Sandy • On an unassuming residential street, in a house where the only clue as to what’s happening inside is the vanity plate on an SUV parked outside, four self-described “Mormon dads from Utah” make chart-topping music and cook up the videos that have drawn 1.8 billion YouTube views (and counting).
The Piano Guys’ headquarters resembles the world’s politest and tidiest frat house — complete with a neat line of water bottles in place of the traditional beer-can pyramid. Posters documenting the group’s international tours fill one wall. A grand piano, specially equipped with a device that stops the hammers just short of the strings so that pianist Jon Schmidt can do his finger-strengthening exercises in silence, dominates the living room.