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[finluithiel]

As I write this, I'm also listening to the second movement of Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony. And now I can't help but wonder what imagery comes into their heads when people in those days were listening to the orchestra.

Gyah. I should stop wondering now, and just appreciate the music.

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I tried playing Moonlight Sonata earlier, and the first thing that came into mind while I was stretching my fingers to their limits was, Beethoven, you bastard!

While I have fairly large hands - for someone as small as I am, anyway; my hands are as large as my uncle's, who's more than half a foot taller than me - my fingers were stretched cruelly as I was playing the farking first movement. What would happen if I went on and played the next two movements, I wonder?

Or maybe the reason why my fingers can't reach the keys is because I haven't done finger-stretching piano scales since I was eight years old. O_o Argh...if only my piano teacher wasn't so superstitious - she didn't want dates printed on the underside of the currency numbers when we pay her, she doesn't want P500 bills because Ninoy was frowning, etc. - I'd be better at playing the piano now. Rarr.

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[sicksadtoodles.livejournal.com]

i have the same problem with piano-playing. my fingers always have to be stretched to the fullest, so now i bear the consequences of fingers going on in different directions. -_____-

[baruchan.livejournal.com]

so now i bear the consequences of fingers going on in different directions. -_____-

really? O_o that never happened to me before... i think i should get out the old hanon book again, but i don't want to torture myself (and my poor fingers! ;_;)