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robot plays piano

This robot pianist means you’ll never need an accompanist again

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Peter Foggitt piano

A colossal Rachmaninov and Mahler-inspired improvisation on Auld Lang Syne

steinway & sons piano

Watch a Steinway Piano being built in under 2 minutes

Steinway - Rachmaninov Prelude Improv

This improvisation on Rachmaninov’s monstrous ‘Prelude in C sharp minor’ will blow your mind

Rachmaninov

Alexandra Dariescu The Nutcracker and I

Watch: The Nutcracker performed by a pianist, a ballet dancer… and digital animation

Tchaikovsky

Last Christmas Wham piano rondo

‘Last Christmas’ by Wham! – in an epic Rondo form improvisation

Christmas

Virtuosic pianist plays Moana in sea

Virtuosic pianist rescues a piano, drags it to the sea and plays ‘How Far I’ll Go’ from Moana

Piano Guys Christmas lights

Piano Guys use 88 piano keys to control 500,000 Christmas lights

The Piano Guys

baby Brooklyn Duo

‘Perfect’ by Ed Sheeran, played to a newborn baby on cello and piano

Fur Elise on two pianos

Rock pianist plays Für Elise on two pianos at once – and it actually works

MIDI piano electric paint

Here’s how to create a piano on any surface with electric paint (no, seriously)

Anke Chen - Ellen DeG Bach concerto piano

6-year-old piano prodigy casually plays a Bach Concerto like it’s no big deal

Virtuosic pianist in four minutes

Become a virtuosic pianist in just FOUR minutes

Composer piano hands

This infographic of composers’ hands is painfully (and hilariously) accurate

Alistair McGowan advice Charlotte Green

Impressionist Alistair McGowan: why it’s never too late to learn a musical instrument

Spectre poster

A pianist turned this Bond song into a one-handed Romantic piano masterpiece

Ji Liu

Edward Hardy pianist

Relationship goals: 94-year-old pianist with dementia plays his wife’s favourite piece on their 75th anniversary

greatest best man speech

Everyone is saying this pianist gave the greatest best man speech of all time

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