If you are wondering if the piano might be damaged by rain, no worries: it never rains in Israel in the summer.

And looks like the social experiment was a success, but I wonder what would happen if they tried to replicate this experiment in Times Square.

Via Times of Israel.

It was a Tuesday morning in September, and a small crowd had gathered around the grand piano on Jaffa Road, listening to a medley of jazz improvisations performed by a guy who had plunked his battered fedora hat on top of the piano.

His audience included an Arab street cleaner standing under a nearby tree, an older gentleman swinging his leg in tune, an ultra-Orthodox teenager twirling his sidecurls and an Arab woman in traditional dress leaning over the piano, requesting the theme song from “Love Story,” which was later granted.

Unlikely as it may seem, it was a fairly typical scene for the second month of Cadenza Piano’s Jerusalem piano experiment, a company created by two Israeli entrepreneurs, who wanted to see the effect of the musical instrument in a public space….

“People get off the train, stop, play on their way to work, and then move on,” said Evelyn Rubin, a former venture capitalist who runs Cadenza with founder Dan Kaufman, professor of entrepreneurship at Sapir College….

There are daytime and nighttime patterns to the impromptu performances, said Rubin, but while she frequently checks in, she rarely interferes in the scenes taking place around the instrument, preferring instead to let things happen as they will.

“There are incredible things that have happened here,” she said, recalling when two Palestinians played “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem, or when Adam Ippolito, a former pianist for John Lennon, happened by during a visit to Israel and stopped to play….

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