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Robertsbirdge codex asset

This is the oldest known piece of keyboard music

Musical instrument instruction diagrams

Musical instrument instruction diagrams: get to know your instrument

happy birthday jazz arrangement

‘Happy Birthday’ rewritten as a jazz piano odyssey is exceptionally cool

Sakura Sakura

This beautifully simple Japanese melody 'Cherry Blossoms' will put a spring in your step

Chopin two pianos

This pianist can play Chopin on two pianos better than most people can on one

One note piece Legeti

This piece only has ONE note in it, but is still absolutely thrilling

yuja wang encore

Watch Yuja Wang take apart Mozart with this unbelievably exciting encore

Yuja Wang

Rachmaninov improvisation GoPro

This Rachmaninov-inspired improvisation is absolutely stunning

Rachmaninov

piano concerto with no piano

A Tchaikovsky piano concerto WITHOUT a piano, and Bach WITH pizza

Flight of the Bumblebee two pianos

Watch this pianist play Flight of the Bumblebee on TWO pianos at the SAME TIME

musician every day tips

10 extremely simple things musicians can do every day to make life a little easier

tube strike pianist

In the middle of a nightmarish London tube strike, this guy jumped on a public piano and made everyone feel much better

yundi awkward applause

Maybe THIS is why you’re not supposed to clap between movements

broken piano

16 haunting pictures of broken, abandoned pianos

chopin minute waltz timer

This guy actually played Chopin’s Minute Waltz in under a minute

Chopin

lang lang leonard cohen hallelujah

Lang Lang has turned Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ into a mesmerising piano rhapsody

Lang Lang

Ravel Left Hand Piano Concerto Jean-Efflam Bavouze

'When I play Ravel’s Left Hand Concerto my goal is to make it sound like I have THREE hands'

Ravel

worst things to happen to a classical musician

The 13 worst things to happen to a classical musician