88 keys on a full-keyboard piano, 88 days on this year’s calendar: time for World Piano Day! Note that 2020 is a leap year, so it’s March 28 this year instead of regular March 29. Several organizations want you to believe it’s yet another commercial feast, well it’s not! It’s a worldwide initiative lasting a…
2020 already shows a jam packed Public Piano calendar, but our piano spotting is never done! Finding new Public Pianos to play anywhere in the world can be painstaking at times. Annual multi-piano festivals are – comparably – easy to find, provided they get preannounced in English, Spanish, French or German language. Some get published…
We’re on our way down from playing Play Me I’m Yours 3rd edition in Augsburg Germany. Sadly but truly, that brings our season of playing street piano Events 2019 to an end. More importantly, it’s the last multi-piano Event – we’re aware of – on the northern hemisphere, in fact in the entire world… No…
Street pianos are all about communication, reaching out to complete strangers. It makes people talk to each other, abandoning their smart phone silos for just a while. A player enters public space of some sort – picture a railway station, center hall – doesn’t speak to anyone specifically, sits down at the piano, briefly observes…
We consider Luke Jerram’s Streetpianos.com the founding fathers of public piano festivals, as mentioned before. Their concept – as far as we can tell – got displayed more than any other worldwide. Since Birmingham 2008, a whopping 2000+ pianos in more than 60 countries. As a result, you might find hundreds of press-coverages of their…
During the planning stages of creating this website, we only had a vague idea of what pianos it should feature. After seeing the number of public pianos explode from dozens to hundreds to thousands, we first had to deal with this question: What makes a piano a public piano? Of course, it helps if it’s…