On 29/05/2016 08:11, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 29/05/2016 01:19, Recliner wrote:
This is so much better than bland, piped music, or even worse,
advertising.


There's a piano in our local shopping mall and there are often women
playing it so perhaps it's a London thing.


I agree it's so much better than piped music. I walk through St.Pancras
a few times a week (because of the stupid station design that forces a
long march from SPILL to the tube lines) at various times of the day and
night and find that all the pianos are in use nearly every time. There
are males and females playing, young and old, and all skin colours, and
also a great range of expertise: some very accomplished and a few rather
more like beginners. Even so, I can't recall a case in which the music
was painful to listen to, though one or two make me smile a little as
they struggle.

I too have wondered whether they were genuinely there and filling in
time while waiting for a long-distance train; I am beginning to suspect
that some are visiting St.Pancras just because it has pianos to play.
But nearly all seem to be playing from memory, very few bring music, as
far as I can see.

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