Summit Songs Blog

Piano Musings

The piano–such a versatile instrument.  Listen to anything from a Bach Invention to the latest Coldplay album and you’ll hear it.  Lift up it’s lid and it never ceases to amaze. Strings of grand proportion delicately wound from thick to thin, ready to be plucked, modified or played conventionally with keys connected to a simple felt hammer striking ever so precisely to provide us with an array of massive resonating overtones.  And when it sits quietly, the anticipation of it’s next sound makes it seem as if it has taken on an almost human persona……

Bass pumping…drums pounding…guitars screaming….adrenaline soaring.   Ahh, living vicariously through a song. I recently read a quote from Picasso that said [I paraphrase] we seize power from art forms because they give form to our desires.   My only question: which is the reality—which is the art form???

Do you ever wonder about the personal wish lists of people who have already accomplished so much in life?  Even if  a most apparent wish hasn’t arrived, we all keep working toward our goals.  Ponder this:  would it be possible for each of us to help with another’s wish list? Think of what the world could be. There are people in this world with the capabilities to help with another’s wish list in the blink of eye, without having to put forth very much effort. So, wherever you are on the musical career ladder, or the ladder of life, consider helping with someone else’s wish list. I’m off to do that right now. Until next time….