Improvisations
10-12-2013 – Northern Ave Bridge Piano in Boston, near Moakley Courthouse
I stopped by this piano between visiting the Children’s Museum and Fan Pier, but it was locked! It was also hiding in plain sight under its plastic sheet. It took me a while to find it! This public piano project was such an awesome scavenger hunt!
10-12-2013 – Fan Pier – Piano #34
This turned into a song of seagulls and an accompaniment to the blustery day.
10-12-2013 – Boston Children’s Museum – Piano #33
Look closely – can you see the puppets inside the cabinet of the piano here? This was such a fun piano – very appropriate for the Children’s Museum! The hands of the puppets had been tied to hammers for specific keys, but by the time I got there, only one puppet’s one had was still tied to a key – the E above middle C. Partway through this, I start plunking the E a lot, and the puppet dances with the music!
10-12-2013 – Rowes Wharf – Piano #32
This was my first piano of the day after bell-ringing practice at Old North Church. My bell-ringing friends and I had just spent a while eating take-out lunch outside on the Greenway, and we were all pretty cold. My fingers hadn’t warmed up yet, so I elected to keep my biking gloves on! You’ll see other videos from this day where I do the same thing. Bike gloves make it a bit harder to play, but they’re warm!