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TIL the piano intro in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” was composed by their roadie, Billy Powell. When he played it for them, he was promoted to band member on the spot.

by whatilearned January 20, 2022, 7:48 am

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Elton John is amazing at piano

by cringeyjokesman January 14, 2022, 7:49 am

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TIL about black MIDIs, a genre of electronic music involving piano songs containing a huge number of notes, typically in the thousands, millions, billions, or even trillions.

by whatilearned January 10, 2022, 5:11 am

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What kind of cheese plays the piano?

by cringeyjokesman December 11, 2021, 10:36 am

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What’s better than roses on your piano?

by cringeyjokesman December 6, 2021, 4:30 pm

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TIL that Leo Fender, the founder of the iconic electric guitar and bass brand, never actually learned how to play/tune either instrument. Instead, Fender was an avid saxophone player and also dabbled in piano.

by whatilearned November 19, 2021, 5:41 pm

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TIL During the first 10 secs of ‘Roxanne’ by The Police, you can hear an atonal piano chord, followed by Sting laughing. He accidentally sat on some piano keys and decided to leave it in the mix. He is credited in the liner notes as playing ‘Butt Piano’.

by whatilearned November 16, 2021, 12:31 am

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TIL Fred Rogers was bullied as a child. He once said, “I used to cry to myself when I was alone, and I would cry through my fingers and make up songs on the piano.” As he grew up, he decided to always look past the surface of people to the “essential invisible” within them.

by whatilearned November 10, 2021, 5:31 pm

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TIL Mozart wrote a Piano Sonata for Rose Cannabich, his 15 year old pupil. Mozart described it as a sort of a portrait of “a very beautiful well-behaved girl, very sensible and demure for her age, serious, speaking little but, when she does, with grace and friendliness”

by whatilearned November 4, 2021, 2:42 am

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TIL a 17 year old promoter in Cologne booked improv jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. A mistake left an undersized out-of-tune piano with dead keys on stage. The young promoter pleaded and the show went on. It became the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano recording ever.

by whatilearned November 3, 2021, 5:34 am

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TIL that on 18th April 1930, BBC announced that there was no news and played piano music on the radio instead.

by whatilearned November 2, 2021, 4:40 am

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TIL the great piano composer Frédéric Chopin wrote the third movement of his first piano sonata entirely in 5/4 time, a time signature that was extremely rare in classical music of its time.

by whatilearned October 22, 2021, 6:36 pm

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