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oldest piano

Watch this wonderful performance on the world's oldest surviving piano (it sounds magnificent)

broken piano

16 haunting pictures of broken, abandoned pianos

bach prelude memory test

This guy reckons he can memorise a whole Bach prelude in under an hour

Bach

chopin minute waltz timer

This guy actually played Chopin’s Minute Waltz in under a minute

Chopin

lang lang leonard cohen hallelujah

Lang Lang has turned Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ into a mesmerising piano rhapsody

Lang Lang

Ravel Left Hand Piano Concerto Jean-Efflam Bavouze

'When I play Ravel’s Left Hand Concerto my goal is to make it sound like I have THREE hands'

Ravel

worst things to happen to a classical musician

The 13 worst things to happen to a classical musician

Chopin melodica

Chopin’s Fantasie-Impromptu on melodica is actually pretty awesome

Chopin

lang lang c major scale

Just look at how fast Lang Lang can play a C major scale

Lang Lang

ligeti devil's staircase

This bonkers Ligeti etude could be the loudest piece we’ve ever heard (it has EIGHT fortes)

Kirill Gerstein

Top pianist’s advice: ‘Let music be the reminder that we do this because it’s so beautiful and amazing’

world's smallest grand piano

The world’s smallest grand piano actually sounds really sweet

Left-handed piano Christopher Seed

Someone has invented a left-handed piano (just think about that for a moment)

boris giltburg station piano

This is what a world-class pianist does when their train is late

Prokofiev

mario theme piano

Watch this pianist absolutely nail the Mario theme (including sound effects)

Koji Kondo

Galop Marche - Lavignac. Eight hands on one piano

Eight hands performing on one piano is chaotic and wonderfully skillful

Ugly music

This is the most monumentally ugly piece of music ever composed, according to science

Gabriela Montero habanera improvisation

This pianist just played the most amazing improvisation on the habanera from Carmen

Gabriela Montero