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How much do you really know about Nils Frahm? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

Frahm composed the entire soundtrack for the Oscar-winning film 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'.

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That score was by Alexandre Desplat; Frahm has contributed to films like 'Victoria' and 'The Last Vermeer', but not that one.

2.

Nils Frahm's father was a famous jazz saxophonist who toured with Miles Davis.

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Frahm's father, Klaus Frahm, was a photographer and architect, not a musician; his mother was a music teacher.

3.

Frahm recorded his breakthrough album 'Felt' entirely on a broken grand piano.

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To avoid disturbing neighbors, he used felt mutes and a damaged piano, creating the album's signature intimate, muted sound.

4.

Nils Frahm started a music career as a classical pianist with training that began at age five.

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Nils Frahm began piano lessons at age six, not five, and his early career was not as a classical pianist but as a keyboardist/producer, later blending classical and electronic music.

5.

Nils Frahm co-designed a signature microphone with Neumann.

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He partnered with Neumann to create the U 87 Ai Frahm Edition, a microphone tailored to his distinctive felt-piano recording style.

6.

Nils Frahm has never performed a live concert outside of Europe.

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Frahm has toured globally, including major US venues like Coachella and Radio City Music Hall, and performed in Asia and Australia.

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Nils Frahm once performed a concert with a broken thumb, using a different finger to play.

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In 2012, Frahm broke his right thumb and couldn't use it, so he played piano with his index finger, adapting his technique for a solo tour.

8.

Nils Frahm's Berlin studio contains a custom-built pipe organ, used on albums like 'Spaces' and 'All Melody'.

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Frahm commissioned a custom pipe organ from Klais Orgelbau for his Funkhaus Berlin studio, prominently featuring it on 'Spaces' (2013) and 'All Melody' (2018).

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