5 unique pianos that you’ll love
PIANOS COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES. WHILE ARTISTS FOR THE SOLO SERIES PERFORM ON MORE CLASSIC VERSIONS OF THE INSTRUMENT, THAT DOESN’T MEAN WE DON’T APPRECIATE SOME OF THE “WILDER” EDITIONS! HERE ARE 5 OF OUR FAVORITE WACKY PIANOS!
Liberace’s rhinestone piano. Though this is just one of Liberace’s pianos, it’s one of our favorites. Not only is it fully adorned with rhinestones, but there is also a mirror plate along the front — to make sure he always looked fantastic while performing.
Fun fact: when Liberace began playing in the Midwest as a teenager, he performed using the name Walter Busterkeys.
Atlanta’s rainbow piano. An amazing initiative called Play Me Again Piano placed this stunner in Plaza Fiesta in Atlanta. Play Me Again Pianos is placing 88 beautifully painted, freely accessible public pianos throughout Metropolitan Atlanta to enrich and strengthen communities, inspire joy and bring people together through shared encounters with public music and art.
Fun fact: this piano’s name is “Iris,” but others in the collection have names like “Zoey,” “Dottie,” “Oscar,” and “Cornelius.”
The smartphone piano. Yes, really! Phone company OnePlus recently revealed this installment in London: a piano made from 17 smartphones. Each phone contained five keys (three white, two black) for a total of 85.
Fun fact: A standard (non-phone-created) piano has 88 keys: 52 white and 36 black.
San Diego’s new public piano. Taking a cue from Play Me Again in Atlanta, the Oceanside Cultural Arts foundation and Kenneth Rexrode’s The Piano Project worked to place this piano in the Oceanside Museum of Art.
Fun fact: There are 18 million non-professional piano players in the US alone!
This bike piano. This unique piano is also housed in Carlsbad (outside of San Diego). Teddy, the owner of the bike, used to play in piano bars but decided to take his show on the road. The bike actually travels and the piano actually works. That’s one way to multi-task!
Fun fact: Pedals on (non-bike) pianos are called – from left to right – una corda, sostenuto, and the sustain pedal.
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