[Noisebridge-discuss] Getting a piano for NB

[Mark Ellis]

How do we treat power tool use in the space when people wanna work in  
quiet? I think we should consider the piano the same way if not  
similar. It wouldn't be too hard to just inform people around that you  
plan to fiddle with the piano for a while and at that time someone can  
raise any objections they have.

On Apr 5, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:

> These are both very good points.  Are they incompatible?  Piano  
> playing
> is not as close to the hacking theme that Noisebridge was founded on  
> as
> many other things are.  As someone who lives next to a piano teacher I
> am *very* sympathetic to not wanting to listen to people practicing,
> even if they are, as I am sure you all are, extremely good.  (I am not
> very good but I do like to play, and even more, I like to sing while
> being accompanied by a piano.  I can do this reasonably well.)
>
> Might this be solved by consensing on various times that it is OK to
> play piano, and other times when the piano is agreed to be silent?  Or
> possibly a test period (a week? a month?) during which the piano can  
> be
> played any time, and afterwards we decide whether it was too  
> disruptive
> or not?  Maybe one Music Night per week?  What other ideas can we come
> up with?
>
> Rachel
>
> Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson wrote:
>> On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:06 PM, davidfine wrote:
>>> Please don't put an upright piano at noise bridge. I don't want to
>>> hear
>>> you practice, and it's not really considerate to people who want to
>>> get
>>> work done at noisebridge.  Get a keyboard with headphones. Yamaha
>>> makes
>>> some with very nice keyboard response for $700 and under. Or get one
>>> with less than perfect tactile response, whatever.
>>> --D
>>
>>
>>
>> While "Please don't put music instruments at Noisebridge because I
>> don't want to hear music" is a perfectly valid opinion to have, the
>> reason so many of us are drooling our heads off over the idea of
>> getting hold of a Real Piano is precisely that the $700 Yamaha with
>> nice keyboard response, not to mention the "less than perfect tactile
>> response" are increasingly horrible to play the better you are at
>> playing.
>>
>> I own a less-than-perfect. I ended up not touching it for years, and
>> then parking it with my mother because the less-than-perfect made
>> playing it less-than-pleasant.
>>
>> Uncanny valley is at work with piano playing, it really is.
>>
>>
>> Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, Dr.rer.nat
>> Postdoctoral researcher
>> mik at math.stanford.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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