musical diaries: when a pianist does not play the piano

[@stefangeorgiev7370]

you are a blessing to this world tiffany :)

[@krazdomino4882]

I was thinking the same today! She is a little different but it gives me some precious moments in The world!

[@topturretgunner]

I completely understand your sadness over musical instruments that are silent. Being an aviation lover I often feel a sadness looking at museum aircraft that will never fly again.

[@andreilican]

When my family and I went to Berlin (I think right around the same time as you), I wanted to visit the instrument museum, but was put off by the negative reviews of people complaining that the museum was very depressing. Hearing you reinforce those comments makes me glad I didn't go😂

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

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[@TheUltimateLegend7]

​​​@@TiffanyPoonpianist we went there maybe 12 years ago and when we got there we received a device that could play a bit of how every displayed instrument sounded like. Of course, it's not the same as playing them/hearing them live. Also, while we were there, there was someone playing an organ. Maybe stuff has changed since then?

[@mrstecks]

I understand and share your feelings about musical instruments in museums... it is strange and sad to see them sitting silently. There is a small museum in St. Paul, Minnesota called the Schubert Club Music Museum, and they demonstrate the instruments and DO let visitors play the instruments. I got to play a piano once owned by Brahms! I didn't know any Brahms (lol) so I played a bit of Schumann. 😃 Love your videos Tiffany. ❤

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

That's really cool! I'm glad you understand my opinion... Didn't want to sound mean by comparing it to a prison, but...

[@christopheryoung1878]

It’s been a long time, but many years ago at the Museum of Fine Arts here in Boston I was able to play several keyboard instruments. Including a nice piano from Beethoven’s time.

[@boredPianoAdv]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist I agree with you! The purpose of an instrument is auditory, not visual. Of course there's instruments that have gorgeous designs, and/or are too fragile to touch; regardless, it's almost suffocating to only be able to look at them

[@robertsantana3261]

I love that you are also a filmmaker who records her fab life. You’re a true creator.

[@fabiosteff2108]

I love Tiffany. Favorite pianist.

[@manueladevilliers5301]

Absolutely agree with you about musical instruments in a museum

[@NN-rn1oz]

It's great to watch your videos throughout the years. It seems your attitude has become more relaxed about everything, and it shows in your playing as well (for the better of course!). Can't wait for you to release a solo recording!

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Gosh I can't watch my old hyper videos... Thank you for following through the years and supporting! 🙏🎶

[@neovxr]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist Super entertaining anyway! :)

[@rinardman]

7:38 Tiffany: I have never seen a squirrel eat chicken! That's because you always give them nuts. Feed them some meat once in a while. 😁 P.S. Squirrels are omnivorous.

[@TheUltimateLegend7]

My grandpa used to have a pig. It killed (and ate parts of) a rabbit and two chicken. Since then nothing in the animal kingdom surprises me anymore...

[@AngieKo69]

In Eisenach / Thüringen there is a Bachmuseum with playable Instruments, once I visited it and instruments with keys like table piano, cembalo and organs were presented by a professional musician.

[@ornleifs]

I get your frustration about musical instruments on display without a sound - The music instrument museum in Brussel was very good - you got headphones and when you entered the zone around the instrument you could hear how it sounded - Loved that.

[@Pman4cosmo]

Got one of the last 5 tickets for your concert in Dresden and i am so glad having the possibility to hear and see and feel you performing this great Schumann pieces again, i saw your vlog again how to hear the Davidsbündlertänze and now i am really waiting for this day to come :)

[@matthodek]

I always enjoy seeing the things you notice on your adventures. Congratulations on the TV spot, I hope it goes well.

[@christopheryoung1878]

Love the Schumann playing in particular, as always!

[@dredscallon]

I share this feeling with you when I see so many beautiful silent historical instruments, grouped together in showcases, it's a bit like a cemetery where one is invited to admire beautiful mummies who once sang and danced.

[@murdo_mck]

It is a shame to see musical instruments in glass cases. We don't do that in art galleries, but then museums can't afford a staff member in each room. Here are a few places where historic instruments are kept in playable condition and available to be played, sometimes in public concerts: Whittaker's Musical Museum, Waiheke, near Auckland, New Zealand (eclectic collection, no glass cases) St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland (university collection, especially early keyboard instruments) The Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands House, Surrey, England (includes a piano owned by Chopin) Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany (includes a Pleyel double grand piano) Steingraeber & Söhne, Bayreuth, Germany (featured in Tiffany's first classical chat)

[@sophonblock76]

So concert pianists offtime, still does things with classical music 😉

[@benedicttisa8301]

I really enjoy your musical diaries. I like how you see the world around you. And as I side not. Your playing and videos have brought me back to love classical piano. Thank you

[@ptg01]

Great point regarding musical instruments just laying dormant.... Yearning to be played !!!

[@JM-vh7oc]

The musical instrument museum here in my city is great - they have these head phones you wear and when you step in front of each instrument, it plays in your headphones.

[@josedimaano464]

I remember stumbling across that same video 3 years ago only to stumble to this current one, so weird.

[@arggal]

Oh! A documentary with Tiffany not behind the scenes but on the stage! I hope it will be shown outside of Germany as well (with English subtitles).

[@michaelgoetze2103]

It could even be in English since DW have an English language service for an international audience.

[@neovxr]

Gesundheit! Happy to see you active in Berlin. This metropole is totally unforgettable. I was there in 1990 though. Never had felt such a unique atmosphere, especially because what had happened months before created a special energy.

[@neovxr]

Great thoughts about a museum of instruments that became a prison that keeps the content silent. But there is some idea of freezing time. Using the instruments might exhaust some of them, eventually they might break, but the museum wants to preserve them unchanged. Pretending life that is no life. DW is western media in a very conscious way. Congrats for new audiences. Take care to have them tell the correct story.

[@ClassicalSoundIdeal]

I was in Berlin instruments museam back in 2002 and there was a basement with a bunch of instruments which could be played. I also gave a try on Bach's harpsichord upstairs. It did play but I got the attention of the guard 😮

[@michaelrollo6518]

my mother used to sing even on the radio in Rome Italy which I recently discovered and she lost her voice when I was five years old I know what it's about then I lost my mother at 15 my brother was five you had the opptunity for a musical career but things change even in the most difficult time joy came to me in a most unusal way I guess God works in mystrious ways

[@Musicforever60]

Perhaps your perception of such a museum format could stem from underlying expectations of liveliness in everything you interact with? We often pay more attention to objects/beings/ideas that undergo change or show some degree of nuance, compared to things that are static in nature. Instruments, in particular, to a musician, could have a much stronger personal connection and thus the expectations are overwhelming. As well, instruments, compared to more industrial items, like scissors or engines, are inherently evocative with emotion, which makes the "loss of liveliness" even more apparent and contrast more. Furthermore, it could have some similarities with the idea of "liminal spaces", a growing interest on the internet. Once again, thanks for sharing your life! Hope your concerts go well!

[@paulkvothe9847]

ending the recap with a recent instagram post, gives it a nice flow. well done.

[@louielee621]

Hi Tiffany , I enjoy watching your vlog so much. I wish I can see your live performance in someday later. 😄

[@didiko21]

yo i love the vibes of this vlog

[@pianopracticediary]

Just as for humans, sadly an instruments time is limited. Very natural…

[@tombufford136]

Museums are often very quite places where you can spend some time out of the rain. A number of years ago I had a number of invitations to 'make music' with others, joining various choirs and a few for piano and organ accompaniment. These were mostly not on a professional basis. We do look up to you Tiffany. Not far from here is a well known 'House museum' of Gustav Holtz famous for the 'Planet suites'. The Museum has his piano in it and John Wright, a recitalist, was asked to play on it for a recording which can be heard in the museum. Perhaps you could offer to do this when you Email requests to Museum directors to play old instruments.

[@ronl7131]

I remember a famous keyboard museum in Nuremberg that I visited in 1978. Was listed in Frommer Europe Guide at that time….still there??

[@Patrick-ke5qt]

Metropolis 👍👍👍have you ever seen “Spies” also a Fritz Lang film made a couple of years later 👍

[@andresgunther]

I love this particular "musical Diaries" vlog! As somebody else says, I share your feelings ref. the "silent" museum of musical instruments. I assume they have some activities where the ones that are playable are used? One hopes! Because sitting around unused is bad for them (and any mechanical artifact). Looking forward to the outcomes of all these meetings you had, and wish you the best as always. A meat eating squirrel? Only in America, LOL!

[@redfishplayz4476]

6:34 i can relate To that, I also live in Germany and when Walking around with a camera U get those weird gazes. Ppl Here also dont Like being filmed and U can get sued If U Film Somebody without their permission

[@mottokittokatto]

Thanks for the very cool travel video! Always love the pace of your travel videos (fun to go for the "complete ride", then go back to pause & check the myriad of interesting bits! 😂)

[@quynhphuongtran3511]

You're one of my favorite pianists, Tiffany! Btw, the squirrel at the end was so adorable 🐿🐿

[@weddy3515]

Will you come to Munich to have your concert next time?😊

[@Tiffanys_tiffan]

Omg!!!!!!!!!!😂😂😂 That squirrel.....🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿 ----- 7:37

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

😂 thanks for watching through the end!

[@Ellinillard]

Please come to France, Tiffany. Or Greece, or Italy, or London. Once, please please please.

[@mzimmer1751]

Dresden? That's awesome - congrats! (fyi - squirrels go after baby birds too, if they have a chance)

[@Joe_Peroni]

"When a classical pianist does not play the piano".... she could be a MODEL. Or a MOVIE STAR! 😉

[@PaulIvers]

Great news about the DW doc, they do good work. Share your thoughts about the music museum, silence in such an environment is surreal, almost as surreal as a squirrel eating chicken.

[@BlackHermit]

1:02 Bless you.

[@isaiahadamsvlogs5309]

Will we ever have more 'under the piano with tiffany' episodes?

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

I just washed my carpet... stay tuned ;)

[@isaiahadamsvlogs5309]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist Yay!!

[@moxigeren50gabe23]

Awesome as always

[@FabioBadalamentiComposer]

3:20 hai perfettamente ragione! Ho provato la stessa cosa al Musee de la musique della Villette a Parigi

[@paulkvothe9847]

Cant wait to see you in dresden. Already there.

[@williamch99]

Bless you!

[@glennnanod3160]

Enjoyed this, just Love the way you Vlog. I agree about museums with instruments under glass and not played. That's in spite of the fact I used to work for a Musuem. I had to Google Squirrels eating meat to find out they are Omnivorous. I live in Hawaii and we don't have Squirrels here except in Zoos. I just really Love your walks and thoughts.🐿 🎹 🎼 💖

[@HidekazuOki]

Great video, as always! Also, hilarious and shocking ending of the video! 😅

[@3r7s]

the ending scene.. 🙉🙈😅😅❤

[@ronl7131]

Love your Schumann

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Thank youu 🙏🎹

[@vitoriadecarvalho-rg2gc]

Adoro os vlogs dela aaaaa maravilhosaaaaaa

[@williamgreen1512]

Don’t forget Tiffany , that in simile to a tractor that has seen its last days in the depths of the farm and is now confined to the orchard , or a combine harvester that has encircled its last slice amongst the beautiful fields of corn flourishing within a balanced pressure of air , light , moisture and heat ; yet is now the subject of spare parts . That a piano although more wise , cannot really find refuge in such habitations and as such , it’s greatest specimens need isolating quite perfectly !.

[@Adrian-zw6sc]

What makes classical instruments "wiser"? Are we now stereotyping personifications?

[@williamgreen1512]

@@Adrian-zw6sc we might be 🙃😇

[@r.i.p.volodya]

When your vlogs were numbered, I knew where I was. I could go through and catch up on vlogs I'd missed and I knew if I were up-to-date with them. But now.................

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Sorry... But it's all there on my channel's uploads ;)

[@ediepianist]

@@TiffanyPoonpianistdid I miss an announcement about why you stopped vlogging? Miss them 🙃

[@wdc7582]

Tiffany: Perhaps a dum question but Is it at all accurate to think of an “Opus” like a modern day “Album” with the different pieces being numbered, instead of named?

[@hungariangypsy8183]

Pianist saying “idk why I have such a strong memory”

[@MrDJthib]

Is there any chance that someday you will do a concert in France ?

[@garrygarrett70]

What music is that around the 8.00 mark?

[@kenjikodai]

I like these

[@emanuelerisso8560]

you're amazing 😍

[@eckligt]

So cool to see you getting into German language, since you keep travelling there.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

I try...but it's hard to keep learning consistently 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@eckligt]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist Maybe you can look for a language café when you're back in NYC, I'm sure there are many people eager to share their language in such a big city 🙂 Best of luck regardless of method!

[@pianista-mediocre]

Come to Brazil lol

[@TheAngioMan]

come on, you don't know why you have a good memory? you can remember all those pieces and notes and you don't know why? lol that's because you're a fantastic pianist!

[@stevenmeyer9674]

She can't remember why she has a good memory.

[@phumkhmertv2028]

Love the video. By the way, when get husband Tiff to get many more little Tiffs. I believe in you to rescue the world by repopulate. Imagine many little Tiffs running around. So cute 🥰

[@meaningwhat8371]

😂...the squirrel...

[@agustandany5652]

@1:04 bless you ❤

[@wbiro]

7:48 Don't fall asleep in that park...

[@DrQuizzler]

It sounds like you allowed yourself to be intimidated by the ominous quiet of the many un-played pianos. I wonder what would have happened if you had asked someone there if some of them were kept in working order and if it'd be alright if you tried them out. I notice a similar sensation when I first walk into some piano stores, like _"Shhh!! The pianos are napping!!"_

[@denmarq]

I think those old instruments in museums does contribute to the "dead" and distant reputation classical music has been associated with. Of course there is need for preservation as continuous use will inevitably lead to deterioration, and even excellent maintenance would lead to changes (albeit miniscule) that alters the form or state of the instrument from when it was first produced or under the posession of someone. However, simply putting them on display, placed on pedestals and behind barriers, unused and languishing in silence, means they have become mere relics of the long gone figures they're associated with. I agree with you that the instruments should be played, they're meant to sing. Ship of Theseus concerns notwithstanding, there just needs for some balance to be struck. Should the instruments be kept in mint condition by presenting them in silence as delicate relics which may perpetuate the negative impression of classical music as an outdated artform? Or should those instruments become a part of living history where succeeding generations of musicians leave an imprint on them, enriching their legacy in the process, all the while delighting new sets of listeners? I'd choose the latter. I hope some in that huge collection there are brought out to be played though. Sorry for rambling a bit. On a lighter note, I'm happy that you're going to be featured on DW. You're really making it big now, while your profile being raised there will surely help your mission with classical music. 1:02 Well inserted amidst Schumann's Sonata. You made me chuckle there. 😄 Now that you know, will you feed squirrels chicken now? 🤔😳

[@neovxr]

I think each of those instrument - as far as not defect - should be played once a year for half an hour in public, and the session recorded, and added to a multimedia library tied to that instrument, people should be able with a QR code to watch that session.

[@denmarq]

@@neovxr I'm surprised audio guides aren't a thing there, or at least more utilized.

[@ThomasFinnerup]

Your hair looks amazing. It almost makes me wish I had hair.

[@thisisourchannel3589]

I did not know squirrels ate meat. How about that 🤔🐿

[@gert.korthof]

Hi Tiffany, you filmed a cute White Wagtail in your video at kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX7QoZagnrVsibs Typically Wagtails constantly wag their tails up and down. You can't miss it!

[@murdo_mck]

5:55

[@wingnutofcoolness]

When I lived in Texas I saw a squirrel eat a bagworm. Not a vegetarian meal

[@paulkramer7844]

A mute instrument is like an empty wine bottle. It gives no expectation of joy.

[@martinbennett2228]

I do not think that was a German squirrel. The squirrels here (I am in Luxembourg, bordering Germany) are all red-brown.

[@FabioBadalamentiComposer]

7:39 anche lui ha scoperto McDonalds !!

[@Carolf1213]

I love the Philharmonie but yes it was a very quiet and cold museum. Try the Jewish museum.

[@Musica-gq9gr]

Exacto... Las ardillas pueden comerte!!!!!

[@brendancolvert7394]

🎥

[@piano.is.a.language]

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[@lovevivaldi]

Tiffany, when you travel for concerts do you travel alone? I worry about you.

[@DLVRYDRYVR]

The squirrel 🐿️ is plump

[@PETRIK_Lajos]

I have long guessed, that REAL musical talent goes hand in hand with a high IQ, and that the person is sympathetic. I do not know Miss Tiffany's IQ, but she is very sympathetic, that is for sure.

[@sruthirajan1454]

Squirrel 🤣

[@abdelkrimabounouar6588]

Hello Tiffany

[@euijunc]

I like your vids!

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Thank you!

[@euijunc]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist omg your comment made my day 😝 thank you :)

[@ranchrods1]

squirrels are rodents, they will eat whatever's available

[@jannis11]

Noice

[@robc.5338]

Hi Tiffany. I have always enjoyed your videos. Thanks! One time a fan of yours sent you a cute Bible. I also heard you have a degree in philosophy. And I thought, I know just the guy for you! R. C. Sproul. He was a professor of Theology and Philosophy. He lectured extensively on the history of philosophy vis a vis the Bible. I saw a short article today where he discusses the transcendent, self-existent God of the Bible who is the cause of all things, and related philosophical issues. Just google "r c sproul the self-existent god." I hope you find it interesting!

[@KrajnikPizmovy]

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