Newsday reports that Billy Joel was secretly filmed playing a ragtime tune on a piano left on the street in Huntington, Long Island and lamenting that it had been thrown out. “Mechanics are perfect,” he said.
WATCH: Billy Joel playing discarded piano on street – ‘pity to throw it out’
Musician Billy Joel poses with a piano that will be on display as a permanent tribute to him after a press conference to celebrate his 100th lifetime concert at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in New York. (AP//Evan Agostini/Invision)