Taylor Swift smoothly handles piano malfunction on stage: ‘We finally broke it’

Nothing ever goes according to plan. The trick to being a great performer is knowing how to handle the unexpected, which is what Taylor Swift had to do when her piano malfunctioned at a recent Eras Tour date in Europe.

“You know what? We finally broke it,” Swift said on stage in Milan on Sunday. “We have finally broken this thing.”

Actress Mel Harris (Thirtysomething) captured the moment on her Instagram Story, writing “technical difficulties, she can’t get the piano to close…LOVE her reaction.”

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The piano has certainly suffered some wear and tear. After performing more than 50 dates of the Eras Tour in the United States last year, Swift has taken the show international, and is spending the summer performing in Europe.

However, Swift’s piano pronouncement turned out to be premature. After fiddling with the instrument for several moments, she actually succeeded in closing it correctly.

“Oh! I did it!” Swift exclaimed in footage captured by X user @mirrorswift.

The Eras Tour is finally set to conclude this December with the last shows in Vancouver, Canada. Swift recently reflected on the upcoming finale.

“That feels like so far away from now,” she said on stage in Liverpool last month. “But then again, it feels like I just did my first show on this tour, because you guys have made this so much fun for us that we wanted to do 100 shows, 150-something shows.”