Kudos to the developer. This is a great idea. I’m traveling shortly, and always remind myself - don’t bring too much music gear, as there is ALWAYS a piano around somewhere.
Openstreetmap has a tag for public pianos:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpiano
and a discussion:
This is a great idea, but the UX feels difficult:
- If I search, I get local results. But expanding the map should bring in more results. After all, I can start with the world map and filter down to my area, so why not have the same functionality in reverse?
- Zooming in from the world map all the way to my towns, I see 2. If I click one, the map zooms out and puts their icons together. I have no idea how to see details on these.
- The search results only showed one. Why are the results better when not searching?
Still, great idea, if the experience can be improved.
Great idea! Small feedback: one of the pianos listed for Minneapolis is in Concourse C at the airport. While this is, in fact, an actual piano, you have to go through security to play on it. So I'm not sure if this counts as a public piano?
Is there something like this but for those needing to practice?
Schools offer music rooms to their students, however, it would be nice if something like that was searchable and available for those traveling.
The only listed piano in my town is in a hotel lobby. I haven't gone there, but I'd assume that counts as semi-public, they probably don't like if non-guests come and play.
A piano left outside is as good as dead. Weather is even more a threat than vandalism.
Then there's tuning. The piano needs to settle in to the going temperature and humidity. Low humidity will split soundboards and many commercial spaces in northern winters allow humidity to sag. So you need to schedule tunings to seasonal changes as the wooden components (soundboard, bridge, nut, wrench plank, etc) expand and contract with humidity changes.
Best to keep a public piano where somebody keeps an eye on it.
I clicked "Nearby" and it just took me to an entirely gray map screen (no map, no pianos).
Seems to be reproducible by just searching for my city: https://pianos.pub/search?q=Tampere%2C+Finland&lat=&lon=
Console says:
leaflet.js:5 Uncaught Error: Bounds are not valid.
at i.fitBounds (leaflet.js:5:28718)
at search?q=Tampere%2C+Finland&lat=&lon=:355:23I suggest you go for the smaller piano icons on the Leaflet map.
A lot of train stations in the Netherlands have public pianos - some of them were closed for covid, but it seemed a bit inconsistent
https://nltimes.nl/2018/05/22/hobby-musician-plays-piano-16-...
Definitely seems like a lot of false positives. Lots of pianos in my neighborhood (Brooklyn NY) that no way exist
Love the idea. But there's a snag. If I search for my town, I get a lot of “likely not available (last seen years ago)”. If I click on “recent”, I get entries from all over the world. It seems to me that being able to filter by both would be essential to be able to actually find a piano.
Love it, but I wish it's database was bigger.
I live a bit outside Boston, MA, and it brought up 2 results: one on martha's vinyard (a small island off the coast of cape cod) and one somewhere in a library in boston.
Was hoping for a few more results, esp. being near a large city.
This one has a photo that links to a deleted/gone instagram post? Should the photo be taken down, for privacy? https://pianos.pub/piano/df042e84 Sorry to ask the hard questions.
This one as a video https://pianos.pub/piano/a9e918f3 of the piano right by the water but the map location is 2-3 blocks from the water. The piano in the video seems to be that guy's own piano, so not a public one? The guy plays a nice self-composed tune, at least.
I like the idea of public pianos but it is rare to find one in a playable state.
Quick test. I typed in "Berlin". First hit was Berlin Stralau (correct), second hit was ... Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands?!
A lot of spam, sadly. Flagging functionality needed…
I would love this for 3D printers. I’m calling hacker spaces and libraries trying to find one close to me.
So many!
The About page refers to '... to the suburbs of Japan, to the cliffs of Australia', but both links find nothing.
I am surprised there are none in Japan, but I assume that is mainly a scrappping / language problem.
Folsom california has a public piano near the tea shop and candy shop:
https://i.imgur.com/Bn7uo3e.jpeg
right here
Here’s my version of the same idea haha
There used to be one in my city but people kept vandalizing it. Very disappointed that a few idiots can ruin something cool for the rest of us
I remember the airport in Finland had one and a young guy was play some beautiful classical music on it.
Useless: All the pianos it has for my city were only there for one time events.
Perfect results in my area!
Post this on the /r/piano subreddit, they will love it too.
Why do most of them have likely not available? Due to covid?
Apparently the only piano is in Ukraine
whiteboard exercise: from the video evidence, tell me how many of them are in tune :)
Wait, this is not what pianos look like :P
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Seems like it could be a part of OSM. And indeed, there's "amenity=piano" [1], as well as "musical_instrument=piano", with overpass-turbo [2] even finding some pianos using the latter.
[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpiano
[2] https://overpass-turbo.eu/