This is a Project Guntenberg eBook of Harriette Brower’s 1915 book Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianist featuring some of the greatest pianist of the earliest 20h century.
I found this on the collaborative Piano Blog, who found it on Scribd.
Now I am going to make some tea and read it!

When you decide what it is you want to be when you grow up, you are usually unaware of the difference between your dream, or how you picture your day will look, to the way it actually looks in reality.

This is true of most choices but especially true for the arts.
How much of our time do we spend doing what it is we intended on doing, Writing, composing, playing, potting or painting - and how much of our day goes to surfing the Internet, blogging, corresponding, having lengthly important phone conversations about this and that and the other.

Before we can say Jack Robinson, without even realizing it, we have to fit what ever it is we set out to do in between managing the rest of our lives….which makes us, instead of potters, composers, writers and musicians - secretaries.
I find the most difficult part in all of this is that even if we do set aside sufficient time to do what we set out to do in the start - in order for the world to hear our compositions or read our book a certain (huge) amount of marketing needs to be done - including emails phone calls and so on.
So how can this be avoided? The magority of your time sould be set aside for your main ocupation so that you can get high quality results, and so that the creative process can take its course.
Kate from the Ivory Tower has says

But the problem is Parkinson’s law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available.” You made the other project the priority, which inevitably leads to other things and opens the door to new responsibilities. One, then two days go by, then a week, and next thing you know it seems like it’s been months since you last had the chance to focus on your work.

By this point, of course, you feel behind and disoriented and it’s even harder to get back to where you were before you got off track. So the trick is twofold: 1) Set aside time every day to do your creative work. Let the essential trivia of daily life fill in the gaps, not the other way around. 2) Assess and drastically limit distractions. Write brief e-mails. Press the delete key. Turn off the phone.

Words are worthless in the face of this.

Source: The Well Tempered Blog

Probably a lot of you have, and on the other hand many others haven’t heard of the new kid on the block - The Estonia Piano.

Andy Quinn Playing an Estonia

According to the Columbus Dispatch, last year the Estonia Piano Factory in Tallinn exported 300 pianos both grands and baby grands, most of them to the united states.

In quality and reputation, Estonia pianos are giving Steinway & Sons a serious challenge. And many discerning musicians say that owning an Estonia piano — almost completely made by hand — is akin to owning a Stradivarius, the iconic violin famous for the high quality of its sound.

“It doesn’t get any better,” said Paul Graves, chief executive officer of Graves Piano & Organ Co.

Chris Foley Points out that it would be interesting and important to know how these piano age. Sounding wonderful in a show room is one thing - sounding great after a few years is quite a different matter.

For those of you who are not familiar with the Pianologist, pianologist is in there own words:

a blog about innovative piano playing. Pianologist consists of 2 pianists - KCLau and Rewsnat. We were coursemates studying Aeronautical Engineering at University Technology of Malaysia and graduated in year 2000. We love playing the piano. Although our playing is fine, but we still learn new things everyday. We will post the stuff we learn, we compose, or improvise in this blog.

here is a Bosa Nova video, and in their blog you can find piano transcripts and general notes for playing bosa nova.

also piano transcription of the dolphin by 7notemode (PDF)