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A 98-year-old woman is raising money for the NHS by playing the piano every day for 100 days

98-year-old woman is playing the piano for 100 days to raise money for NHS

Billy Joel spotted in the street playing discarded wooden piano

Real-life ‘Piano Man’, Billy Joel, spotted on New York roadside playing discarded piano

Pianist adds harmony to cat

Classical pianist adds extended harmony to ‘deranged yelling cat’, and a masterpiece unfolds

Video game pro completes ‘Minecraft’ using a PIANO as a controller

Video game pro uses a piano as a controller, completes ‘Minecraft’

Confused cat panics as it steps on piano

Confused cat steps on piano, has a meltdown as paws hit the keys

Parrot plays ‘Happy Birthday’ on the piano

Virtuosic parrot sings and plays ‘Happy Birthday’ on the piano, all by itself

Pianist receives flowers from a robot after his performance

Pianist gets recital flowers delivered by a robot because of social distancing

Alicia Keys and John Legend to play in a piano battle

How to watch Alicia Keys and John Legend’s duelling piano battle to celebrate Juneteenth

Hazel Scott was a piano virtuoso

Who was Hazel Scott, the forgotten jazz virtuoso who fought against racial segregation?

Cat tries to play the piano but keeps forgetting it doesn't like the sound

Muso cat tries to play piano, keeps forgetting it literally hates the sound

Videos

Chaichana the elephant dances to a Beethoven piano sonata

Watch this friendly elephant experience a Beethoven piano sonata

Yuja Wang responds to piano store image

‘We can rebuild pianos, but we can’t rebuild lives’ – Yuja Wang on Philadelphia piano store

Yuja Wang

Igor Levit performs 20-hour Satie piece to highlight artists’ plight during coronavirus pandemic

Pianist Igor Levit plays excruciating 20-hour Satie piece, to highlight artists’ plight during coronavirus pandemic

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Jazz and classical pianist brains

Brains of jazz and classical musicians work differently, study reveals

‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’ reworked in the style of Beethoven

‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’ reworked in the style of Beethoven is a stroke of genius

Beethoven

A pianist took his grand piano on a barge, to serenade the canals of Venice

A pianist took his grand piano on a barge, to serenade the canals of Venice

Piano technician finds grand piano left in dumpster for waste

Pianos in the dumpster? Instrument technician left ‘speechless’ as Indiana university dumps $10k grand

Sir Anthony Hopkins is hosting Instagram Lives from his piano

Sir Anthony Hopkins (and his cat) are hosting a live piano concert on Instagram right now