#Pianos

[heartnosekid]

peachie.cass on ig

[depressed-linguist]

[black-salt-cage]

Showtime (Caine x Pomni / The Amazing Digital Circus) stimboard ☽ - ✰ - ☾ ☽ - ✰ - ☾ ☽ - ✰ - ☾

ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Deep Water Prompt #3310

The instrument is enormous and bizarre, a sort of piano at the center of a star chart. It’s centuries old. We think it’s some sort of map, but there’s no one left who knows how to play it.    

[loveerran]

I was recently reading through The Melchezidek Priesthood, a book given to me as a gift by Elder and Sister Renlund via my friend @nerdygaymormon.

On pages 1-2 I found a quote about learning and progression in the form of a metaphor. The book imagines someone being given a piano that is “restricted to only some keys, such as the middle register” and learning to play when “initially, the music is simplistic and occasionally cacophonic”. This idea struck me as I thought about how my life and discipleship can be likened to that analogy, and I wanted to share the imagery that came to my mind as I read:

Iteration 1:

I first imagined myself, like a small child in front of Heavenly Parents, banging away with a mallet on a classic Fischer Price xylophone (quite simplistically and cacophonically), as they smiled benevolently and told me I was doing “Such a good job!”

Iteration 2:

Imagining myself as a young adult at a piano recital, but with a limited set of keys. As I plunked away with novice earnestness (much improved from my child-self, though my timing was off beat and some of my notes incorrect), I could picture a divine presence, visible in glimpses, playing in such a way that my discordance was enfolded neatly into their performance and became part of an unexpectedly beautiful piece greater than the song I thought I was playing.

Iteration 3:

Imagining myself now before a grand organ, like the one in the conference center, my previously limited keys still laid out before me but interspersed now with half-seen keys, and with rows of keys and stops above, below and to either side that I could not use and did not know the meaning of. I was now playing a recognizable piece of music, playing well though still imperfectly. And sitting with me in the bench seemed to be that same divine presence, as though we occupied the same space, such that as I played my simple song, they wove in above, below and around me on all the keys, a beautiful concerto that anticipated, embraced, magnified and made pure and beautiful what would otherwise have been my halting individual performance.

I think this is what life is like to some degree? Each of us is working with our own individual set of skills, strengths and weaknesses. One of my favorite themes in Christianity is growth, moving from one level to another as we develop our discipleship and capacity to serve others. Today I am sending love and encouragement to all of us as we try to do good, become better and help each other along the way.

Love, Erran

[pngblog]

H-hi umm can I ask for some piano gifs please and thank you!

[rookmeo]

toya stimboard (@vividmongrel) no kin/me unless brian 👍

🎼 × 💙 × 🎼 / 💙 × 🎼 × 💙 / 🎼 × 💙 × 🎼

[garfieldstim]

.🐹

[gluttonyedits]

I am powerful. I am vicious. I'm King of Gotham. self-indulgent: Oswald Cobblepot stimboard • • • – • • • – • • • No kin/ID/me.

[PT: I am powerful. I am vicious. I'm King of Gotham.

Self-indulgent: Oswald Cobblepot stimboard.

No kin/ID/me. End PT.]

[systimming]

Board with sun + tech and soft green / soft pink stims!

- Mod Pent.

((Sources of gifs: x, x, x | x, x, x | x, x, x )

[sunburnacoustic]

I knew it was too late for me to really catch up to that level of technique to play those kinds of pieces [classical pieces by composers like Mozart, by the time Matt was 19/20]. But I just wanted to try and incorporate that kind of mystery [that artists like Phillip Glass, Rachmaninoff and Franz Liszt had] into the band. And something that has had such an emotional resonance through history that it’s managed to live nearly two hundred years. I think a little bit of that started to creep through the second album, Origin of Symmetry, and then the new album [Absolution] as well.

It's so fascinating to me to hear Matt thinks there's an age beyond which you cannot get into more technical classical music. This is also funny because he's regarded as one of the finest pianists in rock music. Guess the takeaway is, sometimes your self-assessment of your abilities aren't the most accurate, huh? Keep going!

Taken from "Innocence And Absolution", Keyboard Magazine, June 2005

[heartnosekid]

🍓 trosia semirufa, also affectionately known as the strawberry cake moth 🍓

🍓-🤍-🍓 / 🖤-🍓-🖤 / 🍓-🤍-🍓

[scooby-doo-exploration]

bexx1things - Ray Charles

[spacegirlstims]

day 3 of @heartnosekid’s halloween stimtober event!

theme: your favorite halloween/spooky/horror movie!

^ i already did a coraline stimboard, so i decided to do an other father stimboard!

1 / 2 / 3 || 4 / 6 || 7 / 8 / 9

[iamkrisis]

Fotografía: Ronsel de teclados. | Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC, 2018).

[black-salt-cage]

ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚