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Post Subject: I understood German only once in my lifePosted by Romy the Cat on: 10/7/2024
I had a beautiful story back in the 1999 when I travel across Germany extensively. I was in Frankfurt , I believe it was Frankfurt and they have a museum of science or something like this, and in that museum service a huge hall this probably a hundred of different pianos, from different historical periods. Most of them were tuned and playable. I was walking around, banged a few keys and it was pretty much it. Then the magic happened. A group of German kids from a regular German School, probably 20-25 kids come to the hall. The group was led by a museum curator. It was extremely unpleasant looking woman, with rugged clothes, with large amount of facial hair, I think she was gypsy and spoke with heavy non-german accent. She was with a beautiful articulation and beautiful engagement tell to the kids stories about each pianos and explain to them how technical progress of this given instrument give to that specific composers opportunity compose music in a different way. She was super engaging and she was sitting to the each piano and played different pieces of music which was composed on a piano of given period. I know something about pianist and I can tell you that she played beyond spectacular. It was not a recital but she just very organically demonstrate her ideas that she explained to student and the play was beyond belief. The funniest part is that with each instrument she suggested somebody to try and thise freaking German kids seat for the piano and we're able to play. It was not a music school and they did not play well but almost all of them were able to play from memory. What shark is the most that listening her playing, observing her articulations, and remembering some phrases from Yadish, I suddenly recognize that I completely understood her. It was absolutely stunning experience...
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