this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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[–] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 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/

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok but why was the key so sharp?!

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Soup@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Booooo

(Nice)

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Groaners like this are what I look at comments for.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

The third movement could do this to your fingers too

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I’ve got blisters on me fingers!!!

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Myr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] clever_ideas_sometimes@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hegar@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When you are too introverted to dare to ask for help

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, my hemorrhoids are acting up again

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago

Someone's playing way too hard.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Or eating with ketchup

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Those Erlkönig performances do get intense sometimes.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Old Jim's piano....

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Jesus Ling Ling chill out!

[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] xep@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

Might be wine?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Robert Downey Jr: "Someone wrote the names of the notes on it with a marker, and didn't clean it properly afterwards."

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Did they use Bon-Ami?

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

Me after writing notes on keys