Improvisations
10-4-2013 – 1 Kendall Square Cambridge – Piano 18
This became one of the most cohesive improvisations yet, and maybe it’s because I tried deliberately to leave comfortable diatonic scales behind. I loved this piano. It was covered in decoupaged comic strips, and it reminded me a lot of the decor in The Friendly Toast, which, if I remember correctly, is in the same square…
10-1-2013 – Brattle Square – Piano 8
I found this piano around 6:45am, and it was covered in dew! There was no plastic cover over it, and the keyboard wasn’t closed. I spent a good 5 minutes wiping it off with a towel before I started to play, and then I discovered that many of the hammers were too wet to make any sound!
9-29-2013 – Mass Art (Piano 4)
I didn’t get a good recording from this location, so here’s a picture instead!
10-4-2013 – Harvard Law School (Piano 16), Part 1
This one and the one to follow are a bit more contemplative than the other Boston Street Piano videos I’ve posted so far… enjoy!
10-3-2013 – Piano 12
This is the piano in Davis Square. I met a street musician who called himself “Busker”, and we had nice chat.
10-1-2013 – Piano 9
I found this piano on an early-morning walk around Harvard Square before work, on the Harvard Science Center overpass. Four out of 6 of the pianos I found were still locked at that time, but this one wasn’t!
While you’re waiting for me to upload more recordings of street pianos, check out this guy! He sat down to play right after me in Chinatown, and I was so mesmerized, I just stood and listened to him for a long time! See my bicycle make a cameo appearance!
10-1-2013 – Longy School of Music (Piano 10)
I have so many videos and recordings to upload! Please bear with me as I stitch together the sound recordings I made on my phone and the videos I took on a little fisheye camera (which had terrible sound quality, since it was resting and buzzing on the piano as I played!). It might be another week or two before I get everything posted 🙂
This piano was my tenth “grab”, if you will. So far, I’ve played 30 pianos, and I’m hoping to hit 40 by the time they are taken away.
This improvisation grew out of the slow movement from Ravel’s G minor piano concerto. I started playing around with it because there was a trumpet player outside in the courtyard practicing his part for that same concerto, but the first movement!