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People and Pianos

Author : Theodore E. Steinway
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671124
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book People and Pianos written by Theodore E. Steinway and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). This is the story of how the Steinway piano came to be the instrument of choice for the world's greatest pianists. In 1953, Theodore Steinway wrote this narrative in longhand on yellow legal pads as a tribute to his father and to commemorate the first 100 years of Steinway & Sons. The book was a memento for employees and was never released to the public. This revised edition brings the history of this remarkable company to the present day through recollections of Henry E. Steinway, the last family member to remain involved with the company, and Peter Goodrich, vice president of concert and artist relations, who has been with the company for 30 years. In 1850, Henry Engelhard Steinway left Germany for New York City and established what was to become the standard of excellence in the piano world. Using photographs and anecdotes, this book chronicles the business from its beginnings through the Depression, when many piano manufacturers went out of business, through World War II, when the company was forbidden to make pianos, and through the advent of modern technology. Through it all the Steinway piano has prevailed as a symbol of quality. The Steinway artist roster is a living tribute to the company and its pianos. More than 1300 performers have publicly endorsed the Steinway because they believe in the quality of the instrument and will only play and perform on a Steinway.

People and Pianos

Author : Theodore E. Steinway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book People and Pianos written by Theodore E. Steinway and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Piano 300

Author : Cynthia Adams Hoover
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Piano 300 written by Cynthia Adams Hoover and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with the March 2000 exhibition at the Smithsonian International Gallery celebrating the tricentennial of the invention of the piano. The 250-plus color photographs and text by Smithsonian curators Cynthia Hoover, Patrick Rucker, and Edwin Good present the technical and social history of the instrument, highlighting the innovative craftsmen, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, teachers, performers and composers who helped to make it the most popular musical instrument of modern times. They also include rare composers' manuscripts and first editions tracing the diversity of music the piano inspired. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Men, Women and Pianos

Author : Arthur Loesser
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486171612
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Men, Women and Pianos written by Arthur Loesser and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned concert pianist traces the instrument's design, manufacture, and music in a delightful "piano's eye-view" of the social history of Western Europe and the United States from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

The Bear and the Piano

Author : David Litchfield
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 178603560X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Bear and the Piano written by David Litchfield and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling tale of exploration and belonging, which won the Waterstones Childrens Book Prize 2016, Illustrated Book Category, is now available in board book.

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Author : Sophy Roberts
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802149308
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Pianos of Siberia written by Sophy Roberts and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street Journal Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos traveled into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia follows Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful—and peppered with pianos. “An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.” —Paul Theroux

Piano

Author : James Barron
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429900121
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Piano written by James Barron and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alluring exploration of the people and the legendary craftsmanship behind a single Steinway piano Like no other instrument, a grand piano melds engineering feats with the magical sounds of great music: the thunder of a full-throated bass, the bright, delicate trill of the upper treble. Alone among the big piano companies, Steinway still crafts all of its pianos largely by hand, imbuing each one with the promise and burden of its brand. In this captivating narrative, James Barron of The New York Times tells the story of one Steinway piano, from raw lumber to finished instrument. Barron follows that brand-new piano-known by its number, K0862-on its eleven-month journey through the Steinway factory, where time-honored manufacturing methods vie with modern-day industrial efficiency. He looks over the shoulders of men and women-some second- and third-generation employees, some recently arrived immigrants-who transform wood and steel into a concert grand. Together, they carry on the traditions begun more than 150 years ago by the immigrants who founded Steinway & Sons-a family that soared to prominence in the music world and, for a while, in New York City's political and economic life. Barron also explores the art and science of developing a piano's timbre and character before its first performance, when the essential question will be answered: Does K0862 live up to the Steinway legend? From start to finish, Piano will charm and enlighten music lovers.

People and Pianos

Author : Theodore E. Steinway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book People and Pianos written by Theodore E. Steinway and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Play the Piano

Author : James Rhodes
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615195491
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book How to Play the Piano written by James Rhodes and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you can master Bach’s most beautiful prelude—even if you’ve never sat down at a piano before! Do you have a piano (or keyboard) and forty-five spare minutes every day? Then spend the next six weeks with acclaimed concert pianist James Rhodes. By the end, you’ll be able to perform Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C major—no prior musical experience required! Rhodes reveals How to Play the Piano step by step—how to read the treble and bass clefs as well as sharp and flat notes, and then how to practice—before teaching the Prelude in easy, bite-size segments. His method is free of tedious drills, and filled with inspiration: “If listening to music is soothing for the soul, then playing music is achieving enlightenment.” Before you know it, not only will you have learned how to play one of Bach’s most beloved masterpieces—you also will have unleashed your creativity, exercising your mind (and fingers) and accomplishing something you never thought possible. Bravo! Includes four instructional videos supported by select e-reader devices.

A Natural History of the Piano

Author : Stuart Isacoff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307701425
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of the Piano written by Stuart Isacoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. He illuminates the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, and Debussy. He analyzes the breathtaking techniques of Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Arthur Rubinstein, and Van Cliburn, and he gives musicians including Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Vladimir Horowitz the opportunity to discuss their approaches. Isacoff delineates how classical music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride, boogie, bebop, and beyond, through Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Charlap. A Natural History of the Piano distills a lifetime of research and passion into one brilliant narrative. We witness Mozart unveiling his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet; European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush; Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother who had lost her child; Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. Here is the instrument in all its complexity and beauty. We learn of the incredible craftsmanship of a modern Steinway, the peculiarity of specialty pianos built for the Victorian household, the continuing innovation in keyboards including electronic ones. And most of all, we hear the music of the masters, from centuries ago and in our own age, brilliantly evoked and as marvelous as its most recent performance. With this wide-ranging volume, Isacoff gives us a must-have for music lovers, pianists, and the armchair musician.

Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos

Author : Edwin Marshall Good
Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804733168
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos written by Edwin Marshall Good and published by Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the results of recent research, this is a new edition of a book that received the American Musicological Society’s Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best musicological book in English published in 1982-83.

Three Pianos

Author : Andrew McMahon
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1648960758
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Three Pianos written by Andrew McMahon and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From beloved indie musician Andrew McMahon comes a searingly honest and beautifully written memoir about the challenges and triumphs of his life and career, as seen through the lens of his personal connection to three pianos. Andrew McMahon grew up in sunny Southern California as a child prodigy, learning to play piano and write songs at a very early age, stunning schoolmates and teachers alike with his gift for performing and his unique ability to emotionally connect with audiences. McMahon would go on to become the lead singer and songwriter for Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin, and to release his debut solo album, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, in 2014. But behind this seemingly optimistic and quintessentially American story of big dreams come true lies a backdrop of overwhelming challenges that McMahon has faced—from a childhood defined by his father's struggle with addiction to his very public battle with leukemia in 2005 at the age of twenty-three, as chronicled in the intensely personal documentary Dear Jack. Overcoming those odds, McMahon has found solace and hope in the things that matter most, including family, the healing power of music and the one instrument he's always turned to: his piano. Three Pianos takes readers on a beautifully rendered and bitter-sweet American journey, one filled with inspiration, heartbreak, and an unwavering commitment to shedding our past in order to create a better future.

My Life with the Great Pianists

Author : Franz Mohr
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My Life with the Great Pianists written by Franz Mohr and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohr's humor and personal perspective on the lives of Rubinstein, Horowitz, and other artists mix music lore with quiet faith.

People And Pianos

Author : Mar Van Prattenburg
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781413787283
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book People And Pianos written by Mar Van Prattenburg and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book is a piano technician who has dealt throughout his lengthy career with people from all walks of life. Among those were some well-known pianists, some eccentric but also delightful people, and some who were not. The first chapter deals with the author as a boy in his native country, the Netherlands. He talks about what led him to become a piano technician. From there the stories go into the homes of his customers. Its a colorful journey, full of interesting characters and situations. He shares two stories of how he was consulted by customers who, fearing possible embarrassment and rejection from family and friends, took him into their confidence and asked how to deal with problems in their lives. It shows how interesting people and pianos really are. One doesnt need to be a pianist to enjoy this book.

Music for the Piano

Author : James Friskin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486229181
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Music for the Piano written by James Friskin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1954.

The Piano Tuner

Author : Daniel Mason
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400077710
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piano Tuner written by Daniel Mason and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.

Pianos and Flowers

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593315766
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Pianos and Flowers written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, a charming collection of stories about life and romance In these fourteen delightful tales, Alexander McCall Smith imagines the lives and loves behind some of the everyday people featured in pictures from the London Sunday Times photographic archive. A young woman finds unexpected love while perusing Egyptian antiquities. A family is forever fractured when war comes to Penang, in colonial Malaysia. Iron Jelloid tablets help to reveal a young man's inner strength. And twin sisters discover that romance can blossom anywhere—even at the altar. Throughout Pianos and Flowers, McCall Smith employs his indomitable charm to explore the possibilities of love, friendship, and happiness.