Another alternative perhaps? - Still giddy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXy1FPTdvg

Piano Hammer Artwork
Go figure!! To see the hammers protruding look at the bigger photo: http://farm3.static.flickr.com...017_b6858d5344_b.jpg

Piano hammers grow on trees!
Here is the photo to prove it

Lovely 1908 Kimball Upright

A Stately looking Mason & Hamlin

Art Deco Story & Clark

Not many pianos are also works of art...

Plate heaven

Cosmic vision for a piano
Erin Johnson plays a piano he painted for his senior art project at the Ringling School of Art and Design.
Months in the research, planning and design, it still took three all-nighters for Ringling College of Art and Design student Erin Johnson to finish his senior thesis project: an art-case baby grand piano covered from keyboard to legs with images ranging from medieval to New Age.

The Beckwith piano, about 100 years old, is detailed with 18-karat gold leaf and painted with a combination of acrylics, colored pencil and pen-and-ink. A bare-breasted angel heralds the coming cosmic events.
Better view with larger pic: http://www.heraldtribune.com/a...tNo=906141015&Ref=AR

Also this supercloseup: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tFt9...s1600-h/100_1864.JPG

More backstory: http://www.heraldtribune.com/a...-vision-for-a-piano#

Sweet Patooti
Couldn't resist this repost, this time showing the wider surrounding, don't you think this is one of the most fab beauty ideas - the artist must have a mind like a gemstone...

Brief video of someone playing it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZoQjWz64oo



Here is the surrounding around the piano:
http://www.jkeen.net/Linton%20at%20Akaroa/index.htm
http://www.linton.co.nz/default.asp?page=gard

Also link to large pic:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com...691_edf4c26908_b.jpg

A real Piano, not an illusion
What's the big deal I hear you say? Take another look at the pic. Get it?

quote:

Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Sweet Patooti


Here is the surrounding around the piano:
http://www.jkeen.net/Linton%20at%20Akaroa/index.htm
http://www.linton.co.nz/default.asp?page=gard

Also link to large pic:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com...691_edf4c26908_b.jpg

I really enjoyed her art and gardens and of course the piano enlarged to see the details. Josie must be quite a character - take a peek at her as well!

Loved the ballerina table and pool!

B&B rather expensive. 350 for one night.

Piano must be cement as other scultures are.

So glad you posted Brian!

Lilylady - Yes , here is the artist-in-crime right here!
http://www.linton.co.nz/default.asp?page=josie
but what is your comment on the piano 'illusion' above;-)

quote:

Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
A real Piano, not an illusion
What's the big deal I hear you say? Take another look at the pic. Get it?

It's a reflection of a piano? (Lid pointing the wrong direction?)

OperaTenor! The trick is that it is a real piano and there is no illusion of any kind, so it is indeed a real piano with no mirrors! But talking about reflections - someone obviously did reflect on the matter and decided to make the world conform to their way of seeing things. It is a wonderful world surely that someone had the gumption to put things right!
Pic: Christopher Seed with two pianos - his left-handed piano and a conventional instrument. His design for left-handers is based on a mirror-image of the fortepiano. Backstory: http://lefthandedpiano.co.uk/about.html