Top Global Piano Commercials (Adverts) from Cheetos to Shampoo

The piano sage blog is pleased to present piano featured commercials advertisements from the last 50 years.

Hamlet Cigars (UK) 1966, a piano teacher, a classic. Disonant piano playing which transforms to the theme of Bach's Air on a G String.



Michael Jackson - performs for a 1992 Pepsi Ad - with excerpts from "I'll Be There" (USA)



Bob Hoskins - It's Good to Talk Product - BT (British Telecoms) 1995. Bob Hoskins plays some excerpts of the great piano accompanied love songs, in this advertisement for phone company British Telecom.



Marks and Spencers (UK) - Loans Advertisement 1998. Jazz singing on top of a piano - perhaps inspired by the Fabulous Baker Boys movie?


Piano Stairs Ad for Volkswagen, which is shot in Stockholm, Sweden. The piano keys activate sounds as people step on them, clever genius! c2009


Myleene Klass was in the UK's Popstars tv competition band 'Hearsay, she's also a classically trained piano graduate from the Royal Academy of Music. Pantene (UK). This came out in 2009, to advertise hair product Pantene Pro V's 'Volume and Body'


Cheetos (USA) "Take a Cheetos Break"  2011 playing Chopsticks to the annoyance of the Piano salesman

Piano's Funniest Moments 5: Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie Piano Materclass

The British Fry and Laurie comedy doubleact were big int he 1980s and 1990s. Here their
sketch takes the form of a Piano masterclass with some interesting twists and innuendo!


A stage version - with Czech subtitles! PianoStreet cites the following performance from Hysteria! Hysteria! Hysteria!” AIDS benefit in 1988. The ending is different from the above!

Piano's Funniest Moments 2: James Rhodes and the X-Factor (Blumenfeld's Etude for the Left Hand)

I couldn't believe this when I saw it, James Rhodes is truly breaking boundaries and bringing classical music to a new audience. Perhaps he'll get X-Factor fans interested in playing the piano, does that work vice versa? Classical pianists interested in the X-Factor...perhaps or perhaps not, but anyway here is the video and it's great entertainment. The piece features Blumenfeld's Etude for the Left Hand, opus 36 (sheet music link).


Here's a more 'conventional' performance, take us away James!


Further Information

• About Felix Blumenfeld: The Forgotten Romantic
• Blumenfeld's Etude for the Left Hand (IMSLP) Free Score - (out of copyright)