"The wrong piano": How the challenges we face can be an opportunity to create something extraordinary - The Churning

"The wrong piano": How the challenges we face can be an opportunity to create something extraordinary - The Churning

When pianist Keith Jarrett arrived at the Cologne / Köln opera house in 1975 he found that the wrong piano had been put on stage for him. Instead of a top-of-the-range Steinway Grand, the workmen had put on stage an old, practice piano — out of tune, with keys that stuck. The upper register was harsh and tinny. It was simply not the kind of piano that a musician of his calibre should be expected to play. Was it a mistake? Was it because he was B…