Learn the piano again

I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, but it’s been sitting in the back of my mind. Now, maybe, we are settled enough (or at least, we’ve realised we’re NEVER going to settle down) that it’s worth getting a piano.

I’ve got my eye on the KORG SP250—a good entry-level digital piano with variably weighted keys and enough features to keep me happy for the foreseeable future.

Thoughts: Tori Amos has some beautiful piano music.

Due to having more time on my hands, and now working on music by myself it means I can focus more on certain things which I choose.
So I should be able to get more time where I can play around on the piano a bit more.

I started making up songs when I was three years old, and I started piano in elementary school. But I stopped studying music from jr high into high school. But then after one semester as a Psych major in college, I went back to studying music! I even majored in it. It’s never to late to back to expressing yourself artistically; no matter how much time you take off!

I’ve read (in http://43.allconsuming.net/item/view/42975) that children who are given piano lessons perform better (on average) at IQ tests than those who don’t learn an instrument.

For someone as obsessed with mindhacks as I, that would be enough reason to get myself a piano; it just happens that I love playing, and Dee (my beloved) likes hearing me (and she plays as well).

So we will be investing in an electronic piano, but a decent one with weighted keys are whatnot.