Physics of Piano Strings and Ben Folds’ Philosophy

Here’s a concert bootleg from Richmond, VA.  ben Folds broke a string on the piano and explained a bit about how the innards of a piano work while his techies were replacing the string… then he tests out the new string on the song that, when he plays, breaks the most piano strings: Philosophy.

To all you young kids out there who never listened to a bootleg audiocassette, this is the same audio quality that your parents (and people like me who like to pretend they are from your parents’ generation… because you have a hot mom) had to put up with when they weren’t able to make it to the concert but their friends with tickets had tape recorders.