Any Tough Guy around here play the piano?

[Susquehanna Birder]

Thanks, Dio. It was a couple of years ago. Lung cancer. Hardest thing I've ever done having the nurse unplug her and let her expire. It was my mother's fear to go that way, because that's how her father went. And now it's my fear.

I got the keyboard because I father passed at the end of December. It was oral cancer for him. He refused treatment, and it took him several painful months to finally die.

Cancer sucks.

[Diomedes]

Can't sympathize with the dad part.  Never had one to give a shtein about, even though I do know the guy.

Makes me want a cigarette though.  I deserve a slow painful death if anyone does.

[General_Failure]

I learned to play Dueling Banjos and Lean On Me. That's as far as my keyboard/piano experience goes.

[hbionic]

I know ya'll are going to jump on the faggy...but I've always wanted a bagpipes funeral  (im half mexican, half Salvadorean...and born here) and I've always wanted to learn how to play as well.

[Diomedes]

I'd be happy to just be thrown in a hole and forgotten.

[Rome]

I'm learning a little bit as my daughter is learning.  It's amazing how fast she learned how to read the sheet music.  Dookette's only six and she picked it right up.  I sit there and stare at it and have no farging clue what the hell it's supposed to mean.

Thank god she got her mama's smarts.

[PhillyGirl]

Not a tough guy, but I played piano (took lessons) from the time I was 6 years old until I was 15.

I barely remember any of it, but my sister said that once she started learning the music again, it came right back to her.

[SD_Eagle5]

This kid is amazing. He plays a little bit of everything if you can find his other stuff.

[Rome]

This kid is amazing. He plays a little bit of everything if you can find his other stuff.

That shtein was unreal.  He actually made a Tool song tolerable!






(Seriously, though... that was awesome.)   

[SD_Eagle5]

(Seriously, though... that was awesome.)   

Here's all of them.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Not a tough guy, but I played piano (took lessons) from the time I was 6 years old until I was 15.

I barely remember any of it, but my sister said that once she started learning the music again, it came right back to her.

My mom was like that. She learned as a kid and played keyboards in her church. She didn't play again for many, many years. But one day she got a little Casio type keyboard, and picked right up again. She kept getting better keyboards, and while she had a couple of paying gigs, she loved to play free gigs for the public in the summer evenings.

Anyway...right now I have her keyboard, a couple of ukes, an acoustic Gibson (mine since high school), a new F-type mandolin. And I don't make the effor to play any of them. 

I also have my son's old beginner drum set that I'd like to get rid of.

[Butchers Bill]

Learning piano (again) myself.  I learned a little in HS but was primarily a brass instrument guy (trombone, baritone, tuba) then...was pretty decent but decided against majoring in music in college because, well, I wanted to make more than minimum wage.   

[mussa]

(Seriously, though... that was awesome.)   

Here's all of them.

thank you. thank you. thank you. 

[mussa]

ive been watching that piano dude all day, amazing. check this guy out, vocals and piano!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_uR2ePrUU

[ice grillin you]

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