Pianos placed around San Diego for public to play!
Gentleman who saw this fun piano in the middle of Horton Plaza sat down and started playing. The San Diego Symphony is spreading music around the city!
Ten pianos have been placed around San Diego for the public to play! Any ordinary person passing by can just sit down and perform music to their heart’s content!
This very cool and unique “event” is being put on by the San Diego Symphony. Their PLAY ME: Pianos In Public Spaces installation is part of this month’s Upright and Grand Piano Festival, and will continue through February 8.
Feeling inspired? Feeling musical? Feeling like a maestro? Would you like to play some wonderful piano selections for your admiring fans? Then head on over to one of the ten public locations! They are: the Symphony Towers lobby, the Quartyard, the downtown Central Library, Horton Plaza, The Headquarters, the Coronado Ferry Landing, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (downtown location), Liberty Station, Balboa Park (by the Old Globe Theatre) and the California Center for the Arts Escondido!
The San Diego Symphony’s PLAY ME: Pianos In Public Spaces program has placed ten pianos around the city for ordinary people to enjoy!A colorfully painted piano in the lobby of Symphony Towers in downtown San Diego. I swung by here in the very early morning when few people were around.A cool guy plays this public piano at the Central Public Library in downtown San Diego. He heard about this very unique event and came on down to tickle the ivories.One of ten pianos placed around San Diego for the public to enjoy. Many library patrons coming through the front door were treated to unexpected music!This piano has a big cyclops eye. It sits outside in the Quartyard in San Diego’s East Village.Few people were about the Quartyard on Saturday morning. It’s a cool eating and event venue that’s fairly new in this hip neighborhood.Amazing talent takes a seat in Horton Plaza. This gentleman was walking through the shopping mall and saw the piano. He sounded like a professional musician!This fellow enjoyed playing another public piano, which has been placed at The Headquarters, near Seaport Village.All ten pianos have unique artwork, painted by various local organizations. The instruments were tuned by experts at the San Diego Symphony–and they sound amazing!Kids twirl to piano music in the wide courtyard of The Headquarters, which is located in San Diego’s old police headquarters.Finally, I saw this piano in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s downtown location, which is next to the Santa Fe Depot.Signs says that we are proud to present this piano painted by Combat Arts as part of the San Diego Symphony’s Upright and Grand Piano Festival’s city-wide installation. We invite you to play!Piano in public for any random passerby to enjoy. Veterans who painted this instrument are part of an art-based museum program to help combat troops recover from PTSD.
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26 thoughts on “Pianos placed around San Diego for public to play!”
I hope this is something that becomes a regular annual event. My dad would love this, but my parents have a bit more time before they will live here full time. Such a great program!
Oh this is a brilliant idea — great art installations, creating great human moments. You’ll know from my blog that we had a similar project here, in the year leading up to (& during) the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. Worked well here, I’m sure it will be equally positive there.
Yeah, I think I remember that! I’ve always liked the idea of interactive art. Allowing people to be a central part of an artistic experience is a gift to the world.
I am going to move from Santa Barbara to San Diego tomorrow. Looking up something similar to SB makes me feel so great! I wanna try those pianos so bad! Do you know if those pianos will be there during the summer?
very cool
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It is!
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Awesome! What an incredible PR move, and a chance to spark an interest in the lives of people! Thank you for sharing!
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It is a brilliant idea! And I was surprised to see so many people playing!
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I would love to be there to hear them play!
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Very cool!
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Love this idea!
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I hope this is something that becomes a regular annual event. My dad would love this, but my parents have a bit more time before they will live here full time. Such a great program!
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I don’t know if they plan to do that. Great idea!
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What a great and creative idea!
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It really is! I’m sure lots of people will enjoy playing those pianos!
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My late wife was a piano teacher. Music has been in my life all the time. I like Jazz myself.
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I like listening to Jazz, too! Sometimes I wish I’d taken some piano lessons.
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What a wonderful idea this is!
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I thought so, too!
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its certainly very different, and a great way for everyone to enjoy music.
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Oh this is a brilliant idea — great art installations, creating great human moments. You’ll know from my blog that we had a similar project here, in the year leading up to (& during) the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. Worked well here, I’m sure it will be equally positive there.
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Yeah, I think I remember that! I’ve always liked the idea of interactive art. Allowing people to be a central part of an artistic experience is a gift to the world.
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What a great idea! I see that, earlier this week, Elton John donated a piano to London’s St Pancras station, so the idea is spreading…
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I hadn’t seen that! Very cool! I’m thinking Elton John and Billy Joel could donate a whole lot of pianos!
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What a wonderful idea! 🙂 Oh, to be in beautiful San Diego!
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It is indeed a beautiful place!
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I am going to move from Santa Barbara to San Diego tomorrow. Looking up something similar to SB makes me feel so great! I wanna try those pianos so bad! Do you know if those pianos will be there during the summer?
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The pianos are gone. It was just a temporary thing. But there’s lots of cool stuff around San Diego. Welcome!
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Is this still around?
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No, it was a temporary thing. Which is kind of a shame.
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