05-26-2017, 12:52 PM
Does Irma—the ghost who plays the piano at LA's Magic Castle—count?
A great scene in a movie would be some sad bachelor hanging out at the Magic Castle buying Irma lots of drinks to maintain a conversation and relationship.
"Larsen led us through a labyrinth of rooms to a chamber with a bar where a piano was playing "New York, New York." I mean the piano was playing it. There was no one at the keyboard. The keys were simply depressing by themselves.
Since a piano can't play itself, there had to be an explanation. The piano is actually played by Irma, one of seven sisters who lived in the castle when it was a private home at the turn of the century. Irma took a mail-order course in piano and so distracted the family with her eternal practicing that she was banished to the attic, where she stayed until she died in 1932. Irma vowed to haunt the house, and when the piano was discovered and returned to the Music Chamber, her ghost returned with it. She plays any old thing anyone requests. All you have to do is speak up."
A great scene in a movie would be some sad bachelor hanging out at the Magic Castle buying Irma lots of drinks to maintain a conversation and relationship.
"Larsen led us through a labyrinth of rooms to a chamber with a bar where a piano was playing "New York, New York." I mean the piano was playing it. There was no one at the keyboard. The keys were simply depressing by themselves.
Since a piano can't play itself, there had to be an explanation. The piano is actually played by Irma, one of seven sisters who lived in the castle when it was a private home at the turn of the century. Irma took a mail-order course in piano and so distracted the family with her eternal practicing that she was banished to the attic, where she stayed until she died in 1932. Irma vowed to haunt the house, and when the piano was discovered and returned to the Music Chamber, her ghost returned with it. She plays any old thing anyone requests. All you have to do is speak up."