Item #: SCP-020

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures:

Item SCP-020 is located in Non-
Critical Storage Unit 5, where it
remains under video observation.
Personnel entering the room are
advised not to touch SCP-020 or any
apparition seen playing it.

Description: SCP-020 was discovered in the abandoned town of

Promyshlennyi, Russia. SCP-020's appearance is always that of a stringed
keyboard instrument, but every aspect of it besides that changes
constantly. Its most frequent embodiment is a black grand piano, which it
assumes approximately thirty percent (30%) of the time. Its variations
seem unlimited in time period or decoration, and it has been observed as
a spinet, an upright, a player piano, a clavichord, a harpsichord, a
virginal, and many others. Research as to why or how the object's
alterations occur has not produced any definite conclusions.

On occasion, vague human apparitions have been observed playing SCP-020.

The apparitions' dress and choice of music almost always correspond to
the instrument's ornateness and period of origin. The most notable
appearance during the item's presence at Site 19 was late performer Glenn
Gould, who was rehearsing two (2) Bach Inventions on SCP-020 for
approximately seven (7) minutes during 1997.