Man Playings Burning Piano

A Japanese musician has recreated an old performance by playing an improvised jazz piece on a burning piano.
Yosuke Yamashita was reproducing the stunt he performed for a short film in 1973.

Footage courtesy of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art of Kanazawa

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• fire
• music
• jazz
• classic
• japan
• nutter
• piano
• WTF
• wierd
• strange
• BBC News
• Yosuke Yamashita
• 1973

[FriendshipStar]

it's sad to see a piano burning.

[marvinracer88]

Btw, what the fuck was that? Look how wealthy i am so i destroy a $16k piano?

Retard. Well, he got his 1:43 minutes of idiotic fame. Lol.

[aidan9565]

Should have played through the fire and the flames :)

[AlejandroGarcia94]

@NynhoOliveira art is about destroying and creating from chaos. I bet you have that

[AlejandroGarcia94]

@HandelMcmandle mr mangum never leaves people indifferent

[NynhoOliveira]

I hate idiots like these. I'm brazilian and poor. I love piano and I never see one ;\ I never touch in one, that's my dream. And idiots like this burn his piano. I've one thing to say: I hate you, son of the bitch

[pardn]

People, stop bitching. How else are you supposed to know what a burning piano sounds like without setting it aflame? Besides, doesn't anyone else remember that wonderful period in the 19th-20th century when composers would stick metal cans, nails, and other junk into a piano just for the sake of exploration?

[Guakingo]

Interesting comments. So it is absolutely terrible to burn a piano for a film (according to the notes) but it is perfectly allright, if not expected, even, to destroy heaps of cars for a standard american action film.

[HandelMcmandle]

NOW SHE'S A LITTLE BOY IN SPAIN, PLAYING PIANOS FILLED WITH FLAMES!

[harfenengel666]

hmmmm jimy hendrix did that better......

[uzzan101]

@Assassin95pfk

he's Japanese.....

[Assassin95pfk]

@marvinracer88 yeeh thats right stupid americans