Are you a piano pusher or a piano player?
mainThis rugby headline caught our eye, not so much for its reflection on creativity in sport as to its delineation of roles in the music world.
For instance:
piano player piano pusher
player pusher
player pusher
player pusher
Care to add any more?
um……
I think there’s more than just players and pushers (or rather pushers and players)
There might also be spinners, but this is all I could find so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnIYhdth7gE
And Keith Emerson was a piano flyer!
And Keith Jarrett is a “soft shoe shuffler”………………
You forgot Yuja Wang as a pusher.
Well! NO ONE has mentioned Victor Borge, who is so versatile he could be pusher, player, spinner, flyer and candlestick maker pianist categories, you name it!
Candlestick maker for when that smoke cloud rises up out of whatever Horowitz has doused: “BANG!”
There’s this Dutch word Walm and the closest English that I can find would be the conglomerate: smoke-cloud
And then there’s the who-has-the-longest-fuse competition….
http://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/cartoon_bang.html