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High End Validation

Nice story (to me anyway)…

Had a pizza delivered today before the Lakers game. Latino guy in his late twenties. He’s been working at the pizza store for several years.

The stereo was playing. A solo acoustic piano piece on Paradise Radio.com.

“Nice music”, he smiled.

“Thanks”, I said also smiling.

“Is that a real piano…or the radio...?”, he asked.

“It’s the stereo”, I told him. Validation, I thought to myself.

“I like Beethoven”, he grinned.

The sun was setting on a beautiful Southern California evening.
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jax2
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I had a similar experience with a guy working upstairs on our renovation, about five years ago (my system has changed much since this happened, and moved upstairs). My system was downstairs at the time, playing a Beethoven piano sonata (pretty sure it was no. 32). The guy asked who was playing the piano downstairs. He had to go downstairs to prove it was not a real piano. It was a pair of monitor speakers and an integrated amp - very simple and modest system.
jax2
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''So, the pizza delivery guy's comment today was validation that I had achieved the goal in some small measure.''

It's a little known fact that both Robert Harley and John Atkinson both started out delivering pizzas. The rest is history.
jax2
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05-02-10: Sonicbeauty writes:

We seem to forget that these forums are for public readership - and public criticism also -

I am not forgetting. I am criticising your behaviour.

Regards,

Touche!

This exchange somehow reminds me of a line from one of my favorite films.

Grant, I get where you're coming from, and I think most here probably do, regardless of semantics. Our hobby is basically solo..rather isolating and separatist otherwise. More often than not it can be the subject of ridicule, probably because most people listen to and enjoy music, but not many take it to the extremes that many here do. So it is nice when someone from the "outside" actually gets it. I guess it can feel like a connection, or that you've contributed something to someone's experience, or opened them up to another possibility.
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