There 10 worst things about :

1. Transport

Never try to move a piano without first insuring yourself against absolutely every eventuality. Otherwise, this will definitely happen:

2. Electric pianos

They’re essential for practice, of course, but come on. This is ridiculous.

(Via The Distraction Network)

3. Pianos are a tad pricey

So you need something to practice on, and you’re sick of the synthetic experience of an electric keyboard. Well, it’s probably time to consider robbing a bank or fixing the lottery.

(Via Seattlish)

4. Competitions

The piano competition is the chance to prove yourself to an audience, to yourself and, most importantly, to some hard-nosed judges. But the pressure is immense and can sometimes lead to incidents like this harrowing display of bottle-tapping. Ugh, the embarrassment.

5. When there’s a piano in the pub

“Come on, you can play the piano! Give us a tune now! Make it a good one that everyone knows the words to and you can play flawlessly while drunk and under the scrutiny of an entire building of revellers!”

(Via rowsdowr.com)

6. Attempting to recreate the Lang Lang pose

Yeah. You’re going to fall off the stool at the end of this concert.

7. Sometimes people want to shoot you while you’re performing

This has happened to everyone, right? You know, when you’re busting out a concerto and a red dot appears on your sheet music from a sniper in the wings. Annoying, eh?

8. Hand-cramps

You think your fingers are over-stretched? Robert Schumann, the composer and apparent medical psychopath, made a contraption to actually yank his fingers beyond their natural reach. The result? He couldn’t play the piano any more. Nice work, genius.

9. Tuning

So if a violin goes out of tune, you just wiggle the knobs. If you’re singing slightly flat, you go up a bit. If your piano’s out of tune you either have to hire someone to invade your home for several hours or deal with this kind of reaction:

10. Playing from memory

So this one affects a lot of musicians, but if a pianist has a last-minute memory abandonment issue, this happens (alright, it ends up being a win, but still. Look at her face when she realises. LOOK AT IT!)