What are you doing there?
Just a week ago, we enjoyed wonderful weather and time in Austria, meeting up with other Hivers under the blue and sunny skies of that European country. Although the schedule was quite dense, I felt like it was a real vacation. We had presentations, walks, chit-chats and other activities, but even then, now it feels that it was super relaxed, compared to this week I had. Full days of work, rehearsals and a concert - that's my reality, mixed with household chores, and some additional work we have to do around our home. I started to paint some furniture (probably in the only 30 minutes of free time I managed to find haha), and my husband converted himself into a bricklayer to fix the wall of one room and the shower cabin as the work that the technicians did some months ago turned out to be worse than we thought. While I am rambling now around, I feel I am converting this post into a rant hahaha. Actually, I just miss those days from last week, so much that I lost my mind and unthinkable things have been done by me. I even became a trespasser. Yeah...
Between some lessons and my lunch break, I still had 15 minutes to grab a coffee from the coffee machine in the Cultural Centre, where we would have the concert with the choir in the evening. Well, as I was already there... I peeked into the hall... the stage was already set, and the sound technician was doing his work around the microphones.
Lady Kawai was wearing a cool floral decoration made of dried leaves and flowers. I took some photos and decided not to be shy. Why wouldn't I play a bit? No one was there, just the technician who had nothing to do with the piano at that moment. I even sent a photo to the choir director, just the photo, without words. His reaction was priceless. 😂
¿Qué haces ahí? Está prohibido el paso!! 😂😂💕
For the English speakers: What are you doing there? Entry is prohibited! 😂😂💕
Well, well, well, maybe not for everyone! 🤣
Some people can even touch the piano and press some keys, make the strings vibrate in the air and record some parts of a song. We usually call it just practice or a sound check of the piano. The technician and I started to talk when he came closer, so I stopped recording. Btw, this is just the piano part of one of the songs we played in the evening, Torna a Surriento. We miss from here the mandolin, the cello and the choir.
The background sound we hear in the beginning is from the air conditioner and also from the laptop of the sound technician, which was right next to my phone; later, I took my phone close to the piano. I liked to mix the two angles of the video footage. Anyway, this is how I committed this big and unforgivable trespass into the concert hall while having a coffee break. 😁
In the evening, it was no longer considered a crime! 😁
! [Hidden Spoiler Text]
▶️ 3Speak
🎉🎉🥳 Yeah , party time 🥳🎊🎊
Your post has just been curated and upvoted by Ecency
keep up the good work
Join us on the Ecency Discord
Thank you 🙏
Actually, the piano is not easy to learn, and hard work and patience are required to learn it. Thanks for sharing your experience.
That's true ;)
😃 Mamma mia... veo a un hombre reflejado en el piano, lo veo que se mueve allí. 🙆
Un hombre? dónde? jajaj, esa soy yo! 😂
Y el técnico viniendo del fondo de la sala, entonces empezamos a hablar y corté el vídeo.
This is another reflection in the piano (in a part of it), oh but it's again me 🤷♀
no, no, deja enseñarte lo que vi. Brrrrrrrr...espérate que lo estoy viendo otra vez 😁
En el minuti 1:13 fíjate en el piano, mipiano.
(¿y aquí en esta foto... en qué mundo diminuto entraste?) 🤔😅
Portal del ala del piano, of course 😂
omg, there is indeed someone hahahaha. Ok, I think it is the same sound technician, if not, then it is scary hahaha, and I should ask that reflection the same question the choir director asked me 😂
😂
Well, you were telling him "Torna a Surriento, Famme campà", there he came, but he wasn't going to take you with him to the underworld.
The way she played it so effortlessly mennnn
I love the melody
I guess she made some little effort to learn the song earlier so it sounds effortless later ;)
Exactly
It would be interesting to see that furniture painted in thirty minutes. It's true that sometimes you don't have time for anything, I understand you. But how wonderful to have a bricklayer in your house, you have to fix what they have done in the previous work ....
Once again committing a crime, you are forbidden to enter! But not for the pianist.... you had to rehearse, that is always allowed, you had to corroborate that the piano was in optimal conditions. I loved the final hidden photograph.
The video, a delight to listen to that beautiful song and that change of shot, all professional. I've already listened three times, a marvel! Thank you for this, it gladdens the soul.
I have picked this post on behalf of the @OurPick project! Check out our Reading Suggestions posts!
Please consider voting for our Liotes HIVE Witness. Thank you!
Hahaha, the other day, in half an hour, I did just this, lijar la pintura de antes de solo un cajón y poner una capa de pintura nueva. Transform from brown to white, it will be a challenge 😂
Now, since I published the post, I have made a bit more of progress in sanding the small cabinet... It is just the test should I start with some major work around it (this small cabinet, a big closet, and two beds from the same set).
Not sure the bricklayer will love this title 😂
Thank you, I am glad you liked this song, with the other instruments and the choir, it sounds richer and nicer 😇
That cabinet will look beautiful white! All white, it will give a lot of light and everything will look bigger.
Well, you know, I'm almost a bricklayer... I've put ceramic tiles in the kitchen and bathroom, painted walls, put in water pipes... .... I had to learn.
I don't doubt that the song is more beautiful but I appreciate the piano more.
Yes, that's the idea, because of the light. And also, it is the room of my son (which will also be used as the guest room), so for a young person, it is not really attractive to have dark, old-fashioned furniture. The things I saw in one furniture store were of low quality, so why not try to refurbish the old one, which is of better quality? 😀
😍🎹
I'm of the same opinion, I prefer quality furniture... so let's restore!😁
Beautiful playing! Here in the US it seems there are fewer and fewer people learning to play the piano.
My daughter plays the piano, and when she was learning, every spare minute she had was practicing - she loved it so much (and still does). None of her friends learned. Most of her playing though is for church and accompanying the choir, soloists, the congregation, the orchestra, etc.
I guess people here don't want to take the time to learn and practice.
Practising does take time, but when someone loves it, like your daughter, then it is not difficult, actually, it is a pleasure to spend every moment with the instrument and learning. 😇
Hi @mipiano, I'm not going to turn this reply into my sympathetic complaint either. I like to know that you had a good vacation and I really liked that gift that you left us fruit of the forbidden. Thank you.
A very big greeting.
Oh, fruit of the forbidden haha. 🎶😂
Thank you @enraizar, we forgot to say good evening 😂
🫢 Oh!! Good evening @mipiano.
😂
I hope you are free and have not been arrested. If you want you can come to Zaragoza, it is full of free pianos to be played by anyone who wants to. 😘
https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/2025/05/09/zaragoza-llena-ciudadanos-tocar-piano-calle-1814425.html
Spoiler: I won't make the attempt, I prefer to listen to how others play. It's safer for everyone's ears and for the piano.
Aaaaaaa, pianooooooos!!! Que suerte para los Zaragozanos!
Thank you for this info, although the chances I could come to Zaragoza soon are very small, I really appreciate you letting me know about this. Happy instruments and happy people who could play them 😇
I think you were lucky with the weather, they picked the perfect week.😎
Hopefully, I'll get to visit Austria one day. It's been on my list of places to go for over a decade, but I just haven't made it there yet...
I'd also like to attend a Hive Fest one day. So many dreams, so little time.
Have a lovely weekend:)))
Yes, the weather was perfect, literally perfect! We took winter jackets with us from Spain, hahaha, but in the end, we spent that week in t-shirts 😃 Regarding Austria, it is so green and the cities pretty clean, in case you can make that travel come true, do it 😉
This is really cool
I still really admired people that can playing piano since playing Piano is really hard to do
Thanks ;)
It looks like a great place to play!
Congratulations cause Mothers day!
It is a nice concert hall, I can call it home already 😄
Thank you 😇
Woaooo tocas excelente. Felicitaciones!
Ese teatro se ve genial.
Hey, gracias 🎹 😉
El piano ya tiene sus años, igual que la persona que lo toca jaja 😂
Congratulations @mipiano! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain And have been rewarded with New badge(s)
Your next payout target is 62000 HP.
The unit is Hive Power equivalent because post and comment rewards can be split into HP and HBD
You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOPYou really enjoyed the weather and yourself with the fellow Hivian, I would also love to play the piano