Bouncy bouncy

The 15th annual world buskers festival is currently on in Christchurch. I'm not quite sure why the world buskers festival is held here but it is, it seems. On Wednesday when I went to the driving range Tim mention that he and Christine had seen a few acts at the weekend and one he particularly liked was the piano juggler. It sounded quite entertaining and I found out he was on at lunchtime today in Cathedral Square so Joanne and I arranged to meet up.

With a name like 'the piano juggler' there were two possibilities for his act. One would be for him to be a juggler of pianos. The second would be for him to juggle on a piano. The guy's act was the latter of those two options. Which was a shame, in a way. It would have been mightily impressive to see someone juggle pianos, grand or upright, but he didn't.

His act was padded out with some normal ball juggling, some club juggling and some other stuff but the main, and most impressive, part of his act was when he bounced balls on his 'bounce piano', a keyboard on the floor. He sometimes 'juggled' up to five balls on this bounce piano and managed to perfectly play tunes, chords and all. He played some classical stuff as well as La Cucharacha and the Can-can. I'd seen some of his juggling stuff before, but the bounce piano was a new one on me. Impressed? I applauded wholeheartedly.

He also played Good King Wenceslas while bouncing on his pogo-mounted cello but that was just showing off, frankly.