24.02.10
Tuesday - first day
We had a great morning with the nursery group - 10 children one aged 2, one aged 4 and the others aged 3. We were a big group of adults in their small space.
Barry had done wonders with the tuning of the piano and in retrospect it was quite a quiet piano and even when lots of people were playing at the same time it was not too noisy.
There were many wonderful moments; when Chloe played her solo and everyone listened rapt, also when Morgan went to the piano and played without making any sound. A real '4.33' performance with silence from the audience.
Afternoon analysing the video and loving the upside-down seasickness of Jac's flip videoing.
We came up with 11 new techniques, 20 approaches and 15 questions.
Here are the questions.
QUESTIONS
1) What is a piano?
2) How near do you have to be to be enraptured by a piano?
3) How far from the piano can you be and still be a piano player?
4) Is the piano a road or a garage?
5) When someone plays the piano for the first time, can you tell what they are going to play?
6) How do you open a piano?
7) What is it about leaving the piano that makes you cry?
8) Are you aware of the audience when you are playing and does it affect your playing?
9) Is the piano a height chart and a reach chart?
10) How territorial can the piano be?
11) What does it mean to share the piano?
12) What does the piano stool represent?
13) Is there such a thing as a piano fairy?
14) Why might you need to wear a hard hat at the piano?
15) How do you say goodbye to the piano?
In the evening we explored many of the ideas discovered in the morning with a lovely group of open-minded adults, including trying out question number 5. The answer was (generally) no!
Roll-on tomorrow.
Hugh Nankivell
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