Chopin Monument
@JWMILLER (3280)
Westmoreland, Tennessee
February 15, 2019 8:57pm CST
This is one of two Chopin monuments that we found to Chopin who was born of a Polish mother and a French father. This one is at his birth house out in the countryside about an hour by train southwest of Warsaw. This is quite a nice house, though at the time that Chopin was born, it had a thatched roof and dirt floors, if that can be imagined. The other one is much large and more complex, in a great park in Warsaw, much like Central Park in New York City.
When we got to Warsaw, it was bout -35F and stayed -0F for a couple of weeks, then below freeing for a couple of months. Really cold!
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
16 Feb 19
That is very cool. I am a musician but I like Renaissance and Baroque music more than Chapin's era. I admire people who can play his compositions, though.
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
21 Feb 19
Chopin's fingers were so long and flexible that he could play a piano key with his third finger passing over his little finger, to play and 'extra' note that no one else could. I have a classical channel on my TV, Baroque to the present that I listen to often. g
GLAD TO SEE YOU IN jJAPAN, HAVE NOT BEEN THERE, MAY GO SOMEDAY.
@olliesmum (828)
• Norwich, England
16 Feb 19
I adore Chopin. He's very calming. My other favourites are Debussy, Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Elgar.
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
21 Feb 19
A wide range of favorites. Great. Chopin's fingers were so long and flexible that the could reach his third finger over his little finger and play an 'extra' note, not done by anyone else that I know of.
@olliesmum (828)
• Norwich, England
21 Feb 19
@JWMILLER I didn't know that!!! I do know that Rachmaninov had massive hands.
@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
21 Feb 19
Yes, in the wintertime, but lovely and cool in the summer.
@RasmaSandra (73407)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Feb 19
Interesting looking monument. I can imagine it in spring and summer. I remember the cold winters of Latvia now I am glad to be in Florida.
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
21 Feb 19
It Is lovely in the summer. Glad that you made from Latvia.
@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
21 Feb 19
I was there in the summer and the winter, the summer was better.
