Piano Torturer Mugs

"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

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

Angel Music

A lady playing piano and a man talking to her

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

Louise Farrenc

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

A Poet

Sergei Taneyev

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.'

Nocturne

Pianist-boxer

The Augie Twins write music strictly for their own amusement.

A-Hem! I'm still singing here!

'I'd rather be playing football.'

A family choir

'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..."

"Pianissimo! Pianissimo!"

Robert Schumann

Lovers playing the piano

F. Chopin