{"id":794,"date":"2010-02-04T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/?p=794"},"modified":"2010-02-28T19:46:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T03:46:56","slug":"piano-vs-toy-pianothe-discourse-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/2010\/02\/04\/piano-vs-toy-pianothe-discourse-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano vs. toy piano&#8230;the discourse (yet again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-812\" title=\"phyllis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/phyllis-135x135.jpg\" alt=\"phyllis\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>As many of you might know, after spending twenty years on the piano, I found the toy piano much later in life and\u00c2\u00a0 it has become my instrument of choice. One thing that frustrates me is the amount of skepticism that I am greeted with in disclosing this passion of mine. I have fallen in love with the world of the toy piano for reasons as hard to describe as why people fall in love with music or another human being. I have often been misunderstood as someone who has picked up the toy piano to &#8220;diversify&#8221; myself as a classical musician and to boost my &#8220;image.&#8221; Well, let me tell you something&#8211; a toy piano really doesn&#8217;t seem like the kind of thing someone ought to do to boost their classical &#8220;image.&#8221; If anything, it probably makes you look weird and maybe even a little bit creepy. People think &#8220;there has to be something that makes you look <em>different.&#8221; <\/em> My advice is buy new clothes. Get a mohawk. Get some unconventional piercings or a tattoo. But why would I dedicate so much of my time developing repertoire for the instrument, writing for it, looking for new music for it if I didn&#8217;t sincerely believe in it? I have found the instrument to be truly beautiful and legitimate on its own and the need to prove myself as a classical pianist &#8220;first&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 takes away from the revelation of the toy piano. This is not to say that I don&#8217;t enjoy playing piano anymore, but it does mean that I think the toy piano can stand alone as an instrument and I hope that minds aren&#8217;t made until it is seen in concert!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you might know, after spending twenty years on the piano, I found the toy piano much later in life and\u00c2\u00a0 it has become my instrument of choice. One thing that frustrates me is the amount of skepticism that I am greeted with in disclosing this passion of mine. I have fallen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}