufacturing business are higher than buying audiences where the level of musical fluency isn't as well-established over multiple generations.

As such, German pianos generally are the best made, and the better made a piano is, the cleaner the sound will be.

Under that umbrella though, there’s a huge variety of tonal colours and palettes that are possible.

As a result, there are both light and dark pianos from Germany, as well as super colourful pianos and pianos with a very simple tonal profile.

The main thing they have in common is excellent craftsmanship resulting in cleanness of tone.

In terms of pianos from the United States, while there still are 3 US-based piano manufacturers, the classic American sound really just means the Steinway sound, as opposed to the Baldwin or Mason & Hamlin sound.

Japanese pianos are either going to be from Kawai or Yamaha, and these two manufacturers offer pianos that sound widely different from one another. To say there is a Japanese sound isn’t really accurate.

To summarize, while countries have generally consistent quality levels, the idea that all pianos from one country sound the same is not accurate.

Mistake #8: Assuming All Grands Are Better Than Uprights

Here’s another one that comes up all the time - shoppers assuming that baby grand pianos are always superior to upright pianos.

The fact is, grand pianos are not automatically better than upright pianos, plain and simple.

In fact, there are many instances where the quality of the materials and the execution of design on an upright piano will produce a more preferable musical experience than a grand piano of the same price.

This is a general guideline, but we have often found that if you’re seeking a grand piano with exactly the same fit and finish, material quality and design sophistication, you need to approximately double your budget from what a comparable upright piano would cost.

For example, if you were looking at a $20,000 upright piano, you would have to jump to approximately the $40,000 or $50,000 price range to get a grand piano that would be of equal overall quality.

Now, the aesthetics of a grand piano are unbeatable in a living room and the physics of the action come with their own benefits that may mean an otherwise lesser quality grand piano will still be a better piano for you, especially if you’re serious about advancing through piano lessons.

But don't assume that simply choosing a grand over an upright, in all cases, is always going to produce a superior musical experience.

Mistake #9: Not Considering Uprights Under 48 Inches

This one is a classic. Many people think they shouldn’t entertain an upright piano under 48” in height if they’re going to be doing the serious playing, likely due to something they heard from their piano teacher.

This idea likely came from the fact that the Yamaha U1 is 48” in height and is by the far the best-selling upright piano in North America over the last few decades. In Germany, the most common upright piano size is about 47” in height, so this belief simply doesn’t exist in the mind of consumers there.

Piano Buying Tips - Upright Piano Pearl River

The 48” mark is in reality arbitrary. If you automatically draw this line in the sand, you’re cutting yourself off from some fantastic options that come in under this mark.

The fact is, there are many excellent upright pianos available as small as 43”, so we would recommend considering uprights of all sizes.

Mistake #10: Shopping Dynamic

The very last item on our list is a little bit touchy, but we’ve seen this derail the shopping process many times and that is having convoluted decision-making dynamic.

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with different family members or a buying group making the final decision of which piano to go with, and having a strong degree of feedback will help in narrowing things down.

But once things have been narrowed down is where having multiple decision-makers can be quite problematic. Choosing a piano after you've made sure that you're in the right category and working with the right budget is extremely personal.

Somebody needs to be designated to take the lead at the very last stage and be the one to musically crown the winner. We’ve seen the entire process gets entirely derailed when there are too many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

It’s highly recommended that the person whose primarily going to be playing the instrument have the final say. After all, they’re the ones who will be spending countless hours in front of the piano when all is said and done.

Closing Thoughts

We hope you’ve found this article helpful. As we said in the intro, we at Merriam Pianos have helped thousands of families and individuals choose a piano over the years here at Merriam Pianos, and the above-listed 10 mistakes are extremely common.

If you’re able to avoid the mistakes we’ve listed, the odds greatly increase that you’ll end up with the right piano for you, whether you’re getting ready to learn piano for the first time, or highly experienced pianists and everything in between.

Thank you for reading our piano buying tips and happy shopping!

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Piano Publications For Old Beginners

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tinyhousegirl · 2 years ago

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The Day the Music Died

Characters/Pairings: Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw, Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw x Carole Bradshaw, Mentions of Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace x Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw, Mentions of Penny Benjamin x Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell

Synopsis: Bradley's love for the piano matched his father's passion. Inspired by the Don McLean song, American Pie.

A/N: Day One of the August Prompt Month run by @topgunfighterpilot. Today's prompt is MUSIC. Like what you're reading? Buy me a brick!

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I can't remember if I cried

When I read about his widowed bride

But something touched me deep inside

The day the music died

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Bradley clung to the fading memories he had of his father. He doesn’t remember the man’s face outside of the photos he keeps of him, but he will never forget the music.

Before Bradley could even crawl, Nick had bought him one of those tiny toy pianos that were so out of tune, you couldn’t even recognize the keys being played. But that blond little baby adored that thing. Goose did his best to teach him what each key was, but all the small baby would do was smash his fist against the keys, laughing contently as the piano rattled off pitch.

When Bradley was crawling, barely able to stand on his two chubby legs, he would bounce lightly against the piano seat at their house in Virginia while his dad would play at his own piano that Carole had bought him as a wedding gift. Nick had been craving one for years, and she did everything she could to save up for it. The look on his face when he came home from a deployment and saw the bright red bow on top would forever be ingrained in her memory.

On sleepless nights, or the nights before he would deploy, Goose would wrap the toddler gently in his lap, playing songs late into the night until Bradley would fall asleep. Carole filmed a few of those nights, and Bradley was forever grateful to have digitized copies of his life with them when he needed to hear their voices the most.

Bradley does remember flying to Miramar at four to visit his dad. He remembers Maverick and mom, and the other blonde lady, hanging out at the bar while his dad attacked the keys of the piano with grace. He didn’t know the song very well, but bounced along to his dad and uncle yelling the lyrics as he sat atop the piano. They looked so goofy singing at the top of their lungs in public, but it was something the little boy was used to at that point.

The funeral is nothing much more than a few sounds left in his memory. He wore headphones to protect his little ears, but the bugle and gunshots won’t leave him alone in the quiet of the night even to this day.

After Goose died, and they flew home to Virginia, and Bradley got older, he found his safe spot on the piano bench. Carole’s heart clenched when he came home from school with a Beginner’s Guide to Piano book that he found at his school library. The little boy was determined to learn his dad’s favorite song. He was still too little to understand that death was permanent, very much unlike deployments where his father would scoop him up and sit beside him when he would get home so he could show him that he learned the song, too.

(Carole called Maverick sobbing the first time she heard Bradley play the opening chords to Great Balls of Fire. Maverick cried too.)

Carole enrolled Bradley into piano classes as soon as he was old enough, and he took to it like a spark on a dry day. Most of the Top Gun class of 1986 flew out to watch his first group recital - a bunch of six year olds playing songs together - it was a train wreck but oh boy, was it cute.

As Bradley grew up, he continued to play. He started playing baseball and other sports to keep up his physique for boot camp once he graduated high school, but his biggest passion was still those black and white keys that tied him to his dad. It was his party trick, his comfort zone, the thing the bullies teased him for before his growth spurt at 13. The passion never faded, even as the memory of his dad did.

He didn’t play for a long time after Carole died. He couldn’t. Her spot on the bench had grown too cold and it sunk his soul into the ground when they lowered her casket next to her husbands. And then his papers were pulled, and he took his anger out of the keys, breaking a few off in the rage. As soon as one key snapped, the rage turned into unbridled sobbing; he was completely alone and orphaned at 17.

He took a few music classes at UAV towards the end of his college career - his girlfriend at the time had convinced him slowly to get back into something he was clearly passionate about, even if he never told her why he was so timid when it came to the instrument.

He fell back in love with the sound of music at his fingertips, even as he fell out of love with her and more in love with the Navy. The four years of college were met with his acceptance into the Naval Academy and an invite to their band. He accepted the former invite, but denied the latter - playing alone was his favorite form.

The first time he met Natasha Trace, he was halfway into his regular rendition of Great Balls of Fire. She sidled up to the side of the piano at the Hard Deck with some of her friends and sang along. He couldn’t keep his eyes off of her as she belted the lyrics.

(He would go on to teach her the notes in the coming years while she taught him to open his heart back up to the world.)

After the nuclear mission, he rekindled slowly with Maverick over a few beers at his hangar in the Mojave. Maverick had a record player full of old tunes playing in the background as they worked on his plane. His eyes fell over the photos pinned to the workbench - a collection of Maverick’s world travels, photos of Bradley growing up, and some old photos of his parents. He didn’t remember his dad’s face anymore. His mother’s faded in and out.

The Hard Deck was rattling with energy. Most of their Top Gun detachment had flown in for Maverick’s official retirement ceremony and party, enjoying the afterparty way more as they didn’t have to dress up and could be as rowdy as they wanted. Hangman was doing his usual rounds of pool, destroying Coyote at every chance. Bob and Fanboy were off in a corner talking to other naval pilots. Halo and Yale were duking it out at the dart boards. Phoenix snuck up behind Bradley and wrapped her arm around his waist, pulling him out of his conversation with Mav and Penny. He knew that look on her face. Their crew settled around the caramel colored piano as he sat down, and instantly the gang burst into song.

You shake my nerve and you rattle my brain

Too much love drives a man insane

You broke my will

But what a thrill

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!

Natasha leaned down to kiss his cheek in between choruses. Bradley smiled throughout the entire song, swapping his gaze between her and the photo of his parents and Maverick that Penny had hung for him above the piano. He knew they were up there somewhere listening in, probably dancing along with his teammates. His parents' memory would never die so long as the music didn’t.

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maddgicalgirl · 3 years ago

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Paracosm Resources <3

Need help bringing your paracosm to life? Try these free resources!

⚠️ Updates always pending! Suggestions always welcome! Feel free to message me any tips or questions <3 ⚠️

(Cont. below cut, or with real time updates on this google doc!)

Art Programs

FireAlpaca - 2D Art Program, Animation. Where I make most of my digital art, and paint the frames for my animations :) It is free to use, and easy to learn and use! It can make basic animations as well, such as gifs. It requires download.

Krita - 2D Art Program. Professional, free digital paint software :) I have not used it before, though I have heard good things.

GIMP - 2D Art Program, Photo Manipulation. It's free to use, but I do not like it/recommend it highly. But! If FireAlpaca and Krita don't float your stoat, try Gimp! For 2D art, but also able to emulate Photoshop to a degree ^^

Inkscape - 2D Art Program. Free to use digital illustration software. Makes 2D art :)

Of course, who can forget classics like good old MS Paint, and the new and exciting 3D MS Paint, which can both be used to create some really neat things! Classic MS Paint is available here in browser form! If you need that. I just think it's neat!

Art AI

Petalica Paint - Coloring Software. An in browser, watercolor manga style coloring software, which can (almost) effortlessly color in any of your line art pieces! I've played around with it for my Thorn illustration style piece, and enjoyed it! It is free to use, and can take user input to make the colorations more precise.

ArtBreeder - 3D Realism Software. Using Artbreeder, you can create lifelike images of your paras, planets, or potentially even fursona, using the intricate AI they let you work with for free! A premium version exists, but most functions are fully usable without - though I recommend donating ^^ You can randomly generate, or prune and shape what you make until its perfect! Slow to use and get the hang of, but very worth it! Artbreeder is also pioneering an intriguing animation software to go alongside their product! Browser based.

3D Software

Blender - 3D Modeling, Animation. The best (in my opinion) free 3D modelling software.

MagicaVoxel - 3D Pixel Art. Free to use! Could be interesting :)

MikuMikuDance - 3D Rigging. Anime style rigging and animation software, free to use, and certified internet artefact! Has stood the test of time, and is still used and loved today. Can support ports of many kinds of assets, including, I believe, those from Blender, and of course those that are downloaded. DA has a bunch of old MMD communities you can raid for assets!

Animaze - Face Rigger. Use 3D models and a webcam to watch your paras talk! Models can be made in Blender, downloaded online, or even from CHARAT V, CHARAT GENESIS sister app!

Character Creators

CHARAT GENESIS - 2D Character Creator. Browser based anime style character creator, with multiple crops and poses, and infinitely customizable options. It is legitimately insane. Has a 3D function called CHARAT V which can apparently convert characters made in CHARAT GENESIS into 3D models compatible with Face Rig and Animaze!

V-Katsu - 3D Character Creator. Free on steam! Anime style, intensive character creator, by the same people who made Koikatsu, and Koikatsu Party, two amazingly detailed 3D hentai makers. While V-Katsu is a SFW VTuber maker, if you're looking for NSFW anime content, you could always spend roughly $70 on the full NSFW versions. V-Katsu requires a translation mod (free online as well) which you have to install, or the ability to read Kanji <3 Works with VR tech.

V-Roid Studios - 3D Character Creator. Free on steam! Anime style, fairly in depth character creator, that allows for some degree of digital 3D hand sculpting, particularly with their amazing hair engine, to get your paras looks perfect!

And, of course, Picrew has thousands of character creators of various styles and quality uploaded by the artists who made them! Also, honestly I think we as a society should embrace making dinky chibis in Gacha Life. IDK why everyone is mean to the gacha kids, like we weren't all cringe at some point,

World Design

HomeStyler - 3D and 2D Room Designer. Make a model of an interior for a home or building, using real 1:1 furniture of IRL brands! Apparently this is free to use, though there is a premium version, and it offers 3D and 2D models.

Map to World - 3D Planet Maker. Turn your fantasy world into a 3D model of the planet. Put maps directly on, or design the surface and textures of your world. Takes a lot of getting used to, but it is AMAZING. Free to use, and browser based!

PlanetMaker - 3D Planet Maker. Make a customized 3D planet! Free to use browser site! I have never used this, but I would love to mess around with it sometime! Allows you to add orbital rings, change textures, and more at the click of a mouse.

If on sale, I also recommend snagging a copy of the Sims, particularly 3 or 4, for character creation and world design. Maybe not the best gameplay without mods, but it's also a load of fun, and very easy to add custom content to! Minecraft also. But you just need Minecraft, in general. Beyond its ability to fairly faithfully recreate structures from your paracosms, it's just Good.

Game Creators

Maybe you wanna turn your paracosm into a cool game idk, just thought I'd put these here!

Construct 3 - 2D Game Creator. Beginner level game making :) Drag-and-drop if/then style programming.

GameSalad - Codeless 2D Game Creator. Drag and drop style/no coding, beginner friendly. Free version available!

Solpeo - 2D Game Creator. HTML5 based game engine for 2D and isometric game development. Some programming knowledge needed. Platforms supported: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9+. Free version available.

Stencyl - Codeless 2D Game Creator. Drag and drop style building/no coding skills needed. Has editable templates!

Scratch - 2D Game Creator. Very easy to use and totally free, though relatively basic!

Unity - 3D, 2D, and VR Game Creator. Make games with 3D software. Import your own assets (Blender compatible) or download free options, or buy the rights to models. Works for 3D and 2D games. Free version available, and now works with VR tech!

Unreal Engine - 3D Game Creator. Extremely advanced 3D game developer. Highly customizable. Free to use!

Twine - Text-based Game Creator. Use a map to make a branching paths text-based story game. Free to use.

Squiffy - Text-based Game Creator. have used Squiffy and it can make some really, truly incredible things. Can take a while to pick up, and learn how to use to its full potential. Free to use! Has an online and offline library of player creations you can get inspiration from!

Quest - Text-based Game Creator. I've never used this, but it seems cool! Use it to make interactive text-based DND game adventures in browser.

Ren'Py - Visual Novel Creator. Visual novel engine, that is well acclaimed, and of course, free to use!

Companion AI

Replika - 3D Companion.

Kajiwoto - Chatbot Companion. Customizable, learning AI you can shape into a personality. Communicates via Discord like chat box.

Organization

Toyhou.se - Character Gallery. A customizable library where you can upload all of your paras and characters for the public to view! Free to use, but requires a premium member to invite you!

Refsheet - Character Gallery. I haven't used it before, but I've heard good things, and that it's a suitable alternative to toyhou.se if you can't get an invite!

Notebook.AI - Character Gallery. I haven't used it before, but I've heard good things, and that it's a suitable alternative to toyhou.se if you can't get an invite!

World Anvil - World Building Toolset. Like character galleries, but for worlds and their lore :)

Scabard - World Building Toolset. Aimed at DnD campaigners, but I reckon it'll be useful for many!

YARPS - World Building Toolset. More focused around story and lore than Scabard or World Anvil, and looks beautiful! Still in its prototype stage, however.

Pinterest - Photo Organizer. Look at, collect, and sort images into boards. Personalizes your feed based on that, and is free to use and join! However, unlike their myriad of wonderful recipes, DIY tutorials, and the likes - a lot of the images are uploaded by second parties and not credited, so be careful reuploading anything you find! Also great for finding outfits and art inspo for your paras!

Generators

Fantasy Name Generator - Name Generators. Does what it says on the tin! Generates fantasy names. Is a lovely website, run by a purportedly lovely woman.

Fantasy Map Generator - Map Generator. Randomly generates a fictional map, which you can view in 2D or 3D.

Donjon RPG Generator - Multiple Generators. Can make maps, weapons, items, etc.

Seventh Sanctum - Multiple Generators. One of my favorites from high school! Does all kinds of things - the standard items, spells, and names - but also prompts, backstories, characters, and even comedy generators!

ShindanMaker - Multiple Generators. User created and uploaded, any kind of generator you can imagine, of varying complexity. And when I say any generator? I mean ANY generator.

Audio

Audacity - Record and Edit Audio. What can't Audacity do? I love Audacity to death. At surface level, it records audio. I've used it to record voices for my paras, and get audio for animations and games I've worked on. I cannot recommend it enough. Comprehensive editing, and with some investigation, it can do so, so much more than just record simple dialogue.

FL Studios - Compose. Compose music with an unlimited free trial. Upgrades available for purchase!

Indie Game Music - Royalty Free Music Library. Free to use Indie Game Music. What it says on the box!

AudioJungle - Royalty Free Music and Audio Library. Thousands of free to use audio clips!

Online Piano - Someone could use this, for recording, or just messing around. I've seen plenty of paras who play piano, this could just be used for fun!

Online Guitar - Same reasons as above, but this site looks kinda sketchy. Use at your own risk or reward! Audio

For real, if you ever need music, sound effects, or really any MP3 clips that can be used without infringing on copyright laws, just search 'royalty free' (music/audio/insert thing here) same applies for photos! Make sure the source is reputable, however.

Tutorials

W3Schools - Coding. Learn the basics of coding, for free, online!

Miscellaneous

Debut Video Capture - Screen Recorder. Record game footage and let's plays for free! Professional and home versions. I see a few of our community members have paras who run YouTube channels, and I thought these might help! It could be a nice way to connect your parames. YouTube quality <3

Pixton - Comic Maker. Comic making website. I have no experience with this at all, but some may find it useful!

Picfont - Image Editor. Puts customizable text on an image. I used these for @paraesthetics paracosm header edits <3 It has a premium version (???) but the free version has all functions, but it crashes regularly (honestly seems timed :/) but once you get it down, it's a very quick process, and you won't have to worry about that at all.

Itch.io - Publishing. You can publish your self made games here :)

Korsakow - ??? Described as, "The Future of Storytelling" and is apparently a way to create interactive films. I *just* found out about this, but thought I should include it for someone who may know how to use and appreciate it! Free? Unknown, at the moment.

Tips and Tricks

Animation Done Easy

Our forefather's of internet animation used MS Paint, Windows Movie Maker, and Audacity. All of these, or their equivalents, are free on standard computers. I, personally, use FireAlpaca - which works just as well, if not better, than MS Paint for animation - but takes longer, and definitely lacks that retro feeling. I also use my trackpad to draw and animate everything, so its doable, but probably not totally comfortable, to animate like this for most people :)

⚠️ Updates always pending! Suggestions always welcome! Feel free to message me any tips or questions <3 ⚠️

#immersive daydreaming #paraportal #paracosm #paracosms #paracosmonaut #madd art #art resources #masterpost #free resources

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mamusiq · 3 years ago

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9 Things You Didn’t Know About Für Elise

Posted by Dr. Anna Wulick | Feb 9, 2021 1

From its first repeating notes, Für Elise is instantly recognizable. It may even be the most famous melody ever written! But did you know that when Beethoven first drafted this short piano piece, he stuffed it in a drawer, never to be seen in his lifetime?

Curious how it went from forgotten trifle to universally known? Wondering what exactly makes it such an unforgettable ear-worm? Need some tips on learning to play this piece? Then keep reading for everything you've ever wanted to know about one of Beethoven's best-known masterpieces.

Für Elise: The Basics

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote Für Elise 1810 as a small piece for the piano, and then put it aside with his many other draft works. We only have it because a musicologist found it and published it in 1867!

And it's a good thing for us that Für Elise was finally found! Its first five notes (alternating E and D-sharp) have become as famous as the booming da-da-da-dum first notes of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.

Why has this piece been so popular ever since its publication? Musically, Für Elise is deeply melodic and full of nostalgic feeling, with a relatively simple harmony that makes it very accessible and not overly intellectually demanding. At the same time, because its first part is easy even for a beginner piano player to learn, but is also beautiful, it is often assigned by piano teachers the world over, perpetuating its fame. And finally, the romantic and mysterious possibilities of its name make us wonder about the identity of Elise and the love life of its composer!

Where Can I Listen to Für Elise?

Before diving into the history and background of this piece, here are some versions that will give you a great sense of the range of interpretations out there.

Start with this straightforward Für Elise piano recording:

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Then, you can explore interesting takeoffs, samples, and modifications. On the piano, there is a great blues-imbued version, as well as a ragtime version. At the same time, the piece's arpeggios make it a popular choice for classical guitar interpretations like this one.

Because Für Elise is so incredibly popular, there are a million and one versions of it on YouTube. Do a quick search and check out the versions played by wildly talented four-year-old prodigies!

The History of Für Elise

In 1810, when he was 40 years old, Ludwig van Beethoven was already renowned as one of the greatest composers of all time. He was also already plagued by the horrible tinnitus that preceded his eventual deafness. Although the very next year he stopped performing in public altogether, he never stopped composing.

On April 27th, 1810, Beethoven drafted a bagatelle - a small, unimportant song - and jotted the label "Für Elise" on it in his famously messy handwriting. But he never published this piece of music. Instead, it sat in a drawer until 1822, when Beethoven revised it slightly, and shoved it back into the same drawer. In 1827, Beethoven died, and his bagatelle never saw the light of day.

It was only in 1867, 40 years after Beethoven's death, that a musicologist named Ludwig Nohl found the piece of music and published it.

Who Was Elise?

Remember how I told you that Beethoven jotted the words "Für Elise" on his final draft of the sheet music? Well, it turns out that we only know this from Ludwig Nohl, the man who found and published the piece. The actual final draft itself is missing! Not only that, but no distinct records, letters, or accounts from people at the time make mention of an "Elise" in Beethoven's life.

So who was the mysterious Elise that Beethoven apparently dedicated this music to? There is no conclusive answer to this question. There are several theories, however, which I will lay out in order of most to least likely.

Theory #1: "Elise" Was Beethoven's "One That Got Away"

Beethoven had a doomed love affair with a woman named Therese Malfatti. She was his student, and he fell in love with her right around the time of the composition of Für Elise. We aren't quite sure exactly how they broke up, but we do know that he proposed, and she either said no right away, or strung him along for a while and then said no. Either way, Therese then married someone else. So, the most popular theory is that our friend Ludwig Nohl misread Beethoven’s messy handwriting, and that in reality, the piece was labeled "Für Therese" not "Für Elise."

Theory #2: "Elise" Was Beethoven's Opera Singer BFF

A few years before writing Für Elise, Beethoven became friends with an opera singer named Elisabeth Röckel, whose nickname may well have been Elise (Elizabeth to Elise doesn't seem to be that much of a stretch, but we don't have any documentary evidence that anyone actually did call her Elise). Beethoven and Rockel were close friends until she married Beethoven's frenemy, Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Perhaps Für Elise was written in the midst of this friendship - or as a way of saying good-bye.

Theory #3: "Elise" Was One of Therese Malfatti's Friends

The least likely scenario is that Beethoven wrote the piece for another woman nicknamed Elise - Juliane Katharine Elisabet Barensfeld, who used "Elise" as a variant first name. She was a musical child prodigy who was Therese Malfatti's neighbor and conceivably could have been her student. This theory holds that Beethoven was willing to do anything for his one great love, Therese, including writing a quick piece of music for one of her favorites.

Since there's not enough evidence to prove it conclusively, we should probably use Occam’s razor for this one. To whom is a sad, longing love song dedicated? Probably to the lost love of Beethoven's life, Therese.

What Does the Title of Für Elise Mean?

The full title of Beethoven's piece of music is Für Elise: Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59. In reality, the stuff after the colon is the official title, and "Für Elise" is just a nickname for the piece. This is because musical compositions have a specific naming system that references type, key, and a numbering system. Let's unpack each of the components of this title separately.

Für Elise. The words “Für Elise” mean “for Elise” in German.

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LUCY vs TIME

June 22, 1973

The publicity photos, from the movie set of Mame were unrecognizable. Unrecognizable! Why, they were unbelievable. Either somebody had shot them through six layers of soft-focus gauze - or a time machine.

Who was this frisky redhead hoofer kicking up her heels on the distant reaches of some resplendent soundstage, cannily avoiding a camera close-up?

Who was this svelte eyed lady fluttering from beneath a fringed rug of false lashes, not a wrinkle, sag or bag, not to mention even an expression line, sporting her famous face?

Well, clearly the lady was a star. And as star of Warner Brothers' new $8 million musical version of Mame, Lucille Ball had veto rights over all still photographs.

The trouble was that obviously nobody had had the nerve to tell her that if she could order reality rubbed out of a picture with a wave of the retoucher's brush, she couldn't pull the gauze over the eyes of an interviewer ushered into the Mame set to confront the living flesh, unretouched.

Time has not been unkind to Lucille Ball. No, beneath a billowing wine velvet and cream satin lounge suit, the svelte one-time chorus-girl's curves are still obvious. Despite a badly broken right leg from a skiing accident that had left the shooting of Mame stalled and the star in a cast for nearly a year, the shapely former showgirl's gams had now already carried her through a dozen dance routines up on top of pianos and down banisters that would have taxed a tap-dancer half her age.

At 61, Lucille Ball could pass for a dozen years younger. But only a dozen years.

The outrageous, outsize eyelashes now stick like pine spikes out of a swamp of tucks, puckers and bags etched around her shrewd big baby-blues. Her plastic face is a relief map of over-made-up wrinkles, the big bright red Cupid's-bow mouth lipsticked in a smile outside her own spidery upline.

But you don't survive 22 years on TV in the top ratings, get renewed once again this season when all about Bridgets and Bernies and Dean Martins (1) are falling to the network's chop, practically bear a baby and outlast a broken real-life marriage on the TV tube, take over a foundering corporation and build it into the single most powerful independent TV production house, without it showing in your face.

One look at Lucille Ball's face and you don't doubt it for a minute when Hal, her make-up man for 32 years, says she used to limp on to the Mame set in excruciating pain. Then, the minute the cameras clicked on, burst into a dazzling and seemingly effortless song-and-dance.

Not that the lady would admit it for a minute. "It was excruciating pain," she dismisses the subject airily.

But then these days she's not admitting much. It was a lesson learned the hard way. One recent fateful February day, over perhaps one too many Pouilly-Fuisses on the rocks, she was admitting so much so freely to the New York Times that the story read like a Hedda Hopper monologue.

On Desi Arnaz Sr., the Cuban bongo (2) player-bandleader she met and married out of a chorus line in 1940 and divorced 22 years later after a marriage that was even stormier off -screen than on: "He drank too much and he couldn't stand success."

On Desi Arnaz Jr., their 20-year-old son and his much-publicized romance with actress Patty Duke: "I had my doubts if the baby was Desi's at all. I said to him, "You feel responsible? Boy, you're all of 16 1/2 years old and you want to spend the rest of your life with this neurotic person?'"

On Liza Minnelli, then Desi's current fiancée: "They took her for over a million and a quarter more than her mother's debt. Just for beginners..."

One mention of the story now is enough to send sparks flying. "Why, that man should be..." she sputters over the reporter, "...spanked!"

It's a first burst of spontaneity from a lady who, once burned, is now so careful that she sounds at times as if he's dictating to the Library of Congress.

"I never thought I'd get this far, do so much, have such beautiful children," she says, chain-smoking in her dressing-room, all the wide-eyed telephone lineman's daughter from upstate New York. She knocks on wood.

"All I ever wanted was to get to vaudeville and I never made it."

When she hit New York to take acting classes at 16, the school sent back her mother's money, saying. "No talent." And now, refund in hand, 81-year-old DeeDee Ball, as the whole family calls her, sits in a front-row seat for every “Here's Lucy” show, just as she has done non-stop for the last 22 years.

Still it wasn't till 1951, when the Amazes dreamed up the “I Love Lucy” show, patterned after their own lives, as a way of keeping their marriage together and bandleader Desi home from the road, that success came.

But when it came, it was she who stole the show.

By two years later, 68 per cent of TV viewers in America were tuned in to see her show-by-show birth to Desi Arnaz Jr., whose arrival vied with the U.S. presidential election results for front-page space under the headline, "Lucy's $50 million baby."

Everybody, it seemed, loved Lucy except perhaps Desi Arnaz. Despite her insistence that "the series was happy there was no fighting. It was the greatest time of my life," she admits, "the trouble came much later. Only the last five years were hard."

Which means that the greatest time of her life lasted only a scant six years. When their marriage broke up officially in 1962 (3), friends introduced her to a stand-up comic named Gary Morton, now her producer, vice-president of Lucille Ball Productions, Inc., official show warm-up man and for 11 years now, Mr. Lucille Ball.

As her daughter Lucie, 22, and still a performer on the show, puts it. "She may be the king of stage 12, but at home she's queen Gary's the king!"

She indulges his passion for golf and a garage full of classic cars, but with the warning: "If he ever looks at another woman, I'll kill him."

She says she never makes a business move without him, but when she was left to head up the giant Desilu Corporation after her marriage break-up, it was she who was known as the woman shrewd enough to snap up “Mannix”, “Mission Impossible” and “Star Trek” when they were apparently doomed pilots, a comedienne who was not so comical in the executive suite.

But as for her much-vaunted business acumen, she is all denials and femininity.

"Me? No way. Desi did the whole thing. He was a fantastic businessman. I only took it over to build it up and sell it. I mean, there was a certain amount of building up to do."

When she took it over from Arnaz in 1961, Desilu had lost over $600,000. When she sold it seven years later, for $17 million in Gulf and Western stock, making her the conglomerate's largest stockholder and, some say, the wealthiest woman in Hollywood, the company had grossed $30-million and made a profit of ever $800,000.

"But everyone in the know knew I wasn't tough," she says. "No, the men I surrounded myself with were."

Still there a flinty glint behind the false lashes, a shrewd imperious purse to the painted lips, a ring to the wise-cracking whisky voice that's used to being heard. She moves around the Mame soundstage in queenly command, dispensing Norman Vincent Peal-doms, part star, part super-mother.

When it comes time for a scene featuring co-star Bea Arthur, she practically takes over directing from Gene Saks, Miss Arthur's husband. "Now did you tell her what side of the camera to be on?" she asks Saks, who looks like he might explode. "Now honey, toe your mark," she fusses over Bea, who grows quiet, explaining later:

"Lucy's really a dear. But sometimes it can get a little overpowering."

She doesn't talk to people without picking lint off their clothes, and straightening their collars, a habit that comes naturally enough to a woman who has her whole retinue, hairdresser, secretary, make-up man and driver of the last two decades - even her little picket-fenced French-provincial dressing-room trailer, with its false shutters and plastic ivy - picked up and transplanted wherever she strays from Lucy Lane where she presides at Universal Studios, year after year.

With her kids, she was, as daughter Lucie says, "Strict - and you want to believe it. We were the only kids we knew who had to work around the house for whatever money we'd get." Lucie still gets paid only scale for her mother's show.

But Desi Jr. wasn't exactly a natural. "He'd be asleep on the sidelines and I'd be ready to smack him," Lucy says, "When he said he was interested in serious acting, I said, 'Oh, really?' But he got out and worked. He surprised me. He surprised everybody. He even surprised himself."

Still, for all her talk about the joys of getting away to her Colorado ski lodge where she does "the cooking, the washing, the socks, the things I miss - not to mention the leg breaking - there's not much chance that Lucille Ball is going to be sitting the next round out, wallowing in domesticity, In the old rocking chair.

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FOOTNOTES FROM THE FUTURE

(1) “Bridget Loves Bernie” was a 1972 sitcom about a mixed marriage between a Jewish man and a Catholic woman. Like Lucy and Desi, stars Meredith Baxter and David Birney were also married in real life. Despite excellent ratings (it was the highest-rated new show of the 1972-73 season) the show was cancelled after only one season. The official reason for its cancellation was that it was scheduled between two mega-hits, “All in the Family” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, and its ratings weren't strong enough considering its choice position in the line-up.

Also, that same season, the long-running “The Dean Martin Show” (1965-1974) was cancelled. Lucille Ball had made three appearances on the show, and he also appeared on hers.

(2) Conga drums, not bongos. It is slightly dismissive to call Desi Arnaz a bongo player.

(3) The editor makes the error of assuming that Lucy divorced Desi and Married Gary Morton the same year. She divorced Desi in April 1960, and married Gary in November 1961, a year and a half later.

This article was published in the Leisure section of The Vancouver (BC) Sun on June 22, 1973. The article was written by Marci McDonald and illustrated by David Annesley.

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I'm a beginner here in Tumblr and I dunno if you're interested about me, haha. But I'm still going to introduce myself and drop facts about me. I'm a little bit nervous while doing this coz I feel like I'm on a talk show. Hahaha, interviewing and knowing about myself. Okay, I'll try to give you some information about me. Lezzgo!

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Hi I'm Kaye! A 16 years old Filipina but turning 17 next month, NOVEMBER 22. I'm a grade 11 student at Saint Paul University Philippines. Uhm, I think it's time to introduce myself to you .

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I am an elegant woman, intelligent, soft-hearted, and beautiful. Wow! Am I too arrogant to say that? Nah, that was all true. My parents raised me with discipline and was trained to be smart when I was still a kid. I am afraid to fail my grades in school that is why I became an honour student (not that excellent or genius type) but can bit the high expectations of my family. Not to brag but my siblings and I, even my parents are smart. We are maintaining this inside our family. I'm also an elegant woman, carrying myself with poise in a sophisticated and fashionable way. Not only elegant in wearing a very neat clothes, but also having an etiquette while eating. I'm also the kind of person who always wants to do the best for those I love the most. Those who deserve to be love, deserve to be kept, and deserve to be care about. So what are you waiting for?! Love a soft person! In short Love me! Hahahah. Joke! I already committed myself with the man I love. Oooh Lala... an almost perfect guy that every girl wants to be with. Oops! Fastforward..... Lastly, I am beautiful. Yes, I'm beautiful. Not only in my physical appearance but also beautiful inside. I'm a soft hearted girl, kind and sweet. Especially to my girl friends, I become over protective when it comes to them. I don't want my friends to be hurt, and that is real. I can't also handle my emotions sometimes, I easily get distracted, get hurt and most of the time is crying. My tears are shallow because even in small things I always felt the ached on my chest and burst into tears. But seeing others crying has a big impact on me, I don't want to see other people sad, I don't want to see them suffer. I hate seeing someone crying. So I CHAIR them up! Haha. *Cheer up! I always motivate and inspire others, to live a happy life even thou I'm much more emotional than them. I am also good in modeling like I joined different kinds of pageants inside and outside of the school. Also good at radio broadcasting, playing chess and a vlogger. Hey! Come and visit my channel, hahaha don't you forget to like and subscribe huh? Here is my YouTube channel (Kaye Abrogena). Well I have only a few of friends because I'm an introvert person. I have an attitude where I immediately ignore a person without any reason because I turned to be a bipolar sometimes. Oh no, most of the time I should say, hahahah. I choose someone I wanna be with, but if you already have me, Aha! You're always full! I love eating a lot. So? Are you hungry? You wanna be my friend? Come on, follow me now!

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I do see myself 10 years from now working in a big airline company. Traveling in a countless country, serving passengers inside the airplane. My learning in Saint Paul University Philippines is vital to where I’m leading to in the future. This school provides the learning that I needed especially in communication. I enhanced my skills and still improving my public speaking for I am to have a confidence to interact with so many people someday.

2. Was HUMSS the best choice after all?

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Okay but if you don't think Siobhan Maria Jackson didn't dust herself off after grieving, you've got another thing coming.

Like yes, obviously she took Jameson's death hard. Dude was her husband for 22 years and she'd known him since she was 18. Not to mention she lost her brother a month before becoming a widow. There was a period where she took the 'be there for the kids first and foremost' philosophy a little too far and the kids had to say "Uh Ma? Listen we're all hurting but maybe you should grieve without thinking about us for a while."

So she grieves. Then she comes out the other side ready to get down to business.

She sees her eldest son graduate college, something no-one in her family has ever done. She gets Thaddaeus House for the Disadvantaged built and personally helps out when and where she can once it's open. Her 2nd and 3rd sons get accepted into the high profile colleges they wanted. She couldn’t be prouder of them.

Even in the late 30s, once her father is dead from advanced age and she is living in Ireland again, she gets shit done. As loving and kind of a man as Jacob O'Hara was, those traits don't leave his daughter much in the way of monetary inheritance. Siobhan has to support her little girl somehow. Even the money Jameson left her shouldn't be something to live off of, in her opinion. So she gets any qualifications needed at the time to be hired as a music teacher. By the time Nora is settling into life as a woman with a husband and young family of her own, a point where Siobhan knows she's capable of going on without her mother down the street, it is the early-to-mid 1950s.

She returns to California to finish what she started. Thaddaeus House isn't quite as needed as it was when first built yet it's an important and necessary establishment nonetheless. She ordered a place to learn ASL to be added before she left for Ireland in '37. Now she's planning to include somewhere on site to receive basic qualifications, enough to get a job but with as little expenditure on the students' parts as possible. Actually, let's merge the ASL area into the school. No, hang on, we should have enough donations to put the school on it's own dedicated site. We'll provide cheap scheduled transportation between the two sites. That's great.

She likely campaigned to make ASL a mandatory subject in schools nationwide. Yes, obviously French and Spanish are fantastic for students who plan to travel when they're older. But what about those wanting to stay closer to home? There are plenty of Americans who rely on sign to communicate. So teach them an equally important language that they may need more than a European one.

Since the TLoJJ-verse is based on the real world, she probably wasn't able to make it a reality. But could you imagine her looking some authority in the eye and saying "I don't care for this whole nonsense with the Soviets. Never mind whether our ideologies are better than theirs. Let's focus on creating a fairer society. If we manage to improve the lives of the type of citizens who need it most right now, don't you think that will show the Reds who's the greater nation?"

The government twisted the arms of her two youngest sons when they were barely adults. They took part in a war that was far bigger than either of them. Damn right she’s going to try twisting the government’s arm to progress on issues bigger than the USSR being communist.

Either way, she'd probably work together with some of her children to build a centre for teaching and promoting the use of ASL. First in Los Angeles then, if that proved successful, New York and other potential major cities.

Speaking of fighting for better equality, I feel she would do what she could in the fight for civil and gay rights. Well, Anthony, she doesn't know if she's quite up for marching in large crowds now that she's in her 70s but she'll try to help things on a more local level. And no, Oliver, she is a bit conflicted on homosexual couples vs being told her whole life it should be a man and a woman only. However, she doesn't see why having emotions that do nothing to cause harm to others should be punishable by law. Is there anything she can do to help?

Throughout her life, Siobhan composes music. She wrote the melody that people immediately associate with the Jolly Gentleman. The music from Carving for Beginners is her own. Music is her creative outlet the same way writing had been for Jameson. She even sets something up at Thaddaeus House to encourage people to take up playing an instrument if they want.

Oliver visits her one day and discovers the pile of compositions, some complete, others that have been works in progress for varying amounts of time. He convinces her to compile them into an album. She agrees so long as the ones with more personal reasons for creation are left out. If they really want those ones out in the world for public consumption, they'll have to wait until after she's dead. She doesn't want to live with the knowledge someone could casually listen to something she created as a way of coping during the most despairing points of her life.

It's Pearl's death in 1973 that makes Siobhan consider slowing down slightly. 85 by now, she could certainly leave her children and grandchildren to carry on her efforts. She could travel to foreign lands and see what they have to offer. But nope, that's not Siobhan Jackson. She'll cut back on some things that require more physical effort, sure. But spending time at Thaddeus House gives her people to chat with when her friends and family are busy living their own lives.

In later life, I'm sure she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and even great-grandchildren. Not to mention dogs. She has always been partial to Dalmatians. Maybe some piano playing and garden maintaining too. I love the thought of her becoming this figure in the community, this old woman who has done more than a few things with her life and tries to keep going within reason.

She reaches 90 and yeah, maybe she's not as active as she wants to be but she still goes out and does what she can. Her memory is starting to go now, it's getting more evident as the months and years roll by. When nearing 95, she gets asked if she's aiming for the big 100. She usually chuckles and say "Well we'll see, won't we."

She turns 96 in July 1984 and two months later, she's gone. When she sees Jameson again, she tells him she tried her best to fulfil his last wishes. He just laughs like it's obvious before replying along the lines of "Angel, you did more far more than try. Thank you."

And that's the contrast between them. Jameson left early, his ideas of how to give back to a world that allowed him financial security came too late for him. But Siobhan was given more than enough time. She had 52 years more than him to get it done.

She could have stopped in the ‘30s. She could have said "It's done. I fulfilled my promise to him. It's standing and functional and that's what he wanted." But she doesn't.

In the ‘50s or early ‘60s, she could have said "To try change the education system is a monumental task that one 70 year old Irish immigrant couldn't successfully lead." And maybe she was somewhat right about that. She sure as hell gave it her best shot though. Without her, people in the 21st century would have less opportunities to learn ASL. Just because you can’t complete a marathon doesn’t mean the distance you managed is redundant.

Siobhan lived a goddamn full life. Part of her life’s work might have been fulfilling her husband’s last wish. But to focus on that or just see her as simply Jameson’s widow is to erase so much of what she did with her life. She was a composer, talented pianist, supportive mother, someone willing to fight and speak up about the things she cared about, a woman who came to America aged 16 with the hope of finding better prospects there than Limerick offered then did so several ways over.

In short, I stan an Irish queen. I hated myself for making her wait 52 years to be with her other half. But she didn’t waste those five decades. She killed it. Now she can look back on it all and be proud. Like she deserves to be.

Just... Siobhan.

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