Editing Mad Piano

{{stub|''Super Mario'' Kodansha manga information}}
{{about|the piano enemy from ''[[Super Mario 64]]''|the souvenir in ''[[WarioWare: Touched!]]''|[[Piano]]}}
{{Species infobox
|image=[[File:Mad Piano Model SM64.png|200x200px]]<br>Model from ''Super Mario 64''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
|relatives=[[Bookend]]
|comparable=[[Chair]]<br>[[Noknok]]
}}
The '''Mad Piano'''<ref name="NP">{{cite|quote=''''''Mad Piano''' This baby grand can’t beat the band, but it can beat Mario. Just stay away from its smashing lid and biting keys. With a lot of effort, you can beat the piano, but you won’t get anything for doing so.''|author=Pelland, Scott, and Dan Owsen|date=1996|title=''Super Mario 64'' Player's Guide|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|page=12}}</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 baby grand 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|date=November 25, 2019|url=x.com/NintendoEurope/status/1198995113441140736|title=If the haunted piano from Super Mario 64 still gives you nightmares, please keep scrolling.|publisher=Twitter|language=en-gb|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.
==Gallery==
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MadPianoSM64.png|''Super Mario 64'' in-game model
Big Boo's Haunt side image SMKun.png|''[[Super Mario-kun]]''
File:Mad Piano - KC manga.png|[[Super Mario (Kodansha manga)|''Super Mario'' Kodansha manga]]
Mad Piano.png|The Mad Piano attacking [[Mario]] in ''Super Mario 64''
SM64DS Mad Piano.png|The Mad Piano in ''Super Mario 64 DS''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=キラーピアノ
|JpnR=Kirā Piano
|JpnM=Killer Piano; compare "[[Bookend#Names in other languages|Killer Book]]"
|JpnC=<ref>{{cite|author=Motomiya, Shusuke (One Up),Yasuhiro Nemoto, Hideki Endo, Yuta Naoi, and Noriko Tsuyuki, editors|title=『スーパーマリオ64完全クリアガイド』|date=1996|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=Media Factory|isbn=4-88991-411-0|page=44}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=「任天堂公式ガイドブック　スーパーマリオ64」 (''Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook – Super Mario 64'')|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|language=ja|page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), et al.|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'')|publisher=Shogakukan|location=Tokyo|language=ja|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8|page=85}}</ref>
|Fre=Mad Piano
|FreC=<ref>{{cite|author=Sawada, Yukio, editors|date=February 21, 2018|title=''Super Mario Manga Adventures'' T16|publisher=Soleil Productions|language=fr|isbn=978-2-30206-555-0|page=28}}</ref>
|Fre2=Piano
|Fre2C=<ref>{{cite|quote=La quatrième étoile s'obtient en récupérant les huit pièces rouges du niveau. L'une est cachée près du piano|translation=The fourth star is obtained by collecting the level's eight red coins. One is hidden near the piano|author=Huyghues-Lacour, Alain, ''et al.''|date=October/November 1997|archive=archive.org/details/NM6401/mode/2up?view=theater|title=Nintendo Magazine. Issue 1|publisher=Emap-Alpha|location=Boulogne-Billancourt, France|language=fr|page=91}}</ref>	
|Fre3=Piano fou
|Fre3C=<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors.|date=July 4, 2018|title=[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Encyclopedia]]|location=Paris, France|publisher=Soleil Productions|language=fr|isbn=978-2-3020-7004-2|page=85}}</ref>
|Fre3M=Mad Piano
|Ger=Vampiano
|GerC=<ref>{{cite|author=Kraft, John D., Thomas Görg, and Marko Hein, editors|date=1997|title=''Der offizielle Nintendo 64 Spieleberater "Super Mario 64"''|location=Großostheim|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe GmbH]]|language=de|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>
}}

==References==
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