Photo Credits

About These Photos

The group cover photos in AllaMusic come from Wikimedia Commons and are shared under free licenses (CC0, Public Domain, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA). We thank the photographers and artists who made them available.

Each entry below names the author and license. Select a line to open the original file page on Wikimedia Commons, which has the full license text.

Piano

• Keyboard player's tools: hands, keys and notes on a piano — James Stamler stams_ (CC0-1.0)
• Pianist playing a Steinbach grand piano — Unknown author (CC0-1.0)
• Piano in a room in Philadelphia — Unknown author (CC0-1.0)
• Yamaha C7 concert grand piano in a recording studio — Audio Mix House (CC-BY-2.0)
• Woman playing the piano in a 1931 interior — Sulho Sipilä (Public Domain)
• Painting of a woman at the piano with a cockatoo — Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (Public Domain)
• Renoir painting of two young girls at the piano — Pierre-Auguste Renoir (CC0-1.0)
• András Schiff at a Steinway piano in BBC Broadcasting House — Steve Bowbrick (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
• Colorfully painted piano in Dublin Airport Terminal 1 — AugusteBlanqui (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Guitar

• James Hetfield playing guitar on stage with Metallica — DallasFletcher (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
• Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, 1946 — William P. Gottlieb / Adam Cuerden (Public Domain)
• Close-up of a guitar — Anna Longova (CC0-1.0)
• Detail of an Ovation acoustic guitar — Mavila2 (CC0-1.0)
• Gaúcho musician playing guitar — Claudete Rejane Batista Estulla (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
• Person playing an acoustic guitar — Tobias Begemann (CC-BY-2.0)
• Elderly man playing guitar in Siete Borreguitos, Cuzco, Peru — Adaphare (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Drums

• Mapex drum kit — Mostafameraji (CC-BY-4.0)
• Mapex drum kit, side view — Mostafameraji (CC-BY-4.0)
• Mapex drum kit with cymbals — Mostafameraji (CC-BY-4.0)
• Chinese porcelain waist drum — Gary Todd (CC0-1.0)

Bass

• Body of an electric bass guitar — Takkk (CC-BY-SA-3.0)
• Cort Artisan bass guitar and amplifier, close-up — Jean-Pierre (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
• Collection of bass guitars — Nir Yaniv (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Violin

• Violin resting on a surface — Daniel Jason Karjadi (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
• Close-up of a violin — Michael Tighe (CC0-1.0)
• Violin and bows in Vienna — Jorge Royan (CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Studio

• Music studio with mixing desk and monitors — Mic JohnsonLP (CC-BY-2.0)
• Nada recording studio — John Naclerio (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
• Music studio equipment — Shuvonil (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Opera

• Artists of NOVA OPERA after the opera-requiem IYOV, National Opera House of Ukraine — Anastasiia Mantach (CC-BY-SA-2.0)

Band

• Mildlife band performing live — Sgroey (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
• Band performing at the Inter-ENIS concert, 2004 — Syced (CC0-1.0)
• The Script performing at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2008 — Harrywad (CC-BY-2.5)
• The Rolling Stones in concert — Les Hull (CC-BY-SA-2.0)

Piano Sound

The piano you hear in Live Piano and when a song plays is made from recordings of a real grand piano, shared under a Creative Commons license. We shortened the recordings and converted them to MP3 so they load fast on a phone.

• Piano: Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm, CC BY 3.0, remastered as Accurate-Salamander by Chisato Yamauchi
• Accurate-Salamander, the remastered recordings
• Original Salamander Grand Piano recordings

Melodies

Many song melodies in AllaMusic start from two open music datasets, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0). We arranged them for piano, with both hands, sections and chords.

• PDMX, by Phillip Long, Zachary Novack, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Julian McAuley
• Lakh MIDI Dataset, by Colin Raffel
• CC BY 4.0 license