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A pianist's neighbouring note

Neighbour finally loses patience with pianist next door after ‘six long years’ with excruciating note

Brigitte Xie, 4, plays piano at piano teacher Felicia Feng Zhang's home in Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. July 31, 2021.

Four-year-old piano prodigy denied Carnegie Hall debut because she can’t get a Covid vaccine

Flight of the Bumblebee, Julian Clef

Concert pianist plays ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ on a child’s toy piano. And it’s really, really good.

Rimsky-Korsakov

This piano for sale is apparently not haunted, but seems kinda sus.

This piano for sale is apparently not haunted, but seems kinda sus.

What makes Michael Nyman’s music for The Piano so great?

What makes Michael Nyman’s music for The Piano so great? We unpack its simple brilliance.

A Star Wars piano medley meets 360-degree virtual reality, and the force is strong

A Star Wars piano medley meets 360-degree virtual reality, and the force is strong

12-year-old virtuoso stuns St Pancras passersby with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ piano arrangement

12-year-old pianist stuns passersby at railway station with virtuosic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Pianist plays virtuosic Harry Potter medley, and it’s utterly magical

Pianist plays virtuosic Harry Potter medley, and it’s utterly magical

Ella Fitzgerald and Debussy

This exquisite Ella Fitzgerald song was based on a Debussy piano miniature

Debussy

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Lang Lang plays piano in Beijing, 2020

‘We’re not numbers, we’re humans’ – pianist Lang Lang on the need for music education and opportunity

Lang Lang

Young pianist Elisey Mysin

7-year-old pianist mesmerises with virtuosic and heartfelt Chopin on live TV

An airport pianist earned $60k in tips after a stranger posted his playing to Instagram

An airport pianist earned $60k in tips after a stranger posted his playing to Instagram

Mozart Rondo alla Turca on two pianos

Mozart has been awfully quiet since this pianist fired out ‘Rondo alla Turca’ on two pianos at once

Mozart

The Alexander Piano

This 19-foot piano has the longest bass strings in the world – and it sounds huge

Colette Maze: "The piano is always faithful"

Watch inspiring 107-year-old pianist Colette Maze, who has played for more than a century

Pianist Christian Blandford

Shy 15-year-old pianist surprises an entire airport with virtuosic Beethoven

Beethoven

Pianist seamlessly plays rag as sections of his keyboard are removed one-by-one

Pianist seamlessly plays rag as sections of his keyboard are removed one by one

Pianist Martha Argerich

Martha Argerich: 11 stunning photos of the great pianist

Martha Argerich