grouchymusicologist comments on Off-topic Thread - Less Wrong

4 Post author: MBlume 11 March 2011 01:14AM

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Comment author: beriukay 13 March 2011 01:16:14PM 1 point [-]

I recall people occasionally talking about music, and I was wondering how many of you play instruments, what instrument(s), and what the spread of competence levels is.

As for me, most of my experience is with piano followed by guitar, and I consider myself somewhere on the low end of intermediate with them both.

Comment author: grouchymusicologist 13 March 2011 04:26:23PM 0 points [-]

I would say I am a low-professional-level pianist: I have many years of training and graduate degrees, and am capable of making a living at it and have done so in the past. But I never had the degree of aptitude or ability for obsessive focus such that I could have been a major professional performer (recordings, international concert schedule, teaching job at a top music school), so I turned more toward music scholarship, which suits me as a career very well. I still do play some in various personal/professional settings.

Comment author: komponisto 13 March 2011 05:43:16PM 1 point [-]

Did you by chance ever happen to see this particular Pandora's-box-of-a-subthread?