About r/piano
In its own words:
All things piano related!
Community guide
r/piano (#823, about 1.3 million subscribers) covers All things piano related!. A recent sample averaged 59 posts a day (~49% text, ~38% video, ~10% image). Its public rules include: Common generic questions should be asked in the 'There Are No Stupid Questions' post; No low-effort images, memes, or contextless images; No basic tutorials; No generic piano music videos / playlists; No spam, advertising, low-content blog posts, etc.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own work. Low-effort or empty shitposts are often removed—add real context.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: 📝My Performance (Critique Welcome!), 🧑🏫Question/Help (Intermed./Advanced), 🗣️Let's Discuss This, 🙋Question/Help (Beginner).
The community was created on Oct 28, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 781 subscribers (+0.06%). It sits just behind r/Jazz (#822) and ahead of r/DCcomics (#824) in our ranking.
What sets r/piano apart
For its size it is unusually busy: about 46.0 new posts a day per million members, more than 83% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (20:00 UTC) sees about 3.9× as many posts as the quietest (04:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/piano went up from 1,284,678 to 1,290,489 subscribers (+5.8K, +0.45%). That is about 114 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/piano this week
The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- Fined for playing piano during daytime hours by courtu/Comfortable-Ear1329 · Nov 4 · image
- Chopin - Fantasie Impromptu (just first part)u/rudolfcicko · Nov 5 · video
- Unexpected benefit of a virtuoso teacheru/Advanced_Honey_2679 · Nov 3 · text post
- Bach, but you can see every note I playu/rudolfcicko · Nov 1 · video
- Should I play piano at my wedding, with my limited skill?u/wittyquarkka · Nov 3 · image
- What we thinking so faru/No-Door1520 · Nov 2 · video
- Chopin Ballade No.1 - Jazz Stride Editionu/Colossi_man · Nov 2 · video
- My First Recital at 1.5 year: My Favorite Piece, Chopin Nocturneu/Guzzii · Nov 5 · video
- Wip. Should really work on hand coordination and lh.u/Hnmkng · Nov 7 · video
- Family heirloom piano needs a homeu/Dry_Tea9805 · Nov 5 · gallery
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/piano, from 2017 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Today I had the opportunity to play a $250,000 Steinway Grand. I've been playing piano for all of two weeks. This was my experience.u/acamu5x · Apr 7, 2017 · 10,956 points · 947 comments · text post
- Popular pianist YouTube channel Rosseau may get shut down. A music company is making copyright claims on his own content.u/staleydude · Jan 12, 2019 · 7,311 points · 862 comments · image
- My son turned 6 months old yesterday, is it too late for him to become a professional pianist?Nov 18, 2018 · 6,123 points · 221 comments · text post
- Nothing to see here... Keep scrollingu/jimsley · Jul 6, 2020 · video
- (From IG) a cat meowing C6!!Jun 19, 2020 · video
- About right...u/xynaxia · Jul 1, 2020 · image
- I swear pianos in lobbies just automatically come with this signu/RustyTheLionheart · Oct 7, 2026 · image
- [EFFORT POST] This took me forever to time perfectly...u/jimsley · Jul 19, 2020 · video
- I have no musician friends and I need someone to be happy for me. Took me for ever to save up for this and it’s worth every cent.u/TetraplegicDude · Mar 18, 2020 · 2,651 points · 226 comments · image
- Never seen something more relatableu/jonaman0802 · Apr 20, 2020 · 1,936 points · 85 comments · video
What r/piano talks about
Looking at the titles of 415 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “playing”, “piece”, “play”, “help” and “chopin”. Other frequent themes are music, practice, learn, song, keyboard and learning. Recurring phrases include “sheet music”, “chopin nocturne”, “left hand” and “simple beginners”. By format, 49% are text posts, 38% are videos and 10% are images.
Popular post flairs: 📝My Performance (Critique Welcome!) (93), 🧑🏫Question/Help (Intermed./Advanced) (54), 🗣️Let's Discuss This (53), 🙋Question/Help (Beginner) (49), 🎶Other (36), 🔌Digital Piano Question (35).
Activity and best time to post
r/piano gets about 59 new posts a day. The public archive holds 301,334 posts and 2,037,731 comments in total, about 6.8 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (64 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (50). Posting peaks around 20:00 UTC and is lowest around 04:00 UTC.
Rules of r/piano
The moderators of r/piano list 7 rules. In short:
- Common generic questions should be asked in the 'There Are No Stupid Questions' post
- No low-effort images, memes, or contextless images
- No basic tutorials
- No generic piano music videos / playlists
- No spam, advertising, low-content blog posts, etc.
- Be nice to each other
- No critique in "No Critique" posts
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/piano and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/piano have?
r/piano has 1,290,489 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #823 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 5,811 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/piano created?
r/piano was created on Oct 28, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from May 24, 2009.
Is r/piano still active?
Yes. r/piano gets about 59 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 301,334 posts and 2,037,731 comments. In a sample of 415 recent posts we counted 352 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/piano?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 20:00 UTC, with the fewest around 04:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/piano?
The community describes itself as: “All things piano related!” Recent post titles often mention playing, piece, play, help and chopin. Most posts are text posts (49%).
Is r/piano SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/piano as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/piano?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/piano accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Common generic questions should be asked in the 'There Are No Stupid Questions' post”; “No low-effort images, memes, or contextless images”; “No basic tutorials”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/piano.