street pianos in nyc

New York City is installing 60 pianos in public spaces, so that anyone can sit down and play a bit. Similar installations have been done in Birmingham, England; São Paolo, Brazil; and Sydney, Australia.

I love this idea, and wonder why music-rich cities like Austin, Memphis, Los Angeles, and Nashville don’t follow suit.

The BoingBoing article on this idea had this comment:

This is all kinds of awesome. There needs to be a some kind of Gov. agency in charge of awesome, that would do this kind of stuff all over the country.

The project is called “Play Me, I’m Yours”, and is being run by Sing for Hope.