Mark Braun rides his "Joybox Express," a bicycle that carries his 352-pound piano.

The German pianist and singer Jo Bohnsack is a great lover of boogie woogie and blues. And an enthusiastic player by the look of it!

Audi turns 100, starts designing amazing pianos
Audi is celebrating 100 years since its founding in 1909, and as such it has set its German designers loose creating all kinds of awesome stuff. One such bit of awesomeness is the Bösendorfer Audi Design Grand Piano, with its Batman-black cowl and sleek curves. The designers didn't want to mess with the traditional acoustics of a grand piano, and as a nod to the piano's already masterful shape kept that mostly intact.

"The limitations we faced were necessary as a means of stimulating our creativity," Audi Group Design lead Wolfgang Egger said in a press release, "The project was a useful source of experience for our young designers, and will benefit them later when they work on car design."

I'm fascinated by this building and have not been able to find any other buldings built like a piano anywhere, but it is hard to imagine that they don't exist...

I'm not sure what the story is behind this picture, but I'd imagine it being called "The Vengeance of Franz Liszt"

Rolls of Wood for making pianos - but they are all quite thin, like veneer!


They are put together like this, part of the process of making the Rim.

Petrof - Grand piano P 210 designed by Peter Kršák

Jubilee model PETROF III grand piano
It has become a tradition: Every time PETROF celebrates another 10-year anniversary, it produces a new, original piano whose production is never repeated.
For the 140th anniversary of the founding of PETROF, a completely exceptional, completely original piano, PETROF III grand piano, Jubilee Model Opus No. 595 000, has been produced.
It is equipped with a magnetic accelerated action (MAA). http://www.petrof.com/grand-pi...bilee-model-iii.html

Petrof MIDI Grand Piano

This is an instrument with classic grand piano keyboard, action and hammers, with a pedal mechanism, without an acoustic section.
The Petrof MIDI piano is built on a bulky standard key bed whose structure is identical with an acoustic grand piano. It includes standard grand piano keyboard with individually balanced keys and complete grand piano action with hammers and damper parts. At play all the mechanical parts really move, including the side shift of the keyboard while pushing the left pedal, so that the feeling of the player is quite the same as playing the acoustic piano. The piano action and the keyboard are standardly regulated as with acoustic instrument and that is why the behaviour of the MIDI piano is really the same as the behaviour of the acoustic instrument.

Cat Concerto – Nora Cat Plays Piano with Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeoT66v4EHg

Lithuanian composer Mindaugas Piecaitis composed a concerto specifically for Nora, the piano playing cat so she would appear to perform with an orchestra. A video of Nora Cat plays on the big screen while the rest of the music is being performed by the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra. Story is here: http://www.ravenswingstudio.co...b/docs/theStory.html

Challen Art Case Piano A beautiful circa 1930-40 parlor grand art case piano, manufactured by Challen Pianos in London. This piano was previously owned by Harrod's of London and likely played in one or more of its stores in the 1930s. This instrument is coated in black lacquer and decorated in Japanese-style motif.

Radcliffe Bailey Storm at Sea, 2006 Piano keys, African sculpture, model boat, paper, acrylic, glitter, and gold leaf 212 x 213 inches Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York © Radcliffe Bailey

That is so cool. Such a strange combination of imagery. But it really works. You can almost hear the tempest, see the fingers flying, and the keys giving up and exploding out of the piano.

I could not find the explanation for this photo, but it sort-of looks like da Vinci was making machines from piano parts...