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Classical 101

The Five Browns Go Spelunking with a Steinway

Play pianos in a concert hall?  That's so old-school. Yes, three of the Five Browns went spelunking and diving for the sake of making music, recently.  I guess when one of your hottest artists asks you to lower a $55,000 piano through the opening of a rock dome into an underground crater and set it on a platform sitting over a 65-foot-deep geothermal pool - you do it. For the sake of art. Oh - and then you take a dip - in filmy gowns.  I must admit, the video and music paint a beautiful picture.  Can a five piano parachute jump be far behind? The Five Browns aren't the first to take instruments into unusual, hard-to-reach places.  This video by The Piano Guys shows they will also go to great lengths to create just the right scene...they dropped a Yamaha piano on a mesa in Bryce Canyon, Utah. What does it take to put a piano 55 feet underground?  See for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOBMcppMz_U#t=53