Piano
Performance styles

Pianos have also been used prominently in rock and roll and rock music by performers such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Keith Emerson (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), Elton John, Ben Folds, Billy Joel, Nicky Hopkins, Rick Wakeman, Freddie Mercury and Tori Amos, to name a few. At a 2023 auction in Sotheby's in London, Mercury's Yamaha baby grand piano, which he used to compose " Bohemian Rhapsody " among other Queen songs, sold for £1.7 million ($2.1 million), which Sotheby's state is a record for a composer's piano. Modernist styles of music have also appealed to composers writing for the modern grand piano, including John Cage and Philip Glass.
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