It’s hard to forget a piano. More than difficult, uncomfortable. A piano in the Constitución hall. It could be the name of a comedy with eddy murphy.
You look at it the only way possible: from a distance. Spiritually, it adds. For the rest it seems a bit absurd or photomonted.
This tool is imagined to have one major advantage: may sound anything but trap. Good point, of course, the trap doesn’t have to know what a piano is.
Oblivion is curious. Or is it just a snobbish mistake? If you suspect it’s in transit, it could be a piano traveling on a Roca wagon. And there it was, on one side of the room, silent and strictly supervised. by a gentleman with a fluorescent green bib.
-Excuse me, are you here in case they steal it?
-Yup.
Do you watch it all day?
-Yes, take turns.
-24 hours?
-Exactly. Yes, they start playing, but they don’t know it, we take them out.
– Do they take them out?
-Where they do nonsense, hello…
-Is there a time to play it?
-From 10 to 18, yes, free.
Not even Martha
Not even Martha Argerich’s piano has such protection. More than a tool, it looks like an armored car.
Right now he is alone and crowned by a sponsor. Nobody touches it. Nobody watches it. We approach with caution. We press a key to see if it’s true about the caretaker… Yes: we managed to attract the man’s attention. Yamaha brand electric piano.
There are photos on the networks where you see people touching it. clarion made a field study and in 12 moments of different days; that is to say, in 12 days, he has never seen a human sitting in front of him. The sentry looks worried. You don’t think we are journalists. “What are you doing?” she asks as we take notes.
12 days in theaters and a conclusion -consequently- on pace: the piano is an intimidating object. It is probably the most respectable instrument in the history of music.
Or will it be an artistic intervention? Perhaps the Minujín has something to do with it. If you stop for a second, the piano located in one of the most stigmatized places in the City is a work of art: the mere idea of imagining a person playing it in the gloomy madness of Constitución It deserves a documentary on Netflix.
“A piano with a road,” says a local vendor lunfardo and adds the elephant in the bazaar. Another says about it: “Displaced like Macri dressed as a gaucho”.
press the key
We want to know among the people what a piano does there. The answers leave little flavor: “Aaaaah, yes, look…” or “yes, yes, it’s a piano”. Presence is verified and period. Starting from poverty, today almost everything is naturalized.
– Did you see that there is a piano in the hall?
Oh yeah, I’ve seen it.
-What does a piano do in Constitución?
-The truth? I do not know.
He doesn’t know or care. It is as if he were living in Salzburg.
The benefits of that state of mind called “amazement” are, under penalty of redundancy, amazing: from happiness to health, passing through additional utilities such as generosity, humility and critical thinking. Nothing, a digression.
Survey on the go
We tried another strategy to try to capture interest, now using the manual of the yellow press.
– Good afternoon, we are collecting signatures so that instead of the piano they put another hot dog stand…
-I can not now.
-We are collecting signatures so that instead of the piano….
“With all my love, take care of that piano,” they tell us hastily.
-Hi, we are collecting signatures for a shipment to take the piano out of the station…
-Forget it, there isn’t a train on time, but here you have a piano…
News of October 25, 2022. “Starting this Monday, the Plaza Constitución station of the Linea Roca will have a piano in its central hall that Trenes Argentinos will make available to passengers who know how to play and who want to use it free of charge”.
“The aim of his installation is to promote artistic development and provide a different experience to the public passing through the train stop concourse. The street experience of the piano has already been experienced in the Retiro station with great participation from users”.
“The instrument will be installed thanks to an agreement with the Yamaha company and can be used by anyone with a minimum of musical knowledge.”
get up gentlemen
Suddenly a different manifestation: Majo Galeano. That’s what it’s called.
It was worth the wait. The lady sits at the piano and plays something that sounds like classical music. The caretaker looks at her and, giving her the go-ahead, gently steps back, as if giving up the limelight.
“I don’t always use the train, but at one point last week I said to myself: I have to try it. For me it was a surprise. I played it at the Retiro a few years ago, it was there for a long time, so I was able to use it for a bit (…) I came out of a bureaucracy with a lot of time and, hot, I flew to the piano”.
-Are you ashamed?
-I looked to the sides and no one said anything to me, LOL. Even the caretaker has left. It shows that he saw that he was not going to break it. I was so taken by the proposition that I played for 15 minutes. I’ll talk to a friend who plays the violin so one of these days we can do something together.
With her sculpted nails, Majo touched, among other things, a tiny bit of For Elisa. She looked for the sheet music on her cell phone and tried the keys: “It’s in tune.”
Source: Clarin
