Piano

Piano

A musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by striking steel strings with felt hammers that immediately rebound allowing the string to continue vibrating at its resonance frequency.
 
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Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: Ok Hits: 11 Comments: 0 Joshua Bell, Awadagin Pratt, and Alisa Weilerstein Perform at the White House: 8 of 8 Joshua Bell, Awadagin Pratt, and Alisa Weilerstein Perform at the White House: 8 of 8 Joshua Bell, Awadagin Pratt, and Alisa Weilerstein Perform Felix Mendelssohns Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 and the finale, Allegro assai appassionato, at the White House Evening of Classical Music on November 4, 2009. (public domain) Nov 5, 2009 8:04 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: No Votes Hits: 80 Comments: 0 Speaking Piano Speaking Piano A "speaking piano" reciting the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009. Unfortunately it's all in German, but what the piano says is all English, and it's really neat to watch. UPDATE: Astera on hackaday wrote a rough translation: Pretty amazing, how all of a sudden the words of the Declaration become understandable to a European Environmental Criminal Court. Wien Modern was one out of ten cultural institutions asked for an artistic contribution to the event in Palazzo Ducale in Venice. The ambitious goal was to make this message audible with musical means, without falling back to a simple setting. Berno Polzer: I think, its partially understandable, partially not. And it plays well with the limits of our construction abilities. That is, we hear sounds that obviously arent normal Music, but neither they are language, and one could say that sometimes, a bridging happens. Personally, I think you can understand individual words even without knowing the text, and the Eureka moment happens when you see the text, and suddenly, the language is there. Yet another bridge: Miro Markus, an elementary school student from Berlin, narrated the text for the performance: Youth as a hope for the older generation. The Austrian composer Peter Ablinger transferred the frequency spectrom of the childs voice to his computer controlled mechanical piano. Peter Ablinger: I break down this phonography, meaning a recording of something the voice, in this case -, in individual pixels, one can say. And if I have the possibility of a rendering in a fairly high resolution (and that I only get with a mechanical piano), then I in fact restore some kind of continuity. Therefore, with a little practice, or help or subtitling, we actually can hear a human voice in a piano sound. User: JesusFlysSouth Oct 9, 2009 5:56 AM
Headline Tag: Music Rating: Good Hits: 1037 Comments: 3 Piano Stairs: The Fun Theory Piano Stairs: The Fun Theory We believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory. http://www.rolighetsteorin.se/ Oct 8, 2009 7:34 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Japan Rating: Ok Hits: 46 Comments: 2 Japanese Jazz Musician Burns Piano Japanese Jazz Musician Burns Piano Famed Japanese jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita has expressed his burning passion for music by setting his piano on fire at a beach. User: Meltingpenguin Sep 29, 2009 2:34 PM
Permanent Tag: Piano Rating: Ok Hits: 160 Comments: 0 Burning Man 2007: Piano Flinging Trebuchet Burning Man 2007: Piano Flinging Trebuchet Another incredibly original kinetic work of art on the Playa! An Upright piano Tribuchet - flinging a piano over 200 feet to explode on the Playa! Of Course! Brilliant! Burning Man 2007 Green Man User: RabidMadness Sep 19, 2009 1:28 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: No Votes Hits: 129 Comments: 0 Musical Phonetic Punctuation Musical Phonetic Punctuation Victor Borge & Dean Martin - Musical Phonetic Punctuation User: BattleShip_Ron Sep 14, 2009 4:22 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Short Films Rating: Amazing Hits: 146 Comments: 0 The Cat Piano The Cat Piano Latest short film by The People's Republic of Animation. Narrated by Nick Cave. Directed by Eddie White & Ari Gibson. Produced by Jessica Brentnall User: Pantufas Sep 6, 2009 4:48 AM
Permanent Tag: Music Rating: Good Hits: 383 Comments: 0 Five Year Old Girl: Bach Minuet Five Year Old Girl: Bach Minuet A young pianist performs with her deft and tiny fingers far better than most adults. User: spam_vigilante Aug 1, 2009 2:55 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: Bad Hits: 237 Comments: 0 Catcerto! Catcerto! A live performance of a symphonic piece written specifically to accompany the piano-playing cat that was viral several years ago-- NOT Keyboard Cat. User: earnestp Jul 21, 2009 2:32 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: Ok Hits: 360 Comments: 0 Kate Miller-Heidke: R U Fucking Kidding Me? Kate Miller-Heidke: R U Fucking Kidding Me? Kate's new song, filmed during sound check at the Metro May 09 Jul 15, 2009 4:43 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: No Votes Hits: 161 Comments: 0 Josh X-an-tus Josh X-an-tus "First Time" Check out the brand new video First Time from the 22 year-old Juilliard trained artist Josh X-an-tus. Its the official single from his upcoming debut album Can I Live. User: MACGirl Jun 24, 2009 1:16 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: Amazing Hits: 258 Comments: 0 Ted Talks: Qi Zhang's Electrifying Organ Performance Ted Talks: Qi Zhang's Electrifying Organ Performance Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of "Ridiculous Fellows" from Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" orchestral suite. This exhilarating performance from TEDx USC features the Yamaha Electone Stagea, a rare, imported instrument specially programmed by Qi herself. Jun 19, 2009 11:06 AM
Permanent Tag: Animals Rating: Ok Hits: 368 Comments: 2 River Otter Plays Piano River Otter Plays Piano Dua, an Asian small-clawed otter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, plays the piano as a behind-the-scenes enrichment. User: Pantufas Jun 17, 2009 12:24 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: Ok Hits: 191 Comments: 0 PS22 Chorus: Don't Stop Believin' PS22 Chorus: Don't Stop Believin' Another request from the kids (Elijah and Jared, the soloist on "Eye Of The Tiger"), and even from some PS22 Chorus fans too. The song, Don't Stop Believin' is an eighties classic, and the fifth grade chorus extraordinaire deliver some rather outstanding harmonies to recreate it into something different and pretty darn special! Another surprise favorite of the year! And soloist Elijah gives Steve Perry a run for his money, doing a rockin' job with his amazing talent! According to i-Tunes, Journey's "signature song, 'Don't Stop Believing', is the top-selling catalog track in iTunes history, at more than two million downloads". Jun 17, 2009 11:53 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: Ok Hits: 355 Comments: 0 Star Wars: Star Wars: "Cantina Band": Ragtime Piano Duet: Martin Spitznagel & Bryan Wright Here are Martin Spitznagel (me, on left) and Bryan Wright (username "bixvenuti") having some fun performing "Cantina Band" by John Williams. We were giving a concert in Pittsburgh on March 28, 2009, and needed a tune to end with. We didn't have anything prepared, so we got together the afternoon of the concert and figured out this arrangement. Bryan and I both specialize in ragtime and early American piano music, so it's kind of awesome that John Williams chose to score the seedy, dangerous cantina in "A New Hope" with ragtime. For more info on us, visit Bryan's website at http://www.rivermontrecords.com and my website at http://www.spitzfire.com. Thanks for watching! Special thanks to: Yuko Eguchi, video Bryan Wright, audio Jun 4, 2009 7:08 PM
 
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