Love it Brian!
And the rounded black keys.

Slave Piano
Penalogical Pianology: The Timbers of Justice

PIANO FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITIES

SYDNEY, 12 MAY 2010 - As part of the 2010 Biennale, performance artists, Slave Pianos, invite the public to witness the brutal arrest of a piano which is found guilty of treachery and sentenced to execution by hanging.

Hanged By The Neck

Slave Pianos present a surrealistic allegory of convict transportation in which a piano is absurdly found guilty of treachery and to be hanged by the neck until dead at the penal establishment of Cockatoo Island. The audience is invited to witness a recital by virtuoso pianist Michael Kieran Harvey.

As part of the 2010 Biennale, performance artists, Slave Pianos, invite the public to witness the brutal arrest of a piano which is found guilty of treachery and sentenced to execution by hanging.

Entitled The Fatal Score or The Spectacle of the Scaffold (The Way Up and the Way Down are One and the Same), the piece opens with a recital by virtuoso pianist Michael Kieran Harvey. The recital is interrupted suddenly by the arrival of the Royal Australian Navy, led by actor Richard Piper, who arrest the piano for ‘crimes against humanities’, and transport it across the island to Building 142. On arrival, the unlucky piano is sentenced to ‘be hanged by the neck until dead’. A chamber music concert is given as the piano ascends the scaffold, and a wake held once the execution has been carried out. For the duration of the exhibition the gallows is the resting place for the now mechanically operated piano. The gallows, itself a meta-mechanical musical instrument incorporating an auto-lyre and archival auto-icon counterweight, is designed to operate in a continuous cycle of execution and redemption. Titled Penalogical Pianology: The Timbers of Justice, the installation looks at colonial and musical history, continuing the group’s exploration of avant-garde practice in art and music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifd4XOmbBkw
http://www.culturekiosque.com/...nos_ckiosque501.html
http://kerryjiayilin.wordpress...ney-cockatoo-island/

“Slave Pianos” - the last play

Old Piano
It looks like a piano, but it is really a theatre!

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Originally posted by lilylady:
Love it Brian!
And the rounded black keys.

I agree - Just look at the casework, the heart aches for wishing all this kind of stuff was made a lot more these days...

Thank you for showing interest in my piano, the Mammoth VCG. Actually the picture that shows the crooked leg is an illusion, both front legs are at an equal angle. The kebed is the same dimension as any upright piano, but the VCG because of it's height it had to have a wider base. The piano took me two years-from design to completion. It is scheduled to go to Bellevue,Wa.to be displayed to the public and be offered for sale. Thanks again for the interest. Chris@www.mammothpiano.com

VIVIANA SOFRONITSKY: Celebration of the forte piano at Wigmore Hall
http://www.loganartsmanagement...iano-at-wigmore-hall

The concert will showcase the deveoplment of the forte piano from Mozart through to the Pleyel and the favourite pianos of Chopin and Liszt.
Viviana Sofronitsky, a great exponent of the forte piano, presents a programme of CPE Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Liszt, performed on 5 new forte pianos:
Stein ca 1788 ; Walter 1782 ; Graf 1819 ; Pleyel 1830 ; Liszt’s Boisselot 1846

Square Grand Piano custom built expressly for Francis Scott Key circa 1838.
Located on the second floor of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The hand-carved detail extends around all four sides of the rosewood case. The plate is ornamented with fine inlay of Mother-Of-Pearl.
He wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"

Romanian woman breaks back in flying piano mishap
Story and video
http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2...-back-in-flying.html
"... was part of a team who made a piano-like flying machine which was pushed off a six-metre drop above the Dambovita River... goal is to fly as far as possible with home-made machines."

Carlota's Grand Piano / Collard & Collard London

Empress Carlota's Grand Piano by Collard & Collard. Royal provenance and superior craftsmanship culminate in this highly important grand piano, created for Empress Carlota of Mexico by the famed London firm of Collard & Collard. The piano was given to the Empress by her brother-in-law, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, on the occasion of her 25th birthday in 1865.

The piano itself is a work of art. The body is crafted of luxurious birds-eye maple, polished to a sleek, smooth finish and complemented with scrolling gold gilt wood accents. Three shimmering gold gilt wood legs, hand-carved in the Rococo style, support the entire structure, which, despite its impressive size, seemingly floats in its space.

Price: $225,000.00

My 1880 7'2" Bluthner:
http://www.alecnicholson.com/thump.html

This pop up kirigami Grand Piano
- is created by only using a single sheet of paper. The finished craft is a Grand Piano where it can be folded into half and transform it into a pop up card. This kirigami grand piano is ideal for creating piano concert invitations for piano lovers.
http://www.papercraftcentral.n...irigami-grand-piano/

http://uponafold.com.au/shop/product/hnd_hnd_min/

Oooh...

I like that third all white one with shadows the best. Elegant!

Grand Piano Cheese Board
http://picnicatascot.com/products.php?product_id=707

'Moving experience' for grand piano
But yesterday, as its new owners watched in trepidation, a crane hoisted a 345kg, $200,000 Steinway 37m into the air to deliver it to 17-year-old pianist Naoki Toyomura.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...=1&objectid=10716727