Piano Torturer Mugs

"You'd think he hated music by the way he tortures it."

"I was going to play the Moonlight Sonata, but I forgot the key."

Trilby - 'A voice he didn't understand'.

'My next selection is a protest song against piano lessons.'

Fun (circa 1955)

Edvard Grieg

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

Serenading

A lady playing piano and a man talking to her

Angel Music

"Here's something for all you animal lovers out there..."

Sergei Taneyev

'Derek was extremely pleased with his new piano stool...'

"Oh, we've got to nip this little trick in the bud right away."

Louise Farrenc

A Poet

Brahms and Liszt at Christmas!

'In an inexplicable attack of nerves, Elliot becomes the first person ever to screw up John Cage's 4'33'.

'Look Clara, I'm telling you for the last time, it's not me who's crazy. It's Eusebius.'

A family choir

Sir Elton John

A-Hem! I'm still singing here!

'I'd rather be playing football.'

The Augie Twins write music strictly for their own amusement.

Pianist-boxer

Dave Brubeck

Nocturne

'In the middle of the second movement, Rodney's worst fears were realized; Phillippe began to sing along.'

"In conclusion , I'll replay the notes I played incorrectly. There was an F sharp, two E flats, a G..."

"You'll really like this next song. I wrote it specifically to be a ring tone!"

"I won't lie to you: It was quite an ordeal to move the upright piano in..."

Robert Schumann

Lovers playing the piano

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Pianissimo! Pianissimo!"