Admin’s Log (5) – Search and Thou Shall Find

Searching our website helps 😊

For those of you that visit our website and search for pianos in a certain place, those can be interesting leads towards new listings on our site. Let’s see a few examples resulting from your searches past months (in alphabetical order):

Americas

• Aldie, Virginia, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Alpena, Michigan, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Anchorage, Alaska, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Athens, Georgia, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Bend, Oregon, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Burlington, Ontario, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Calgary – Sunnyside Calgary (vandalism 🙁 )
• Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Carmel, Indiana, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Chantilly, Virginia, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
• Detroit, Michigan, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Detroit, Michigan, USA – Downtown Royal Oak (vandalism 🙁 )
• Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Florida West Palm Beach – Please help us find those pianos…
• Gilbert, Arizona, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Girdwood, Alaska, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Howard St, Evanston, Illiniois, USA (Chicago area) – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Indianapolis, Indiana, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Los Angeles – Please help us find those pianos…
• Madison, Branford & Guilford, Connecticut, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Marianna, Florida, USA (Chicago area) – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Nashua Street Pianos 2020
• Phoenix, Arizona, USA – Please help us find those pianos…
• Raleigh, North Carolina (NC), USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Richmond, British Columbia (BC), Canada – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Vancouver 2020 – Pianos in the Street
• Ventura county, California, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Worcester, Massachusetts, USA – See what you helped us find 🙂

Asia

• Tokyo – no findings, other than TMG and Kunitachi

Australia

• Melbourne (AU) – Streetpianos Melbourne 2019 – 3 pianos
• Takapuna, New Zealand – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Tauranga, New Zealand – See what you helped us find 🙂
• Wellington, New Zealand – See what you helped us find 🙂

Europe

• Amsterdam – Already listed but lots more articles, mainly in Dutch
• Aruba, Sovereign state: Kingdom of the Netherlands – Please help us find those pianos…
• Birmingham, United Kingdom – Bullring & Grand Central Station
• Dortmund, Germany – Spiel Mich
• Dublin, Ireland – Please help us find those pianos…
• Hamburg, Germany – Annual Hamburg Bergedorf
• Letterkenny, Ireland – Please help us find those pianos…
• Mainz, Germany – Not sure it’s still there…
• Marbella, Spain – Please help us find those pianos…
• Moscow, Russia – Russian Cyrillic doens’t help
• Pforzheim (DE) 2020
• Radford – Please help us find those pianos…
• Stockholm – Please help us find those pianos…

2020 already shows a jam packed Public Piano calendar, but our piano spotting is never done!

Finding new Public Pianos to play anywhere in the world can be painstaking at times. Annual multi-piano festivals are – comparably – easy to find, provided they get preannounced in English, Spanish, French or German language. Some get published in Japanese (e.g. Kunitachi Tokyo 2018), but are open for searches on key-words in English, lucky us! Some others though only get published in let’s say Chinese/Cantonese (e.g. Shanghai 2019), those are a bit tougher without translated searches or – in that particular case – help from a befriended native speaker.

Single, small scale initiatives though are tough to find without your help! Even if someone posts footage on social media from playing a piano in a local library, there’s a few questions before we decide to nominate a piano in our listings:

• Can we pinpoint the piano to an address or geocode?
• Are we 100% sure it’s like Birmingham (UK) or could it be Birmingham (US-AL) after all? Before you know it, you could mistake Danville, CA for Danville, VA.
• Who put the piano there, could we contact someone to get confirmation?
• Is it – according to OUR definitions – a Public Piano or was it just open for that performance (hello Marcie Castro 😀 )?
• Is that piano still there, or a are we chasing a ghost from the past?

We’re happy to have added a few dozens of pianos to our listings during winter hibernation 2019–2020, but the work is never done and your help is always appreciated for new pianos!

 
For now, stay safe, enjoy playing and thanks for your help all!

From the original worldpianos.org blog, restored by Sing for Hope. View the archived original .