You all know I’m a sucker for some great, inventive music. I’m also enamored with the piano, as a matter of fact, and Ferdinand Maisel has managed to blend the two wonderfully.

Using electromagnetic pickups, microphones and looping software, Ferdinand creates multi-layered tracks that combine “traditional” piano-playing with his “alternative” methods – including muting the strings by hand, strumming them with coins, and using the body of the piano as a percussion instrument. The results are in the following video, submitted on Kickstarter, where [...]

» Continue reading "Tabletop Transitional – Hidden voices of the [...]

From Homologous Legs
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12/10/2010 9:47:28 PM
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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/01/26/mystery.piano/?hpt=C2 ---Quote--- In Miami's Biscayne...

From JREF Forum
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1/27/2011 3:44:51 AM
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Last night I went to the piano bar at the Neon Cactus, our local popular drinking/dancing venue for college students. If you're from Purdue, you know this is probably the most popular Thursday night tradition. It was my last night since I'm moving in a week, so a ton of my friends were there.

Bruce (the piano man) quickly pointed out that the Jesus camp people were here - namely two tables full of counselors from Camp Tecumseh. The first hour was filled with many lighthearted Christian/Jesus jokes, including Bruce feigning guilt whenever he swore or said something sexual and apologizing to the "Jesus table."

Being a group of atheists, we couldn't resist. We pooled our money and bought "Don't Stop Believing" with the note "From the atheist table to the Jesus table." The best part? They laughed and sang along with us.

Kudos to religious people with a sense of [...]

From Blag Hag
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7/3/2010 5:31:00 AM
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A young concert pianist and composer cuts loose wif teh mewzikal majicks…enjoy. Filed under: Music Videos Tagged: Creativity, Genius, Improvization, Jennifer Lin, Music, Music Video, TED

From The Call of Troythulu
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11/29/2010 3:32:54 PM
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Filed under: Music Videos Tagged: Angella Ahn, Lucia Ahn, Maria Ahn, Music, Music Video, TED, Video

From The Call of Troythulu
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3/14/2011 12:19:31 AM
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2MJ-NeXRcEk Fucking hell this guy is gooood

From AFA Forums
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8/15/2010 4:41:35 AM
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Backwards piano is kind of icky.

From Cynical-C
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1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
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I think the forum might be interested in this: ---Quote--- Psychic helps unearth Babe Ruth's...

From JREF Forum
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8/5/2010 3:05:40 AM
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Miscellaneous

From Cult News Network
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1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
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I have been searching for this story to no avail. A few weeks ago me and a few friends watched a...

From JREF Forum
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12/8/2011 1:33:29 AM
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www.skepticcat.com/2010/04/cat-piano.html

Thanks: LittleGreenFootballs.com

The Cat Piano -- 8 min 33 sec

From skeptic cat
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4/27/2010 7:53:00 AM
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Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm slack and suck at updating this blog. Apologies. Not too much has been pissing me off of late. On that front, here's something that made me happy - Eric Lewis covering Georgia on My Mind at some club. Enjoy.
Skeptical Rants and Comments on Society & News Stuffed to the Gills with Bad Language!

From Mike's Weekly Skeptic Rant
http://mikesweeklyskepticrant.blogspot.com/2010/07/eric-lewis-on-piano.html
7/10/2010 3:26:00 AM
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Keith Emerson has been doing some interesting work on wave mechanics, Fourier transforms, and temporal structure. Here are some of his findings. Not exactly what you see at the Grammy’s these days. (Not that it was back in 1974, either.)

From Cosmic Variance
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2/25/2012 5:34:50 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/2/2011 7:25:33 AM
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Cedar Falls/Waterloo Secularists Meet-up Group

Waterloo, Io 50703 - USA

Friday, May 13 at 6:00 PM

Attending: 8

Details: http://www.meetup.com/atheists-735/events/17467165/

From Skeptics upcoming events
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4/29/2011 1:36:03 AM
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I make no excuses for my love of Doctor Who, and one of my favorite things about it since it was rebooted back in 2005 has been the music. I have always loved the title theme (originally written by Ron Grainer), ever since I was a little kid, and the modern orchestral reworking of it [...]

From Bad Astronomy
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1/9/2012 1:10:26 AM
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Orchestral Singles
Mother Piano Rhapsody
Composed by Joé McKen

My mother’s been pestering me for a piano song for years, and after procrastinating for, well, years, I finally had some inspiration come my way and started working on this li’l thing. (I wonder what it would sound like on a real keyboard …)

(BTW: The second half is essentially a sort of loose homage to a sadly-not-as-well-known-as-it-should-be piece of music from a renown [...]

From Preliator pro Causa
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3/7/2012 1:51:00 PM
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Orchestral Singles
The Mystical Piano
Composed by Joé McKen
Last updated: 01/25/11

Okay, I’ll admit it, I was inspired to write this by a certain TV show’s theme song (and it ain’t too hard to guess which, either). I made it my own, of course, and turned it into a little piano duet-type piece. I’m rather fond of how it turned out.

Written & recorded with

From Preliator pro Causa
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1/25/2011 6:56:00 PM
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(Besides the fact that they're all performed by the same guy)

Mozart, Sonata in D Major, Anh. 294d, mov. 3


Mendelssohn's Song Without Words, Op. posth., No. 3d.


Haydn, Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, Hob. LVII:1-12


Answer: They're all hoaxes. The pieces weren't composed by Mozart, Mendelssohn, or Haydn.

Last year someone going under the name 'The Mad Rhino' began uploading videos of himself playing pieces by famous composers. The videos caught the attention of classical-music fans because although the pieces all [...]

From The Museum of Hoaxes
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/what_do_these_piano_pieces_by_mozart_mendelssohn_and_haydn_all_have_in_comm
1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
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From Cynical-C
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1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
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1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
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From Cynical-C
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1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
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From Uploads by TheraminTrees
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6/29/2009 8:23:51 PM
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Dedicated to Brad O'Farrell

From skeptic cat
http://www.skepticcat.com/2010/09/gnoo-meowzikal-slideshow-piano-cats.html
9/5/2010 4:37:00 PM
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Atheists Etcetera

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Book Club (Indianapolis) ? January ? Player Piano?The Indianapolis Branch of the KVML Book Club will meet on Thursday, January 27th at the Emelie Building in downtown Indianapolis (340 N. Senate Avenue) at 11:30 a.m. The book up for discussion will be Player Piano. Please join us, even if you haven?t read it in a while.
The newly opened Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is our neighbor just across the pedestrian bridge from CFI Indiana at 340 N. Senate Avenue, Indianapolis. Cross the bridge just north of CFI Indiana, go up the stairs to street level, walk to the first street corner, turn right and you are there. Here are two January events being held there. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a Humanist and freethinker.

Indianapolis, IN 46202 - USA

Wednesday, January 26 at [...]

From Skeptics upcoming events
http://www.meetup.com/atheistsetc/calendar/16132300/
1/22/2011 3:05:10 AM
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