25 ways to kill a piano
25 ways to kill a piano A couple of years ago, one of the angriest comment threads ever on Music Thing concerned a bunch of students in Aberystwyth who bought a piano on Freecycle, put it on a beach, burned it, and said it was art. Today, YouTube is stuffed with people being mean to pianos. Damn, you must have had some bad piano teachers... Throw it off a cliff, set fire to it Shoot it with shotguns and an AK47 Knock it over and jump on it Jens Johansson (who is Yngwie Malmsteens keyboard player) smashes up an old piano while giggling hysterically Back a pickup truck into it Play it with a JCB digger (this one really is the stuff of nightmares) Drive over it in an enormous truck Put on a leather coat and fill it with fireworks Smash it and sample it Fire it from a trebuchet (or here at Burning Man, where presumably its performance art) Throw it down a hill Burn it and call it art (again) Pull it off the back of a moving pickup truck Drag it behind a pickup truck Chop it...