Prodigy?
- Thread starter Drago
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swee'pea99
Legendary Member
I seem to remember reading somewhere that as a child Mozart could be taken to a concert, then when he got home he could transcribe the entire symphony, or whatever. Or if you preferred he could play it, faultlessly. Or - his special party trick - play it faultlessly, backwards.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Brian Wilson was supposed to be able to play like that.
Drago, sounds like Mini D has a very bright future- don't treat her any differently- just stop her getting bored- she'll love you for it.
Drago, sounds like Mini D has a very bright future- don't treat her any differently- just stop her getting bored- she'll love you for it.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
My favourite is Steak and Kidney Pi with gravy
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
The usual anecdote about Mozart is that he visited the Sistine Chapel, heard the choir sing Allegri's Miserere (something whose score they guarded jealously) and wrote it down perfectly afterwards. Which is amazing - except that the damn thing is the same music repeated half a dozen times. Playing something backwards is stupidly difficult and wouldn't reflect the sort of pattern recognition a good musician would apply to memorising something.
About the age of 9 I could solve Rubik's cube from any position, quite quickly. That's the same sort of random feat of memory as memorising pi.
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Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
she already loves her old Dad, mainly because i'm the biggest kid around, and because I can fart on demand when she pulls my finger.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Ah, but can you burp the alphabet?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I made my sisters kids laugh by tapping my nose and burping on one visit to then. She told me off about it a couple of months later, saying that the children had been doing it themselves ever since!
Win-win, made the kids happy and hacked off your siblingI made my sisters kids laugh by tapping my nose and burping on one visit to then. She told me off about it a couple of months later, saying that the children had been doing it themselves ever since!
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