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That Creative Life

Dotan Negrin - Traveling the World With An Upright Piano

That Creative Life

Sara Dietschy

Business, Design, Gary Vee, Technology, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Sara Dietschy, Sara Peachy, Arts, Filmmaking, Youtube, Gary Vee Audio Experience

4.8775 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dotan sold everything to live life in a truck, travel the world and play piano for people. Based in NYC, he is still playing piano on the streets, but now making experiences online and in his Tribeca commercial space.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to another episode of the Creative Exchange today. I have my friend Doton with me.

0:06.4

Woo! So you are otherwise known as piano around the world, but it doesn't stop there. So tell people a little bit about yourself.

0:16.9

Hey guys. So my name is Doton and so for the last seven years I've been traveling around the world playing piano in public spaces.

0:27.7

Meeting people going on adventures and I like to say throwing myself into the wind and seeing where I land because I love that idea of letting myself go and seeing what I can discover, who I can meet,

0:43.0

what I can learn in the process.

0:46.8

Piano around the world isn't just tiny piano or tiny electric piano.

0:51.1

You actually bring your massive, real piano. Like, what do you call a real piano?

0:56.7

Like a big wooden piano? How do I, some people don't understand how insane it is to bring a massive

1:04.7

piano to countries around the world. I mean, like, where have you been? What are some of the

1:09.5

craziest places that you've played your massive wooden piano? Well, mean, like, where have you been? What are some of the craziest places that you've

1:11.2

played your massive wooden piano? Well, so this is an upright piano. It's like there's

1:17.3

different types of like uprights and there's the smaller upright, there's a mediums, these large

1:22.0

like thousand pound uprights. But then they have like obviously a grand piano and all that in different sizes.

1:28.9

So I bring a, it's a console upright piano.

1:32.9

And I've been anywhere from the jungles of Costa Rica to, what else I go?

1:40.1

California to Swiss Alps.

1:43.2

Wow.

1:43.6

Well, that one I actually, so I I flew to Paris I bought a piano in Paris

1:47.1

for like 300 euro and then I did this whole trip through Europe and then I sold it at the end and I gave like a piano to this guy

1:54.7

that is so insane so you just get a big trailer and you put it back there and how, like the logistics of it.

2:03.1

So when you're in the U.S., do you do the same thing?

2:05.4

Like you put it in a big trailer, you drive around.

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