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== [[Film]] - Animated ==
* The Other Father does this in ''[[Coraline (Filmanimation)|Coraline]]''. Possibly justified since [[A Wizard Did It|it's a magic piano]].
* In ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', the piano player in the run-down pub makes the keys bounce in the air in a few close-up shots.
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Beethoven level in ''[[DragonsDragon's Lair]]''.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Bugs Bunny]]'' cartoon "Rhapsody Rabbit" has quite a few of these, including the piano keyboard acting like a typewriter carriage and, at one point, Bugs literally ''picking up the keys and letting them fall back down.''
** Also in the ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoon "[[The Cat Concerto]]". In fact, the two cartoons were so similar that Warner Brothers and MGM sued each other for plagiarism.
* Happens several times during [[Mickey Mouse]]'s piano recital in "The Opry House".
* In the [[Classic Disney Short]] "Three Little Orphans", three kittens climb on a player piano and turn it on. The keys bounce up and down, carrying the kittens along. When the speed is turned up, the kittens are being juggled about and one is even spanked by the hammers inside.
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