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Myleene Klass plays the piano backstage at the Royal Albert Hall

Myleene Klass plays five famous opera tunes at the piano – can you guess them all?

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French pianist Colette Maze at home in March 2023

Remarkable 108-year-old virtuoso Colette Maze becomes oldest-ever pianist to release an album

Josafat Raman performs Einaudi’s popular solo piano work, ‘Experience’ on TikTok

Pianist with congenital hand disability astounds with Einaudi melody in viral TikTok

Girl and her great-grandfather play a piano duet

Toddler plays a heartwarming piano duet with her 100-year-old great-grandfather

20 of the greatest piano concertos of all time. Pictured (L-R): Arsha Kaviani, Mitsuko Uchida, Yuja Wang.

The 20 best piano concertos of all time

Arsha Kaviani plays Rachmaninov

Virtuoso pianist plays mind-bending solo piano arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2

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Why do pianos have 88 keys?

How many keys does a standard piano have? It’s 88 – here’s why...

Blind pianist Lucy’s sublime Debussy Arabesque crowned winning performance in The Piano finale

Blind pianist Lucy’s sublime Debussy Arabesque crowned winning performance in The Piano finale

Lang Lang and Gina Alice Redlinger play a piano duet at St Pancras station in London

Lang Lang stuns London train station with impromptu piano duet with wife Gina Alice

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Pianist Karim Kamar is joined by an unexpected, pocket-sized duet partner...

Classical pianist plays impromptu duet with playful toddler in middle of train station

‘Invalid piano’ played by bedridden invalids is the bizarre invention of the day

Pianos for bedridden musicians were real inventions from the 1930s

Tony Ann turns the iPhone alarm into a sweeping soundscape

That jarring iPhone alarm tone has been turned into a sweeping piano fantasia

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Lang Lang astonished by 94-year-old pianist’s ‘powerful’ concerto at Glasgow station

Lang Lang astonished by 94-year-old pianist’s ‘powerful’ concerto at Glasgow station

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The inside of a cello

Mystical interiors of musical instruments revealed in artist’s striking photography

Frederic Chopin’s ‘Happy Birthday’?

What if Frédéric Chopin had written ‘Happy Birthday’?

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Alisa Bushuieva performed at the Liverpool ONE shopping centre this morning

13-year-old Ukrainian refugee plays poignantly on public piano, one year since the war began

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13-year-old blind pianist stuns Lang Lang with a brilliant performance of Chopin’s Nocturne in B flat minor.

Blind 13-year-old pianist’s stunning Chopin nocturne performance leaves Lang Lang speechless

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