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piano teacher family tree

This piano teacher family tree shows the complete lineage of legendary pianists

kid playing cheltenham street piano

Watch this kid perform an epic medley on a street piano

walking piano animations

This piano uses animated figures to show musical movement, and it’s very beautiful indeed

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s Opus clavicembalistic

We think this might be the hardest piece of piano music ever written

Pageturn fail

This epic page turn fail is your schadenfreude for the week

kid playing clementi

This tiny kid 100% nailing a virtuosic piano sonata will make you reassess your own meagre talents

Chopin orange Lang Lang

How to play Chopin's virtuosic 'Black Key Étude' with an ORANGE

Chopin

Dmitry Masleev piano POV

The pianist's view of a ferociously virtuosic Concert Etude

martha argerich liszt hungarian rhapsody

This one video proves precisely how incredibly virtuosic Martha Argerich is

Martha Argerich

destiny's child piano cover

Here’s a minimalist piano version of Destiny’s Child’s ‘Say My Name’

ringtone piano rhapsody

This pianist turned all those annoying phone ringtones into a stunning rhapsody

piano player in tip

Watch a refuse worker play the beautiful last notes on this abandoned piano

Videos

alexey romanov pianist

Inspirational: this Russian teenager born without fingers has become a successful pianist

Yundi

How does a professional pianist choose an instrument?

Yundi

3 utterly terrifying vintage finger-stretching dev

3 utterly terrifying vintage finger-stretching devices

sleigh bells chopin prelude

Huge surprise: adding sleigh bells to a Chopin prelude completely ruins it

Chopin

vandalised steinway piano

Vandals forcibly turned over this Steinway piano in a Kansas chapel

Lubomyr Melnyk world's fastest pianist

20 notes a second?! This guy reckons he's the world's fastest pianist