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Robotic hand plays notes on a keyboard

‘World’s strongest’ hand plays piano with human-like fingers

Angela Hewitt mourns the loss of her beloved Fazioli piano

‘It was my best friend’ – virtuoso Angela Hewitt mourns piano smashed by movers

Angela Hewitt

Alicia Keys shouts out ‘old dude in a wig’ Beethoven in her Grammys piano medley

Alicia Keys gives a shout-out to Beethoven in her Grammys piano medley

Beethoven

worst things piano

The 11 worst things about playing the piano

Russian conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor, retires with immediate effect

Vladimir Ashkenazy

A 9-year-old pianist was killed in the Iran plane crash, and her father posted this moving tribute

A 9-year-old pianist was killed in the Iran plane crash, and her father posted this moving tribute

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Alice Sara Ott Beethoven

Current obsession: this descending scale in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1

Charlotte Hawkins performs a duet with pianist Alexis Ffrench on Good Morning Britain

Watch Charlotte Hawkins play a piano duet with Alexis Ffrench

The little girl joins her grandad at the piano for a duet in the festive advert

Independent piano shop makes the most heartwarming Christmas advert on a £10 budget

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Josephine Loewenstein says piano practice is key to long life

Widow, 89, says daily piano practice is the key to staying young

Courteney Cox plays piano at the Royal Albert Hall

Courteney Cox casually melts Instagram playing piano at the Royal Albert Hall

Pianist plays for rescue cats

This guy loves playing piano for his rescue cats

Trumpet and Excitable Edgar

John Lewis Christmas advert 2019: what’s the music and who sings this year’s cover?

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The Boy and the Piano voted favourite John Lewis Christmas advert

‘The Boy & The Piano’ voted Britain’s favourite John Lewis Christmas advert

OnePlus phone piano

Phone company OnePlus uses 17 smartphones to make a full concert piano

Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum to voice lead character in new musical animation, ‘They Shot The Piano Player’

Taiwan piano staircase

Hospital installs ‘piano staircase’ to boost exercise

Mini Elton John plays piano

Toddler dresses up as a tiny, piano-playing Elton John for Halloween

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