# Good (not quite great) Piano Music, etc. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-not-quite-great-piano-music-etc/530862 "2010-03-01T15:49:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-not-quite-great-piano-music-etc/530862/1 "2010-03-01T15:49:49Z")
Rather than enter this in the Great thread, I thought we might broaden the scope a little and find some examples of “interesting” piano music clips. Maybe even some guitar or other instruments as long as the fun aspect outweighs the virtuosity. Here’s an example of what I’m thinking: [Hugh Laurie - What I Mind](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkog_ZLFxdI) [Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k) [JIMMIE RIDDLE ON EEEPHING](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75qIdhCO2DQ) Make you think of anything? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-not-quite-great-piano-music-etc/530862/2 "2010-03-02T00:13:07Z")
It might not be quite what you had in mind, but I found [this duo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI-l0tK8Ok0) absolutely charming - I hope I can play piano duets with my wife after being married for 62 years. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-not-quite-great-piano-music-etc/530862/3 "2010-03-02T14:32:07Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > It might not be quite what you had in mind, but I found [this duo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI-l0tK8Ok0) absolutely charming - I hope I can play piano duets with my wife after being married for 62 years. Delightful! And yes, that’s the sort of thing I was hoping to get a rash of responses to. Just to stretch the purpose of the thread though, I challenge anybody to come up with an example that defines anti-music any better than [william hung- I believe I can fly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApZbtYPhy4) Let your imagination soar: this can’t be the worst one out there! Then, flip side, see if you can find one better than [Tommy Emmanuel - Somewhere Over the Rainbow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ubVGiyAhkY) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-not-quite-great-piano-music-etc/530862/4 "2010-03-02T20:17:53Z")
And [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoxJbaHKur8) is a clip of Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt playing the opening of their show “[2 Pianos 4 Hands](http://www.2pianos4hands.com/)”. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-not-quite-great-piano-music-etc/530862/5 "2010-03-02T20:30:32Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > And [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoxJbaHKur8) is a clip of Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt playing the opening of their show “[2 Pianos 4 Hands](http://www.2pianos4hands.com/)”. Lots of fun. No Ferrante and Teicher here. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-not-quite-great-piano-music-etc/530862/6 "2010-03-02T20:38:41Z")
[9 year old Yuto Miyazawa playing Ozzy Osbourn’s “Crazy Train.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAB-SS-KCQE) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-not-quite-great-piano-music-etc/530862/7 "2010-03-02T21:01:28Z")
Once upon a time, YouTube had a clip of Chet Atkins playing ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ on camera, and then talking about how those kind of harp harmonics went from him to Lenny Breau and came back to him with incredible possibilities realized. Tommy Emmanuel has taken them even further - that was lovely. Chet Atkins - [When You Wish Upon a Star](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc9fbCzUzPU) (sadly, audio only.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-not-quite-great-piano-music-etc/530862/8 "2010-03-02T22:12:47Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > [9 year old Yuto Miyazawa playing Ozzy Osbourn’s “Crazy Train.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAB-SS-KCQE) [(Stevie Wonder) Superstition - Sungha Jung](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xjtWXXWlmQ&feature=related)