Very Musical Hair-style

Croc's ain't 'armless
Every Pianists' Worst NIGHTMARE@!&^%

After his operation, Mr Chang was seen on television waving and smiling to reporters from his hospital bed.

According to media reports, his girlfriend and mother seemed more worried than he was, with his friends voicing concern about how soon he would be able to play the piano.

Backstory: http://domsweirdnews.blogspot....cs-aint-armless.html

My Must-Have Piano
The Cunningham Composer Piano

This is what I have dreamed about. IMO every piano should have this option...

Featuring a touchscreen monitor built flush with the body of the piano and powered by a Mac Mini, the Cunningham Composer will enable the player to record MIDI directly into programs such as Garage Band and Sibelius. Every Cunningham Composer will also come loaded with full versions of MusicReader, and the left pedal will use AirTurn technology to turn digital pages. Oh, did I say, touchscreen?



You can draw right on the screen with your finger - how cool is that??

With the Cunningham Composer, the piano IS the complete sheet music library and the composition workstation all in one. Imagine having all your music available at the touch of a finger, or being able to teach a lesson by annotating the score in full color and then emailing the lesson to your student! Or perhaps recording the lesson in MIDI, enabling the pianist to hear what they played afterwards, and even seeing the notes appear with each touch of the keys!]

Nam June Paik - Piano Piece, 1993

The unusual arrangement of objects in Nam June Paik’s Piano Piece—thirteen monitors, video cameras mounted on tripods, videotape players, a stool, and an exposed upright piano—appears somewhat haphazard at first. However, the work is, in fact, a carefully orchestrated composition, created as a tribute to the artist’s close friend and mentor, avant-garde composer John Cage, who died in 1992.

Larger Pic: http://www.lunacommons.org/lun...41~93577:Piano-Piece

Backstory: http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/Paik_t.html

Piano table
Obviously, this table is inspired from piano. But, it is also obviously that you cannot play piano on this table. However, with a iPod dock and speakers hidden under the lid, it can provide music. In addition, there’s a drawer for cutlery. Designer: Nick Lovegrove & Demian Repucci

The Glen Eyrie Castle

The Piano: Boardman & Gray Square

Closeup Pic: http://farm4.static.flickr.com...658_1cf03e9ba5_o.jpg

Corner Piano at Gu Lang Yu Island Piano Museum

Ok, so how do you play it?

I'd love to see the guts - but I'm assuming its a stage prop?

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Originally posted by Zorba:
Ok, so how do you play it?
I'd love to see the guts - but I'm assuming its a stage prop?

Not sure... but it looks old. Your comments would, however, apply to this:



The piano that was used in the Alicia Keys Target spot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbIjWfPLkU

Can't find any specifics about that corner piano, but it's part of the Gulangyu Piano Museum, claimed to be the largest piano museum in Asia.

Untitled piece for 300 speakers, Pianola and vacuum cleaner
Beaconsfield Gallery 1, London, 2009 (Photo by Steve Ibb)

Actually I can't see the piano, but one supposes that it is buried amongst the speakers:-)

Austrian composer simulates speech using... A piano
The “Speaking Piano” has been programmed to recite The Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court World Venice Forum 2009, for all to hear. Artist/composer Peter Ablinger transcoded the voice of an elementary student into data that could then be interpreted by a computer and mapped to servos that play the piano keys.

Watch the amazing video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Corner Piano at Gu Lang Yu Island Piano Museum

I think that one would give me nightmares. Claustrophobia?

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