Big Piano (The Walking Piano) is a musical instrument, invented in 1976 by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kinetic artist and inventor Remo Saraceni, merging dance, music, and play. The Piano is played by the user's feet where shoes, socks, or toes can tap the keys that make the music.

The film Big

Big

Big is a 1988 romantic comedy film directed by Penny Marshall and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" to a magical fortune-telling machine and is then aged to adulthood overnight...

brought attention; the filmmakers saw it on display at the FAO Schwarz toy store with other Saraceni's designs and inventions. In a demonstration, Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...

 and Robert Loggia

Robert Loggia

Robert Loggia is an American film and television actor and director.- Early life :Loggia, an Italian American, was born on Staten Island, the son of Elena Blandino, a homemaker, and Benjamin Loggia, a shoemaker, both of whom were born in Sicily, Italy...

 play "Heart and Soul" and "Chopsticks" without any film tricks. After Big, museums now have their own. The synthesizer

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

 is updated to produce realistic piano sounds electronically.

Uses

• ABC
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
   Incredible Sunday (1988), played by the McFadden Brothers
  McFadden Brothers
  http://www.themcfaddenbrothers.comThe Mcfadden Brothers are: Lonnie McFadden - trumpet, voice, tap dancing and Ronald McFadden - alto saxophone, voice, tap dancing....
  
  
• Wheel of Fortune
  Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
  Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...
  
  , played by Vanna White
  Vanna White
  Vanna White is an American television personality and film actress best known as the hostess of Wheel of Fortune since 1982.-Early life:...
  
   (1989)
• Omni: The New Frontier, with Peter Ustinov
  Peter Ustinov
  Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...
  
   in a biography of Remi Saraceni (1989)
• Jazz pianist Bobby Short
  Bobby Short
  Robert Waltrip "Bobby" Short was an American cabaret singer and pianist, best known for his interpretations of songs by popular composers of the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Noel Coward and George and Ira Gershwin.He...
  
   used the Piano in his performances (1988)
• Country singer Barbara Mandrell
  Barbara Mandrell
  Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...
  
   (1989)
• The Broadway production Big: the musical (1996), with Christa Moore and Brett Tabisel, directed by Davide Shire