Musical Flowers

Canada Blooms, Canada's largest flower and garden festival, recently came to an end.  Although I did not go, I saw pictures of some of the showcases in the Toronto Star, and was greatly impressed by what I saw.

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I saw the above photo first, and I initially thought that it was just a regular piano, except that it was red.  Imagine my surprise when I realized it was actually a sculpture made of flowers!

Flowers and gardening never really interested me, and I never thought that they could be used to form a model of another thing.  It seems really odd, although not in a bad way, that the delicate petals of many flowers went into forming the likeliness of a piano.  Most pianos are made of natural materials - a wood body and ivory keys.  However, these natural materials are hard, and ment to last for years and still look nice.  Flowers, on the other hand, only last a couple of days before wilting and dying (flowers in my care, atleast).

Music played on a piano is ment to express many different emotions, from anger to happiness, and for the musician to express intense emotions such as anger, the piano is more forcefully played.  Although flowers and not a very precious thing to me, I can't imagine trying to play an intense piece of music on a delicate item such as the flower-made piano in this showcase.

Although the "piano" is obviously not ment to be played, it still looks like the real deal.  Though, I wonder how it will last looking a nice red - aka, not wilted - for the week that the festival is on for.