Editing Mad Piano

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|image=[[File:Mad Piano Model SM64.png|200x200px]]<br>Model from ''Super Mario 64''

The '''Mad Piano'''<ref name="NP">{{cite|author=Pelland, Scott, and Dan Owsen|title=''Super Mario 64'' Player's Guide|page=12|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|date=1996|quote=With a lot of effort, you can beat the piano, but you won't get anything for doing so.}}</ref> is an enemy appearing in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. The Mad Piano appears only in [[Big Boo's Haunt]] and protects a [[Red Coin]] found behind it. The Mad Piano looks like a normal black piano and is harmless at first, but when the player approaches it, it begins to open and close its lid, revealing sharp teeth. The Mad Piano proceeds to chase and attack the player (while making the sounds that sound like someone hitting its keys) until they are far enough away. If hit by the Mad Piano, the player loses three wedges of [[Health Meter|health]]. The ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' Player's Guide erroneously states that the Mad Piano can be defeated.<ref name="NP"/>

Though the Mad Piano has not appeared in any other game of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]], some pianos similar to it have made an appearance. In ''[[Mario Party 2]]'', during the night in [[Horror Land]], a similar piano plays in a band with a violin and trumpet. In ''[[Mario Party 8]]'', another similar piano appears on the board [[King Boo's Haunted Hideaway]]. In ''[[Luigi's Mansion 3]]'', [[Amadeus Wolfgeist]], the boss of [[The Great Stage]], possesses his grand piano to attack [[Luigi]] in a similar manner to the Mad Piano, a connection to which [[Nintendo]] of Europe's X account made a reference,<ref>{{cite|url=x.com/NintendoEurope/status/1198995113441140736|date=November 25, 2019|title=If the haunted piano from Super Mario 64 still gives you nightmares, please keep scrolling.|language=en-gb|publisher=X|author=NintendoEurope|accessdate=May 22, 2024}}</ref> but some of the grand piano attacks involve actions such as lunging upward in an attempt to land on Luigi.

|Jpn=ピアノ

|JpnR=Piano

|Jpn2=キラーピアノ

|Jpn2C=<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), et al.|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|location=Tokyo|date=October 19, 2015|title=『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』 (''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page=85|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref>

|Jpn2R=Kirā Piano

|JpnM=Piano

|Jpn2M=Killer Piano; compare [[Bookend#Names in other languages|Killer Book]]

|Fre=Mad Piano

|FreC=<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Manga Adventures'' T16|language=fr|publisher=Soleil Productions|date=February 21, 2018|author=Sawada, Yukio, editors|page=28|isbn=978-2-30206-555-0}}</ref>

|Fre2=Piano

|Fre2C=<ref>{{cite|url=archive.org/details/NM6401/mode/2up?view=theater|title=Nintendo Magazine N1|page=91|author=Huyghues-Lacour, Alain, et al.|language=fr|publisher=Emap-Alpha|date=Octobre/Novembre 1997}}</ref>

|Ger=Vampiano

|GerC=<ref>{{cite|author=Kraft, John D., Thomas Görg, and Marko Hein, editors|title=''Der offizielle Nintendo 64 Spieleberater "Super Mario 64"''|language=de|location=Großostheim|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe GmbH]]|date=1997|page=9}}</ref>

|GerM=Portmanteau of ''vampir'' ("vampire") and "piano"

|Ita=Mad Piano

|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=85}}</ref>

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