Experience speaking: take a couple of clean, lint-free clothes for dusting down. Pianos are usually covered in fingerprints, smears, and etc. Take a circular polarizer and/or polarize the strobes. Snoots and grids will help keep the light off the piano and on the player. Lighting the under-the-lid part means that not so much light is shed on the planes of the polished wood. Dragging the shutter helps. Cover up anything in the room/auditorium that is going to give ugly specular highlights/reflections. Kill the ambient light. Some motion blur is exciting.
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