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1. David   // Jul 13, 2009 at 8:38 am
   I think this is a total waste of time, no decent piano player would enjoy playing the piano situated here.
   
   Not only is this piano out of tune, most of the keys stick and the quality of sound is terrible.
   
   Im not asking Boris to put of Yahama Grand Pianos but come on, this piano isnt worth more than £50 if that.
   
   Put of decent instruments no poor quality clapped out pieces of trash.
2. maple leaf   // Jul 11, 2009 at 7:57 am
   giving it some
   
3. Pianocrasher   // Jul 6, 2009 at 10:29 am
   Luke Jerram's "Play Me I'm Yours" street pianos initiative is a reaction of a creative individual to the general rule, prohibiting anyone to play music in public places without special arrangement - no matter how skilful you are at playing your piano or how popular your music is with the audience.
   
   Any musician would have been stopped immediately by security outside this street festival.
   
   Camden based artist and professional musician Oleg Lapidus, aka the Pianocrasher proved the point more than once by playing music unexpectedly in public areas and being stopped by security.
   
   In 2008 he turned society's unacceptance of impromtu music performaces into a provocative creative trend, called Acoustic Graffiti Arts: video recordings of his own music performances and his visual art works, based on music stopped by security.
   
   Both projects: street pianos and acoustic graffiti arts share the same artistic vision - they encourage general public to create freely and to use public space as their playground.
   Pianocrasher is sincerely delighted to have come across a similarly thinking artist in the UK.
   
   Mr Lapidus considers "Play Me I'm Yours" project as a variation of his own Acoustic Graffiti concept and a manisfestation of Prohibitivism. It lets people use their creative abilities at places where they normally wouldn't have any chance to.
   
4. kev p   // Jul 4, 2009 at 6:58 pm
   oh mummy : she is a hard beast to play : and she really is missing her tuning..... unless john the piano tuner turns up with a screw driver to open the screwed down top i dont know how he can tune her at all... also feels that the sustain pedal is jammed/jamming internally, i.e it's not damping even with your foot off it you get a wild ring....definitely a 'sustainable' piano...!
   
   and the folks sitting about 8 feet from the piano were zombies... ! don't think i'll return to this one....!
5. admin   // Jul 1, 2009 at 7:43 pm
   I've sent a request for the tuner to come and do his magic.

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