Pianos with Personality

There is a vast difference between listening to a recording of piano music and listening to it played in person by someone you know.  Recordings seem dull and dead when you cannot see the person playing.

But in person you can see their expressions, hear the intonation and emphasis--see the pauses between songs and hear the progression of moods within their choices--learn something about the person from the style of songs they choose.  You can know whether they use sheet music or not, how often they touch a petal and with how great of force, whether they sing along as they play or listen in silence, whether they are still or if their movements are fluid or fidgety or energetic.

Look at him--personality!

While listening in person, it is no longer just piano music; the piano becomes the voice of a human soul, just as the body is its physical manifestation.