History Main / PianoKeyWave

* Happens several times during MickeyMouse's piano recital in "The Opry House".

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* In the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} "Three Orphan Kittens", three kittens climb on a player piano and turn it on. The keys bounce up and down, carrying the kittens along. When the speed is turned up, the kittens are being juggled about and one is even spanked by the hammers inside.

* In ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', the piano player in the run-down pub makes the keys bounce in the air in a few close-up shots.
* Disney's ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' features a rough-looking barbarian [[Disney/PeterPan playing the piano with a hook for a hand]], causing the keys to do all sorts of gymnastics. By the end, so many have gone flying that it's hard to believe there are any left on the piano.

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* VictorBorge had a comedy bit where his piano sounds wrong... so he takes the row of keys out, flips them, and it sounds perfect.

* The Beethoven level in ''DragonsLair''.

* In the ClassicDisneyShort "Three Orphan Kittens", three kittens climb on a player piano and turn it on. The keys bounce up and down, carrying the kittens along. When the speed is turned up, the kittens are being juggled about and one is even spanked by the hammers inside.

* In the ClassicDisneyShort "Three Little Orphans", three kittens climb on a player piano and turn it on. The keys bounce up and down, carrying the kittens along. When the speed is turned up, the kittens are being juggled about and one is even spanked by the hammers inside.

* Yamaha's Disklavier piano, which is similar to a player piano, creates waves at parts of {{Animusic}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gx8iBqF7-4 "Starship Groove"]]. What's more interesting that the piano is real, rather than animated.

* The ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' cartoon "Rhapsody Rabbit" has quite a few of these, including the piano keyboard acting like a typewriter carriage and, at one point, Bugs literally ''picking up the keys and letting them fall back down.''

* The ''BugsBunny'' cartoon "Rhapsody Rabbit" has quite a few of these, including the piano keyboard acting like a typewriter carriage and, at one point, Bugs literally ''picking up the keys and letting them fall back down.''

** Also in the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "TheCatConcerto". In fact, the two cartoons were so similar that Warner Brothers and MGM sued each other for plagiarism.

* In ''TheGreatMouseDetective'', the piano player in the run-down pub makes the keys bounce in the air in a few close-up shots.

* Disney's ''{{Tangled}}'' features a rough-looking barbarian [[PeterPan playing the piano with a hook for a hand]], causing the keys to do all sorts of gymnastics. By the end, so many have gone flying that it's hard to believe there are any left on the piano.

* Disney's ''{{Tangled}}'' features a rough-looking barbarian [[PeterPan playing the piano with a hook for a hand]], causing the keys to do all sorts of gymnastics. By the end, so many have gone flying that it's hard to believe there are any left on the piano.

* The Other Father does this in ''Film/{{Coraline}}''. Possibly justified since [[AWizardDidIt it's a magic piano]].

** Also in the ''TomAndJerry'' cartoon "TheCatConcerto". In fact, the two cartoons were so similar that Warner Brothers and MGM sued each other for plagiarism.

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* The Other Father does this in ''{{Coraline}}''. Possibly justified since [[AWizardDidIt it's a magic piano]].

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* There is a general violation of piano physics in ''[[TheMarxBrothers A Day at the Races]]''. Chico [[TheCastShowoff plays the piano expertly, as usual]], but when Harpo tries to play Rachmaninov's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on it, it falls apart explosively for no good reason. He takes out the strings and [[EverythingIsAnInstrument plays them as a harp instead]].

** [[{{Shrek}} Shrek 2]] features the exact same gag, minus the physics-defying keys; the ridiculousness of Captain Hook playing the piano and doing it well is allowed to carry the gag on it's own (which may, in fact, be why Tangled did it using this trope; it'd seem like they were ripping it off unless they topped it).

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* The Other Father does this in ''{{Coraline}}''. Possibly justified since [[AWizardDidIt it's a magic piano]].

* Disney's [[Tangled]] features a rough-looking barbarian [[PeterPan playing the piano with a hook for a hand]], causing the keys to do all sorts of gymnastics. By the end, so many have gone flying that it's hard to believe there are any left on the piano.

* Yamaha's Disklavier piano, which is similar to a player piano, creates waves at parts of {{Animusic}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gx8iBqF7-4 "Starship Groove"]]. Whats' more interesting that the piano is real, rather than animated.

* The ''BugsBunny'' cartoon "Rhapsody Rabbit" has quite a few of these, including the piano keyboard acting like a typewriter carriage and, at one point, Bugs literally ''picking up the keys and letting them fall back down.''
** Also in the ''TomAndJerry'' cartoon "TheCatConcerto". In fact, the two cartoons were so similar that Warner Brothers and MGM sued each other for plagiarism.
* Happens several times during MickeyMouse's piano recital in "The Opry House".

* The Other Father does this in ''{{Coraline}}''. Possibly justified since [[AWizardDidIt it's a magic piano]].
* The Beethoven level in ''DragonsLair''.

* VictorBorge had a comedy bit where his piano sounds wrong... so he takes the row of keys out, flips them, and it sounds perfect.

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** Also in the ''TomAndJerry'' cartoon "Cat Concerto". In fact, the two cartoons were so similar that Warner Brothers and MGM sued each other for plagiarism.