This is a video of pianist Vinheteiro (previously) performing a medley of the ten most popular saloon songs by Scott Joplin on a period-appropriate 1915 Barthol & Berlin upright piano. I swear, ‘The Entertainer’ gets me every time. It just makes me so happy. Now close your eyes while you

This is a video of musician Scott Bradlee performing a delightful ragtime medley of Super Mario songs originally written by Nintendo composer Koji Kondo. I love ragtime music, it’s so upbeat. And I need that because I’m usually downbeat. And browbeat. And just beat in general. I could use a

This is a video of ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober building and experimenting with Chopstix, a googly eyed, midi-controlled transparent player piano he built that can not only play some of the hardest songs out there like Rush E (previously), but also talk via pressing its keys to form the necessary

This is a video of musician Lorenzo Vaccaro playing “the supposedly impossible MIDI track Rush E” at a very respectable 152BPM. For reference, that’s about my heart rate on my walk down the driveway to get the mail. My doctor says I’m going to die. My bookie says the same

Ever wonder what a piano would sound like if its soundboard was completely submerged in water? Well you’re in luck, because Youtuber/piano sadist Mattias Krantz does just that in this video, which may also double as a long-form commercial for Flex Seal. The piano sounds completely different depending on whether

This is a video of Youtuber Handy Geng building and demonstrating his ingenious ‘BBQ Car’, a motorized piano that can be driven around WHILE PLAYING MUSIC AND BARBECUING. When you press a key the piano both plays a note AND spins the corresponding rotisserie skewer above. My God, such genius!

This is ‘The Detachable Rag’, a video of musician Jordan Ruddess performing a ragtime song on a Pocket Piano (a modular 88-key electronic keyboard designed for ease of transport) as his friend Maddi removes octave segments of the board, leaving him with fewer and fewer keys on which to play,

To celebrate Mario Day (Mar10), this is a video of classically trained pianist/starer Lord Vinheteiro performing the Super Mario Bros overworld theme on a baroque harpsichord while dressed as Mozart. Towards the end he also does a little underworld theme, and the starman theme (when Mario gets an invincibility star).