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Actually these are the best public pianos in my opinion - people often search for public pianos when they are traveling and travelers often enter/exit airports.

by qrv3w 5y ago

Actually these are the best public pianos in my opinion - people often search for public pianos when they are traveling and travelers often enter/exit airports. Also the airport pianos are usually the best maintained.

dvtrn 5y ago
Along those lines: this has happened exactly once in my life but man was it something, getting off a red eye at 6am and noticing a piano in the middle of the food court. Place was a ghost town except for the morning shift relieving the evening shift, a few food vendors setting up and us, the first arrival of the morning. Guy a few feet ahead of me pauses, sits down, and unleashes a beautiful melody that stops everyone in their tracks. There's an applause, he calmly gets up, and we all continue on our way. Edit: I had to do some seriously creative google dorking to find it, but this was the melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjqkkuhRt_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjqkkuhRt_M
- blamazon 5y ago
  My theory for why such moments are utterly magical: For a brief moment the non-place becomes a place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place
  - jen729w 5y ago
    You might enjoy The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raw_Shark_Texts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raw_Shark_Texts
- jacquesm 5y ago
  That particular pianist, Paul Barton has a whole bunch of very nice renditions of various pieces, he lives in Thailand and seems to be a genuinely nice person as well based on the videos of him that I've watched. Two recommendations, the one is Bach's version of the adagio, the other the fugue part of 'Toccata and Fugue'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3aI7Oo3GMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3aI7Oo3GMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_wsSIuv_po https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_wsSIuv_po
  - daviddaviddavid 5y ago
    Also a big Paul Barton fan! He has a nice video playing the 18th Goldberg Variation by JS Bach (my favorite one). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zka65VYD318 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zka65VYD318 And he is also a great painter and there is an awesome video of him painting a portrait of Josh Wright, who is a concert pianist that has lots of educational videos online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovu-u8BTGxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovu-u8BTGxI One thing I love about watching Barton is that he has the hands of a mere mortal. So you can see how he accomplishes various reaches and fingerings if you don't have gargantuan piano hands.

by qrv3w 5y ago

dvtrn 5y ago

Along those lines: this has happened exactly once in my life but man was it something, getting off a red eye at 6am and noticing a piano in the middle of the food court. Place was a ghost town except for the morning shift relieving the evening shift, a few food vendors setting up and us, the first arrival of the morning. Guy a few feet ahead of me pauses, sits down, and unleashes a beautiful melody that stops everyone in their tracks. There's an applause, he calmly gets up, and we all continue on our way. Edit: I had to do some seriously creative google dorking to find it, but this was the melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjqkkuhRt_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjqkkuhRt_M

blamazon 5y ago
My theory for why such moments are utterly magical: For a brief moment the non-place becomes a place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place
- jen729w 5y ago
  You might enjoy The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raw_Shark_Texts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raw_Shark_Texts
jacquesm 5y ago
That particular pianist, Paul Barton has a whole bunch of very nice renditions of various pieces, he lives in Thailand and seems to be a genuinely nice person as well based on the videos of him that I've watched. Two recommendations, the one is Bach's version of the adagio, the other the fugue part of 'Toccata and Fugue'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3aI7Oo3GMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3aI7Oo3GMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_wsSIuv_po https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_wsSIuv_po
- daviddaviddavid 5y ago
  Also a big Paul Barton fan! He has a nice video playing the 18th Goldberg Variation by JS Bach (my favorite one). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zka65VYD318 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zka65VYD318 And he is also a great painter and there is an awesome video of him painting a portrait of Josh Wright, who is a concert pianist that has lots of educational videos online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovu-u8BTGxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovu-u8BTGxI One thing I love about watching Barton is that he has the hands of a mere mortal. So you can see how he accomplishes various reaches and fingerings if you don't have gargantuan piano hands.