What do you call a clutch of pianists?
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This bunch are saying goodbye to Franz Xaver Ohnesorg as head of the Ruhr Piano Festival.
Faces include: Alfred Brendel, Pierre Laurent Aimard, Kit Armstrong, Till Fellner, Andras Schiff, Radovan Vlatkovic.
But what would be a suitable group noun for pianists?
A row of pianists?
A clatter of pianists?
A fingering…
Your turn.
A cluster.
A pianola of pianists
Vlatkovich is a (great) horn player.
Mr Vlatkovic is a horn player as far as I know ?
A handful of pianists
The best answer!!
A pedal of pianists.
A gaggle?
According to the Oxford dictionary, it can mean a “flock of geese” or (informally) “a disorderly group of people”.
Lol truth
A soundboard of pianists?
Pianists. As Saint-Saens called us.
In Carnival of the Animals, just to clarify
A whippen of pianists?
A jury of pianists
A bar of pianists
A Battery of Pianists.
Feels a bit like QI, when everybody’s avoiding saying the obvious. Or in this case, commenting on it. No sniggers, yet. Surprising, but pleasing.
A passel of pianists
A PLETHORA OF PIANISTS PIANISTS
You forgot to mention Fabian Müller, who is an excellent german Pianist.
A digitation of pianists.
Somebody please identify all 10 participants (all pianists?) in the picture. Thanks.
Man with glasses, sitting at table: Alfred Brendel, pianist
Man with short sleeves, sitting at table: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, pianist
Man with wine glass, sitting at table: András Schiff, pianist
Woman behind Brendel: Irene Semler, Brendel’s wife
Man with blue bow tie: Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, former head of Ruhr Piano Festival
Young man in center, dark hair: Kit Armstrong, pianist
Man to Armstrong’s right: Till Fellner, pianist
Man to Armstrong’s left: Fabian Müller, pianist and composer
Man with beard, dressed in all black: Radovan Vlatkovic, horn player
Woman dressed in blue: I have no idea
A drove of digitists?
A huddle of Hanonists?
A cluster of klavieristins?
a gliss of pianists
A flounce of pianists
That’s quite a Liszt you folk have come up with
You’ve been Chopin at the bit with your Liszt? Let’s try a paddy of pianists. No disrespect to Irish pianists intended, merely a nod to a great Pole. As Berlin once wrote, “I love a piano.”
A keyboard of pianists
A fistful of pianists….?
A stretch
A Clatter
For the multitude of paino competitons (or Chinese conservatories):
A Piandemic.
If they play for hours:
A Pianothon.
If they play on cruise ships:
A P&O!
…errhhh……
A bunch of key-holders
An accordance of pianists.
a fistful of pianists
A pile of pianists.
A resentment of pianists.
A drimble.
a gaggle of pianist, or if they are bad, a brace of pianists
A keyboard.
How about a “hand” of pianists?
A pantheon of pianists!
A bunch of pianists for a piano bench…
A score of pianists
Judging from this group, it’s a preen of pianists.
A ” Touch” of pianists?
For German-speakers, ein “Anschlag” of pianists? might, however, prove controversial!
Tinklers?
A “Plonk” of pianists!
A plenitude of pianists
A lot of “treble”.
Yow! Knew I would recognize you!
A manege of ( resting) pianists.
(Inspired by a joke told by Vladimir Ashkenazy!)