What song should we put on our piano cover?

February 25, 2021 1:46 PM

I will be knitting a cover for our electric piano. We want to put a song on it. What song should we choose? We are musical theatre nerds of the Oregon Trail generation, and our current song to beat is Piano Man.
posted by DebetEsse to Media & Arts (19 answers total)

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Slayer - Piano Wire
Tom Waits - The Piano has been Drinking
posted by bfranklin at 1:56 PM on February 25, 2021 [2 favorites]

Warren Zevon - Piano fighter
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 1:58 PM on February 25, 2021 [1 favorite]

Chopsticks
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 2:14 PM on February 25, 2021 [3 favorites]

One of Satie's Furniture Music compositions.
posted by niicholas at 2:23 PM on February 25, 2021 [4 favorites]

Super Mario Bros theme song?
posted by umwhat at 2:30 PM on February 25, 2021 [6 favorites]

Regardless of what kind of electric piano you have, any of these songs would be good.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:31 PM on February 25, 2021 [1 favorite]

Neil Diamond - Play Me
posted by music for skeletons at 4:21 PM on February 25, 2021 [1 favorite]

Music Box Dancer
posted by bondcliff at 4:25 PM on February 25, 2021

ABBA's "Thank You For the Music"
posted by The corpse in the library at 5:15 PM on February 25, 2021

Clearly, the answer is the kittycat "solo" portions from King Crimson's "Cat Food."
posted by Dr. Wu at 7:37 PM on February 25, 2021

Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
posted by cali59 at 7:41 PM on February 25, 2021

John Cage's 4'33", because you can perform it without ever taking the cover off.
posted by daisystomper at 7:53 PM on February 25, 2021 [2 favorites]

Heart and Soul
posted by babelfish at 9:35 PM on February 25, 2021

do-re-mi
the piano has been drinking
straight, no chaser
waltz for debbie
solace
bach's blues
humoresque
in an 18th century drawing room
misty
mercy mercy mercy
posted by 20 year lurk at 10:13 PM on February 25, 2021

Scott Joplin - The Entertainer
For some reason that feels like the prototypical piano piece to me

Or maybe some Bach?
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 3:24 AM on February 26, 2021 [2 favorites]

Opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony?
Darth Vader’s theme?
posted by calgirl at 12:30 PM on February 26, 2021

Or you could go the silly route with "Chopsticks."
posted by ZenMasterThis at 4:32 PM on February 26, 2021

What do you mean by "put a song on it"? Knit the title?

My go-to piano song is the Charlie Brown Theme.

Otherwise if you're looking for something piano-y and theatrical sounding I'd go with David Bowie - Oh You PrettyThings.
posted by ihaveyourfoot at 3:08 PM on February 27, 2021 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: I plan to knit the sheet music/notation into the fabric, so that you could, in theory, play however much of it fits by looking at the piano cover. So, no one will know what song it is unless they can read music.
posted by DebetEsse at 5:02 PM on February 27, 2021 [1 favorite]