Hans Zimmer did unspeakable things to a train in creating the lone ranger score
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I think the reason he did that with the piano is to give it that slightly out-of-tune honky-tonk feel, which you can indeed hear throughout the score. It's always nice when one of Hans' PR devices actually does contribute to the music, for once…
I remember seeing a promo video for Sherlock Holmes where Hans and crew smash a poor piano on some parking lot. The idea was apparently to get a rather unique percussive sound. I think that sound can faintly be heard in the early seconds of the opening scene (Race to the Ritual), as well as the final seconds of the last cue on the album (Catatonic). It is hardly used elsewhere in the score – at least I can't remember hearing it outside the two above-mentioned cues – so I do wonder if destroying a poor piano for those few faint "bangs" was worth it.
Indeed…and I suppose he just gets more and more crazy as he goes… :P I did like The Lone Ranger score, though, so it must have turned out fine.
I seem to recall him doing 'unspeakable things' to a piano for Sherlock Holmes…?
XinHong….. i hope so, let's the POTC great days came back to the light…..;)
I hope it will be better than Man Of Steel
my words.
PR begins. Could he just write good and memorable music instead of talking such things?