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Years back, finally realized the elevator in our office was doing a Muzak cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman. Hit me as funny once my brain connected the tune

• fuzzfactor 4y ago
  Decades ago I knew a piano player who got the gig at a nice atrium hotel piano bar. It was called Beethoven's and you had to be good, even though you were going to be playing instrumentals somewhat in the background. He didn't read music or play classical but he could play anything he heard, was wickedly good at faking it and amazed them at stealthily playing pop tunes in classical style. He would play from 4 to 8, five days a week. They had a beautifully-tuned well-polished Steinway featured in a corner area of the bar that was overlooking the open-air dining room below. The piano was on a little riser and the back walls were smoothly mirrorized other than a small stainless audio jackplate right near the piano stool. Every day he would come in wearing his tuxedo, sit down at the instrument, unplug the piped hotel Muzak from the jackplate, and plug himself into it instead. He could be kind of bold when taking requests from the bar patrons, but down in the dining area it was always a nice background effect. And of course when you used the elevators or the bathrooms, he was live for your listening pleasure. All beautiful, all music, all the time.