Prepared Piano - in Popular Music

In Popular Music

  • "All Tomorrow's Parties" from The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), John Cale prepared his piano with a chain of paper clips.
  • Denman Maroney performs on what he has dubbed hyperpiano, which "involves stopping, sliding, bowing, plucking, striking and strumming the strings with copper bars, aluminum bowls, rubber blocks, plastic boxes and other household objects."
  • The Noah and the Whale song "Our Window" makes use of a piano prepared with "screws, ping pong balls and tooth picks."
  • Tori Amos song "Bells for Her" has her play a prepared piano.

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