Brandenburg Gate Street Piano

What happens if a lonely piano is standing around in public? After some examining, people are starting to play on it and you will get a big plus, if you can actually play something that doesn’t sound like as if you are hitting the keys with only two fingers.

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Imagine… John Lennon Street Piano

Imagine there’s no heaven, above us only sky…

After the Streetpiano Festival earlier this month, all pianos were placed at different locations in the city. One of these painted instruments is located on an airfield at the Tempelhof Airport in the middle of Berlin.

The piano was painted with famous quotes from John Lennon, one of the founding members of The Beatles.

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Streetpiano – Piano Music meets StreetArt

Piano Music meets StreetArt.

Last weekend, I took a walk through Berlin’s Mauerpark, a public park in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district near some remains of the Berlin Wall and I discovered a couple of fancy painted pianos standing around with street artists working on them.

After I gathered some information, I now know that the whole thing was the start of a new event. During the next three weeks, these pianos are placed on different locations in Berlin and everyone is invited to play on them.

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