Piano

Piano
Object information
Manufacturer	C. J. Gebauhr
Usage	Musical instrument
Owners	Granger family Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry House of Black Horace Slughorn

"There will be no floral arrangements at this dance. No sugary refreshments either… and the only sounds I want to hear that evening are a lonely classical fortepiano."

— Madam Irma Pince regarding her original plans of the Valentine's Day Ball

The piano, or fortepiano, is a musical instrument. C. J. Gebauhr was a known piano maker in the 19th century.

History

There was a piano on display in the shop Flutes and Lutes in Hogsmeade during the 1890–1891 school year.

A goblin was playing a piano at The Blind Pig in New York in the 1920s.

During the candidate's dinner party at the German Ministry of Magic, a house-elf was playing a piano with a suit on. He stopped playing once Gellert Grindelwald and his acolytes walked in.

Bathilda Bagshot owned a piano at her house.

Madam Irma Pince, the organiser of the Valentine's Day Ball during the 1988–1989 school year, originally visioned the sounds of a piano as the only sounds she would like to hear that night.

There was an old rusty-sounding piano in the Shrieking Shack.

The music players used a piano at Hogwarts during the Yule Ball.

The Grangers had a piano in their house, on which Hermione apparently learned to play.

Ron and Hermione playing the piano at 12 Grimmauld Place

There was also a grand piano at 12 Grimmauld Place, under the possession of the House of Black and, in the late 1990s, of Harry Potter. Shortly after the fall of the British Ministry of Magic in 1997, Hermione Granger, Ronald Weasley and Harry Potter hid at 12 Grimmauld Place. While in there Hermione tried to teach Ron how to play Für Elise, however he did not play well.

Albus Dumbledore: "Are you really telling me that [the Death Eaters] haven't come recruiting yet?"

Horace Slughorn: "I haven't given them the chance. I've been on the move for a year. Never stay in one place more than a week. Move from Muggle house to Muggle house — the owners of this place are on holiday in the Canary Islands — it's been very pleasant, I'll be sorry to leave. It's quite easy once you know how, one simple Freezing Charm on these absurd burglar alarms they use instead of Sneakoscopes and make sure the neighbours don't spot you bringing in the piano."

— Albus Dumbledore and Horace Slughorn discussing the latter moving from Muggle house to Muggle house

Horace Slughorn also kept a piano, which, according to him, was the hardest thing to conceal from the neighbours when he moved from Muggle house to Muggle house in the 1990s. When Harry and Dumbledore first arrived at the Muggle house, the piano was on its side with its keys strewn across the floor, part of Slughorn's ruse that he had been attacked.

There was a grand piano at Hogwarts Castle, placed inside the Music Classroom on the fifth floor. By 2008, the Hogwarts common rooms each had a piano.

Several pianos were located in the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts Castle in 1998 during the Battle of Hogwarts.

The piano in The Burrow

The Weasley family also kept a piano in their home The Burrow.

Cassandra Vole played the piano along with Filius Flitwick conducting the Hogwarts orchestra in the Great Hall at Hogwarts during Chinese New Year celebrations.

Behind the scenes

• In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, there is a piano in front of the Quidditch pitch in the past of the 1993–1994 school year.
• One of the possible questions that can be asked during the sorting quiz on Pottermore is about musical instrument preferences. One of the possible answers is the piano.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
• LEGO Harry Potter
• Pottermore
• Harry Potter (website)
• Harry Potter: The Creature Vault (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
• Hogwarts Legacy