Thursday, March 3, 2011

Ten Ways to Look at a Piano # 4


As Erotic Art


A grand piano sings sex. From long-legged cabaret singers lying on the top of the piano, to jazz and blues melodies, to the honky-tonk rhythms of "Great Ball of Fire", the piano has always been associated with passion and the yin-and-yang coupling of a two-toned keyboard singing love.

At first glance we see the suggestive presentation of the grand, with the sleek feminine lines of hips and breast positioned on phallic legs. The keyboard belt rests like a cincture on the waist and when it is played, the instrument sighs.

Love songs don't get any better than the piano itself, and thousands have been written and birthed pounding the keys. Even a vacant piano suggests the promise of love and creativity, and often, when a couple notices an upright piano positioned against a wall, they wonder: what could we do on it?

In our hearts, we know. Every marriage needs a lounge singer.

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