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Time-Lapse Vid Shows What Happens When a Piano Is Left ‘Solo’ on the Streets of NYC

Dec. 14, 2012 8:35pm Liz Klimas

New York filmmaker Anthony Sherin describes his latest film as “pure serendipity,” in a post on the New York Times.

He wrote that as he went to his desk thinking he was ready to start another film, he heard someone tickling the keys of a piano. The source? It was outside on the street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. It was just left there.

“I was mesmerized by the pattern that emerged,” Sherin wrote. “Passers-by would slow, stop and play. Some played well. All day long they collected and dispersed, and into the night they measured, shoved and deliberated the piano’s fate.”

Solo, Piano NYC Shows What Happens to an Abandoned Piano on the Street

(Image: Youtube screenshot)

He mind-reads the thoughts of many who stopped by, saying that no one wanted to leave it there. Many pondered if they’d somehow be able to take the grand instrument home.

(Image: Youtube screenshot)

The next morning though, the piece, which many clearly expressed interest in making their own (if they could), was broken down with sledge hammers and swept away.

(Image: Youtube screenshot)

Putting together still photographs he took with an original piano score by his friend Art Labriola, Sherin had his film, which he says he’s shown at festivals.

Watch the artful piece depicting an abandoned instrument’s fate in “Solo, Piano — N.Y.C.”:

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Comments (61)

VaARNG_Guardsman
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:46pm
ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz. Not even close to as cool as the bike on the post.

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txgrrl
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 10:31am
The sad part is the two people at the end who came in with dolly wheels because they wanted to take it home or use it in some way. They were really sad because it was too late. They could have donated it to a theatre so it could be used as a set prop. This was a really cool video.

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NoIntelligentLifeOnThisPlanet
Posted on December 15, 2012 at 4:12pm
Getting the scrap metal out of it at least for recycle. Maybe some good pieces of wood for someones woodworking project.

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pavepaws
Posted on December 15, 2012 at 3:30pm
A truck, a truck! My kingdom for a truck.! Alas, the young couple, too little too late.

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PingPongPing
Posted on December 15, 2012 at 3:23pm
why does this remind me of OBAMACARE AND THE DEATHPANELS?

I guess due to increasing cost of keeping people alive, it would be easier to let them die early instead of making them better.

like the destruction of the piano…

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dave88
Posted on December 15, 2012 at 2:22pm
This is what happens to your soul if you spend much time in New York.

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AllLost
Posted on December 15, 2012 at 10:23am
A grand allegory for America today. The old glory seen in a beaten, and misused instrument standing alone. Even in this distressed state people see the value, and know the joy it can produce, but they do not know how to bring it back, how to have and to hold it. Then the establishment sees it as something in the way, something that must be destroyed and erased from reality.

That is what we are. We are a broken instrument standing alone. The instrument can be repaired to its former glory, but the powers that be would rather destroy her and erase her from existence.

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Comcast3
Posted on December 15, 2012 at 10:22am
Movie; Lord of War……when Nicholas Cage is forced to land the Russian cargo plane in Africa and the locals take it completely apart within a day.

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perry1980
Posted on December 15, 2012 at 9:39am
What an accurate depiction of NYC
If you can’t take it you destroy it.
Move out of that city people.
Sad for the rest who enjoyed the piano.

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piper60
Posted on December 15, 2012 at 9:38am
To paraphrase southpark:”They killed the piano, the basterds”.

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