The Art of the Piano

This is a book for music- and art-lovers alike. It includes artwork for pianos inspired by buildings, music, and musicians, legendary performers, and one by an Australian shepherd. The designs range from playful to elegant, but all are inventive and eccentric.

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From the case designed for Glenn Gould with its flat rectilinear screens with a single window, allowing only his feet to be seen, to the lid for George Gershwin showing a man and woman dancing together this is a unique collection of artwork for piano lids. Architect and designer John Diebboll himself has been creating artwork for piano cases over two decades to illuminate piano cases and this collection is a broad-ranging view of the ingenuity, playfulness, and sheer inventiveness of artwork to adorn pianos.