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Harry Connick Jr audience claps

Jazz pianist finds ingenious way to correct audience clapping on the wrong beat

What is Chopsticks? Two girls play on piano

What is ‘Chopsticks’ – and why does it have so many variations?

TikTok piano names

A TikTok composer is painstakingly setting every name to beautiful piano music

Chopin and Rachmaninov piano mashup

Pianist melts together Chopin and Rachmaninov in virtuosic display of musicality

Virtuoso pianist perfectly syncs her playing with Tom and Jerry Cat Concerto scene

Virtuoso pianist perfectly syncs her playing with Tom and Jerry Cat Concerto scene

When a grand piano string explodes...

When your Chopin is so virtuosic that a grand piano string explodes.

Incredible blind, autistic pianist Derek Paravicini can play any piece after hearing it once

Meet the blind, autistic piano genius, who can play any piece after hearing it once

AI pianist plays ‘unplayable’ black MIDI music

This AI pianist performed an 'unplayable' piano piece and it's terrifying

Confounding child's clavier

A music theory professor shared this keyboard. It raises many questions.

Adrien Brody and Nicholas Cage playing musical instruments in films

11 actors who learned to play a musical instrument for films (and one who definitely didn’t)

Courteney Cox delights the Internet by casually nailing the ‘Friends’ theme on piano

Courteney Cox delights the Internet by casually nailing the ‘Friends’ theme on piano

The time a hoard of gold coins were found in a Shropshire piano

The time a gold treasure hoard was mysteriously found inside an upright piano

Christopher Plummer was a classically trained pianist, and loved Rachmaninov

Christopher Plummer was a classical pianist, and played Rachmaninov between Sound of Music scenes

Anastasia Vasilyeva plays piano as police raid her Moscow flat

Surreal moment Navalny ally plays Beethoven as Russian police raid her home

Musician plays Chopin ‘Waterfall’ Etude while paddling in water

Smarty-pants musician plays Chopin’s ‘Waterfall’ Étude while paddling in water

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AI can judge your piano skills just by watching you play

AI can judge your piano skills just by watching you play

Newly discovered Mozart piano piece performed to mark composer’s 265th birthday

Unheard Mozart piano piece performed to mark composer’s 265th birthday

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Annie Lennox plays Beethoven ‘Moonlight’ Sonata on her living room

Pop legend Annie Lennox plays enchanting ‘Moonlight’ Sonata on her living room piano

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