Sadly, I haven't had much time to practice all summer. But apparently I do have time to do a bunch of miscellaneous stuff...
One of the ideas I've been toying around with is getting a little more light on the keys for late night or early morning playing. But I don't have a lot of space behind the piano, and I don't want to have anything sitting on the instrument. As you can see, it's pretty much right up against the wall.
So you know...this seems like the perfect test case for a wall-mounted LED strip.
In fact, it's already installed in the image above!
This isn't super bright, and I wouldn't use it to illuminate sheets (I have a backlit tablet so that's OK), but it does a really good job casting diffuse, shadowless light onto the keyboard/fingers at night. In fact, I don't even run it at 100% brightness when it's dark.
But of course, as Benjamin Franklin once said, if something is worth doing, it's worth doing to an extreme that causes your spouse to roll their eyes and walk out of the room without another word. Which is what happens if you use a 5m-long strip rather than the 1-2ft needed for the actual job:
I call that one the Mace Windu. And of course, you can do weirder stuff, too, if you opt for addressable RGBW segments rather than just single-color:
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to find out what's taking up so much of my day that my practice is suffering!
