Benefits of playing instruments

[Jeanette]

Extract from Daily Mail

"Playing an instrument fights memory loss. Muscians have fewer age-related memory problems, says a study at Chicago's Northwestern University. It's believed playing music strengthens connections between brain cells"

At least if if I am not sounding too good I am doing some good.:welldone



So keep on blowing everyone, now where did I put my sax.

Jx

 

[TomMapfumo]

But if you live for ever, playing badly, you might become a test case for involuntary euthenasia - you'll need to start thinking of others. I just hope that the local social services don't start issuing Clarinets to all the oldies that live around here.........:shocked:;}

 

[old git]

I was going to reply to this thread but I've forgotten what I was going to say.

 

[Jeanette]

More studies about how playing an instrument affects the brain

Jx

 

[ProfJames]

My instrument gives me amazing hangovers just keeping parts of it clean.......

 

[Jonesy]

Wish it could do something about my bad back.

 

[aldevis]

Wish it could do something about my bad back.

But it can do something for your Bach....

 

[Targa]

But it can do something for your Bach....

Would it help Jay, it seems like her bite's worse than her Bach.

 

[trimmy]

Arrrrrhhh memories !!

 

[Jeanette]

Arrrrrhhh memories !!

For you @trimmy

Jx

 

[Jay]

Would it help Jay, it seems like her bite's worse than her Bach.

Red hair = warning colouration

 

[Targa]

Red hair = warning colouration

 

[Alc.]

When my doctor found out how long I had been a smoker he was incredulous when he saw my oxygen reading, which is quite good. I told him I had returned to saxophone-playing a few years ago; he said he would recommend that to some of his other patients. One more benefit of playing music.

 

[Jeanette]

My tutor told me about one of his pupils who was told by a plastic surgeon that playing a woodwind instrument was great for your facial muscles

Another good reason to keep blowing

Jx

 

[saxplorer]

I'm sure that this guy will have a role to play in keeping me healthy and (relatively) sane through the years ...

 

[ProfJames]

When my doctor found out how long I had been a smoker he was incredulous when he saw my oxygen reading, which is quite good. I told him I had returned to saxophone-playing a few years ago; he said he would recommend that to some of his other patients. One more benefit of playing music.

Would playing the piano help?

 

[Colin the Bear]

Would playing the piano help?

Depends what you play it with. I'm sure shifting it from room to room would help with the cardio vascular part.

 

[ProfJames]

.........................and what about learning perfect pitch?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ght-perfect-pitch-results-lasting-months.html

 

[aldevis]

.........................and what about learning perfect pitch?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ght-perfect-pitch-results-lasting-months.html

A debatable subject.
There was a method, heavily advertised on Downbeat few years ago, that I always dismissed as BS.
Also Oliver Sachs says somewhere on his "Musicophilia" that perfect pitch cannot be achieved.

I have a friend (former trombone player in my sextet) that definitely got it using the Downbeat course. BUt he is quite a special musician.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and try to think of a B on soprano (concert A=440). Then check with an instrument and find out that I was right. It has something to do with the "colour" of the note, rather than the relation with other notes.
Not many people with perfect pitch actually enjoyed their gift/skill. One had to give up playing because his PP went flat and EVERYTHING sounded sharp to him. A living hell.

 

[aldevis]

Here is the PP course.
In the old ads it looked half way between religious fanaticism and car salesmen.

http://www.perfectpitch.com/chapter1.htm