Ferzakerly. The guy must be looking for publicity. CD sales are obviously down. Good pianos last a hundred years if taken care of. Nutter.

 

set by trendsetter.

 

Hope I'm not living in his old house...

 

Obviously a Who fan.

 

Let's just hope he doesn't show appreciation for his fans, wife, dog...etc...anytime soon.

 

Can definately relate to this - brilliant!! We launched a psychadelic blue piano into the sea last year in the UK so think burning pianos are great! :)

Photos from our piano in the sea can be found at www.oposium.com or you can watch the film on youtube at www.youtube.com/thesphericalsphinx

I challenge Yosuke to a crazy piano duel! ;)

 

If Japan and Japanese people are soooo "green" and "environmental champions", and are allegedly supporters of charity, why was this man's piano not sold, and the profits going to charity? After all, would not burning a piano lend to "global warming", greenhouse gasses, et. al.? Wouldn't selling the thing and giving the profits to some environmental group be better, and a better way to dispose of a grand piano??? Burning it seems like such a wretched waste.....

 

this is the only thing he could do for posterity...
nobody wants his piano...

 

Oh come on ... think outside the box. Playing a burning piano has got nothing at all to do with global warming (although everybody is obsessed with that nowadays so it's little surprise you [blue_tiger] jumped on that...). Try picking up the litter at the end of your road and helping your local community rather than trying to save the world - or sell your car. That would help more!

If it wasn't for people like Yosuke pushing boundaries and experimenting like this then we would never discover anything!

The inter-continental piano challenge still stands though! ;P

 

This guy has single-handedly blown away any CO2 savings made and set the whole cause back. That's a bit of a dent in plans for the upcoming summit in Hokkaido and what a moron for not taking that into consideration. He's setting such a bad example.

Now on to the real concern, when is he going to smash that piano? Or will he just push it into the sea to join the rest of the garbage on the ocean floor. Woops.

 

geez, if you were this guy's ex-wife or girlfriend you'd be locking the doors and bolting the windows right about now..

seriously, it's more than a little selfish, isn't it? no one else could have made music on it, like maybe some community center for seniors or underprivileged kids?

 

I don't imagine he can play very well in that full body flame retardant suit!

 

I agree - what a dreadful waste.

 

Conical Sphere: Acrtually, I DID sell my car, right before coming to Japan, and haven't bought another one since (though my wife would really like to get one), and it's been ten years since I did that. How's that for "tangibly" aiding in reducing global warming? I guess you misse the part where I was being cynical towards Japan, and this Jaspanese "artist". As far as this display pushing any boundaries? The only boundaries it pushed were that of stupidity and selfishness...

 

To see someone burn a Grand Piano for some belief or reason is a crime. I remember when my father had to sell his Baby Grand Piano in 1938, because we were moving to another part of Canada & renting a home. This was something he purchased prior to the depression in 1929 & I grew up, from childhood, with it being part of my home & the music that came from it.

I honestly feel that really hurt him for he loved playing Jazz or to hear anyone else use the piano. Music was a big thing to us as a family.

He passed away in 1987 & his Hammond 'Regent' organ (mind you he bought several upright pianos to 4 or 5 organs) still sits in a corner of the living room. True to be just a dust collector. I have tried to sell it for $100.00 or even give it away, but organs have not been a fad to most people now, to not even new church groups.

Still I would never burn it for it is a music instrument. I have hope someone, sensible, will come around, try it out & possibly it will be theirs.