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Originally Posted by Gardener
Well, if you're ready to prepare the piano with all kinds of stuff and play directly on the strings in crazy ways, you have lots of timbral options. There's lots of fun stuff you can do with a piano, as long as the piano either belongs to you, or the owner doesn't mind risking rusty strings  |
True...but it's a lot more complicated picking ping-pong balls out of a piano than it is to remove a set of chopsticks from guitar strings.
And yeah, finding someone willing to leave their Steinway at the mercy of free-improvisors is troublesome.