Daevren already posted this:https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,9020.0.htmlBernhard, use the search function before re-posting things that have already been discussed. Sheesh, I wish people would do their homework better instead of bringing up the same things over and over again.
Hehe.I thought about suggesting that it might be Bernard who collapsed under all his knowledge. But I thought it was a bit rude.
It could not have been him; I just coaxed a post out of him. It sounded a bit confused, and he spoke about having a nervous breakdown, but I don't think that pianist was him
Does anyone know this guy?
Could be 1900
Maybe if they send us a recording of him playing we could identify him.
Judging by the picture in the papers today, i see he is going to be presented with a casio keyboard. That will finish him off completely. He is staying in a hospital only 5 miles from me. I might pop in and say hello.
He has been named. He is a French entertainer called Steven Villa Masson.I doubted if he was a famous concert pianist or one of you guys would have recognised him. As for his virtuoso recital, we must remember he was found on the Isle of Sheppey, which is not the cultural centre of England. He probably played some simplified Joplin and the theme tune from Cheers and was pronounced a genius.What really gets me is that he is staying at the same hospital i was in 10 years ago and has even got the same shrink. I don't remember being given a keyboard.Anyway good luck to him and hope he gets better.I better not pay a visit or they might not let me out.
How insulting that must be to him.
heh imagine if they presented him with one of those two octave miniature keyboards that operate on like double A batteries? that would've been pretty cool.
Here is an update on the “piano man case”. His identity remains a mistery, but the article below is the most detailed I came across so far (it tells what music he played).https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1622775_3,00.html“He accepts anything to do with the piano and just about everything in his room is to do with the piano,” said Camp. “He always keeps his manuscripts with him, and his drawing pad.” But when they took him a guitar and a keyboard, he was not interested. “He did not even touch them,” said Camp. Neither would he play the organ in the chapel. Yet the Piano Man is not the concert standard virtuoso that some have claimed. As Steven Spencer, the hospital chaplain who listened to him playing for an hour on one occasion, said: “He has this repertoire where he seems to repeat snippets or phrases from McCartney and Lennon, and Tchaikovsky, and he obsessively repeats these phrases. He’s a good amateur.” A mime artist in Rome claimed that he had known the Piano Man in Nice and that he was a French street entertainer called Steven Villa Masson. Tracked down in Nice, Masson was bemused.Best wishes,Bernhard.
The man was first taken to Medway Maritime Hospital where he drew a picture of a grand piano and was then taken to the hospital chapel. It was reported that health and social workers said they were "stunned" when he proceeded to give them a virtuoso performance. However, newspaper reports now suggest he was only able to play one note continuously.
Topic: The mistery of "Piano Man" 