Improvisations
I hope you’re ready! For the month of March, my plan is to put up a podcast a day for Melsen’s Piano Log. I have many older recordings to use, but I’m also hoping to do at least two new ones per week!
If you listen to any of these, I would really appreciate your feedback. There are plenty of highly produced recordings of solo piano improvisation in the world, and I’m trying to do something different with these raw takes. I’d love to know what you think!
Sad key! It’s mechanism became unglued. To avoid damaging it, I removed the key. Waiting for the next time I can hire a technician. It’s been weird playing with a missing key.
The action is back! Getting ready to tune it…
I just found an upright piano for free on Craigslist, and I’m working on cleaning it up while a piano technician is fixing up the hammer mechanisms (the “action”). The piano is from 1900, and when we opened it up, there was a LOT of very old dust inside. I’m currently cleaning the keys one by one. So excited for it to be ready to play!
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!
Here are some other images of the 1 Kendall Square Cambridge piano! So cool!
9-29-2013 – Mass Art (Piano 4)
I didn’t get a good recording from this location, so here’s a picture instead!
At the home piano…