Upon waking-up this morning, I knew I wanted to blog about a special memory made in Munich (DE) back in 2014. It’s a stormy Saturday, late afternoon and it’s been a tough week with rain and strong gusts of wind. Usually, that wouldn’t keep any of us away from the pianos, but more and more…
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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…
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Sing For Hope New York is just one of those annual events hard to resist. It will take you well beyond the regular TripAdvisor must-visits, that’s what makes Public Piano events so special! You get to know places from a variety of angles, not just the touristic and commerce imposed venues. You encounter real people…
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Picture a 7-year old boy switching on his favorite sports radio show, dressed-up in his favorite team’s jersey. It’s mid Sunday afternoon, “their” important match is about to start, so temperature is rising. Pleasant extra to this show is its cross-generation music selection. Some of them hit songs, others being hidden gems revealed one by…
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Occasionally, we get these fantastic tips from friends and relatives around the globe. Any Public Piano spotting – without exception – is well appreciated, eventually investigated on the web before getting published. Some of these turn out to be Close Encounters of the Third Kind and will lead to future travel itineraries, no doubt! This…
DetailsIt’s been a bloody long way indeed to Perth Australia. This mid September Spring day is the second day of my visit and promising to be a beautiful one. The advantage of my jetlag is that I’m playing my 3rd piano at 8 in the morning, fresh and fruity. I would not call it a…
DetailsDuring 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…
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What makes a song really touch you? It might be rhythm, chord use, your favorite instrument, lyrics, that dazzling singer, it can be anything. Does the song energize you, does it help you falling asleep, does it support you in times of joy or sadness. A song – to me – that ticks most of…
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It’s a mid-September morning in 2011. My partner and I agree on a highly exceptional day off, in the middle of a work week. We both have our fair share of international business traveling and we convince each other we’ve earned this day off. The evening before, we read on the Internet that in the Tilburg…
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