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@Rontuner excellent discovery! I bet that is indeed what it's for! That would make it the correct length, and that would also explain why it's still there!

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@AndyD said:

Anyhow moving on, to CdeLune and maybe jazzy Don't Know Why.

Yay!

I need to "finish" two pieces before I start CdL and Don't Know Why in earnest. But I have been having a blast listening around online to different versions, esp of CdL

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@AndyD that was lovely! I really like your performance of this!

(Left-right balance is a never-ending challenge)

@andyd and @realplayer it's too low for either of those purposes. I've seen the clothes drying thing, this is not only too low but also too short for that.

It's also too short to have anything to do with being a plug or stopper for the drain as well....

I recently stayed in an older hotel while attending a conference at another large university, I stayed in the hotel in the student union. (They also had a really nice Steinway B in the lobby that I played every morning while I was there, which was an absolute dream to play

Anyway, the bathroom probably hadn’t been updated in years. (For the record, it was fine, bathroom included, just old).

So this was attached to the wall by the shower/bathtub. Does anyone know what it’s for?

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@AdagioM said:

I’m not sure it’s just girls. I think there’s an entire generation that has self-diagnosed, trying to understand themselves and life.

My impression from the college students I encounter (and and outside of my own classes) is that it is spreading in general, but it’s much more common among girls than boys. At least here anyway. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more even across gender lines in places like CA, OR, Seattle, but out here in more conservative places in the Midwest, it hasn’t quite spread to boys as much. But I suspect it’s coming. (Again this is just my subjective impression from the students I encounter).

I think pandemic shutdown was traumatic, and has had lasting effects on mental health.

Yep, my first-year students now would have been 12 in 2020.

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@RealPlayer said:

my weight loss in recent years is due to loss of muscle mass, not exercise or diet. Case in point: I can no longer lift the lid of my 9 foot Piano.

I know those lids are crazy heavy, but if you used to be able to, and now can't, it's something to think about.

Have you looked into any programs that offer guided exercises or PT for older adults?

@steve-miller oh dear!! I'm glad it wasn't worse, but that doesn't sound like much fun!

@AndyD I love Hiromi Uehara!!! I am pretty sure this is actually from an interview, maybe with Rick Beato and i think they were talking and then she started playing...(oops, the video description says as much. My memory was right!)

I think there's a longer version somewhere... I would love to have a transcription of this, or the longer version, maybe nicely packaged with a beginning and end so a mere mortal like me could play it.

This is another Hiromi piece I love:

@Axtremus said:

Chances are good that future AI models will “beat” this thing

That's what I was thinking. Anything a human can either already is or soon will be read-able by AI tools.

The article says this:

ShieldFont isn’t a foolproof defense, either. Any page that’s readable by a human could also be correctly interpreted by an AI scraping tool that simply renders the full webpage and uses optical character recognition on an image of the output.

BTW I need to add.. just playing through the first 15 or so measures, slowly, awkwardly… even that unmusical note-finding… the chords and the harmonies are so gorgeous. It’s very satisfying!

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