88 Inventions


Out of 2500 designs, 88 mechanical fingers have been selected and manufactured, with the help of school children from across the UK.

These fingers will be arranged onstage, each attached to one of the 88 piano keys and extending up to 7 metres to allow 88 pianists to play a single piano at one time.

These are the final designs:

Mechanism School
#1 The Flying Rabbit Lydgate Junior School, Sheffield
#2 See Saw Great Willbraham School CE Primary School, Cambridgeshire
#3 Flying Football Robert Mellors Primary Academy, Nottingham
#4 Wire Hat! Great Willbraham School CE Primary School, Cambridgeshire
#5 Bow & Arrow Cottenham Primary School, Cambridge
#6 Cog and Hammer Great Willbraham School CE Primary School, Cambridgeshire
#7 Flying Superhero Cottenham Primary School, Cambridge
#8 The Hydraulic Key Pressuriser Bourneville Junior School, Birmingham
#9 Hot Wheels Hillcrest Primary School, Norfolk
#10 The Flusher Pusher Stanton Drew, Bristol
#11 The Key Player / Balloon and Balls Hatfield Heath, Essex
#12 Car Down Tube Bourneville Junior School, Birmingham
#13 Spoon-O-Matic Cookham Dean
#14 Banana Gun Cottenham Primary School, Cambridge
#15 Stretchelator Abbey Junior School
#16 Falling Finger Abbey Junior School
#17 Pizza Racket Rookery School
#18 Air Pump Robert Mellors Primary Academy, Nottingham
#19 Press The Button / Sea Snake Bourneville Junior School, Birmingham, Hillcrest Primary School, Norfolk
#20 The Puller Hatfield Heath, Essex
#21 Watt Bolt NW39 Holy Trinty CE
#22 Metal Hand Robert Mellors Primary Academy, Nottingham
#23 The Cat-O-Matic 3000 Mayfield Primary School Cambridge
#24 Rocket Launcher Mayfield Primary School Cambridge
#25 Ping Pong Balls Mayfield Primary School Cambridge
#26 The Metal Cog Thingie Brockwell Junior School
#27 Guinea Pig Run Guilden Morden School
#28 The Mechanical See Saw Beanstalk Pleasant Street and St Joseph's
#29 A Leap of Faith Grove Primary School, Towbridge
#30 Magnificent Mermaid Mechanism Pleasant Street and St Joseph's
#31 Rainbow Unicorn Cat Spaghetti Meatball See Saw St Josephs and Abbey Junior
#32 Rock and Roll Houldsworth Valley, Suffolk
#33 The Mole Cottenham Primary School, Cambridge
#34 The Pop Hop Houldsworth Valley, Suffolk
#35 Pivot Play St Joseph's School
#36 Santa Lydgate Junior School, Sheffield
#37 The Crow Woodthorpe Community Primary School
#38 Extendable Arm Hullavington Primary School
#39 Rhino Eat Apple Arbury Primary School, Cambridge
#40 Bike Conveyor Place Farm, Suffolk
#41 Hanzos Swirl Attacker 3.0 Rookery School
#42 Peculiar Pencil Pleasant Street and Cherry Hinton
#43 The Puppy Poppy Arbury Primary School, Cambridge
#44 Giant Hamster Wheel Stanton Drew, Bristol
#45 Chainsaw Pleasant Street Primary School
#46 I Can't Think of a Name 2000 (Bicycle) Hallam Primary School, Sheffield
#47 Flower Train Hits That Cherry Hinton School
#48 The Rolling Balls Arbury Primary School, Cambridge
#49 The Wheel Machine Warboys Community Primary School, Cambridgeshire
#50 Hands on Air Rookery School
#51 Bicycle St Joseph's School
#52 The Lobster Cook Hillcrest Primary School, Norfolk
#53 Punch Tube Abbey Junior School
#54 Rock Star Hockey Mayfield Primary School Cambridge
#55 The Invention Hallam Primary School, Sheffield
#56 Wonderful Windmill Cottenham Primary School, Cambridge
#57 The Chimer Bourneville Junior School, Birmingham
#58 Shark Cannon Queen Emma Primary School, Cambridge
#59 The Bike Wacker Hillcrest Primary School, Norfolk
#60 Horse String Rookery School
#61 Ding Dropper Lawn Primary School, Derby
#62 Axle Power Heathfield Primary School
#63 Washing Line Lawn Primary School, Derby
#64 Ultra Awesome Toothbrush Queen Emma Primary School, Cambridge
#65 Box Lever Shirley Junior School Southampton
#66 Chicken Reindeer Penguin Banana Nugget Hallam Primary School, Sheffield
#67 Nuts and Bolts Brockwell Junior School
#68 TNT Lydgate Junior School, Sheffield
#69 The Giraffe and the Car Guilden Morden School
#70 The Monkey Machine Greenside Primary School, Pudsey
#71 The Fantabulous Rainbow-Pooping Unicorn Pleasant Street Primary School
#72 Fishing Key Cottenham Primary School, Cambridge
#73 Piano Puller Warboys Community Primary School, Cambridgeshire
#74 How To Play a Piano Without Touching It Warboys Community Primary School, Cambridgeshire
#75 Let It Shine Greenside Primary School, Pudsey
#76 The Mechanical Gymnast Pleasant Street Primary School
#77 The Fall of the Domino Wall! Stanton Drew, Bristol
#78 Water Whirler! Woodthorpe Community Primary School
#79 The Piano Express Trinity Church School
#80 The Dorito Cannon Queen Emma Primary School, Cambridge
#81 Rollercoaster Ride Cottenham Primary School, Cambridge
#82 Marble Key Heathfield Primary School
#83 Stairs Houldsworth Valley, Suffolk
#84 Hex Bug Woodthorpe Community Primary School
#85 Playing Machine Pleasant Street Primary School
#86 Giant Engineer Kit Edna G Olds Academy
#87 The Triple Wrecking Ball Place Farm, Suffolk
#88 Newton's Hit! Mayfield Primary School Cambridge
Sustain Pedal - The Tubalicious Invention Abbey Junior School