I was chatting last night to some friends who live very near one of these pianos, and they were telling me they'd had to complain several times because the locks put on the pianos and locked at 11pm kept getting broken off and they were then kept awake by people playing at all hours of the night and early morning. Interestingly enough, the better the playing the more distrubing it was of their sleep. Apart from the odd drunk just banging away, they didn't seem to have attracted too much vandalism.

This is so much more fun than the Cow Parade process that was so popular several years ago (I saw in Chicago and recall that it was done in many cities internationally).

What I like about the pianos is the invitation to play/have fun and idea that one person's response to the invitation would create opprtunities for others around them.

Why shouldn't life be more like your average R&H musical, where people just break into song?

I wonder how it would work if they put up tvs and Rock Band equipment? Fun to think about.

Brilliant idea! I hope the hooligans don't get to them first.

tres cool. can it happen in san francisco soon?

I love this idea! It would be great for classical pianists -- we would get over our fear of playing in public! But it would never work in Buffalo. We have too big a criminal element and those pianos would be trashed.