Happy Piano Day!

The 88th day of every year is considered Piano Day by… pianists? Not sure. But it’s official, so I made a map for it.

When I saw this day on the calendar, I was reminded of the great Mùm song “We have a map of the piano.” I remember designing Macromedia Flash maps to this song back in the early 2000s. So I thought…

What if the map was the piano?

This one was fun to make. I decided to use a single prompt and provide no dataset or anything. And it worked!

Today’s map is a piano. Every country is a note from the piano. Bigger countries by area are the more commonly played white keys. Each key has at least two countries associated with it.

You can play songs by tapping countries. To get you started, I also designed a couple of popout panels to offer a handful of post-copyright songs with notes, so you can practice playing map melodies.

A piano is nothing more than a map of sounds… here we replace keys with countries.

View Map Here

Conversation

View the entire Web Mapper conversation – one prompt and an output you can copy-paste yourself.

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