pianoman

Since I'm leaving for London in a little over a month, I've been browsing of kewl things happening over there.  Well this one won't be up when I get that but its worth mentioning.  

"All around London its fellow pianos were waiting, too — 30 of them in a

ll — part of an interactive art project meant to challenge people to come out of their urban insularity and also to provide some summertime music.

The London project is scheduled to last until Monday and has cost about £14,000 (or a bit more than $22,000), Mr. Jerram said. The biggest obstacle was the city’s tangled, multilayered bureaucracy, which required him to obtain a separate music license for each location. He used old, unwanted pianos that people had 'chucked out,'

 Best of all, Londoners have resoundingly disproved the stereotype that they are genetically incapable of spontaneous acts of public exuberance. Professionals and beginners; exhibitionists and their impromptu groupies; players of every aptitude from highly gifted to virtually talentless — all have tried their hand at the pianos."

Why does Europe have such cool projects?  US step up your game.