Direct imgur.com integration is just fantastic. It not only allows embedding, I also find Imgur is less aggressive with compression, keeps image links live for years (much longer than imgbb, photobucket and others) and automatically scrubs your images of metadata (so name, GPS, device, etc. are wiped).
Post pictures of your pianos here!
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What a gorgeous piano 
Don't think I'm not jealous 
Cant wait to hear you play it!
Thanks Sophia and rogerch
Sophia I am rather shy about posting my playing.
Hi
At the moment I own 2 digital instruments, a Casio PX S3000, which I use as my practise instrument for everything and a Korg SV2S (73 note) which I use for gigs.
I'm in the middle of moving house at present, and when that's done I'm intending to get my first acoustic (upright) Piano. I'll post a picture of that, hopefully later this year.
Cheers
Simon
All round average Jazz, Blues & Rock player.
Currently working towards ABRSM grade 8.
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!
Just a couple more shots I took:
White light at night
Warm light from the keyboard
And before I mounted it to the wall, my kids wanted to see what it would look like inside the piano (turns out 15ft is about right to fully wrap around the inside of the rim):
Very interesting, Gombessa. Looks very chic!
That looks incredible Gombessa! Do you experience perceiving different colours when you play?
trecorda Thanks Tre!
It's all for a bit of fun, I like incorporating the piano into the silly smarthome stuff I have running.
I often wish I could "perceive colors as I play" in a synesthesia kind of way, but I guess you could say this is the next best thing! 
The light strip can be set to any color of the rainbow, AND it has a microphone so it can react directly to sounds (piano playing triggers it just fine), so I can set it to flash and wave and do all sorts of stuff in sync with my playing.
If I REALLY wanted to go overboard, I can actually link up all of my house lights and garden to the same system so the entire house and yard and change colors obnoxiously as I play piano. That would NOT go over well with the CEO though.
Here's our most recent instrument- I had a surprise opportunity drop in my lap to pick up a Boesendorfer 225SE reproducing piano early this year and it arrived at my home in California a few months ago.
This is one of 32 production SE models made during Kimball's ownership of Boesendorfer in the late 80s and built into the 225, 275 and 290 semi-concert and concert grand pianos. They were fantastic instruments and very well received, but with no engineering corners cut in the reproducing system design they were far too expensive. When they were new, the SE system added about $60k to the already high price of the acoustic piano. As a result they didn't sell well and were discontinued soon after.
When I bought it from the first owner, the acoustic instrument itself had been well maintained and remains in excellent condition and sounds wonderful. The SE reproducing system electronics had failed, but I have since repaired, adjusted and calibrated the system. I also replaced the computer and I am modernizing the software thanks to support from Wayne Stahnke, the original inventor and engineer of the SE system. This is an ongoing effort, but it's now fully functional.
These instruments sound outstanding as pretty much any Boesendorfer does, but the computer reproducing system takes it to another level, with the ability to exactly reproduce performances that can use the complete dynamic range of the instrument and play back accurately. Anyway, I could natter on and on about it since I have a serious case of 'new toy' syndrome, but will leave it at that. One day soon I am planning to make some video of it playing and will upload to YouTube to share.
In the photo background is our previous instrument that was in this space, a Yamaha C1.
Thanks! It can be a bit loud for a living room particularly if I'm playing back a full concert performance, but otherwise yes it's a very good spot for a grand piano- my wife and I had that on our requirements list when we bought the house about 5 years ago- 'must have a good space for a grand piano!'.
sysadmindave Anyway, I could natter on and on about it since I have a serious case of 'new toy' syndrome, but will leave it at that.
WOW. Please do share more if you can, there are a small few of us here who would absolutely LOVE to hear more about it.
Is this the same SE system demonstrated by Andres Schiff in early videos, where you needed to have a connected terminal hooked up, and instructions were sent to the piano via command line?
