On top of my piano there is:

my metronome
an angel ornament that my auntie gave me
my piano lamp
my clarinet (yes it lives on top of my piano )
a music dictionary, and probably a fair few sheets of music!

Music I have been looking at this week, a big Christmas cactus and a baby Christmas cactus, a metronome and a water stain !!!

Framed photo, singing hamster, a "wobbly man", metronome, lamp.
(sounds like a Generation Game line-up)

And it's an upright...

On Piano
4 small framed graduation photographs
small framed photo of my mum
small framed photo of his dad
metronome
hairclips/clothes pegs to hold music
20 music books in neat pile
small clay pot with coppers
Pencil pot with pens & pencils
3 harmonicas

Propped up under piano
Saxophone
Djembe Drum

Leaning on Piano
2 digeridoos

Down back of Piano
??????? Stuff!

On music stool
another 15 or so music books

under & next to music stool
another 50 or so music books

In music stool
As many music books as it as it can take!

Snap. And a pencil.

on top of the (upright) piano
- all current grade 8 piano music (mine) grade 3 piano music (brothers) and all the piano parts of the violin stuff im working on.
- metronome
- electronic tuner
- pencil
- picture of a piano

on the sofa next to the piano:
- violin
- viola
- violin & viola music
- blanket to cover the piano with
- 3 cushions
- pink highlighter (not entirely sure what its doing there)

Brilliant!!!!

I've just realised that until my Mom blitzed my room (Basically moving everything from the floor, side, window ledge, chair, keyboard and chest of drawers onto my desk and moaning at me ) My keyboard had an astonishing amount of music on it - it's older than I am and rather delicate, I'm surprised it didn't break under the weight.....

Ou "dining room" is never used for dining. The table's covered with sheet music, and the two big baskets full of sheet music are overflowing. The room is also full of instruments: upright piano, electric violin + amp, normal violin, rebec, strumstick, unstrung guitar, strung guitar, clarinet....
It's a rather small room.

My parents are getting a little annoyed with me

(The didgeridoo's upstairs)

Blimey - do the authorities know that Mozart is alive and living on top of noodle's piano?!

actually ...

she didn't actually say that he was alive

(please - not the one about de-composing)

as if I would stoop so low - I am Forums Most Humorous Poster I'll have you know! (Well, for a few weeks more anyway!)
I'll leave that kind of joke to barry...

OH MY GOD THAT JOKE IS THE BEST EVER!

Left - Right

Random bits of paper/random abandoned books :/
Already practised music (these two are in filing thingys)
Two metronomes - one old and broken
Current music.. all piled on top of each other
Hello Kitty figurines :D I love HK okay
Mozart figurine thingy, sitting on edge of piano, watching me play
Two pencils and a rubber

Yeah it's very cluttered. A lot of hassle when the piano tuner comes

Dust. Lots of.

Lamp. 3 piles of music, Barry's guitar stuff. No dust
Bev.

Metronome

3 banksia seed pods

Embarrassing baby photo that I keep removing but someone else keeps putting back..

Statue of a mouse playing piano

A coffee cup magnet with the words "don't do de-caf"

A dachshund shaped glass dish full of sweets

No books though - that's what the floor is for

On my old upright in the living room there's some photographs and a miniture model of a violin. On my digital in my room there's a load of music, some post to be sent off and my digial camera is there too at the minute.

from left to right:
Usually a large stack of music that could fall at any moment
abandoned pencils and rubbers
lamp
another large stack of music in a messy pile
more pencils scattered everywhere

The piano is usually lovely and tidy, with just a lamp in the middle, and the odd pencil or two, because my mum cleans it a lot, but then I come along scatter music everywhere.

The top of our piano isn't too bad. It's whats BEHIND the piano thats awful!
If you cant find the music you want, it will be behind the piano, along with pencils, rubbers, sharpeners, a fair amount of dust, and a spider or two, and occasionally a cat (our cat loves sleeping behind the piano, or on the piano stool, or on your lap if you play!).


Jacob.

Not sure but my sister bought me a bust of Mozart for Christmas a couple of years back!

Untidy piles of music.
Urgent post (there so I don't forget it)
A soundly sleeping tortoishell cat.

This is a really interesting thread - it's nice to be nosy and hear what accumulates on top of everyone's pianos!

On mine there is a touch-sensitive silver lamp, a pink clothes peg, a pencil, a (usually) neat pile of piano books and a black wind-up metronome. And down the back there are at least 3 pencils that I have lost and can't be bothered retrieving!!

A book of Czerny studies and a metronome (put there by my wife) - I wonder if she is trying to drop me a hint!

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On top of my piano is a lamp. Anything else will be there only temporarily as I believe it MUFFLES the sound of the instrument!

What an excellent topic! The top of my piano is clear, but the keyboard has a small notebook on it, with a pencil at either end. Right now, the music stand is overloaded with volumes I and II of World Renowned Piano Pieces, a book of Handel pieces, Brahms Op.118, Beethoven Op.27 No.2, the 'Goldberg Variations', Debussy Preludes Book One, two AB selections of Haydn sonatas and a book of manuscript paper. All the other music is carefully stored in an adjacent bookcase, with a small plaster bust of Liszt perched on top.

my rather ancient U1 has an even older metronome on it - my mother bought me that when I was doing grade 2 and stuck a "you must practice your scales every day" sign on it - the marks ot the sticky tape are still evident to this day

do i have too much music for someone who is only grade one piano?


Lol.

26 ringbinders full of sheets... all nicely alphabatised.
wow i also have too much time on my hands.

A piece of sandstone from the Sahara
A strange carved wooden bowl
A lamp
The accompaniments to my daughter's pieces
2 photos
a CD player
A Barbie doll
Some hairbands
An assortment of CDs
Some felt tip pens

No wonder it makes such a rattling noise when played!

To the people who have cats on or around the piano - do they stay there when you practise?

My old cat used to jump up between my arms onto the keys while is was playing, which could be a bit of a shock, but the cat we have now will sit on the back of the sofa (behind the piano stool) but never actually sit on the piano. It must vary with different cats.

My dog will come and listen to me play too, until she starts licking me feet, at which point she gets chucked out

the dogs come in, and stick there heads right by where the hole is, above the pedals, just below the keyboard, you know what i mean? and then get scared so leave to go back on the couch and watch animal planet, one of them LOVES anmal planet, they lick the screen when they see dogs, and bark at lions etc.

Well, my piano is facing the wall with the door to the left of it and the end of the sofa behind, and I cleared it off yesterday. Now we have a completely bare piano with loads of sheet music next to it in a big box (the books are in my room) and my school bag and other stuff dumped next to it .

My dachshund seems to sense when I'm about to play something requiring pedal then drapes herself over all three at once

Well my piano is digital so doesn't have much room on it...I've got a magazine file with a few of the books I use the most inside it, a little pot with scales and arpeggios written on it (so I can pick some out and random to practise them), and my metronome

Underneath my piano is very cluttered, but there's nowhere else for anything to go!! I've got 3 more magazine file things with more frequently used books in, two folders (one with my exam pieces, comment sheets and certificates in, and the other with loose sheet music), I have a djembe, another random wooden instrument from Jamaica that I don't know the name of, it's beaters, a portable stereo, headphones and a CD holder case thing Ahhh does my head in!! Especially when I'm playing duets!!

However if I had a grand piano and a much bigger room (the room doubles up as a study) then I definitely would have nothing on the piano...I'd be like Hugh Grant in Music and Lyrics where people keep putting their bags etc on his piano and he's like 'Noo!' and moves it all off

Interesting thread


Laura

-a cuddly alpaca
-a family of Kleenex bears
-an underused duster
-a miniature violin
-a huge pile of official forms I haven't got time to fill in
-a gigantic ice-cream tub full of little bits of paper with scale names on them (which I can throw away since doing my grade 8 today! )

you can never practice enough scales.

I will still play some scales, it's just nice to throw away the tools of enforced scale practice. I certainly won't be touching legato thirds on A#/C# again. I must have spent HOURS practising those, only to have a complete blank in the exam because I was still panicking at that point. Ah well. Perhaps when I have got over the trauma.

Call me weird but I find those kinda fun to play ..
Hope I still feel the same tomorrow AAAAAHHHH !!!!!

I watched The Fabulous Baker Boys the other day. I liked what they had on their piano!

A mountain of music which I keep meaning to put away, but scares me too much to even try to tackle, a collection of hairbrushes (my Mum's, not mine!) pens and pencils, manuscript paper, lined paper, my most recent school photograph featuring my 300 strong year group (this takes up over hlaf the length of the piano) and my brother's practise pad and drum sticks. I used to have a collection of recorder on top of the piano, but found that they rolled off quite a lot.

As for animals, my cousin's dog likes to sit on your feet while you play the piano. This is very toning for the calves as you lift him up and down when pedalling!

Exactly!

I agree! Piano Dealers should offer one free with every purchase!