10-5-2013 – North End Park – Piano #23
Somewhere over the rainbow…
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Videos
10-5-2013 – Rings Fountain Park, Greenway, North End – Piano #22
This was my first visit to the Rings Fountain, and it was so cool! I sat down and ate my lunch after playing, and I was totally mesmerized by the globules of water that formed at the top of each spurt. Some kids would dare each other to run through during the short intervals when the jets were all off, and others would try to catch the water as it fell.
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10-5-2013 – Old North Church – Piano #21
My first public piano of the day! I had just gotten out of bell ringing rehearsal up in the tower, and a couple of my ringing friends came and listened to me play – fun! I love how some of these pianos were really tucked away – you had to know to look for them.
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10-4-2013 – Central Square – Piano 20
This was my sixth piano of the day. Finishing just in time to help with the Femme Show at the Cambridge Y (which was incidentally directed by my roommate Maggie Cee!).
Honestly, my birthday is this month, and I feel like I’ve been going on a huge wondrous adventure with these pianos. What a gift! I’ve met soo many people I never would have considered meeting, and I’ve seen some incredible and genuine human connections happening…I’m awed.
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10-4-2013 – Kendall Square – Piano 19
This piano was covered in legos! Very appropriate for Kendall Square. I love it when a spontaneous collaboration happens, too! This guy just walked up and started playing with me 🙂
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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…
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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!
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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!
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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.
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