That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 08, 2020

Jacques was hoping his music skills would attract women.

Creepiest music class ever.

“99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer..”

America’s got talent, 1885 Edition

" ‘A Parisian in America’; It just doesn’t seem quite right."

“Horace, we all love ‘Bringing In the Sheaves,’ I mean, who doesn’t, but we were wondering if you could play another spiritual classic like, say, ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda.’”

Liberace’s not so flamboyant and, should I have to say it, “straight” brother.

‘jacques, where are the women? i distinctly heard you say that there would be babes at the party…’

“Play it again Samuel”

“Well, Monsieur, we’ve caught you red-handed with your hands on the ivories. What were you planning to do with them, hmm? Time for you to sing!”

“Je t’aime; moi non plus”

Reminds me of the Armstrong and Miller piano sketch

Joe had to stand and hold up part of the piano with his head. The conductor forgot his baton and he needed the stick.

“Now a little tune tune called, ‘Me and Bobby McGee.’ It kinda goes like this here; ‘Lester Flatt in Baton Rouge…’”

Play something … Fun!

“Please don’t shoot me, I’m only the piano player”

Somebody asking Billy Joel, “Man, what are you doing here?”

“Tutti frutti, O Rudolph, tutti frutti, O Rudolph…”

One of the guys has a Napoleon complex..

Maurice is the talk of the town/ the “cats” love to watch him “get down”/and tonight he’ll be “hot”/ since (believe it or not !)/ He’s really cut loose – he wore brown !

Jenkins made the other patrons contemplate getting a player piano.

His music was brilliant; his composition, divine. The performance was stunning. But all anyone could talk about was his brown suite.

Me and the boys feel it’s time to have a little chat with you. We’ll need to take a walk to the river if can’t do better than chopsticks.

DR FREUD: During the course of this aversion therapy, each ov you men will sit at the piano for 30 seconds. Ve vill increase the time each session until your fear of the piano disappears!"

PATIENT: But my fear is peeing in public, Dr Freud. FREUD: What? Oh… Well. During hypnosis, I traced it to a piano phobia.

They all knew who the musician of the group was from his crazy outlandish brown clothes he wore.

“Monsieurs, the bidding stands thus: 500 francs to hear La Marseillaise, 500 francs to hear “Piano Man,” 1,000 francs to see me close up the keyboard and go home. Are there any other bids?"

The cats were simply numb/ every one of them struck dumb/ it’s “adieu,Chopin “/ “Bienvenu, Piano Man”/ When he played “piano Homme”

Where have all the young girls gone? Long time passin’

Mendelssohn’s Octet for piano and 7 angry men.

“They Laughed When I Sat Down To Play!”

Around the Piano: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fantin-Latour_Autour_du_piano.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/fantin-latour_henri.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=360 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/fantin/fantin_bio.htm 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-fantin-latour 

http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/4-france08-01.htm 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/f/fantin/biograph.html 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7321/henri-fantin_latour 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/154 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3823/henri-fantin-latour-french-1836-1904/ 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/fantin-latour.htm 

http://www.avictorian.com/Fantin-Latour_Henri.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/05/16?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs, the second of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2530 (September 7, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

I’m missing something

“Until I heard you play, I did not know a piano could be a wind instrument.”

The gentleman on the far right and his twin brother (second from the left) are wondering when that half-sawed leg on the pianists chair will finally give way.

Please someone: what IS the song with the misunderstood lyric referenced?

He isn’t a Yu Ja Wang/nor even a French LangLang/ no one dares to say/ that he simply can’t play/because he brings the booze for the gang.

What is this lyric, ‘cheese burger in paradise’?

Quick gentlemen, the play opens tonight and our best song broke a leg!

the gay bar pianist hoping to get a “trick” plays his heart out, BUT to no avail.

But sir! That will just lead the rats here! We need them out of the country! May I recommend a musical instrument that you can walk with, so that they may follow you?

Dernier cri pour aujourd’hui: "Here’s a tune called ‘Le Roi S’Amuse’./ It’s a ditty I sometimes use/ when some piece of news/ really gives me the blues/ and I recherche those “temps perdus”..