Bellowbelle

[bellowbelle]

Well, most concertina players probably don't multi-task when practicing, since it's wiser to devote one's undivided attention to the concertina at that time.

 

BUT...if you do, at times, work-in the practicing with some other task or practice...what is it?

 

i.e., I wait for something to finish cooking and I play my concertina. Or, more lately, I play while also holding certain postures/exercises, one that I particularly need to do (or, have pain) but tend to put off doing.

 

I often need to do what I call 'The TV Pose,' which actually does have some other name, in Yoga, that I can't recall (though, the TV is my own addition)...anyway, I used to do it while watching TV upside down or sideways: -- Feet and legs go up against a wall or the back of the couch, head is down, and to pass the time, I'd watch the tube. This a good relaxation pose and good for the blood circulation, sore ankles, etc..

 

Now, I play the concertina while doing the TV Pose and watching TV. I have the back of a wooden chair in front of the chair I sit in, so I can put my feet way up on it. TV goes on. Concertina is in hands. Of course, I play over most of the TV show, but, I do pick up on some of it!

 

Oops, I did not mean to make my name the topic title. Maybe I can change that... sorry.

Edited April 1, 2004 by bellowbelle

[Jay Lamsa]

Ah, duplexing! The bane of our society. I tried playing when watching TV, but the rest of the family was not enthusiastic. I've pulled out my concertina when I'm waiting in between steps while cooking, but I have an English and my right thumb gets stuck (I keep meaning to loosen the strap ...) so sometimes the pasta boils over before I get there. I avoid playing in the car - I can only steer so well with my knees.

 

Jay

[RustyBits]

Hmmmmm. . . Definitely cooking. I've tried talking on the phone, but that doesn't work so well. Lighting the woodstove. I sit and play while waiting to put on the first log.

 

I have to confess that last week I was driving while playing the button accordion I couldn't help myself. It was new and I had to do a long drive! It kept calling me from the back seat. . . it was crying like a baby and wanted to be held!

 

It would have been interesting if I'd been in a accident and had to have bellows removed from my ribcage.

[tomlaw90]

For me it's somewhat the reverse. In between playing I squeeze in bits of work, cooking, sleep, etc.

[Pam B]

Cooking seems to be the thing. I always take my instrument outside when I'm watching the grill. I think I'm a better concertina player than I am a cook - at least I hope so, for the neighbor's sake.

 

Transferring Minidisc to CD is also a good time to get in a few tunes.

 

It is best when done solo - at least I can enjoy it more.

[Helen]

Oh Lisa,

 

Hope your button accordion stopped crying when you cuddled it. I absolutely love my piano accordion but would get a hernia if I tried to retrieve it from the back seat while driving.

 

Hm, I wonder if I could improve my cooking if I played anglo concertina whilst preparing dinner.

 

You guys all multitask far better than I can.

 

Helen

[Helen]

oooh ooooh Lisa,

 

This is THE new button accordion that you were getting. Come on, give, tell us about it.

 

Wendy, I can't even do one of the things that you do while playing your concertina.

 

Helen

[bellowbelle]

Wendy, I can't even do one of the things that you do while playing your concertina.

 

Helen

Well, it's not that I do any of them very WELL...it's just that I want to combine them so I can do all of them in a day!

 

I'm trying to use the exercise bike, more often, too. But....gotta hold onto that, I don't think I'll squeeze and pedal at the same time.

[Animaterra]

I'm still too much of a newbie at the concertina to try to multi-task much. I AM very good at other-task-avoidance by the ol' ploy- "no time to pay bills... clean off my desk... take out the trash... fold the laundry... (insert chore here)- I must practice!"

 

Then I can pretend I'm really being a responsible musiician (never mind how the other responsibilities pile up!)

 

 

 

Allison

[John Wild]

anyway,  I used to do it while watching TV upside down or sideways

 

I used to have a TV set like that

 

[Helen]

Forget it Wendy, at least you can attempt to do all that stuff at once. Just the thought sends me in spasms.

 

Well, Allison, exactly what I needed, more excuses to avoid chores. Thanks. Yippee.

 

Helen

 

[bellowbelle]

I have to confess that last week I was driving while playing the button accordion

Hmm...you must be either way out in the country, or, always stuck in traffic?

 

I dare to use my cell phone, sometimes, while driving (it's not illegal, here), but, I have to kind of laugh at the oddity of the news report, if I tried to play...."...An accident today, another driver on a concertina..."

[ldpaulson]

I'm still too much of a newbie at the concertina to try to multi-task much. I AM very good at other-task-avoidance by the ol' ploy- "no time to pay bills... clean off my desk... take out the trash... fold the laundry... (insert chore here)- I must practice!"

 

Then I can pretend I'm really being a responsible musiician (never mind how the other responsibilities pile up!)

 

Hallelujah! Absolved! I'm not the only one!

 

Thanks for making me feel so much better,

 

ldp, responsible musician