Piano Log

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!

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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!

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10-5-2013 – Chinatown Gate – Piano #30

A souvenir of the street piano project! There were some pieces/songs that seemed to be favorites for many of the people who sat down to play these pianos, and “Doe, a deer” was one of them! Others I can remember were definitely “Piano Man” by Billy Joel, “Fur Elise” by Beethoven, and, of course, “Heart and Soul.”

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10-5-2013 – South Station – Piano #29

There were two pianos set up here, but I only played the taller one in the foreground. The lady in green had been there all day, and she was asking visitors to sign a petition to keep the pianos. I signed it, though I didn’t know what the plan was for them when they were to be removed. I know this was a public art project, and I realize that the pianos would not have stayed in good condition (and of course, for some of them, their condition wasn’t very good to begin with!) if they had been left out much longer, but I wonder….What has become of them?

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10-5-2013 – Norman Leventhal Park – Piano #28

I think there might have been some wedding portraits happening at the other end of this park as I was playing! This piano was unoccupied when I got there, and the park was relatively empty of people in that corner, so I ended up playing for a while. This is just a sample of it…

10-5-2013 – Old State House – Piano #25

When I got to this piano, a street musician was set up across the alley playing guitar with recorded accompaniment. I waited for a while to see if he was going to move on, but so many people just plunked the piano keys as they walked by, while he was playing, that I figured it was probably okay to play, too!

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