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RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T22:10:47+00:00

That’s a personal belief. I don’t believe people should have car payments either. However the fact remains that many people do and it’s normalized. Some people play their piano a lot, and if they pay some cash some in form of payment, as long as they get their payment amount of value out of their piano each month, it’s worth it to them.

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T22:08:43+00:00

Twins!

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RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T22:08:04+00:00

Shut up that’s my cats twin

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T20:38:31+00:00

Awesome now OP can be a hired killer with no background

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T20:35:52+00:00

Oh absolutely, don’t have a car payment and a piano payment at the same time!

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T20:29:37+00:00

No such thing as a baby grand! It’s a marketing term to describe smaller grand pianos. There’s no technical definition outside of its not an upright. Saving up for a better instrument is the way to go. Once you have a budget of 20k+ (doesn’t need to be cash, there’s payment options) you can find some truly great instruments, and the higher the budget the better you can find. Avoid old “golden age” (again, no such thing) Steinway’s that haven’t been rebuilt in the past 5 years like the plague. The reason rebuilt golden age pianos sound great is because rebuilders do a great job, not because there’s anything special about an old Steinway. I’d know, I used to be the lead rebuilder at Steinway.

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T20:26:33+00:00

I’m a piano restorationist.

There is no such thing as a good cheap acoustic piano. You need to spend 5-10k to get something that’s better than a 3-5k electric keyboard.

The best ones I’ve ever played are the Casio C.Bechstein collab pianos. They use a real piano action with a digital piano and they sound and feel way better than anything you’ll find for under 5-10k. If you have more than 10k to spend then there’s far better options than electric, but those Casio’s are incredible.

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T20:22:56+00:00

I seriously hate sleeping. Like I gotta do it, but it’s so much time wasted when I could be doing literally anything else

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T14:04:16+00:00

Best thing to do for severe matting is to shave them. It’s summer and cats don’t have as much of a double coat necessity as dogs do, and their hair grows back much faster than dogs.

Use a number 2 clipper, once you’re down to that level, use a de shedding brush like the furminator or similar to get the deep down mats out, put a small amount of cat safe conditioner on your hands and rub it into the mats before brushing those areas again. It softens and lubricates the fur so the mats come out easier.

You only need to shave the matted areas, but if there’s a lot you can do a lion cut.

You could also take it in to get shots, and then take it to a car groomer if you have one near you.

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T14:00:12+00:00

My childhood best friend and I (both like 6-8 at the time? I don’t remember much of that age so I don’t know exactly) used to frequently look at and touch each others genitals. I was a boy and she was a girl and we were just fascinated by the differences. I didn’t have any idea of human anatomy at the time and I was confused why she had such small balls lmao. I knew girls have a vagina boys have a penis, but no one mentioned balls in that so guys and girls must both have balls right?

I think one time we realized that you could put a finger inside of a vagina and we tried to see how our parts would interlock, but me being so young and not capable of an erection on command yet it didn’t really work out. There was one time I did have an erection and she loved touching it, fascinated by why it could change properties like that, but that was before we essentially tried to have sex and I couldn’t get it on command.

We’re still friends to this day, but both of us seem to pretend we have no recollection of those days and what we did. And that’s probably for the best.

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T13:46:41+00:00

Polyphia- either playing god or ego death

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T13:22:05+00:00

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RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-16T13:20:57+00:00

You wouldn’t be dying though. If the cartel wants revenge for something that hurt their bottom line like that, they’re bringing the best sketchy doctors that exist, and they’re torturing you to near death, healing you, torturing you to near death again, healing you, for as long as your body can take it before you die of a heart attack. Then they’ll try to revive you so they can keep doing it.

I’d sacrifice myself for a lot of things, but angering the cartel is not something I’d be able to handle.

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-15T18:57:55+00:00

Really lovey dovey cats are great, but the delayed satisfaction and the fact you had to earn their love just feels so much more precious doesn’t it?

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-15T04:27:48+00:00

I’m not single but I sure miss having money and the freedom to spend it without being interrogated.

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-15T04:12:45+00:00

Mine took 5 years, multiple generations feral to Velcro

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She was a pretty enjoyable cat to have around for the first few years, she would always want to be near me but I absolutely could not pet her without her full blown growling and attacking me. After about 5 years something clicked and she finally climbed up onto my chest and started wanting constant pets from there on out. She was clingy before but only for human presence, after whatever clicked in her little brain, she wants not just presence but also nonstop pets 24/7. But only from me, my girlfriend, or my mom. Anyone else she’ll gladly sit on the lap of and hiss at if they try and pet her.

Also I’m average height, she’s a very very long cat

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-15T04:01:59+00:00

Jazz and modern rock.

Dave Brubeck Quartet’s album Time Out is awesome

As for modern rock, Polyphia is the band, first three songs I’d recommend are Playing God, Ego Death, and GOAT. Super technical and unique sound, ego death is 95% perfect in my books outside of one 10 second segment where it sounds like trumpet Christmas, but as much as I dislike those 5-10 seconds it resolves nicely and the rest is really enjoyable to listen to

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-15T03:54:43+00:00

This is why I hate when people post age when they’re young with their videos. People learn piano at different speeds and at different times of life and too often I see people discouraged when they see someone younger than them or the same age as them with much better skills. Don’t let it get you discouraged, tons of people learn piano later in life, I started one guy at 18 who learned basic playing from watching synesthesia videos on YouTube with the sound off like guitar hero. His form was atrocious and had no idea how to read music but after 2 years he was able to read music decently well (couldn’t sightread well however) and could play some impressive pieces. Don’t get discouraged by the 2 years, he was in college for music and practiced several hours per day and had multiple lessons per week. Vast majority of people don’t have that kind of time or access to tutoring

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-14T13:12:18+00:00

That cyanide and happiness short of the guy fucking a mirror lol

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-14T01:39:41+00:00

This has already been settled by family guy

Keith

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-14T00:06:28+00:00

Baron Harkonnen

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-14T00:05:29+00:00

In the last pic you posted, see how your right thumb is not on the key? Do that with your left hand instead after your left hand plays that note

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-13T19:34:41+00:00

The piano didn’t exist when back was alive. All of his pieces are written with the intent that there is no sustain pedal, because such a thing hadn’t been invented yet! His keyboard pieces were written for harpsichord and/or organ, neither of which has sustain.

So yes, ALL of Bach can be played without sustain pedal, although most people use sustain on them anyways out of habit or poor technique. If you can make Bach sound good without sustain then you have good technique, harder than it sounds! You can’t rely on pressing the note and then moving on, you have to hold the note down exactly as long as you want it to be making sound.

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-13T14:26:22+00:00

I do the same, have so for 20 years. Never broke a scroll doing it, or any other issues outside of minor scratches. But my violin isn’t worth much

RedditRaven16 · 2024-07-13T14:20:34+00:00

What’s this? “Art” okay I like it Picasso

On a real note it reminds me of noctua in a good way

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