this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This specific image is actually from a completely different event, it was a contestant in the Cincinnati World Piano Competition.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/06/12/world-piano-competition-fingers-bleed/71132872/

~~The pianist cut his pinky with one of the bass keys~~

“The edge of the key was very sharp. I landed at an angle on the edge of the key, which sliced the finger like a knife.”

https://oclassica.com/2022/10/24/rachmaninoff-blood-and-roaring-ovations-at-lincoln-center/

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok but why was the key so sharp?!

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Booooo

(Nice)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Groaners like this are what I look at comments for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I don't know if it means that there is something wrong with me but that is one of hottest (as in sexy) things I have ever read. Rachmaninoff in a bloodbath as the keys got slippery and sticky... My pulse literally quickened.

*New Kink Unlocked *

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I understand that Moonlight Sonata is a period piece, but I think this is not what they meant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The third movement could do this to your fingers too

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ohh....god you made me remembered my old nighmare

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

🎼 Played it til my fingers bled; it was the summer of 69 🎶

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I’ve got blisters on me fingers!!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

"There are no two words in the English Language more harmful than "good job.""

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Exactly this and not a word more is the correct comment to this picture.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Flamin Hot Cheetos dust 🙂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When you are too introverted to dare to ask for help

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry, my hemorrhoids are acting up again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Was I rushing or dragging?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Someone's playing way too hard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I suspect young children who didn't wash their hands after some craft activity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Or eating with ketchup

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Those Erlkönig performances do get intense sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This image feels like a metaphor for my life over the last 4 months

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Might be wine?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Old Jim's piano....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Jesus Ling Ling chill out!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Did they use Bon-Ami?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Me after writing notes on keys