Talk:Chopsticks (waltz)

March 2007
Does anyone know this version:

123456, this song is called chopsticks, it puts you in a fix, so that you just can't quit, playing and playing it 'cause it's your favorite, it's really quite a hit you must admit.

Now here's a brand (or whole) new way to play (or do) it, Your right hand plays the same routine, your left hand plays a different melody, Look here's just what I mean.

The other melody is "Ach Du Lieber Augustin" or "Have You Ever Seen A Lassie." We once had this piece of music. It got torn up though. Does anyone know what version this is?

AegNuddel 17:14, 15 March 2007 (UTC)AegNuddel

cultural reference
march 19, 1966 get smart series, episode 26, hubert's unfinished symphony, smart plays start of chopsticks at end of episode. 68.144.80.168 (talk) 21:09, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

In the film Sincerely Yours, the world-famous pianist played by Liberace (good casting, I suppose) takes requests from his audience, and agrees to a little girl's suggestion that he play "Chopsticks." He begins with two fingers, but before long is blasting out a grand version of the song with orchestral support and an increasing quantity of fluorishes. WHPratt (talk) 00:14, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

In the 1946 film "The Best Years of Our Lives," two of the characters play chopsticks as a duet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.201.130.243 (talk) 18:26, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

On May 2nd 1939 "Chopsticks" (by Lawrence - Daniels) was recorded by Nat Gonella & His Georgians, vocals by Nat Gonella. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.178.160.221 (talk) 22:45, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

In the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe play chopsticks as a duet. 190.97.37.110 (talk) 19:36, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Original research? Really?
We're talking about something that anyone with even a shred of sheet music knowledge would instantly realize. In fact your (User:Maineartists's) edit summary seems to contain more original research than that. Looking at WP:PRIMARY it seems to me that using the sheet music to note instrumentation is fine. Going to being this up at the WikiProject. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 13:31, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Re. "using the sheet music to note instrumentation" – can you give a reference to the sheet music you used? I can find no such source in the article, while the "four-hand" qualification is in the quoted source. That source is no good from WP:RS perspective (a blog), so in fact the entire description should be removed per WP:CHALLENGE, until it can be based on a source that passes RS requirements. --Francis Schonken (talk) 13:46, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * IMSLP (as linked in my edit summary) which has the published sheet music from the 1800s. As for the source in the article, I haven't looked at it, so I dunno anything about that. Of course if you're going to remove that whole paragraph the entire point of the discussion is irrelevant, though the question itself is still valid. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 13:52, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * References to reliable sources go in an article, not in edit summaries. All of that is WP:V 1.0, so indeed, discussing something that wasn't where it had to be to begin with, is a non-discussion about non-issues. --Francis Schonken (talk) 13:57, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Popularity as a peer taught song
I suppose to be encyclopaedic someone would have to find scholarly sources, but it seems odd for the article not to mention at all the fact that the tune is such a popular one for children to teach one another, and as such has been played by generations of children many of whom never learnt to play the piano in any formal sense. 220.253.21.62 (talk) 01:47, 30 October 2023 (UTC)