PLAYING PIANO

Let me play a Bach prelude for you.

Play La Marseillaise. Play it!

Can you play it?

Mother could play it.

Practice while he played the foot organ.

I was playing my favorite bach.

Do play something, Mr. Smith.

ready, just play some time.

What makes you play that?

So it's unpredictable. We'll paint this palette again.

They went along with the sound of a tinny piano playing in the parlor downstairs.

So you see, he played this note.

And I'm going to have Michael Manring play bass with me.

It's usually played flat on your lap.

And so now we're playing back and forth.

Oh, uh... you mind if i strum a few chords on my guit' box here?

There's so much joy and things I could get from playing an instrument and performing.

Break it off, put it on your finger, and slide into the notes.

to play the same number again.

You know what harps mean? Angels play 'em.

You must fall in love when they're played

He wants us to read poetry and talk about the next life and play fourhanded piano.

So I'm going to show you, we're going to play just for a second.

I used to be a fan of Bach. I used to play it on the guitar, you know.

Last week, at the performance of Carmen, I played a sour note.

Consider the memory of long temporal sequences of movements, like a pianist playing a Beethoven sonata.

This is my brother, Jonny. He's 10, and he plays the banjo.

Raul Midon plays Tembererana

I just break off another bottleneck and play these steel guitar blues.

He strums a banjo joyfully. You're a genius on the flute

Thought all the people here could play the balalaika.

I like music, and I like banjos, and I think I probably heard Steve Martin playing, and I said, I could do that.

And you, I take it, are the Paderewski who plays his concerto on me, the piano?

When I grow up I'll learn to play violin, or start bullying cats.

Call me in the morning after a dose of these steel guitar blues.

It kept him from giving us an accompaniment on that wheezing organ.

If I may interrupt this flow of clichés, it is now that time of day I have set apart for Debussy.

Usman Riaz is a 21 year old whiz at the percussive guitar, a style he learned to play by watching his heroes on YouTube. The TED Fellow plays onstage at TEDGlobal 2012 followed by a jawdropping solo from the master of percussive guitar, Preston Reed. And watch these two guitarists take on a very spur of the moment improv.

So in the end, it's not the most natural environment, but they're able to play real music.

He plays Debussy every afternoon from sunset until it's too dark to read the music.

It's as if the whole population had to shift from being basses to singing as a tenor.

He'll play it. I don't know how we'll react to it, but something will change.

Now, the old timers didn't take a fancy guitar string and make anything like this.

Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral themes. She performs Farther than the Sun, backed by Thomas Dolby on keyboards.