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    15 really strange stock photos of pianists

    We can all be a little awkward sometimes, but these are something else...

    1. 1. I am piano-man, leader of the accompanists

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    2. 2. "Mum, please let go. This is not helping."

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    3. 3. We're sure that cluster in her left hand sounds as lovely as her face suggests

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    4. 4. This is just impractical

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    5. 5. As is this, can she even read the music?

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    6. 6. "Did you look at the melodic minor fingering, George?"

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    7. 7. *My face when my teacher asks if I've practised the second movement*

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    8. 8. Him: "Will you marry me?" Her: "I'm so shocked, I can't believe you interrupted Bach for this!"

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    9. 9. "I sound great today!"

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    10. 10. If that seat was any lower, she would be on the ground

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    11. 11. When it's the night before your lesson and you haven't practiced...

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    12. 12. "Ok, so the pecking order goes: Lead vocalist aka me, backing singers, then the accompanist."

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    13. 13. When you practice so much that you may as well marry your piano

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    14. 14. *My face when I'm given sight-reading practice*

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    15. 15. We can't mock this stock photo - it's just too adorable!

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