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!
Author: melsenc
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!
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9-30-2013 – Piano 7
I drove across the river to Brighton on my lunch break today, to find this piano in a little triangular square at the top of Murdoch street. Someone else had been playing, and I sat and ate my lunch as I waited for him. When he was done, we nodded at each other, and he walked to his car and drove away.
9-29-2013 – Piano 5
From in front of the MFA. This piano was covered in lacquered art supplies – very fun!
9-29-2013 – Piano 3
The first recording from Harvard Medical School. This piano was notable in that the damper pedal did not work at all!
9-29-2013 – Piano 6
From my last stop on a 6-piano tour yesterday! More audio to come, but first: here is a video of me and Theadora playing/singing “Les Berceaux” by Gabriel Faure! The piano is in Roslindale Square.
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9-29-2013 – Piano 2
Franklin Park Zoo, Part 2!
Next, I’m going to head out along the Riverway and make my way to the Back Bay area…
9-29-2013 – Piano 2
This is the first of two recordings I made at Franklin Park Zoo. I arrived as the piano tuner was finishing up, so I sat in the shade and ate my breakfast as he worked. As I was waiting, I got to watch the stream of people in line for the zoo, and I loved how a lot of them turned to see what he was doing. Public pianos can be such a spectacle. They draw the attention of so many people, especially young children.
I’m also impressed by how many people there are who enjoy playing. I’ve only just begun my quest to try to play as many as possible before they’re taken away on Oct. 14, and even now, I’ve had to wait my turn twice. I will probably spend as much time or more listening to others play as I will playing myself, which I think is really cool!