ya know - I do the twirly thing now and then myself - and chasing the pedal with my foot can be a muse for the audience too :)...

I also like to do little dance steps and the occasional twirly (which you can't do sitting down).

Well I like to step on the pedal when I play lots of fast notes :) You're right about sitting though. I think I switched to standing on my pop gigs be...

I got my bad back from humping my acoustic spinet all over Europe to gigs (this was long before even the DX7 hit the scene). My lower back still...

I did it for years too - The problem I had was always standing on my left foot so I could work (and chase) the pedal with my right. I would be in...

The only problem I had when playing standing up is that I'd get too close to the keyboard. After a year long gig of doing that six nights a week I develope...

To paraphrase the great Andy Capp when asked why he always drinks standing up. "When you're drunk it's a lot easier to sit down when you're standin...

Take my advice, Jeff, and sit down while you play. Otherwise you'll burn out. Of course, as Neil Young said, it might be better to burn out than fade a...

I always stand when I play, I feel it gives more stage presence. I don't know what that might say about my overall happiness level, though. I feel th...

I have a friend who's an anaesthetist. I asked him why he chose that specialisation after going through medical training, when he could have been any kind...

Well, music (the arts in general) is universal and by being involved with it, a person's boundaries between what's possible and what's not possible...

[sf]Has anyone else thought that piano players, pianist, the pros too, seem so much happier than people who do not play piano? Are we dreamers? Does the mu...

When a couple has two children they usually have children themselves before the parents die, etc., so population goes up and therefore zero population grow...

I stick with my vow never to issue another serious answer (although I think the one I gave had some merit)...

The problem with this train of thought is quite simply most sets of parents and grandparents have more than one offspring. Zero population growth is achiev...

Good humor Dr., and welcome! Have you a serious answer?...

Unboggle it for me then. So let's hear your explanation on this seeming paradox. I know it sounds ridiculous but it seems to have some validity as well. Ti...

A whole note gives birth to two half notes, The two half notes each give birth to two quarter notes, The four quarter notes each give birth to two eighth...

The only mind that's boggled here is yours.

Well, 7, Can you explain this mathematical mind boggler adequately? Missing some cells?...