There’s something appealing about a lonely piano. An instrument created to bring such joy, sitting there with no one to play it. It’s an existential question: Is a piano without a player really a piano, or has it become furniture? Even if someone does play it, it will most likely be a half-remembered, out-of-time version of “Chopsticks”. A lone piano is never a sadder sight than in an airport, where there is a lot of foot traffic, tired passengers, and cranky TSA officers.

Isn’t there someone out there who can make a sad piece of airport furniture into a mood-changing musical machine? Is there nobody? Yes. There is. A trio of itchy-fingered Boogie Woogie pianists, known as Dr. K, Terry Miles, and Kenji, transform a solitary Heathrow Airport piano into a jukebox of fun. That may sound like the plot of a Mary Poppins film, but it happened and was videotaped.

It all started when Dr. K leaped into action, accompanied by his two piano companions. Dr. K responds to the keys like a thirsty man or a duck to water. A thirsty duck seeks water. With his thick cockney accent, he says, “Okay, let me try it; I’ll go right in.” “One, two, and…” On three, he dives right in, starting with his honky-tonk sounding main portion.

Then it’s time for Kenji to leap in! He quickly increases the song’s punch by playing happy, dextrous high notes over Dr. K’s repetitive chords. This song just got better! If we had honky-tonks before, we now have the honkiest tonks!