The Life and Death of Piano

[chopininov]

Does it bother you when tv uses the destruction of piano's for entertainment? I could understand a non-musical individuals attraction to seeing them dropped and stuff, but as an active musician who spends the majority of his days at the piano, a little part of me dies whenever I see it happen. Comments?

[pianowolfi]

Does it bother you when tv uses the destruction of piano's for entertainment? I could understand a non-musical individuals attraction to seeing them dropped and stuff, but as an active musician who spends the majority of his days at the piano, a little part of me dies whenever I see it happen. Comments?

Well as a child, when I saw certain Hardy and Laurel movies where pianos ended as a pile of rubbish I couldn't get enough from it and was roflmao. Now I get rather sad. I love pianos, they have a soul.

[ada]

Now I get rather sad. I love pianos, they have a soul.

I agree. It's a bit like burning books.

[pianochick93]

I hate to see pianos even stood on top of!

To me a piano is something beautiful, you wouldnt stand on top of a beautiful piece of artwork/flower/pretty girl (note I said stand, not anything else)

A piano is to be played, not stepped on, jumped on, smashed/dropped.

[gilad]

I can't day I feel book have a soul. Books are mostly mass produced and printed and bound in minutes I'd imagine. Of course on the other hand when you have a book that is 150 years old it's a different story isn't it. Those books you get in the second hand shop with someones sketches and doodles on the inside covers( :
Their name on it. It's very beautiful.

I get sad when pianos are butchered. A piano is sort of like a Frankensteinian being. Beautifully crafted and brought to life by it's creator and player.

Although old Frankenstein wasnt very handsome sadly. They still should not have killed the old chap.

 

[leahcim]

Does it bother you when tv uses the destruction of piano's for entertainment?

Which pianos have a for and what's it for?

[chopininov]

Which pianos have a for and what's it for?

Wait...what? I didn't understand "have a for" but "what's it for?"--it's often a tool used in situational comedy. And sometimes people just do it for the heck of it. Couldn't find any examples of the former, but here's examples of the latter:

[leahcim]

Wait...what? I didn't understand "have a for" but "what's it for?"

Twas just a joke.

My opinion, they're all junk, more or less, after a few decades, so it seems fair enough if they're chucked off of buildings at that stage.

Better to destroy it than get the idea that Horowitz's [or someone else's instrument] is somehow special because he once played it or it's old and thus antique or whatever.

When really it's what he played and how he played that matters, not the specific instrument he happened to have. If you want to keep something, you'd keep the vibrating air not the piano, like a recording.

Pianists should all do a Hendrix and set fire to their piano at the end...showing the piano is worthless and not an object to worship. Although the irony is how the charred remains may then be treated. Oh well, if you can beat them, you could at least try to make a lot of money from them by selling so and so's nail clippings / bits of wood / ivory / plastic and string that are supposedly from a great virtuoso's piano on Ebay.

So yeah, pianos are just a means to an end, the beauty [or not] in the music they make is in the performer and the performance, not the instrument per se.

I'd sound crap on even the best piano. The piano isn't really the source from a musical pov.

Aesthetically and mechanically they are pretty amazing though - it's great to look inside one   that's being played well, but again, that doesn't really apply to a piece of junk being thrown off a building.

[thalbergmad]

Well as a child, when I saw certain Hardy and Laurel movies

In the rest of the world, it is Laurel & Hardy.

I expect "Swiss Miss" was your favourite.

Thal