Outdoor pianos, celebrity names and free tuition videos combine to get Britons tickling the ivories once more
in May, said the piano’s growing appeal was in part a “lockdown phenomenon”. But also, he said, people sharing three- or four-minute piano pieces online had helped increase enthusiasm for classical music.as are so many piano pieces. And that’s what I’m trying to capitalise on with the programming.”
McGowan, who returned to the piano aged 49, said that playing the instrument was “good for your soul, it’s good for your spirit”. He added: “Ultimately, it brings great satisfaction, and it’s like a sudoku, a crossword, everything rolled into one. Solving the mystery of a piece bar by bar is just better than any crossword to me.
Stephen Pringle, founder of the Sherwood Phoenix piano shop in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, said: “It is a great time to be in the piano business. Finally, the piano is starting to get the publicity it deserves.”, which had cut the dependence of amateurs on paying for lessons. “That, still to this day, is one of the strongest contributions to piano playing, particularly in the last decade,” he said.
In what might seem counterintuitive, digital pianos could be a positive force for piano sellers, he added, acting as a good training ground for first-time piano buyers before they invested in an acoustic one.
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