Pianist Reacts To Piano Movie Scenes

[@mxblueskies]

The story of you playing As Time Goes By for the ~90yo couple is so sweet 🥺 14:50

[@wgrandbois]

"Listen, guys, I gotta impress this girl. Can y'all prep a jazzy "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" on short notice?"

[@syntaxlost9239]

"No?" (The next day...) "How about Liszt? No?" (The next day...) "Rachmaninoff?"

[@jaspermcjasper3672]

20:00 - Actually, Professor, those cats really are playing piano. The casting-call was a big job, scouring the world to find cats who could sing, dance, play piano, etc.. And they're speaking their lines phonetically because they had never spoken English before.

[@gorgolyt]

Maybe Phil from Groundhog day knew exactly what the band would be able to jam to because he played with them hundreds of times.

[@j0pj0p]

Intriguing!

[@StupidEdits]

If you do a sequel, you have to try The Pianist (2002), Adrian Brody didn't know how to play the piano and had to 'act' the pianist role.

[@jaspermcjasper3672]

17:02 - Professor Bennett, removing panels from a piano to make it louder over conversation and over noise of glassware, china, and tableware clanking was a pretty typical thing to do in joints like that. (See also the lid of a grand piano that you can prop open at various degrees of elevation.) Also, the wood of the remove panels could be used for something else. Players of string-bass, to get louder, could roll up sheet-music (or probably something stiffer, like a card menu, but not so stiff as to be unrollable) to make cones to stick into the f-holes of their bass. Probably more effective was using a higher bridge. Yes, that put the strings further away from the sound-box, but it meant that the strings exercised a greater leverage (longer levers give you more ability) in vibrating the sound-box, and that's where the sound (I think) actually comes from.

[@chitlitlah]

I felt like I was gaining wisdom until you started talking about sticking things into f-holes, and then that wisdom went right out the window.

[@jaspermcjasper3672]

@@chitlitlah Review and article on upright string bass. Or violin. Or on an ARCH-top guitar (not flat top). The holes are shaped like cursive lowercase "f"s. Just look at a picture. As far as I know they've always been called "f-holes". They terminate in little circles, where the rolled cones go.

[@StarCreche]

I think that in the context of Casablanca, Sam knows how the tune goes. He's just trying to avoid playing it in case Rick hears it.

[@JeffreyChadwell]

That was the sense I got when I saw the film. Sam hadn't really forgotten how the song goes - he was just trying to tactfully avoid playing it.

[@edzielinski]

Exactly. And I think even more, that it causes him pain as well - I get a sense of it from his performance, like he's holding back from fully committing to the song, and the result is perfect.

[@dsatt57]

I have always thought that too. I watched it first ‘79 or ‘80 and it blew my mind how many quotes came from that movie. The word is that Bogart made them change the ending to have him not leave with Elsa. He was supposed to at some point of production. Makes the whole movie.

[@rickfreeth6496]

Sam definitely hasn't forgotten the song he's trying to avoid playing it because Rick forbade it

[@DonDueed]

Came here to say this.

[@gregschultheis]

This was a fun idea and I thoroughly enjoyed it. As an amateur pianist I always have fun seeing how actors imitate piano playing. Gosling did an excellent job in la la land. I saw that he took extensive lessons in preparation and while it’s clearly not his performance we’re hearing, the shape of the playing is great.

[@dakker5292]

I am a French Horn player, but I've also played piano and guitar, and so I always watch depictions of playing instruments in TV shows/movies to see how well they imitate the real playing. I get a real chuckle when they obviously do NOT really play the instrument. One that comes to mind is John de Lancie as as Q in Star Trek The Next Generation, when he was 'playing' trumpet in a marachi band when he was obviously just randomly moving the valves in no relation to the music.

[@bw7601]

You missed the joke in Groundhog Day. The movie’s a comedy after all - the piano teacher is taking credit for someone she’s only taught once isn’t an oversight, it’s a joke at her expense.

[@petergivenbless900]

A little bit of trivia about 'Big'; it was written by the younger sister of Steven Spielberg, Ann Spielberg, and it is considered a bit of an insider joke that the Tom Hanks character was based on her brother. Spielberg's mother was a pianist, which was depicted in his pseudo-autobiographical film 'The Fabelmans' recently, and pianos often feature in Spielberg's movies, even if they are never actually played (for example, 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' shows a piano in the living room of Elliott's family despite nothing to suggest that anyone in the family actually plays!).

[@usagi2988]

Lovely! Other movies the come to mind would be Shine (1996), Amadeus (1984), and Immortal Beloved (1994)

[@SeemsLow]

Another brilliant, insightful video. David is not only a marvel at the piano but a truly remarkable presenter. The Groundhog Day bit had me cracking up….he only would have had one lesson!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

😍

[@jimmrvos2930]

There was an episode of the U.S. TV series M*A*S*H entitled “Morale Victory” in which a soldier who is a concert pianist has one of his hands permanently injured. In an effort to help the soldier’s depression about losing the ability to play piano, one of the doctors gives the soldier the sheet music of a Ravel piano piece written for the left hand only. In a dramatic scene, the soldier plays part of the piece. It would be interesting to get your impression of the piano playing in this scene.

[@paveladamek3502]

Great episode. Winchester was my favorite character.

[@dukestt5436]

Shine, what a great film , all about David Helfgott played by Geoffrey Rush

[@phildupuis1084]

A couple of others worth looking at are: Tim Roth performing "Playing Love" in the movie Legend of 1900 (a beautiful piano piece) and Geoffrey Rush playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" in the movie Shine.

[@adamjankoleno1133]

11:24 They literally invented new animation techniques for this movie to make it accurate. That's something only Pixar dares to do.

[@jaspermcjasper3672]

@adamjankoleno1133 - This film "Soul" is from 2020. Animusic was doing this in the 1990s, and I find no cross-fertilization between Animusic and Pixar. My current understanding of Animusic is that the computer that does the animation is sophisticated enough that, after the monumental work of programming that computer is done, the only remaining thing to do is feed in the music. The computer then figures out that if a ball needs to hit an object (string, drumhead, cymbal, glass of water) at a certain time to play a certain note, the computer backtracks from that need to create the animation that launches the ball through the air at the right time and at the right angle so that the arc that the ball travels is true to physics. (But it may be the physics of a ball traveling in a vacuum rather than air. It depends on how finicky they wanted to get.) Since the computer figures out everything, that ball lands on that object creating that note at exactly the right time. Volume (i.e. not volume, which is an input, but, rather, what needs to be happening within the animation to make it LOOK like variation in volume is occurring in the pictured realm) may be controlled by having the animation generate a larger ball, or by having the same size ball launched from a pipe further from the target, so that it goes out at a higher angle, is airborne longer, and hits the target harder (because it's going faster by the time it lands) as would be the case in real life. Pixar probably does the same thing here, with the computer translating between the input of the music and how to make the hands and fingers do the necessary things at the necessary times to make it happen within the visual realm.

[@gorgolyt]

That literally doesn't mean anything. It's a hand. It's moving. It doesn't need new laws of animation. I assume they just worked to reference footage.

[@jaspermcjasper3672]

@@gorgolyt You don't get it. No, you don't film a person playing a piano and then retrace it. The software exists such that AFTER you have already programmed how to draw the hands playing ANY piece, you can feed in the piece afterwards and don't do any additional work. So, if you feed in "Mary Had A Little Lamb", and press "Go", the computer automatically re-draws the hands and fingers so that what you see on the keyboard is the keys of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" being pressed, even though you never specifically animated "Mary Had A Little Lamb". Alternatively, put in "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", press "Go", and you'll see the hands landing on the keyboard keys that play "Twinkle Twinkle etc..". The computer, just by referring to the musical score that you put in, can figure out how to redraw the hands so that they are seen accurately playing that tune. I'll wager this software is 20 or 30 years old by now. (You might need to have one of those scores with little annotations under the notes that specify the finger to be used.)

[@adamjankoleno1133]

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[@syntaxlost9239]

@@gorgolyt There's a video detailing how Pixar did the animation but you're correct, there's nothing new in terms of animation technique. They used rigs, like they do on all their movies prior. They tried to use simulation to generate the movements but it didn't work. What they ended up doing is animating the piano by itself and using reference footage to get the fingering to play over top. Hands were animated as they normally do (just with more sophisticated custom hand rigs).

[@Jerry_Fried]

5:26 “Obviously, you have to suspend belief a bit…” You don’t suspend belief; you suspend disbelief. The toy store in NY was FAO Schwarz. The movie depicted the actual store. Sam didn’t need to be reminded how the song went. Rick didn’t want him playing it. If you do another video on this theme, please include “The Competition,” with Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving and Lee Remick.

[@petergivenbless900]

A couple of obvious ones you might have missed; 'The Piano' and 'The Pianist'.

[@LusiaEyre]

The Aristocats ditty is an actually pretty neat student affirmation song 😅

[@Wilhelm87]

There is a great scene in the film A Boy Named Charlie Brown, where Schroeder plays the second movement of Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata, as a backdrop to a very psychedelic sequence.

[@drfsupercenter]

Hi David - with regards to "Big" and the piano being too high pitched, that sounds a lot like PAL speed-up to me, which makes sense since you're in the UK. tl;dr for home video releases of films in PAL countries (of which the UK is one), they speed it up by about 4%. This practice is mostly obsolete now that high definition exists, but your footage there looks like a DVD so it could absolutely be the case. I didn't actually grab my American copy of the film to verify this, it's just a theory - but it would make sense at least. If the other movies you show are taken from high-definition sources they likely run at the correct speed.

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

PAL was the correct speed for us!

[@originalhubbcap2000]

Yeah that was my thought too... A little bit of investigation suggests that the 4% PAL speed-up will raise the pitch by just over 70% of a semitone, which is... in the ballpark of the semitone mentioned I guess?

[@twildabuckingham]

4:40 whoa for me, it's pretty much perfectly timed

[@djhart10]

I love all of your stuff but this is great to get a real glimpse into how realistic the life of a hired piano man really is

[@acerbt]

The modern version of that piano, in the toy shop that inspired it, is actually tuned to concert pitch. It actually uses yamaha sounds that are common among their home keyboards.

[@joeharris2659]

6:18 My theory is that the piano teacher is some semi-divine being who’s been able to watch Phil develop over all the iterations of his single day, which is why she can take credit for his piano skills. It’s nothing to do with the life insurance salesman who assails him every morning, as some people assume.

[@j0pj0p]

But also… why did he bother going for that piano lesson at all that day? He must have already been brilliant at the piano by that point anyway. Still, other than this one scene: greatest movie ever!

[@philrichards7240]

In the context of the film, he was trying to create a perfect day. What could be more perfect for the piano teacher than having a student play like that? So, he could turn up, pretend to be worse than he is, and then play like that after the lesson...

[@maxturgeon89]

I mean, she totally should take credit, she literally taught him piano from absolute beginner to complete master 😂

[@syntaxlost9239]

@@j0pj0p I thought the teacher was part of the band. Probably his inroad into playing at the dance.

[@j0pj0p]

@@syntaxlost9239 Good thought! Maybe that makes it all work - esp if combined with the other idea here from @gorgolyt of Phil having played with the band a hundred times before and *they* are the ones that had already perfected the obscure bluesy/classical piece that stops suddenly…

[@thetoycollectorofseville6428]

Every episode of "Elmo's World" has a scene where Elmo plays a piano and sings the topic of whatever the episode is to the tune of Jingle Bells.

[@TheRyanmakesnoise]

Great point

[@lauralong3545]

The Fabulous Baker Boys from 1989. A classic piano movie.

[@gelchert]

Jeff Bridges has said that he and Beau both took piano lessons to be convincing onscreen, even though their playing was dubbed. According to Jeff, he really got into Bill Evans (just like his character), and he still loves to play "Peace Piece" now and then.

[@bealetm]

I was hoping you’d look at Five Easy Pieces. I haven’t seen it years but there’s a well known long unedited scene that would be worth looking at. I’m going to pull out my DVD of it now.

[@lynnturman8157]

Yes! Jack Nicholson plays a Chopin piece. It's my favorite use of a piano in a movie.

[@ric8248]

There's a great piano scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where they play Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

[@gelchert]

The pianos were both MIDI controlled (since, of course, Daffy and Donald weren't actually playing them). So the note accuracy is 100%, although the pianos do have a telltale late-80's digital sound that's pretty out of place for a movie set 40 years earlier.

[@andersjjensen]

@@gelchert Everything is "pretty out of place" in that movie :P

[@billcook4768]

The joke being that Rhapsody #2 is basically the go-to classical piano song used in dozens of classic cartoons. Notably The Cat Concerto and Rabbit Rhapsody

[@RileyMcGreevy]

You should react to some of the other scenes from sol. They’re quite good and the animators took the time to watch Jon Batise play the piano and properly animate what is being played.

[@Bacopa68]

I was hoping that The Cat Concert with Tom and Jerry would be in here.

[@collapsiblespork]

One of the things that impressed me about "Soul" was that the animation of Joe's hands actually matched what he was playing. I don't play saxophone, but I'm presuming the Pixar animators took the same pains to accurately represent Dorothea's performance.

[@paveladamek3502]

The Bugs Bunny concert episode is the best piece of animation and music combined in the history of ever.

[@Speedbird9L]

Shine is the film that came to mind first, particularly the “sock it to ‘em Liberace” scene. That part’s both amazing and amusing.

[@PhilipReevesMusic]

That floor piano was at the original location of FAO Schwartz toy store across from Plaza Hotel. They had very cool toys and life-like stuffed animals. Sadly that location closed and there is just a small version of the store now at Rockefeller Plaza which is mostly tourist-oriented merchandise.

[@spindriftdrinker]

Yup, I remember stepping on that floor piano at FAO. World's greatest Toy store for so many reasons.

[@GizzyDillespee]

Oh yeah we had our prom at the plaza. That store was cool. It was set up like a rich kids' store, but they weren't snooty.

[@victorhugotoledocofre1366]

Excelent video, David. Now please go for some classical stuff: Amadeus, Immortal Beloved, and so on. 🎹🎵🎶

[@Sthunderrocker]

The Legend of 1900!? You've let me down my friend.

[@GeordieAmanda]

Greatest piano movie ever....surely

[@BertramWilhardt]

11:23 All the scenes of Joe Gardner (main character) playing piano is actually very accurate motioncapture of Jon Batiste playing the piano. Very impressive animation.

[@veggie928]

FAO Schwarz was the toy store in NYC that housed the keyboard that is seen in "Big!" It's a really cool toy store, it has a very vintage feel to it given how old it is.

[@spindriftdrinker]

It is defunct, deceased.😒

[@JoshuaTanzer]

Yes, FAO Schwarz was a huge to store known for big participatory displays that kids could play with, like the huge piano.

[@toddhouchin3252]

Chuck used to play Wes Montgomery's Airegin for me when he saw me show up to a gig. Loved it.

[@billycjustice]

The first piano movie that came to mind for me when I saw your thumbnail, was ‘The Legend of 1900’. As always David, I thoroughly enjoyed this video.

[@philipcaron6805]

Yeah, like someone would know the exact duration of a song in relation to how long it takes for a cigarette to burn, or play in such a way that a piano string could light up a cigarette…

[@nevetsny1]

Not a movie but Tim Minchin’s tv show Upright has great piano scenes and covers. There’s a scene with a motorcycle gang and heart and soul duet. Anatomy of a Fall has a great piano scene.

[@HermelJaworski]

The scene in The Pianist when the main character is requested to play for the German officer is à classic as well

[@jano_tm]

Regarding to soul a little trivia: its actually Jon Batiste playing and the animation is made based on his performance on piano and I think this is beautiful.

[@patrickgalois4263]

Other films : -Yesterday (the film about the world if the Beatles hadn't existed) -The pianist -Comme un cheveu sur la soupe (a french black and white film with Louis de Funès really playing the piano as it was his first job before acting)

[@mikhakulikov]

Love the video! Thank you! You should have a look at Rocketman (2019). The bit when little Elton John enters the music school and plays an extremely hard piece by ear could've happened in real life. At least, such cases are know about the music prodigies of the past.

[@karolw.1516]

1900 by Giuseppe Tornatore!

[@Sthunderrocker]

@@karolw.1516 yes!

[@theepisofdiabolos-dj5xh]

yes! another great video from David!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks again!

[@newmancl0]

Marx Brothers films!!!!! What about when he's playing a piano that is falling apart and he pulls the strings out, sets them upright and plays the "harp" :D :D :D fantastic movies.

[@gonesnake2337]

A few to add to the list of potential review: The Legend of 1900 (for some ragtime stuff), Great Balls Of Fire (for some early rock n' roll) and, why not, the humiliating Salieri with his own music scene in Amadeus (for the classical)

[@billcook4768]

Two things I’d love to see: More stories of your gigging days; a video about terrible piano miming on film/tv. The worst I know if from the show Two and a Half Men. You can’t see the player’s hands or keyboard. But he’s very theatrically playing a series of chords increasing in pitch. As his hands go from his right to left.

[@jimbrentar]

there's a 1980 film called The Competition. There;s also Truffault's Shoot The Piano Player

[@nevetsny1]

The Beat that My Heart Skipped is loosely based on Shoot The Piano Player is good.

[@danijobi]

Please do the Fabulous Baker Boys next, one of the all-time great piano movies, which will, just like La La Land, be right up your alley of pianists for hire, touring hotel lounges and clubs. Also, in the movie's first scene, Jeff Bridges wakes up next to a one-night-stand lady who tells him that he was amazing with his hands last night. So you have to settle the age-old piano questions: Do piano players show better dexterity and touch and are therefore superior lovers? (Also: please review "Shine" (ist this Rachmaninoff piece really so legendarily hard?), "The Pianist" and "Grand Piano" (would you perform better or worse with a sniper rifle aimed at you threatening to kill you if you play just one wring note?))

[@syphon47]

This was great - please do another. You should include The Pianist. Chopin Nocturne in C Sharp Minor - one of my favourite pieces

[@StarQueenEstrella]

12:15 yeah, if that was to actually happen during a concert, he would get vibed, as we say in jazz.

[@stevieroach]

I was taught solfeggio in high school in the late 80s. Not as a way of learning how to sing, but rather as an aid to ear training and sight reading.

[@beatrixwickson8477]

Great Balls of Fire has plenty of great piano scenes to choose from.

[@rafaelribas1027]

I'd suggest the scene in "Great Balls of Fire", when Jerry Lee Lewis goes to a bar as a kid, and "discovers" rock&roll as a combination of a black left hand and a white right hand

[@nolagibson9759]

There's also the Liberace biopic. I think it was called 'Behind the Candelabra'. Michael Douglas does a lot of 'keysyncing'. Is that a word? It is now. Lipsyncing for keyboard.

[@teverde]

Chico y Rita. Amazing film.

[@thorbjrnreppe7343]

You gotta see Grand Piano! For a musician it’s hilarious how unaccurate and unrealistic it is.

[@dwdei8815]

The Groundhog music being Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on e Theme by Paganini (variation 18 if you want the pixels). You were in the ball-park. But yes, an implausible melody to accompany from scratch - which is why it turned into a pretty bog-standard boogie. I think it was pretty typical to have the piano front off in "real" jazz bars. No slot for Hugh Laurie's Wooster giving the E flats a walloping?

[@andyturner4197]

My phone notification for this video cut off at "Pianist Reacts To Piano" 🤣

[@askbask]

Good stuff. Should add Emma from 2020 for the next one like this. Playing the old pianoforte actually live on camera.

[@cabal3747]

I would dearly love you too analyze the piano playing in the anime film BLUE GIANT. Hiromi Uehara wrote the music, performed the piano parts, and also supervised the animation of the piano playing to make sure that it was accurate. There are several performance scenes in the film that are worth analyzing.

[@1800astra]

I have a request, David. There is a really great piano scene in the movie 'Stoker', called 'duet' and played by the two leads, which is composed by Philip Glass. Hope you know of it. My question is, whether it could be played in the way it's filmed. Plus, I think it's an amazing scene, and is a tremendous Glass moment!

[@emwolf1963]

There's some great piano in The Legend of 1900 with Tim Roth and of course any of Chico's scenes from a Marx Brothers movie.

[@ZahraIsMyDog]

You need to do the piano duel between Daffy Duck and Donald Duck in Who Framed Roger Rabbit!

[@DamianLewis-md6mk]

Worth the reaction. However, I would love to see a comparison of a song when it's in major, harmonic minor and superlocrian.

[@leonhardeuler675]

Tom and Jerry have at least two, and I love the orchestra one as well.

[@SoldatNoel]

The Aristocats story takes place in Paris, and we actually use "do ré mi fa sol la si" system to learn music in France 👍

[@Speedbird9L]

One other great scene is trying to play Let It Be in the film Yesterday. I don’t know if there’s much to learn from it, but it’s pretty funny!

[@jacksonsay37]

The Aristocat sis such an underrated movie. Yer not gonna believe this, but it's a one-wheeled haystack!

[@areamusicale]

GREAT VIDEO! Do it again! I may suggest: The legend of 1900

[@dankulkosky6045]

Fabulous Baker Boys Five Easy Pieces

[@moominfin]

Something from Nodame Cantabile would be cool to see

[@toomanykatsu]

The toy shop is FAO Schwartz!!! I used to get the catalog. They also have a kids Lamborghini and the worlds most expensive game of monopoly, it comes with REAL CASH

[@mliem]

Perhaps you might consider covering Your Lie in April, an anime series about a child prodigy former competitive classical pianist, and a free-spirited violinist in the same grade, who tries to get him back into competing.

[@petermaling943]

I was fascinated to learn you still play a regular gig. A shame you didn’t name the place - your fans would flock there! It’s always sad to hear an Englishman say ´piano player’ instead of pianist, but I appreciate your viewers are largely in the US. At least pianist is in the title card or whatever it’s called. Love your videos.

[@Miles_ethan]

You shouldve checked out, "The Other Fathers Song" from Coralin, also a little in the halloween spirit. Great video regardless lol

[@klausinski7104]

Thanks a lot. I would love a video about the piano scenes in The power of the dog, in Unorthodox and in Pride and Prejudice.

[@SpadajSpadaj]

12:55 You missed the point. The issue was not that Sam wouldn't remember the song. Sam was obviously aware of the affair in the past between Elsa and Rick and was aware of the song importance (which is kinda obvious at the moment in which you cut the scene). 16:40 Apart from the already mentioned sound aspect (which might or might not be true - for that you have the opening at the top of the piano), there might be a point of not having the front cover with a not-very-well maintained piano. In a far-from-perfect conditions the piano could detune relatively easily and not having a front cover means easy access to the tuning pins.

[@LotsOfS]

Naked Gun 2½ has a piano scene in it. "Sam, play our song"

[@JiveDadson]

I learned to be careful when asked to play some tune by ear. (I'm a sax player.) Once on request, I ventured into a standard 32-bar tune only to realize after 16 bars that I could not remember the tune on the bridge, or even how it modulated. Other band members were no help. Embarrassing disaster.

[@JoshuaTanzer]

Maestro is another piano-prominent movie you might talk about.

[@whiteninja2006]

How could you leave out movies like ''The Pianist'' and ''The Piano'' haha Oh, and ''Shine'' is a good choice too.

[@YouennF]

6:45 Regarding the semitone difference n Big, I think it can be due to the different framerates of camera betwin cinema and TV (24 vs 25 images p. second, but I don't know which is which) I remember watching the film "Death and the maiden" on french TV a long time ago, and noticing that the eponymus Schubert quartet was transposed, which is very uncanny for such a well-known piece of music (with open strings on sharp notes, and so on). I think it's the same issue there.

[@Steamrick]

If you ever do piano in games, remember to include Cohen's Masterpiece from Bioshock.

[@lynnturman8157]

My favorite piano scene is Jack Nicholson playing Chopin in FIVE EASY PIECES.

[@WarrenMThomas]

For piano movie, with 140 comments so far, not one mention Cate Blanchett in "Tar"? For songs with piano intros Agnes Obel - "Words are Dead"

[@jespervalgreen6461]

Okay, you've seen 'Casablanca', but you don't really remember it, do you? Sam knows that song. He knows it really well; it's his signature song from Paris. He chooses not to play it because he knows it will upset Rick.

[@wendelynmusic]

IF you do this again, you got to do the amazing piano playing from the old Marx Brothers Movies. They are extremely talented. no faking. it's way fun.

[@Test6837]

Hey David, have a look at Tom from Tom & Jerry, playing the piano. 😀

[@billcook4768]

The fun thing about The Cat Concerto is that it came out the same year as Rhapsody Rabbit, which is essentially the exact same cartoon staring Bugs Bunny. Both sides accused the other of stealing and nobody knows who copied who. It’s even possible there was no plagiarism and it’s just an incredible coincidence.

[@Kraflyn]

Green Book, Pianist

[@JamieAndersonMusic]

Great video! As a guitar player, I found this facsinating. Would you consider doing a similar video about other instruments?

[@JiveDadson]

The floor-keyboard might sound sharp because they undercranked the cameras to make the dancing quicker.

[@benjaminpinkston8624]

I would like to see your thoughts on the piano scene in The Founder (the one about Ray Kroc) and one of the many piano scenes in Beverly Hills Chihuaua.

[@JiveDadson]

How about some love for the Sonata Jazz Cafe? Or the Masked Ball?

[@paulhaynes8045]

You could turn it round and do a Twoset Violin type video on actors that clearly aren't playing the piano!

[@bernhardwall6876]

If you had watched any of the Marx Brothers' films, you would have talked about Chico Marx, whose piano scenes were the greatest in movie history.