Sheet Music for Playing the Piano with Your Bottom

I've just discovered the wonderful (and occasionally obscene) Twitter account Threatening Music Notation. It's filled with pictures of strange slices of musical notation, such as instructions to consume cocaine, mooing like a cow, slapping a fish, and producing fart-like sounds.

What's going on in the above selection? Twitter user @ONEiROSEB says that it's taken from the works of Victor Borge, a Danish-American musical comedian.

Borge was famous for his physical comedy while playing the piano on stage. In this recording, he plays Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2 with the help of Şahan Arzruni, classical pianist. At the 2:00 mark, Borge stands up, sits on the keyboard, then sits back down to continue playing with his fingers.

-via Rebecca Baumann


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Victor Borge is believable, but I first thought of Jerry Lee Lewis.
Then I thought of Chico Marx, but that doesn't work. Chico played the piano, but it was Harpo who was more likely to sit on it.
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