pianist vs. piano player

Kathleen E. Miller millerk at NYTIMES.COM
Thu Feb 7 17:40:20 UTC 2002


Well that would blow (no pun intended) my high school band/ dreaming of the
symphony theory that "Flutists just play, Flautists get paid."


At 05:32 PM 2/7/02 +0000, you wrote:
>In all those Westerns where the piano in a saloon gets
>shot up, it's always a piano player, even though it's
>nearly always solo.  Wasn't Sam in Casablanca also a
>piano player, not a pianist?  Or doesn't that function
>get mentioned in the film?  But I think venue is a
>factor.  In a bar or a night club it's more likely to be
>a piano player.
>
>Herb Stahlke
> > On 2/7/02 12:03, "Michal Lisecki" <magura at GIGA.PL> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > > perhaps the resources I've looked up were too poor or is it just that
> as a
> > > non-native I am just not able to judge it by myself but what (if any) the
> > > difference is between the two notions from the subject: "pianist" and
> > > "piano player".
> > > To the best of my knowledge, or perhaps rather to my "senses", I
> guess that
> > > "pianist" refers mostly to the field of classical/chamber music or to
> those
> > > artists who either play the piano solo or whose performance is central to
> > > the rest of the group/band (in jazz?). Whereas "piano player" would then
> > > perform as only one of the many members of a group/band.
> >
> > I'd kind of agree with this and suggest it's like "fiddler" vs.
> "violinist."



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