Piano Day Pittsburgh Takes Music to the Streets

Event is the inspiration of Carnegie Mellon's Peter Stumpf. A flatbed trailer carrying a grand piano will become a stage on wheels, filling downtown Pittsburgh plazas with music from Carnegie Mellon University students, alumni and staff, and several jazz legends. Piano Day Pittsburgh , Aug. 24-25, is the inspiration of Peter Stumpf, CMU's piano technician. In 2016, he strapped a Steinway & Sons grand piano to a flatbed truck with the help of some volunteers and drove it around town. "Taking a piano outside is a crazy idea," Stumpf said. "There are so many risks from weather, flying debris or something unexpected.
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