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Saw a free classical concert at Sanders Hall, the Harvard Landmark Orchestra doing a Rossini and two Beethovens Hotshot conductor dude who’s done a lot of stuff with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, special guest was this Russian chick who’s won all sorts of competitions and stuff. My god this woman was jacked, in this evening gown with crisscrossing spaghetti straps, her shoulders and arms were so muscular you’d swear she freakin swam here from Moscow. So sleek and muscled, in the long slinky dress with glitter in her hair, laying it on the keys like there’s no tomorrow…I’m telling you, comrade, she was an inspiration to workers the world over.

I suppose the piano is the most complicated instrument you’ll find in an orchestra, mechanically it’s got the most going on, so it’ll produce the most varied soundscapes…eighty-eight strings to hit with hammers, with as many chord combinations as you can manage with your hands breadths and the pedals, no other instrument on the stage even comes close to that complexity. And there’s no other instrument that would be more fun to see dropped from the top of the Prudential Building. Sure, throw a tuba or cello from 50 floors up and it’d be kinda amusing to see it hit the pavement, but drop a full size Steinway grand from up there, jeepers I’d pay good money to see that, seriously.