Pianos

Somebody thought ahead with the street pianos

By adamg - 12/16/13 - 5:24 pm

Street Spirit

PJA Advertising put together this seasonal message back when we had all those street pianos.

H/t Graham Spector.

Play Me, I'm Yours - Boston 2013 (time-lapse)

Time-lapsing of last month's street pianos by the folks at the BPS IT department.

Public music

By adamg - 10/13/13 - 10:19 am

Dan Meade took in Perhaps Contraption during Honk in Somerville yesterday.

Brian D'Amico listened to somebody playing a street piano outside the MFA the other day.

MFA Street Piano

Copyright Dan Meade and Brian D'Amico, respectively. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Street musicians

By adamg - 10/3/13 - 10:14 am

Vasant Marur visited several of the street pianos downtown on Saturday.

Meanwhile, WBZ's Carl Stevens visited and played 74 of the 75 pianos - one, of course, is locked away from the public due to the federal semi-shutdown.

Photo copyright Vasant Marur. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

People with a yen to play the public piano on Haviland Street after 10 p.m. and people with a yen to not hear them are battling via 911 tonight. Caught in the middle are the police, whose forte is not music and who are now telling kvetchers to call the Mayor's Hotline.

They probably didn't play Kitten on the Keyboard

By adamg - 9/27/13 - 11:45 am

99% Boston photographed a pair of Boston terriers at the Street Piano at the Gertrude Howes Playground in Roxbury.