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* '''[[Goodrich Hall]]''' Upright in the living room or onstage.
* '''[[Greylock Dining Hall]]''' Upright in the Makepeace Room. The room to the left as you enter from [[Route 2]]. Great acoustics in this large room; your music will reverberate through the building.
* '''[[Mark Hopkins House]]''' Upright in the main common room. The quality (sound and touch) is suprisingly surprisingly decent.
* '''[[Mission Park|Mission]]''' Upright in the billiards lounge. Many Keys don't work, most notably the first G# above middle C. And the ones that do, aren't tuned. God forbid if you need low notes. If you play anything faster than a turtle lays eggs the keys probably won't rise back up fast enough.
* '''[[Spencer House]]''' Upright on the first floor. Tuning is poor, but it has an old-timey honky-tonk sound.
* '''[[Thompson Chapel]]''' In the front of the chapel, to the right. This piano used to belong to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Porter Cole Porter]. It is usually kept fairly well in tune and has a soft touch and mellow sound -- not so great for Rachmaninov but perfect for jazz or just fiddling around. Has a crappy pedal that almost doesn't work. I'm not sure what the [[Music Department]]'s official stance is as far as random people just wandering in and using it, but it's not locked and there's often no one in the chapel.
* '''[[Wood House]]''' In the common room to the left as you walk in, next to the windows facing Route 2. A baby grand, mostly in tune and devoid of sinking keys as of December 2009. Its pedaling is rather wonky but the piano is nevertheless quite manageable and scarcely ever used. You can also close the double doors for some limited privacy. Note on lighting in the room: it's a not very sensitive motion sensor, which means it would turn off after you play for a while. Rapid upper body movements in the light switch's general direction tend to fix that but can be an annoying addition to your practice routine. Still, it's less work than walking all the way to Bernhard.
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