My good memory still serves me... I can almost hear the voice of one of my piano teachers:
Who taught you to play the piano like that? You could play with your feet and it would sound better.
Oops, do all the piano teachers talk in this way to their students?
No, at least I can't do it. I feel it is an insult! Being sarcastic (and it doesn't even have to be expressed in a highly acidulous way) is something I can't easily accept as a way of communication and moreover as a way of teaching. Still, I heard that sentence and the variations of it more than once, but luckily it was not addressed to me. We, as students used it sometimes but just as a joke. I could use it for myself but for sure I would feel bad if a teacher or colleague would say it for my piano playing - meaning it seriously.
However, I literally played the piano with my feet. The piano keys were perfectly made for my steps, crossing the road and playing the piano - with my feet.
This was also one of those silent pianos that didn't give real music. But we could imagine it in our minds and hear some compositions.
In case I cross the road slowly, I could hear Gymnopédie No.1 by Eric Satie. It is just one example, many others could come but I guess if I cross too slowly that street a car would hit me and then the music in my hearing would definitely stop.
Let's see what music can come if I cross the street quickly. Do you have some ideas? If yes, let me know in the comment section, but until then I will show to what music I would run on those keys. Well, maybe it would sound like playing with my feet hahaha, so Daniel Barenboim can play perfectly - with his hands.
These piano keys and musical notes are painted in the streets of one little town, Catarroja close to Valencia (Spain). They are actually pedestrian crossings but painted into piano keyboards. Also, staves and notes are there, in recognition of the La Artesana Musical Society. Seems that they have the headquarter in that street.
My staves and notes lead me to a piano again. Horray, I can play with my feet and nobody would mock me for that :D
So, which piano pieces would you play while crossing the streets of Catarroja? Or you would play a different instrument, just reading these notes?