It's very cool. The Piano Guys is one of those odd cases were geeks, artists, and musicians collide, producing really cool stuff. I've seen several of their videos (linked to by facebook friends - I have a bunch of singers and theater folks as friends) and they make classical music cool. They were on some morning/weekend show this past weekend and did a live version where the 5 (6?) of them played a piece on a grand piano with 1-2 on the keyboard and the others playing the strings like a harp, using bow strings to create continuous tones, and the various parts of the frame and soundboard as percussion.
They may not be the *best* at their individual instruments, but they are all *excellent* musicians and they exude fun and enjoyment in the act of entertaining. Fun is often the difference between good and great entertainment.
Seeing them perform "live" (well, on TV, but digitally unaltered) increased my respect for them by an order of magnitude. There is so much you can fake/alter on computer now that you can make any passable musician into a virtuoso on youtube.
I played piano for ~8 years, and gave up at about your age because I wanted to play ragtime, jazz, and showtunes, but my teacher believed only in classical. Each passing year I can play less and less of the Maple Leaf Rag; now I can barely get the first few bars out, and even those are at an uneven tempo. Hang in there - I know I wish I had!
This was what they did live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0VqTwnAuHws#!
