A baby grand piano filled a third of the space.
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Schoenhut 30 Key Classic Baby Grand with Bench ($112 and up), amazon.
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There are also Picassos on the walls and a baby grand piano.
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Wilde also posted a glitzy photo of popular Manhattan bar Baby Grand.
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View cartoonish Mandy Moore of TV's Clone High poignantly fingering her baby grand.
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The one striking difference is a baby grand piano wedged into one corner.
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Late on Thursday nights, a pianist works the baby grand by the bar.
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My baby grand piano has been in my house longer than I've been alive.
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In the years that followed, I learned four truths about baby grand pianos. 1.
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Also, just look at that man—he's practically the size of the baby grand itself.
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Today, Chikli has himself amassed many trappings of a banker's life: White baby grand piano.
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He writes out his ideas on long pages, his baby grand piano next to him.
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The Ivory Lounge, for example, has a saltwater fish tank and a baby grand piano.
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In the living room, they found a baby grand piano that did not belong to them.
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At home, we had a Chickering baby grand on which Dad played show tunes every night.
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"I like the way you hold my hand/And play just like my baby grand," the lyrics say.
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According to Mr. Sanders, Mr. Taylor often practices on a baby grand piano in the museum's trustee room.
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Plus, you can engrave whatever you want on top of the baby grand piano at no extra cost.
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Mr. Nelson noted that the highly polished 1917 Steinway baby grand in the living room was a relative bargain.
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"I remember the day my parents brought it home," he tells PEOPLE of the family's Baldwin Baby Grand piano.
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Donn himself, on his baby grand that has its own drink rail for customers, leads the band most nights.
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Now the terminal's latest amenity, the word "latest" implying that there is more than one, is a baby grand piano.
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Then Mr. Fintiklis played music from "Zorba the Greek" on the lobby's baby grand piano while his friends sang along.
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He keeps a baby grand piano, complete with a microphone and two speakers, in his office on the studio lot.
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To be fair, the house does come fully furnished — the baby grand piano, 1966 Cadillac, and 1974 Lincoln are pretty valuable.
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Khaled is now playing a white baby grand with the same fictional girlfriend draped over him and everything seems to be resolved.
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They had two or three suites and a baby grand piano, and we were able to play them a chorus [of "Good Vibrations"].
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The Varchettis invited the recent high school graduate into their home see the baby grand, which he then asked if he could play.
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Costing over $10,000 per night, the suite includes a wrap-around terrace, a baby grand piano, a whirlpool, and a private fitness room.
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The emblem first appeared on the Chevrolet H-2 Royal Mail, pictured below, and H-4 Baby Grand models, according to the automaker.
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She'd been playing the same baby grand piano that sits in the living room today, and Cecil McBee had brought his upright bass.
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But Mr. Hyde, his 6-foot-8-inch frame folded as economically as possible over a baby grand piano, was not fully content.
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For a more relaxed environment, people can get a cocktail in the basement-level lounge that features a vintage vibe and baby grand piano.
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He added that one of his sister's wept when their dad brought home a baby grand piano and she realized it wasn't a Steinway.
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Cats with names like Precious, Prince, Smokey and Angel preened to be petted, fought in an adjoining room and napped inside a baby-grand piano.
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LISTENING To myself play the piano — a baby grand I bought 20 years ago in a junk shop out in the desert, in Joshua Tree.
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Lugging a baby grand piano onto a punk club stage in the '90s was about conspicuous as bringing a baby elephant—and twice as inconvenient.
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John B. Connally and his wife, Nellie, whose birthdays were a few days apart — as Nixon played the tune on a white baby grand piano.
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This is because the Casablanca they sought is Paul's Casablanca, the latest venture from Paul Sevigny, begetter of the Beatrice Inn, baron of the Baby Grand.
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Set to hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd's appropriately-titled "Black Beatles," the former Beatle froze in please while kneeling on the bench at his baby grand piano.
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Mr. Fintiklis, a Cypriot citizen, then strode to the lobby's baby grand piano and played and sang "Accordeon," a popular Greek song about the fight against fascism.
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Palms in the corners, hanging brass chandeliers, beaded table lamps and a baby grand piano tucked into an archway lend to the period-authentic mise-en-scène.
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Kapilow's dense musical illustrations repeatedly sent me, a middling amateur pianist, scurrying to my grandmother's baby grand so I could play and hear his examples out loud.
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Alone at a baby grand piano, he played low, slow, quiet single notes, barely audible, like the tolling of a distant bell, until the room was entirely hushed.
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He had opinions about certain things, but his only real demands were for bookshelves— he's a voracious reader—and room for a baby grand piano and a turntable.
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Mr. van Wely, who is an architect, converted the wheelhouse to an office and the cargo hold to a spacious living room that holds a baby grand piano.
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Mr. MacDermot had a disciplined schedule at home, his children said, getting up and going straight to the piano, either his baby grand Steinway or an upright Yamaha.
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J.P. The best-selling solo piano album of all time, "The Köln Concert" was recorded live, on an unresonant baby grand that had been rolled onstage in error.
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A Kawai baby grand piano anchors the space, which, just to be clear, would be nothing to Ms. Chenoweth without her assertive companion, a mixed breed named Thunder.
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The dog stands and goes inside and crawls under the baby grand piano that she bought long ago from a lonely old lady, a piano that nobody plays.
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It spans 30,000 square feet, and features a 50-person theater for screenings, an in-house studio for creators and talent, a baby grand piano and intelligent lighting throughout.
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Whether his fingers danced across the keys of a baby grand or belted out a mind-melting solo on one of his elaborate axes, he was the consummate showman.
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The lively reception area boasts a terrace with a beer garden, an electronic baby grand piano and vivid signs, all of which enlivens the distinctive uniformity of East German architecture.
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The living room is anchored by a Steinway baby grand piano with a special soundboard that was a gift from Ms. Anderson-Lopez to her husband on his 40th birthday.
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Once at the loft, Dylan pulled out the typed songs he and my father had just spent a month writing and sat them on the piano, a Steinway baby grand.
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The next day, Bing & Ruth provided a serene place on the Arcosanti canyon cliffside, as pianist David Moore progressed through beautiful arrangements to a crowd sitting around his baby grand piano.
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The AvantGrand, for example, comes in the same small size as most digital pianos—though it also has a baby grand model—but feels and sounds much like an acoustic one.
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While the suite only includes two bedrooms, the space features high ceilings, a large meeting room, a personal gym, a baby grand piano and views overlooking Shanghai's iconic waterfront, The Bund.
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COLORADO SPRINGS — Morgan Jones, a high school music teacher from Swaziland, was holding court at a Steinway baby grand in the atrium of the Cornerstone Performing Arts Center at Colorado College.
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Several men had gathered around the white baby grand piano, where they would often sing show tunes and the song "United We Stand" by the British pop group Brotherhood of Man.
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After all, de Blasio is a winner because he gets mayoral control and Cuomo's a winner for proving he can still play Albany like a Chopin etude on a baby grand.
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John's past quite literally preceded him; ornate carvings depicting important moments and iconography in his story bordered the wrap-around stage, where a black baby grand piano took the spot of honor.
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But it's an infrequent occurrence that we get our very own personal John Cena visit, a visit that includes him tickling the ivories on the baby grand piano that's parked in our lobby.
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The bar features a mechanical baby grand piano that will play automated recitals each night by artists including 3D of Massive Attack, Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor, and film composer Hans Zimmer.
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They wheel out a white baby grand piano for Hubbard to play through "Dig Your Roots," and I only realize halfway through that I can't hear the piano—nobody can hear the piano.
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Each time I click on a superyacht and see a picture of a helicopter on its deck or a baby grand piano in its salon, I hold two competing ideas in my head.
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Teigen and John Legend's daughter Luna Simone, 2 next month, is on track to follow in her dad's musical footsteps with this white mini baby grand, featuring a two-octave range and standalone bench.
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Against piano music by John Cage and Philip Glass played live on a baby grand set amid the runway came an ode to dancers past: Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham, Pina Bausch and Diaghilev.
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Ms. White is comfortable and in her element, belting lyrics of heartbreak and reclaimed confidence on a small stage decorated by a flower in a vase, a single mic, and a baby grand piano.
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In Broadway terms, Mr. Springsteen is planning a one-man show; unlike in his arena marathons, he'll be onstage for two hours with a baby grand piano and an "array of guitars," he said.
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After looking at her furniture and artwork, which included paintings by Herbert Gentry, an African-American expressionist painter, Mr. Berman took the Whitney baby grand piano, which had been given to her by her parents.
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Huggins, who is 38 and played piano for the Joffrey Ballet School during its practices in New York, now plays a baby grand, which he pushes on a dolly over the streets of Greenwich Village.
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The Frosts had always been a secretive couple — by all accounts happiest in their own company — but Dey offered one scant, tantalizing rumor: The jazz musician Dave Brubeck may have once played their baby grand.
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The fulfillment of his master plan entails 500 boys (with 33,000 "happy fingers"), all wearing beanies topped with flaccid hands, together playing a monstrous piano more suggestive of a factory assembly line than a baby grand.
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One of Istanbul's most famous hostesses, Demet Sabanci Cetindogan, frequently entertains in her home, the Zarif Mustafa Pasha mansion, furnished with original Ottoman chandeliers, paintings and a baby grand piano from the sultans' Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
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It was furnished with black and white photos from many decades ago, along with García Lorca's baby grand piano and a pensive portrait of the writer, with dark wavy hair and sharp eyes, wearing a mustard robe.
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Sitting on a sofa in the living room of her family's home in Vienna, dominated by a baby grand piano, Ms. Deutscher subtly, but clearly, rolls her eyes at the mention of Mozart, a comparison she rejects.
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One side of the living room has a large, pale sectional and a bar topped with black marble, while the other side has a dark gray sectional, a television and a baby grand piano and drum set.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: I was strolling through Washington Square Park on a sunny Saturday afternoon, and I stopped to join a crowd of people listening to a man who plays classical music there on his baby grand piano.
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Director Jeff Venable obtained permission from the city, as well as cooperation from all of Lower Broadway's businesses, to empty out the blocks so Janson could take his place in front of a baby grand piano set in the middle of the street.
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Player pianos are nothing new, but what makes Arpeggio unique is that the robot can sidle up to everything from a Casio electronic keyboard to a Steinway baby grand, and automatically align itself to hit the right keys and even foot pedals.
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Mr. von Essen learned the importance of waiting for the reviews before pulling out the checkbook when he was cast in the 2002 Broadway musical "Dance of the Vampire" and promptly traded in his upright piano for a cherry wood Schumann baby grand.
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The sellers offered to leave a glass coffee table and a dove-gray sectional, charging a nominal sum for the two pieces, "and they just sort of threw in the baby grand because they didn't want to take it," said Ms. Cleland, 62, a homemaker.
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An upscale alternative a short walk away, the ritzy Bearfoot Bistro features a baby grand, inventive cocktails and exhaustive wine list, and a dedicated oyster sommelier with an encyclopedic knowledge of mollusks far and near (plate of six East and West coast oysters, 30 dollars).
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Day two sets included a tightly choreographed performance from D∆WN, who took the stage wearing an outfit straight out of Mad Max's insane sci-fi world, and Bing and Ruth, who played a somber set on a baby grand piano on the edge the cliff.
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They were faced with sorting through the objects assembled during her long life: ivory figurines, poems for family occasions, a favorite hot-pink jacket, a baby grand piano their father had played jazz on, boxes of photos, wartime letters from an army outpost in the Aleutian Islands.
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From thousands of miles away, looking at these items on a screen, it's impossible to know what's real and what's fake, which bangles are made of fresh ivory and which were, like the keys on your grandmother's baby grand, made before the ivory trade became illegal in much of the world.
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Standing in front of a baby-grand piano in her bright Upper West Side penthouse, freezing rain tapping gently against the windows, Ms. de Lesseps studied a printout of her introductory remarks for #CountessAndFriends, a cabaret show that will debut at the Manhattan nightclub Feinstein's/54 Below on Feb. 27.
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If you walk through that door, past a bar that's usually packed, sleeve-to-sleeve, with magicians who have nothing up their sleeves, you will find the famous magic clubhouse's haunted music room: a gilded salon, decorated with stained glass, gilt picture frames, crushed velvet settees, and an historic baby grand piano.
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Wooden bowls of every shape and size — some made over the years by Mira's now adult children, others gifted by Nakashima devotees — form totems on the back of a baby grand piano, watched over by a bronze nude, "Following My Feet," sculpted in 2007 by the contemporary indigenous Tewa artist Roxanne Swentzell.
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The 29-year-old pop powerhouse performed stripped-down acoustic versions of three tracks from her latest album, Lover After delivering soaring versions of "The Archer" and "You Need to Calm Down" on a pink guitar festooned with hearts, she moved to a candlelit baby grand piano to play "Daylight," giving the album's closer its very first public airing.
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The grandest suites in the Trump Taj Mahal are named for and (loosely) styled after some of his favourite figures in world history: Napoleon, Kublai Khan and Alexander the Great, the last a roughly 4,000-square-foot penthouse suite resplendent with Ionic columns, crystal chandeliers, bronze lions, a baby grand piano and marbled Jacuzzis (three of them).
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Her Rick's Cafe became a destination for tourists and locals alike, an oasis of period authenticity, with columned white arches framing the main dining room under a three-story cupola, hanging brass chandeliers, beaded table lamps, palms swaying in the corners and a baby grand piano tucked under an archway, as if waiting for Dooley Wilson's Sam to return and play it once more for old time's sake.
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The visuals run without repeating for over two hours, and include footage of him working with Joan Jonas, Theaster Gates and others; video pieces he made with Ms. Walker, Ms. Weems and Lorna Simpson; and photos from his collaborations with others, accompanied by Mr. Moran's piano playing, which wafts up spectrally from the Three Deuces' baby grand (it has player-piano capabilities, so the keys are actually playing themselves).
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Interior of Andrew Brehm's "AMAMML" (video by Randall Tilson) EAF16 does reward spending time with it for unexpected details, such as Andrew Brehm's "AMAMML" truck with its interior swarmed with artificial butterflies (hint: turn the keys on the door for insect action to the tune of the Doors), or Lia Lowenthal's "Dilated Surpintel," a baby grand piano built with flying buttresses and mosaic patterns referencing a cathedral space.
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But these soon give way to the kind of artifacts that could have been selected by only a clever, peculiar mind, and that could have emerged only out of Russia: a stack of pages from the Bible, which had been serially inserted into issues of the local Communist daily in the '90s to increase its flagging circulation; a newspaper photo of a soused Boris Yeltsin jiving with a band after barging onto the stage at a luncheon in Germany, propped against a drum with a gashed skin; next to it, another image, of Vladimir Putin playing a baby grand, perched above a grinning row of piano keys; a section of railway track with a dark-red stain, the very site (although not really, of course) of Anna Karenina's death.
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The song was soon covered by other musicians, including organist Jimmy Smith (on At Club Baby Grand, Volume 1, 1956)Leggett, Steve "Jimmy Smith – The Incredible Jimmy Smith at Club Baby Grand, Vol. 1". AllMusic.
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Information on Wax @rockmymonkey.com Retrieved 2011-05-02. Hyman and Kagan later formed a new band with Bazilian called Baby Grand in the late 1970s, with Chertoff acting as producer. Baby Grand released two albums on Arista Records, one eponymous and the other called Ancient Medicine.
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The "Baby Grand" at Simms Station, Ohio. Two examples were flown at the International Aviation Tournament at Belmont Park in November 1910, one being a standard model flown by Alec Ogilvie and the other being a special competition model known as the Baby Grand, which had a V-8 engine and a reduced wingspan of 21 ft 5 in (6.53 m). Orville Wright succeeded in flying the Baby Grand at a speed of nearly . Both aircraft were entered for the second Gordon Bennett Trophy competition which was held at the meeting, but the Baby Grand, flown by Walter Brookins, suffered an engine failure during a trial flight on the race day and crashed heavily.
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Ellis and Ivy (Megan Hilty) conspire to give Ivy a chance to sing Karen's song 'Secondhand White Baby Grand'.
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One advantage over a Model T Ford was that a Baby Grand could get an electric starter (the Model T did not get them until 1919).
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The Facilities Some of the facilities provided with the Auditorium include: A Steinway Baby Grand Piano, In House Technical Crew, In House Bar Service, Janitorial Service, Security.
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"Baby Grand" is the fourth and final single released off Billy Joel's album The Bridge. A duet with Joel and Ray Charles, the song is a ballad dedicated to the baby grand piano, and the relationship it can share with its players. The two originally got together when Joel contacted Charles about the naming of his daughter, Alexa Ray, after Charles. Charles then suggested they create a song together.
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1914 Chevrolet H-4 Baby Grand The Baby Grand was one of the first automobiles made by Chevrolet under W.C. Durant, GM's founder. It was part of his idea to build a car to compete with the very popular and cheap Model T Ford. When it first came out, it was priced at $875 as a four-door, 5-passenger touring car (a 1914 Model T touring was $500). A speedometer was standard.
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An animal-rights advocate, she presented Actors and Others with her 1926 Steinway baby grand piano. Her daughter, Sean, requested it be sold to help as many animals in need as possible.
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The Hooters were formed by Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian in 1980, and played their first show on July 4 of that year. They took their name from a nickname for the melodica, a type of keyboard harmonica. Hyman and Bazilian met in 1971 at the University of Pennsylvania and had played in a band in the late 1970s, based in Philadelphia, called Baby Grand, which also featured local singer David Kagan. Baby Grand released two albums on Arista Records.
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There were three featured songs in the episode, two originals and one cover ("Run" by Snow Patrol). The two originals, "A Thousand and One Nights" and "Second Hand White Baby Grand", were written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. "Run" was released on the deluxe edition of the cast album The Music of Smash on May 1, 2012. "Second Hand White Baby Grand" and "A Thousand and One Nights" were released as singles as the episode aired; the former is currently available on the cast album Bombshell.
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" Nikki Tranter of PopMatters believed the song was a "stand-out" track. Lennox Samuels of The Dallas Morning News however, thought that the song was "hazy". The San Jose Mercury News said that "'Baby Grand' might be warmed-over Ray Charles, but Ray Charles is there to spice it up with his vocal and keyboard majesty." The Miami Herald said that "Baby Grand finds Joel actually convincing in the jazz testimonial setting, with Ray Charles and bassist Ray Brown contributing the aura of a jazz club.
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1918 Chevrolet Baby Grand (Model FA5) The Chevrolet Series FA (or Chevrolet FA) of 1917–1918 is an American vehicle manufactured by Chevrolet. It was a replacement of the Series F (the successor of the Series H) which had improvements in engine capacity as well as other features. In this transformation of series, the pre-existing names of the H and F series cars, The Royal Mail and Baby Grand were dropped in favor of the names Roadster and Touring respectively. The FA Series was then replaced by the Chevrolet Series FB in 1919.
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Norman comes from a musical family. He is the younger son of Pauline and Sam Bergen. The largest item in their small apartment was a baby grand piano which was played by his mother Pauline. His older brother Danny played trumpet.
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The Royal Mail models H-2 (1914–15) and H-2½ (1916), the Amesbury Special model H-3 (1915) and the Baby Grand model H-4 (1914–16) were American cars made by Chevrolet. They would be replaced by the Chevrolet Series F in 1917.
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Duncan made on screen appearances on "Castle" Season 4, Episode 14 “The Blue Butterfly” in the opening scene as a jazz club pianist on the baby grand piano as well as Season 8, Episode 8 "Mr. and Mrs. Castle" as a cruise ship pianist.
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Steve Walwyn's debut solo album Instinct To Survive was released on 8 June 2015 on Baby Grand Records, the album contains a selection of self-written songs and instrumentals, and included the musicians Martin Cure (backing vocals), Craig Rhind (bass), Ted Duggan and Chas Chaplin (both drums).
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John Andrew "Baby Grand" Scafide (June 21, 1911 - October 24, 1979) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Boston Redskins. He played college football at Tulane University. Scafide served 16 years as mayor of his native Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
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Greene graduated from Central Commercial High School In March 1990, Greene, along with her husband and a former Bronx school superintendent, were acquitted of criminal charges "stemming from the removal of a baby grand piano" from a public school adjacent to the house of the Greene family in 1983.
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Jack Gay, a newlywed with a dominating mother-in-law attempts to surprise his wife Stella with a baby grand piano, but when she overhears him discussing it, she mistakes it for an illegitimate child, particularly with the arrival of his ex-girlfriend, the blonde and glamorous Gloria Marsh.
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Brown was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He started playing the piano aged 4 as his mother was a part-time piano teacher. His father bought him a baby grand piano. After playing in various junior and senior high school bands, he went to Nashville, Tennessee and met musicians attending Tennessee State A&M.
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The Series F preserved the model names and body styles of the Series H it replaced: the Royal Mail model F-2 roadster and the Baby Grand model F-5 open touring car. On both models, the front fenders followed a straight line from right behind the center of the front wheels to the runningboard.
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By 1957, the once-great Liverpool tramway system had been reduced to just two routes, the 6A to Bowring Park and the 40 to Page Moss Avenue. These routes finally closed in September. All were in a run-down and dilapidated condition, sad to see. Here is a 'Baby Grand' 4-wheel tram on the Bowring Park route.
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Although not officially recognized, many people believe it to be the longest artist album of all time. In 2004, he released an album of piano solos titled Open Window. This album documents his improvised piano style that has been part of his live concerts for decades. It was recorded on a 1925 vintage A.B. Chase baby grand piano.
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He learned to play the piano by lying underneath the theatre's baby grand piano, memorising how chords were formed and sounded until he could play tunes in his head. Hook also plays flute, drums and acoustic guitar. He has participated in four London musicals. Hook appeared in BBC drama The Biz, and sang backup for Meat Loaf.
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The unofficial start of the series was in 1973 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. A group of drivers began racing on a road course owned by former NASCAR Cup owner Bill Ellis. Ellis decided not to continue after a few races. The drivers decided to format an association called the Baby Grand National Racing Association, Inc.
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He pioneered corkscrews and other stunt flying. On 29 September 1910, Brookins piloted the first flight from Chicago, IL, to Springfield, IL. For this flight he was awarded $10,000. On 29 October 1910, Brookins flew the new Wright Baby Grand, a clipped wing V-8 powered flyer to compete in the Gordon Bennett Trophy competition at Belmont, New York.
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In addition, Cohen was a playwright of some note. His plays Tanglewood and Friends Indeed! were produced in New York by the Cubiculo Company, and his Piaf...A Remembrance was presented on Broadway. Subsequently, others of his plays – among them Joshua's Miracle, Where Credit is Due, Slice and Dice, Baby Grand, and Nantasket – were staged by theaters throughout the United States.
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Welmar Piano Alfred Knight, Ltd. was a piano manufacturing company founded by Alfred E. Knight in 1936 in England. Knight was a highly respected manufacturer, and were the only make of piano in Steinway Hall alongside Steinway's own pianos. With the exception of a few baby grand pianos, nearly all Knight pianos are modern upright pianos from 100 to 110 cm in height.
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Philco built many iconic radios and television sets, including the classic cathedral-shaped wooden radio of the 1930s (aka the "Baby Grand"), and the Predicta series of television receiver sets of the 1950s. Philo Farnsworth, credited for inventing the first fully functional all electronic vacuum tube television system (patent # US1773980- filed Jan 7, 1927), worked at Philco from 1931 to 1933.
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The stage is full-sized and is equipped with complete theater rigging, an S model Steinway baby grand piano, and complete sound and lighting systems. There is a green room equipped with audio of live on-stage acts and male and female dressing rooms with special lighting and paging systems. The CPAC also includes music classrooms, a recording studio, and a music library.
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Curtis grew up in Stockton, California, and was raised Baptist. Curtis grew up listening to Contemporary Christian Music, as well as singing along to her dad playing 40s-era standards on the family's baby grand piano. Curtis learned to sing in church, and began playing the piano at age four. A piano teacher once told her she played the piano "like a boy".
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Liverpool 245, a Baby Grand owned by National Museums Liverpool but kept at Birkenhead since 2006, was restored to operational use by the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society. This was funded with the help of a £50,000 lottery heritage fund grant in 2010, with completion of the restoration in 2014. Other operational trams of the fleet include Birkenhead 20, Wallasey 78, Liverpool 762 and Lisbon 730.
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The Grand Theatre is a historic theatre located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and is currently one of that city's major performing arts venues. It has been the home of the Kingston Symphony since 1964. The main theatre seats 776 people, and has a proscenium stage and an orchestra pit. The building also houses a smaller black box theatre, The Baby Grand, which seats 105 people.
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When the Barlow sisters were growing up, they wished to have a baby grand piano at home. One Christmas Eve in the early 1990s, their mother convinced them to spend the day shopping. It was at that time that their father and brother moved the heavy piano inside the home. Upon noticing the piano when they returned home, the sisters had tears of joy.
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North Carolina Motor Speedway was affectionately referred to at the time as The Action Track; delivering much action from motorcycle racing to stock car events. The Baby Grand 125 was an ARCA (Automobile Racing Club of America) companion race that took place the previous day. People could buy the official program during both races at a relatively low price of $3 USD ($ when adjusted for inflation).
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Patterned after the larger Copacabana, the Riobamba was a "glitzy jewel box of a joint" with a small dance floor on which stood a baby grand piano. There was no stage; the performers stood near the tables at which patrons sat. The room seated 400. Shows typically featured a stand-up comedian, a dance troupe, and an orchestra in addition to the main act.
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In 2010 it hosted events such has Pro Trucks, Baby Grand racing series, Legends of Alberta, Western Canada Super Late Model Racing Series & Evolution Mini Cup Car series, and numerous provincial racing divisions. In 2016 it held regular races in the Street Stock, Bomber and Mini stock classes. 2015 special events included Drifting, trailer racing, and wheelies. In 2017 Kings Park Speedway celebrated its 50th season.
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A large function room for events and meetings also holds a Yamaha baby grand piano; a private study room for small groups and a conference room for meetings and activities are also available for public use. All of the meeting rooms have wired Internet access. In addition, an art gallery showcases monthly exhibits by local artists and organizations. Semi-annual book sales are also held in these back rooms.
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Retrieved 29 January 2015 Living in Harlem, she supported herself by working at a Chinese laundry and performing at nightclubs on the weekends. McCoy eventually booked gigs at famous venues such as the Baby Grand in Harlem, the Flame Show Bar in Detroit, the Sportsmen’s Club in Cincinnati and Basin Street in Toronto. She he opened for performers like Ruth Brown, Moms Mabley, Dinah Washington, and Pigmeat Markham.
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Work accordingly began in 1964 and the newly named The Grand Theatre opened its doors on 20 May 1966 with a performance of Dora Mavor Moore's musical revue Spring Thaw. In 1978 a series of ongoing renovations began which established new lounges, higher quality backstage facilities, and The Baby Grand was co- founded by Sarah Garton Stanley and Eric Kaskens in 1985 (and was renovated and reopened in November 1990).
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Weber Piano Fortes – 1860s Weber Square Piano Advertisement As Weber's business grew, his pianos received recognition. The company received medals at the Philadelphia Worlds Fair (1876), the London World's Fair (1887) and the Paris World's Fair (1889). Weber also advertised his pianos aggressively, and is believed to have coined the term "Baby Grand" to describe a small grand piano. Weber was described as a skilled pianist, with genuine enthusiasm for music.
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Joseph Brazil was born August 25, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan. In 1951 he purchased a home in Detroit where he lived with his brother and mother. He built a bar in the basement and installed a baby grand piano. Jam sessions took place in his basement, with musicians such as trumpeter Donald Byrd, saxophonists Sonny Red and Brazil, pianist Barry Harris, bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Frank Gant.
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Open Window (2004) is an album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. This is an album of improvised piano solos. Rich’s piano solos have been a part of his live concerts for over 20 years but this is the first time that a recording has been released in a recorded form. The material on this album was performed on a 1925 vintage A.B. Chase baby grand piano.
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Disklaviers have been manufactured in the form of upright, baby grand, and grand piano styles (including a nine-foot concert grand). Reproducing systems have ranged from relatively simple, playback-only models to professional models that can record performance data at resolutions that exceed the limits of normal MIDI data. The unit mounted under the keyboard of the piano can play MIDI or audio software on its CD or floppy disk drive.
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The silhouette was focused, coats and capes layered over fluid shapes; slip dresses layered over knits and long dresses accented by ruffles and ruching. The ensembles were accessorized by combat boots, embellished pumps, velvet sandals, quilted handbags, and silver amulets. Instead of a recorded soundtrack, pianist Vanessa Wagner played works by John Cage and Phillip Glass on a baby grand from the middle of the runway. The collection featured 81 looks.
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"The house was full of life with all the children. Music from the baby grand piano could be heard coming from the parlor. We as children used to run through the vineyards eating grapes that surrounded the house" Guadalupe Huerta's father worked hard to support his family until his death in the early 1930s. This left the raising and financial support of all four children to Guadalupe's mother.
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Chevrolet plant in Tarrytown, NY, c. 1918 Chevrolet first used the "bowtie emblem" logo in 1914 on the H series models (Royal Mail and Baby Grand) and The L Series Model (Light Six). It may have been designed from wallpaper Durant once saw in a French hotel room. More recent research by historian Ken Kaufmann presents a case that the logo is based on a logo of the "Coalettes" coal company.
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The children's dining room was decorated by Jean de Brunhoff, who covered the walls with Babar the Elephant and his entourage.Maxtone-Graham 1972, p. 372 The interiors were filled with grand perspectives, spectacular entryways, and long, wide staircases. First-class suites were given unique designs by select designers. The most luxurious accommodations were the Deauville and Trouville apartments,Maxtone-Graham 1972, p. 279 featuring dining rooms, baby grand pianos, multiple bedrooms, and private decks.
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As she begins to play a baby grand piano, the piano and the room surrounding her begin to catch on fire until rain begins to fall and extinguishes the flames. The room appears to be burnt and wasted. As the sun begins to shine through the windows of the building, a small vine grows from the floorboard and expands across the room, and blue flowers begin to blossom from the vines above the piano.
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Removalists moving an upright piano with the trolly, and heavy straps The trolly can be used to carry piano's over steps. Here they are moving a baby grand piano over steps. A piano trolley is a two- or four-wheeled trolley approximately long used by removals companies for moving pianos. It is placed under the centre of mass of the piano and allows it to be turned on its axis to manoeuvre round a building.
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In the United States, Cleartron briefly produced the "Multivalve" triple triode for use in the Emerson Baby Grand receiver. This Emerson set also has a single tube socket, but because it uses a four-pin base, the additional element connections are made on a "mezzanine" platform at the top of the tube base. By 1940 multisection tubes had become commonplace. There were constraints, however, due to patents and other licensing considerations (see British Valve Association).
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His piano compositions frequently involve pieces for pianos whose interiors have been altered in some way, including burning pianos. His 2003 Burning Questions, a radiophonic work commissioned by ABC Radio National included the sounds of a burning baby grand piano, the observers' reactions, and Hannan playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on the piano prior to setting it alight. The sounds of nature, especially bird calls, have also figured prominently in his later work.Pleskun, Stephen (2014).
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The group also performed live at local venues, including Harlem's Club Baby Grand. Leach suffered from severe stage fright, and had to drink to calm her nerves before performing. The group switched to the Celeste label in 1955 and were joined by Arthur Crier and Gary Morrison. After recording two more singles, and quite a few songs that were never released, they switched labels again: this time to Candlelight, where things only got worse.
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In 1943 the old Schiller factory was sold to Winter and Company of New York City. The factory remained in operation producing different products through the years, such as talking machines, player pianos, spinnets, baby grand pianos and pianos. Through the late 1960s the factory employed 100 people and produced up to 6,000 pianos per year. In 1971 the plant closed after the company shut down operations and moved them to Memphis, Tennessee.
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The Hilton Chicago is home to Chicago's largest and most expensive hotel room, which formerly served as the Tower Ballroom. The Conrad Hilton Suite is a suite that encompasses two floors, T3 and T4. The suite costs more than $7,000 per night. Refurbished in 2013, the suite includes 16-foot lake view windows, a baby grand piano, a billiard table, three balconies, three bedrooms on the lower level - each with multiple flat screen televisions, and a helipad.
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The Series FB was advertised as the FB-12 and FB-20 (roadster), FB-22 and FB-30 (coupe), FB-40 and FB-42 (sedan) and FB-32 and FB-50 (touring). The roadster was also sometimes known as the "Royal Mail" and the tourer as the "Baby Grand", but these names were officially dropped during 1919. During 1922 the model was sometimes referred to as the "Superior", which is the name given to the 1923 replacement.
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The Chevrolet FA sedan called FA-4, The Roadster FA-2 "Royal Mail", and an open Touring, FA-5 "Baby Grand", The 1917 car was larger than the Chevrolet Series 490. It had an easy access via the single right-hand door even without a folding forward right front seat. The flat floor of the car was a double step down to the ground. It was made of wood and had removable pillars for the roof of the car.
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O'Connor's secondary instrument was the piano, in particular, a Yamaha C4 baby grand piano. O'Connor claims that this is where most of his composing came from. As well as the guitar and the piano, O'Connor also played the flute, both metal and wood based flutes, as well as an Electric Wind Instrument (EWI) which allowed for a wide variety of instrument sounds to be produced on one instrument. He also played percussion, the bass guitar and keyboards.
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This was an 88-note baby grand without its heavy outer case, and designed to separate into a keyboard and a "harp" section with removable "hairpin"-style legs. A fibreglass cover was fitted to the "harp" in lieu of a traditional case and lid. This made the instrument considerably lighter than a traditional grand of the same size. Both instruments are still renowned for their authentic sound when amplified, and the Helpinstill pickup remains an industry standard.
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In May 2014, someone placed a Mason & Hamlin baby grand piano underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, and Corman photographed it, using it as a prop for shoots, including a series of images with ballerina Misty Copeland. The piano's appearance under the bridge inspired his 2014 Sunrise Under the Brooklyn Bridge series.Jenna O’Donnell, “Mysterious piano on the East River has a supporter – the guy who did the same thing in Miami,” Daily News (New York), July 3, 2014.
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Her middle name, Ray, honors the musician Ray Charles with whom her father recorded the song "Baby Grand".Stout, Gene, "Billy Joel Delivers – Few Surprises," seattlepi.com (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), December 3, 1986 (retrieved July 21, 2009) (WebCite archive).Mrowicki, Matt, "Turning A Fantasy Into A Promising Career" interview (WebCite archive), Chorus and Verse, June 2006. She has a half- brother, Jack Paris Brinkley Cook (né Taubman, born June 2, 1995) and a half- sister, Sailor Lee Brinkley Cook (born July 1, 1998).
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Sohmer & Co. trademark Sohmer & Co. was a piano manufacturing company founded in New York City in 1872. Sohmer & Co. marketed the first modern baby grand piano, and also manufactured pianos with aliquot stringing and bridge agraffes, as well as Cecilian "all-inside" player pianos and Welte-Mignon- Licensee reproducing pianos. Sohmer pianos were owned by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, and composers Victor Herbert and Irving Berlin. Sohmer is now a line of pianos manufactured by Samick Music Corporation in Korea.
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It was furnished with green rugs, upholstered furniture, and lightly tinted, translucent green window draperies. The room contained an 1840 harp made in France which was the property of Mother Angela Lincoln (a relative of Abraham Lincoln) and a baby grand piano manufactured by the Steinway company. The piano was the gift of a student, whose father gave it to her as a graduation present. The other room was the Bishop's Parlor, a private suite for the bishop and important visitors.
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Using a rope and a pulley, the Coyote raises a baby grand piano high above the road. As the Road Runner passes, the Coyote lets go of the rope, which sticks in the pulley. The Coyote jumps on top of the piano, which loosens the rope and causes the piano - and the Coyote - to drop to the ground. Dazed, the Coyote opens his mouth to reveal that the piano keys are now his teeth; he plays "Taps" on them briefly before passing out.
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In 1914 the Series H debuted with the H-2 Royal Mail Roadster and the H-4 5-seater Baby Grand Touring model, both with a wheelbase. In 1915, all Series H models got a longer wheelbase and larger brakes, and an electric starter was now standard. Also for 1915 Chevrolet introduced the Amesbury Special model H-3, a 3-seat roadster (similar to the Royal Mail) that sold for $985. It came painted in French grey with green patent leather interior.
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De Niese was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, after her parents, Chris and Beverly, had migrated from Sri Lanka to Australia as teenagers. She is a Sri Lankan Burgher with some Dutch and Scottish heritage. In 1988, at the age of nine, she became the youngest winner of the Australian TV talent competition, Young Talent Time. In the competition, she was singing a Whitney Houston medley, for which the prize was A$ 5,000 and a Yamaha baby grand piano, which she still owns.
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Leitzel performing in 1925 Leitzel's act included one-armed planges, momentarily dislocating the shoulder during each plange. She would flip her body over her shoulder repeatedly, sometimes hundreds of times in a feat of endurance, encouraging the audience to count each one in unison. Only four feet, nine inches, she was also famous for her demanding personality and temper. Leitzel was the first performer in history to command her own private Pullman car completely furnished with her own baby grand piano.
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As Petty led the race late, Allison pitted and got fresh tires on a late pit stop, running down Petty and passing him on the final lap. It was considered as one of the most exciting races ever at North Wilkesboro Speedway. In 1975 the NASCAR Baby Grand Series, later known as Goody's Dash Series, ran its first race at North Wilkesboro, with a win by Dean Combs. Thirty-seven races were run at the track from 1975-1984,1986-1987, and 1995-1996.
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Poznikov lost his apartment, stayed with friends and then on the streets. He suffered emotionally, and began abusing drugs. In 2002 he was living under a rotting baby grand piano in a homeless encampment near Caltrain tracks, in week after Christmas, crews hired by the city broke up the camp, with bulldozers at daybreak and Poznikov lost what scraps remained of his life. He died on October 27, 2005, on a sidewalk near Cesar Chavez and Bayshore Freeway, of alcohol poisoning.
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The "baby grand hotel" was inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night. The Marlton Hotel was built in 1900 and, for much of its existence, served as a single room occupancy (SRO) hotel for mostly transient guests. However, many guests stayed for months or years at a time. Because of its location in the Village's cultural community as well as its relative affordability, the Marlton Hotel became popular amongst struggling actors, poets and artists looking for work in the city.
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Debra Arlyn was born on February 27, 1986 in Corvallis, Oregon to Valerie, a homemaker, and to Tony, a musician/businessman. She is of Polish and Irish descent. She grew up in Corvallis and spent her time growing up singing in school and church choirs. When she was 15 she began to teach herself to play piano by ear on her family's baby grand piano and writing her own music and songs, inspired by such artists as Carole King and Fiona Apple.
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Davide Martello, also known as Klavierkunst (born 1 November 1981 in Lörrach in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg), is a German pianist of Italian descent. He was raised in Tuningen, between the Black Forest and the Swabian Jura. He is known for travelling around conflict zones to play his baby grand piano, which he tows behind his bicycle using a powered trailer. Martello has been recognised by the European parliament for his “outstanding contribution to European cooperation and the promotion of common values”.
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As Petty led the race late, Allison pitted and got fresh tires on a late pit stop, running down Petty and passing him on the final lap. It was considered as one of the most exciting races ever at North Wilkesboro Speedway. In 1975 the NASCAR Baby Grand Series, later known as Goody's Dash Series, ran its first race at North Wilkesboro, with a win by Dean Combs. Thirty-seven races were run at the track from 1975-1984,1986-1987, and 1995-1996.
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Official Catalogue, John Nagle & Co., Philadelphia, 1876. p262 had been awarded the First Medal of Merit, as well as the Diploma of Honour at the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia and displayed the awards in later instruments although the system of awarding prizes had led to notable public disagreement among piano manufacturers. They also advertised first prizes received in Montreal in 1881 and 1882. Hugo Sohmer marketed the first modern "bijou," or baby grand piano, built with a symmetrical case design which he patented in 1884.
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As he succeeded in the final exam (on the question of Lex Salica), he could therefore apply at the Staatsakademie und Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Not only did he gain admission, he was allowed to skip the first four years and enter directly in the master classes of Joseph Marx.Joseph Marx also first had to study law to appease his father. Following this success, his father set Joseph up in a two-bedroom apartment in central Vienna with his own baby-grand piano.
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Her one-woman show Motherhood, Madness and the Shape of the Universe was performed across Canada and Britain, and was adapted for CBC Radio; and her other one-woman show Waiting for Michelangelo opened at the Baby Grand Studio in the Grand Theatre Kingston in April 2009. In 2006, Renders became a professor at Queen's University in the drama department (Dan School of Drama and Music). She also taught in the department of gender studies. In 2012, Renders was given tenure and appointed an associate professor.
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At the age of 19, Ferguson was on the road with Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers. They moved to New York, where Ferguson branched off on his own, getting a gig at the nightclub Baby Grand Club in Harlem, billed as "The Cobra Kid." A blues shouter, he first recorded as Bob Ferguson in New York in 1950, for Derby Records, whose drummer Jack "The Bear" Parker (according to most sources) gave him the nickname "H-Bomb" and became his manager. "H-Bomb Ferguson", Black Cat Rockabilly.
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A lot of people have told me it's inspiring." In their book Burning Up, Nick said that he wrote a song about diabetes called "A Little Bit Longer": "I was in Canada shooting Camp Rock, and I was having one of those days where my blood sugar was a little bit out of control. I walked into a banquet room at the hotel where we were staying and saw a baby grand piano. Nobody was in there, so I sat down and began to play.
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In 1995 the running of the theatre was taken over by the Grand Opera House Trust. An renovation was undertaken in 2006 with the addition of the Baby Grand performance space together with extended foyers, extended stage wings and artist accommodation and access for customers with disabilities. A restaurant called "The Hippodrome" was added on the third floor, while on the ground floor a daytime bistro named "Luciano's" opened, as well as space for corporate meetings and functions. "Luciano's" closed after several years of poor trading.
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In 2009 The School of Music hired Dr. George Brozak, former director of The Mighty Sound of the Southeast, as the new director. The Marching Salukis featured several innovations in its early years, including a baby grand piano on wheels, wheeled percussion carts (the "Rhythm on Wheels", which included a pair of timpani) and a violist (usually a non-musician playing a dummy instrument although Dane Ronvik actually performed on cello in the early 1980s). The tuxedo uniform has gone through several alterations over the years.
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The title track was a cover of an old Baby Grand song. In 1995, Hyman wrote, played and arranged on Joan Osborne's debut album, Relish, which went on to be nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. He later worked with Osborne on the 2008 album Little Wild One. In 1998, Hyman again collaborated with Chertoff to create the concept album Largo, which was based on the largo movement of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, in E Minor From the New World.
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Charles sang a duet with Joel on the song "Baby Grand", and Winwood played Hammond organ on the song "Getting Closer". Other notable musicians who made guest appearances on the album include jazz musicians Ron Carter and Michael Brecker, who both played on the jazzy track "Big Man on Mulberry Street". The album also had some New wave influences. For instance, the first song, "Running on Ice", is heavily influenced by the music of The Police, and "Modern Woman" borrows heavily from the styles of Huey Lewis and the News.
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At the time, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation was ticketing musicians performing near monuments and park benches, and he was fined over $6,000 in 2011; that policy has since been revoked. Huggins notes the connection of Washington Square Arch to the pianist Jan Paderewski who sponsored its construction in 1892. Huggins launched a crowdfunding campaign in 2011 to purchase a baby grand piano. In 2016, he upgraded to a full-size grand piano, a Yamaha C5, and had Woody Guthrie's slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists" inscribed on both sides.
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During this period, Columbia Records had approached Keys for a record deal, offering her a $26,000 white baby grand piano; after negotiations with her and her manager, she signed to the label, at age 15. Keys was also finishing high school, and her academic success had provided her opportunity for scholarship and early admission to university. That year, Keys accepted a scholarship to study at Columbia University in Manhattan. She graduated from high school early as valedictorian, at the age of 16, and began attending Columbia University at that age while working on her music.
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Graceland living room Graceland is and has a total of 23 rooms, including eight bedrooms and bathrooms. To the right of the Entrance Hall, through an elliptical-arched opening with classical details, is the Living Room, with the adjoining Music Room behind a doorway framed by vivid large peacocks set in stained glass. The Music Room has a black baby grand piano and a 1950s style TV. The Living Room contains a white sofa against the wall overlooking the front yard. To the left is a white fireplace.
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Baby grand pianos are located on the second floor of Jester West and on the first floor of Jester East, off the lobby, for the enjoyment of the residents. The Fireplace Lounge in Jester West and the First Floor Lobby in Jester East feature large-screen televisions and comfortable chairs. Residents often use the numerous lounge areas as meeting places or group study areas. At least one lounge is located on each floor, but there is also a 24-hour quiet study lounge across from the Jester West Desk.
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Born in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she attended George Westinghouse High School and studied music at the Filion School of Music in Pittsburgh. Later she performed regularly in the Hill District, a jazz hotspot, as a vocalist with the Joe Westray Orchestra, a popular Pittsburgh orchestra. She next spent several years in the nightclub circuit in such cities as Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland and St. Louis. While in New York, she was noticed singing at a Harlem nightclub called the Baby Grand by Dave Cavanaugh, a producer for Capitol Records.
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All family members worked in the restaurant. His parents divorced when he was about eight years old, but continued to maintain the family restaurant and live above it. Although his father was Greek Orthodox and his mother was a Baptist, Georgiou was sent to St Joseph Roman Catholic Primary School, Macklin Street, which was closer to his father's business on Drury Lane. Georgiou developed an interest in piano at a young age, eventually using the family baby grand piano to work out the chords, since no one else there played well enough to teach him.
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He moved to New York City after his discharge in 1944, where he played at Minton's Playhouse and the Harlem Grill. He toured North Carolina in a band alongside Sonny Payne in 1947, then played with George Barkley at the Baby Grand in New York; he first recorded with Barkley around 1947 or 1948. He then played with Sonny Thompson from 1948 to 1957. In 1958 he worked with Jimmy McCracklin and in 1961 with Phil Upchurch; he also did session work with pop musicians in the 1960s.
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In 1896, his horse Persimmon won both the Derby Stakes and the St Leger Stakes. In 1900, Persimmon's brother, Diamond Jubilee, won five races (Derby, St Leger, 2,000 Guineas Stakes, Newmarket Stakes and Eclipse Stakes)Bentley-Cranch, p. 110 and another of Edward's horses, Ambush II, won the Grand National.Middlemas, p. 98 Tsar Nicholas II (left), Empress Alexandra and baby Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, 1896 In 1891 Edward was embroiled in the royal baccarat scandal, when it was revealed he had played an illegal card game for money the previous year.
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Some of Pape's more successful inventions were employed by a small number of manufacturers fairly early in piano making history, such as Erard, Steinweg, Steinway and Ernst Kaps. In discussions with Pape, it was Ernst Kaps that expanded on Pape's design, inventing a system of double over-stringing in 1865. This design employed three bridges, Bass, tenor and treble, enabling the production of the, previously troubled, baby grand piano. This then allowed for a 5 ft (154 cm) length piano to be successfully produced early in piano making history.
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Another example is the tritave of the Bohlen–Pierce scale (3:1). Octave stretching is less apparent on large pianos which have longer strings and hence less curvature for a given displacement; that is one reason why orchestras go to the expense of using very long concert grand pianos rather than shorter, less expensive baby grand, upright, or spinet pianos. Another reason is that long strings under high tension can store more acoustic energy than can short strings, giving larger instruments more volume and better sustain than similar, smaller instruments.
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Theatre Kingston is a theatre company located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1990 as Theatre Beyond by Paul Gelineau, the company became The People's Theatre Kingston in 1992 and had two more Artistic Directors under that name—Kathryn MacKay (1993–94) and Kathleen LeRoux (1994–97). In late 1997, Craig Walker, was appointed as artistic director. In early 1998 the company shortened its name to Theatre Kingston and moved into the Baby Grand Studio in downtown Kingston, where it began offering a full season of four or more productions a year.
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The group's YouTube videos show the musicians performing in a variety of settings. These include locations in the Utah desert, at the edge of a 1,000-foot cliff, atop a speeding train, in an ice cave, and at Iguazu Falls, among others. Anderson's goal was "to put pianos and cellos in places nobody would ever expect to see them", thereby generating marketing buzz for his store. In the videos, Schmidt is seen playing a variety of Yamaha grand and baby grand pianos, while Nelson plays custom acoustic and electric cello.
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Retrieved 30 May 2015 It was as a radio actor that Usher came to be best known; he worked continually for BBC radio for many years, not only as an actor but also as a writer. In the 1980s BBC radio broadcast two plays by him: The Last Two Hours of Anthony Anderson (1986) and Hyacinth (1987)."Thirty Minute Theatre" and "Thirty Minute Theatre", BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015 In the early 1990s he wrote a radio play based on The Baby Grand by the 1920s novelist and short story writer Stacy Aumonier.
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As completed, the Park Hyatt had 220 rooms, a presidential suite, an outdoor café, a caviar bar, and a restaurant. The hotel also featured the Rendez-Vous, a beauty salon operated by stylist Yves Graux. Four types of marble were used throughout the hotel, and the public areas featured 13th-century Buddhist sculptures as well as artwork by David Hockney, Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam, Howard Mehring, Kenneth Noland, Paul Reed, and Frank Stella. Each guest room bathroom featured a television, while the hotel's presidential suite had a working fireplace and baby grand piano.
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The ISCARS Dash Touring Series (previously known as the NASCAR Baby Grand National, Goody's Dash Series and IPOWER Dash Series among others) was a stock car racing series created by NASCAR in 1973, initially running solely at North Wilkesboro Speedway, that involved V6 powered stock cars raced over relatively short distances. In 1975 the series branched out to other tracks besides North Wilkesboro Speedway. After the end of the 2003 season, NASCAR transferred the Goody's Dash series to IPOWER (International Participants Of Winning Edge Racing). In 2004, they ran the IPOWER Dash Series.
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Stage appearances include The Importance of Being Earnest (as John Worthing, replacing Geoffrey Rush), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Orpheus in the Underworld, and the Gilbert and Sullivan operas Ruddigore and The Mikado. His television appearances include The Dingo Principle and Three Men and a Baby Grand, satirical sketch television comedy programs for which he was a writer/performer with Phillip Scott and Drew Forsythe. He also presented the arts panel program Critical Mass. His film appearances include Thank God He Met Lizzie and Gettin' Square.
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The book contains photographs of Copeland dancing at sunrise on and around a baby grand piano that washed ashore under the Brooklyn Bridge. Copeland was included in the 2015 International Best Dressed List, published by Vanity Fair. In October 2015, she performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert accompanied by cellist Yo- Yo Ma, who played "Courante" from Bach's Cello Suite No. 2. In February 2016, Copeland and President Barack Obama were interviewed together in the first of a three part video series with Time and Essence magazines on topics of race, gender, achievement and creating opportunity for young people.
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The 1925 bank was purchased by ACT in 2011 with the intent of renovating it to provide two additional movie theatres and improved amenities for the theatre, while preserving the historic architecture of the bank building. The Colonial's expansion opened for business on May 12, 2017. A ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce was held on May 17, 2017. The new wing offers a 174-retractable seat stadium-style theatre, an intimate 65-seat screening room-style theatre, and a lobby that showcases a baby grand piano and a 30-ft concession stand.
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Philco also made battery-powered radios which were by then called "farm radios", most of which had cabinets identical to their AC powered versions. The Philco "Baby Grand" (today called "cathedral" radios by collectors) was a shape that featured an arched top that wrapped from the sides over the top. This was for economic reason partly, as one piece of wood formed both the top and sides. Philco sold far more of this style than any other maker, a total of over two million (in over twenty models, with from four to eleven tubes) from 1930 to 1938;Mahon, p.116.
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In the summer of 2011, the half-circle driveway at the campus entrance was converted to green space and walking paths. Marlboro College Library The Serkin Performing Arts Center has a 125-seat auditorium, an electronic music lab, practice rooms with baby grand pianos and a 5,000-square foot dance studio. Whittemore Theater is another performing arts space which is used primarily by the Theater department. Attached to Whittemore theater is Drury Gallery, a gallery space often used by fine arts students to display their works, although students from other departments have also used the space to showcase their work.
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The concert was organized by 17-year-old , then Germany's youngest concert promoter.BBC Radio 4 For One Night Only , accessed December 30, 2011 At Jarrett's request, Brandes had selected a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial concert grand piano for the performance. However, there was some confusion by the opera house staff and instead they found another Bösendorfer piano backstage – a much smaller baby grand – and, assuming it was the one requested, placed it on the stage. The error was discovered too late for the correct Bösendorfer to be delivered to the venue in time for the evening's concert.
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Burroughs was born in Grovetown, Georgia, but grew up in California. In the early 1950s, he moved to New York City, where he worked as an MC at the Baby Grand Theatre. He began writing songs, one of his earliest being "Fujiyama Mama", recorded by Annisteen Allen, Eileen Barton, and a few years later by Wanda Jackson. After starting to use the pseudonym Jack Hammer, he also wrote "Rock 'n' Roll Call", recorded by the Treniers and Louis Jordan. He also recorded several singles in the mid-1950s, including "Football Rock" on Decca, and "Girl Girl Girl" on Roulette.
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At the age of 10, while watching The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, Bazilian realized that playing and creating music was what he wished to pursue with his life. At 16 years old, while attending Germantown Friends School, Bazilian started writing songs for his first band, Evil Seed. This band played all original music at "Be-ins" at Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park. By the mid 1970s, while attending the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, Bazilian met Rob Hyman and Rick Chertoff, with whom he formed a band called Baby Grand.
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The third floor dining rooms were reserved for private parties and banquets, where many local Chinese residents held wedding parties and family ceremonial dinners. The East Hall upper dining room had a baby grand piano for entertainment, and by 1910, it was redesigned to accommodate long banquet tables. The West Hall upper dining room had no walls or screens to divide the space and each table was set up with only four seats, to accommodate smaller groups. There was also a special upper floor room for a bride's traditional change into different red dresses for various stages of the wedding reception.
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Oldfield's decision to combine AMS Neve amplifiers with Brüel & Kjær microphones made the album "sound much better than anything I've done." It marked a departure from the sound of his recent albums from the 1980s as he avoided his Fairlight CMI computer and C-Lab sequencer and used little of his synthesisers. He acquired a 1908 baby grand piano and played a Hammond, Farfisa, and Lowery organs and used real percussion instruments. For some sections he created bass and snare drum sounds by hitting his thighs with his hands that were fed into an AMS system.
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The indirect lighting from above could be switched from a cool hue for summer to a warm hue for winter.Explained to the author by his father, Michael Inchbald The Theatre Bar on Upper Deck featured red chairs, red drapes, a red egg crate fibreglass screen, and even a red baby grand piano. Some more traditional materials like wood veneer were used as highlights throughout the ship, especially in passenger corridors and staterooms. There was also an Observation Bar on Quarter Deck, a successor to its namesake, located in a similar location, on both previous Queens, which offered views through large windows over the ship's bow.
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He's not some hard ass or anything like that, yelling at you, but he keeps it together and makes it work... (Shenale) knows what I want to create — he comes up with ideas that help make the sound right. :There was this one song — it was on Backstreets of Desire I think — where he took a Baby Grand piano, a really good one right, and took the lid off and played on the wires with drum sticks because he knew that was the way to get the sound we needed for the song. He doesn't say, "This is what it has to sound like" or make it into his sound.
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Jeff Venable directed the song's music video, which was filmed along Lower Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. To film the video, Venable got permission from the city to shut down the street and all businesses on it, leaving an empty streetscape on which Janson performs the song from behind a baby grand piano. In between the shots, the video tells a story of a young intoxicated woman leaving a bar, along with flashbacks of her witnessing abuse as a child, and being victimized as a student. The video is preceded by a content warning stating that its "content addresses sensitive topics that might be upsetting to some audiences".
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His television appearances include The Miraculous Mellops, The Dingo Principle, and Three Men and a Baby Grand, satirical sketch television comedy programs for which he was a writer/performer with Phillip Scott and Jonathan Biggins. The 'Three Men' team started in revue at the Tilbury Hotel, and much of the thematic material from these revues has been revisited and developed in the Sydney Theatre Company's 'Wharf Revue' series. Forsythe provided the anonymous, uncredited voice of David Tench, a computer-animated host on Network Ten's short-lived comedy talk show David Tench Tonight. He also voiced several characters on the Australian award-winning animated series I Got a Rocket.
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He has appeared on film as well as in sketch comedy television programs. His television appearances include The Dingo Principle and Three Men and a Baby Grand, satirical sketch television comedy programs for which he was a writer/performer with Jonathan Biggins and Drew Forsythe. He also appeared with Max Gillies in The Gillies Report and its sequels, The Gillies Republic and Gillies and Company, and was a writer/performer on ABC TV's The Big Gig and a regular writer for Good News Week. He (wrote the music for, played piano) and Max Gillies starred in "Night of National Reconciliation" during 1983 at Kinsellas, Taylor Square, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
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Literal dueling pianos can be verified as early as the late 1890s, when ragtime piano players would actually "duel" in an effort to see who could play better and faster. In 1933, when B.H. O'Brien and Charlie Cantrell opened Pat O'Brien's Bar in New Orleans, they included a room where two piano players would entertain the crowd on copper-topped baby grand pianos. Players would take turns singing songs requested by the audience, written on cocktail napkins. In 1986, a piano bar called Dallas Alley (aka "Alley Cats") opened in Dallas, Texas as an attempt to copy the piano bar style of New Orleans.
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Michael Hannan's compositions have often involved pieces for pianos which have been altered in some way, including being set on fire. His 2003 Burning Questions, a radiophonic work commissioned by ABC Radio National, explored the "cultural politics of auto-destructive music" and included the sounds of a burning baby grand piano (with a microphone placed inside), the observers' reactions, and Hannan playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on the piano immediately prior to setting it alight. According to Hannan: > The act of burning a piano [...] stimulates a strong emotional response from > an audience. I became more interested in the crowd's response than in the > sounds made from the piano itself.
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Teel received a phone call from former driver Bill Champion asking her to compete in the Baby Grand National Series (now called ISCARS Dash Touring Series) in 1979 at Atlanta Motor Speedway but she failed to qualify after recording the 44th fastest lap time. Teel spun early in the race and ran in second position with two laps remaining when fellow driver Billy Smith crashed out. Teel began competing in the NASCAR Budweiser Late Model Sportsman Series (now called Xfinity Series) in 1982. She qualified for the season's fourth round, the Dogwood 500 at Martinsville Speedway, making her the first woman to start a Budweiser Late Model Sportsman Series race.
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Chertoff attended the University of Pennsylvania, and whilst in Philadelphia he met soon-to-be long- time friends Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian and formed a musical collaboration that has lasted to this day. Chertoff played drums in a local band "Wax" with Hyman and later produced and played with the band Baby Grand, which included both Hyman and Bazilian. He was a major force behind the signing of Hyman and Bazilian's later band, The Hooters to Columbia Records, where he produced their multi-platinum albums, Nervous Night, One Way Home, and Zig Zag. Chertoff's A&R; career began under the training of music legend Clive Davis at the inception of Arista Records.
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1914 Chevrolet Light Six Engine Compartment The L Series used a Sterling six- cylinder L-head engine rated at 35 bhp and was offered with an Auto-lite electric starter. A cone style clutch was mounted to the engine with a drive shaft that was connected to a rear end mounted selective sliding 3 speed transmission. The car used a 3/4 floating type rear suspension with 34 x 4 inch tires. Unlike the lower priced H Series which was available in two body styles (Royal Mail Roadster $750) and the (Baby Grand Touring $875) the L Series was only available as a 5-passenger four-door Touring car and cost $1,475.
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Founded in December 1975, The Marriott Theatre has presented more than 170 musicals and is currently led by Executive Producer Terry James, Artistic Director Aaron Thielen, and Artistic Director Andy Hite. It is the most subscribed musical theatre in the country. The Marriott Theatre has presented more than 3,000 professional actors in classic American musical theatre, new musicals, and "re-thought" musicals. Broadway has long considered The Marriott Theatre a prime venue for launching shows into the regional market with premiere productions of A Chorus Line, Chess, Baby, Grand Hotel, They're Playing Our Song, The Goodbye Girl, The First, Miss Saigon, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Beauty and the Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Producers and Little Women.
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"Second Hand White Baby Grand" is an original song introduced in the twelfth episode of the first season of the musical TV series "Smash", entitled "Publicity". The song was written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, but within the show's universe, it is written by songwriting team Julia Houston (Debra Messing) and Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) for their Marilyn Monroe musical Bombshell. In "Publicity", the song is written after newly appointed Marilyn, Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman), requests some script changes. The song is performed by Marilyn Monroe's "shadow selves", the voices that she hears inside her head (which are given much larger roles so the movie star but bad singer Rebecca Duvall doesn't have to sing as many songs).
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After Baby Grand disbanded, Hyman and Bazilian decided to try something new by combining reggae, ska, and rock'n'roll to create The Hooters in 1980. Nervous Night, The Hooters' 1985 debut on Columbia Records, sold more than 2 million copies and included Billboard Top 40 hits "Day By Day" (#18), "And We Danced" (#21) and "Where Do The Children Go" (#38). After releasing six albums, The Hooters obtained a large global following throughout the 1980s and 1990s. As a result, they were asked to open three major musical events of the late 20th century: Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985, Amnesty International Concert at Giants Stadium in 1986, and Roger Waters' The Wall Concert in Berlin in 1990.
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With the Ivy Tower as a component, the new complex opened in 2008 rechristened as the Hotel Ivy + Residences, including a 136-room hotel and 70 condominiums. The older building was remodeled to include several single-floor hotel rooms and a two-level suite furnished with a baby grand piano priced at $3,000 a night. The condominiums, most of them initially priced at more than $1 million, included full use of the hotel's amenities, like the food, valet and maid service and the spa. The complex struggled from the beginning: it was finished behind schedule and was subsequently hit hard by the late 2000s recession affecting both the condo market and luxury travel industries.
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She lived in Moscow at least till 1936, by which time all three of her sons and her husband had relocated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. Her husband, who had been semi-retired even before the Nazi take-over, and had never involved himself in his wife's political activities (but was nevertheless professionally marginalised and in increasing danger because he was Jewish) arrived, using a tourist visa, only at the start of 1936, accompanied by her daughter in law, Dora and her baby grand daughter, Franziska. In Moscow Berta Lask worked as a journalist. Moscow, like Paris, had welcomed large numbers of refugees from Nazi Germany, forced to flee because of their politics, their race, or both.
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Campbell's 'Voice of the People' sound system was soon operational and within a short time had established itself as a rival to the sound systems of Coxsone and Reid. Campbell applied to the Farm Work Program (guest worker scheme for the US agricultural sector) with the intention of buying music for his sound system but on the day of departure was refused entry into the scheme. Knowing that he wouldn't be able to personally source records from the US, Campbell decided to record his own music. He approached Arkland "Drumbago" Parks, a professional drummer at the Baby Grand Club who had arranged and recorded a special (exclusive recording) for the Count Boysie sound system.
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Johns wrote much of the album at a baby grand piano; he had previously taught himself the instrument and composed songs on it for the first time with Diorama. This change in songwriting technique had a significant effect on the sound of the album; Johns commented on the difference in how his vocals resonated with piano as compared to guitar. He worked with others in developing the album; Van Dyke Parks (Beach Boys, U2) collaborated on orchestral arrangements, and the pair spent much of their recording time attempting to describe the music in metaphorical terms, with Johns describing Parks' orchestral swells as "tidal waves" and violins as "a flock of birds". The pair described the collaborative experience as "mind- blowing".
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Morley Bartnoff (born 1959, in Los Angeles, California), is an American keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and composer who has been performing and recording for the past 30 years. Formerly with the Los Angeles rock band Burning Sensations, Morley now leads alternative rock band Cosmo Topper, and whenever possible serves as the "secret weapon" on keyboards for Dramarama, an enduring power pop band best known for its hits "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)" and "Last Cigarette". For the last few years Morley has been playing keys for the reunited group Dramarama and will be featured on the New Dramarama recording, playing Baby Grand Piano and a Hammond B 3, with a Leslie to be released in 2011. His talents have also appeared on their previous 2005 CD, Everybody Dies.
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Peter I interrogates Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, history painting by Nikolai Ge, 1871, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Alexei would only consent to return on his father solemnly swearing, that if he came back he should not be punished in the least, but cherished as a son and allowed to live quietly on his estates and marry Afrosinia. On 31 January 1718, the tsarevich reached Moscow. Peter had already determined to institute a searching inquisition in order to get at the bottom of the mystery of the flight. On 18 February a "confession" was extorted from Alexei which implicated most of his friends, and he then publicly renounced the succession to the throne in favour of the baby grand-duke Peter Petrovich.
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Alapaʻi died suddenly on August 2, 1849 of apoplexy just before the invasion of Honolulu by French naval captain Louis Tromelin. Her death prompted both her husband and the King to return to the capital from Hilo just in time to address the political crisis. Alapai Street in Honolulu is named after her.; ; A painting of her hangs next to the baby grand piano in the parlor at Hānaiakamalama, the residence that her husband lived in after her death, which later became the summer palace of their niece Queen Emma, the wife of Kamehameha IV. Her lands eventually became part of the estates of Queen Emma which are now part of the trust of The Queen's Medical Center, the hospital that she helped established.
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After Baby Grand disbanded, Hyman and Bazilian decided to try something new by combining reggae, ska, folk and rock'n'roll to create The Hooters in 1980. Nervous Night, The Hooters' 1985 debut on Columbia Records, sold in excess of 2 million copies and included the Billboard Top 40 hits "Day by Day" (#18), "And We Danced" (#21) and "Where Do the Children Go" (#38). After releasing six albums, The Hooters obtained a large global following throughout the 1980s and 1990s. As a result, they were asked to open three major musical events of the late 20th century: Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985, Amnesty International A Conspiracy of Hope Concert at Giants Stadium in 1986, and Roger Waters' The Wall Concert in Berlin in 1990.
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As a student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he extended his facility in piano technique. This classical background gave him the ability to engage different music genres authentically. So diverse were the genres he regularly frequented, that often the only identifying mark of his songs as "Raposo" were common lyric allusions to "sunny days" or "flying", or his signature use of piccolo and glockenspiel atop the melodic or contrapuntal line, as well as the prominent uses of guitar in the rhythmic line. Most overtly, however, Joe Raposo's sonic trademark was his seemingly obsessive, and often exhaustively authentic, live replication of the tonal quality and exact playback cadence of the 20th-century self-operating player piano when composing for and performing on a grand, baby grand or upright piano.
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Brought back to Earth by the U.S. Space Shuttle, the WFPC is loaded for transport after display at JPL on its way to its final home at the National Air and Space Museum in 2010 Quantum efficiency of the CCD chip in the camera The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is a camera formerly installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. The camera was built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is roughly the size of a baby grand piano. It was installed by servicing mission 1 (STS-61) in 1993, replacing the telescope's original Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC). WFPC2 was used to image the Hubble Deep Field in 1995, the Engraved Hourglass Nebula and Egg Nebula in 1996, and the Hubble Deep Field South in 1998.
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"Second Hand White Baby Grand" is an original song introduced in the twelfth episode of the first season of the musical TV series "Smash", entitled "Publicity". The song was written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman,ASCAP Database Music Search - Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman songs but within the show's universe, it is written by songwriting team Julia Houston (Debra Messing) and Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) for their Marilyn Monroe musical Bombshell. In "Publicity", the song is written after newly appointed Marilyn, Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman), requests some script changes. The song is performed by Marilyn Monroe's "shadow selves", the voices that she hears inside her head (which are given much larger roles so the movie star but bad singer Rebecca Duvall doesn't have to sing as many songs).
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Paolo Fazioli joined the company as well; however, he never gave up on pursuing his dream of building the world's finest grand pianos. Thus, at the end of the 1970s, the Fazioli Piano Factory was realized within the furniture plant in Sacile, about 40 miles north of Venice. A Fazioli F308 in the Milan Showroom In 1979, Fazioli started designing the first prototype for a baby grand piano. He was assisted by a small team consisting of Professor Pietro Righini, an expert in musical acoustics, and Professor Guglielmo Giordano, a wood technologist, as well as Virgilio Fazioli and Lino Tiveron. The prototype of the F183 model was completed in June 1980, followed at the end of the year by the prototypes of two other models, the F156 and the F278.
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In 1976, Larry Levenson, a high school friend of Al Goldstein and a former fast-food manager who was selling ice cream at Coney Island, was introduced to the swinging lifestyle by a woman he met at a bar. After organizing swinging parties himself for a time, he opened a club "for swingers" in 1977, in the basement of the Kenmore Hotel on East 23rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenue, and called it "Plato's Retreat." The same year, he moved it to the basement of the Ansonia Hotel, a 19th-century building on 2109 Broadway between West 73rd and West 74th Streets on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The hotel used to house the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse where singer Bette Midler, often accompanied by Barry Manilow on a baby grand piano, first became a national figure.
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On April 23, 1925 the S-29-A completed its first revenue flight from New York to Washington D.C. The cargo consisted of two Baby Grand pianos, one of which was delivered to the first lady Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. On May 8, 1925 a regular passenger service between New York and Yorktown Virginia began and the S-29-A was officially christened the Yorktown at Bolling Field in Washing D.C. The aircraft made over 300 successful flights, but with the airline industry only just emerging in the United States at that time, the S-29 failed to attract the customers that Sikorsky had hoped. Eventually Sikorsky sold the S-29-A to Roscoe Turner in 1927 (some sources state 1926) and it had a varied career in merchandising (Curlee Clothing) and acting as a flying cigar store (among other roles).
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AvantGrand is a brand of digital piano introduced by Yamaha in 2009. The product line consists of a baby grand piano (the N3, replaced by the N3X in 2016), two "vertical" grand pianos (the N2 and the N1 replaced by the N1X in 2019), and an upright piano (the NU1, replaced by the NU1X in 2017). The AvantGrand pianos use samples taken from four locations in a Yamaha CFIIIS (CFX and Bosendorfer Imperial for the N1X, N3X and for the NU1X, CFX for NU1) Concert Grand pianos and attempt to emulate all aspects of conventional piano sound and play, down to the tactile response of keys and pedals. In covering the piano's release, Slate editor Chris Wilson wrote that the AvantGrand piano represents a substantial functional improvement over the conventional piano, while sounding practically indistinguishable from one for 95% of the world's pianists.
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On playback, the solenoids move the keys and pedals and thus reproduce the original performance. Modern Disklaviers typically include an array of electronic features, such as a built-in tone generator for playing back MIDI accompaniment tracks, speakers, MIDI connectivity that supports communication with computing devices and external MIDI instruments, additional ports for audio and SMPTE I/O, and Internet connectivity. Historically, a variety of devices have been used to control or operate the instrument, including buttons on a control box mounted on the piano, infrared handheld controllers, handheld wi-fi controllers, a Java application that runs on a personal computer, and apps that run on iOS- based portable devices.Current Disklavier models Yamaha Disklavier Pro S6 Grand Piano Disklaviers have been manufactured in the form of upright, baby grand, and grand piano styles (including a nine-foot concert grand).
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The Last Kiss is the third studio album by American rapper Jadakiss. The album was released on April 7, 2009, on D-Block Records, Ruff Ryders Entertainment, Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings, after numerous delays. The album features guest appearances from Faith Evans, Swizz Beatz, Bobby V, Pharrell Williams, OJ da Juiceman, Sheek Louch, Mary J. Blige, Styles P, Ghostface Killah, Ne-Yo, Raekwon, Young Jeezy, D-Block, U.S.D.A., Lil Wayne, & Avery Storm. Production on the album is handled by The Alchemist, Buckwild, Swizz Beatz, Neo da Matrix, The Neptunes, Baby Grand, Eric Hudson, Needlz, Sean C & LV and more The first official single, "By My Side" featuring Ne-Yo was released on October 7, 2008 and the second single, "Can't Stop Me", which has peaked at #78 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks, was released on February 17, 2009.
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In the summer of 1983, guitarist Eric Bazilian and keyboard player Rob Hyman were invited by their old college friend and bandmate from Baby Grand, Rick Chertoff, to work on the debut album for a newly signed singer to Columbia Records named Cyndi Lauper. This resulted in The Hooters reforming after having broken up several months earlier. Eventually executives at Columbia Records, who were impressed by the over 100,000 copies that the band's independent album Amore had sold, as well as the local Philadelphia fan support (26 million entries in radio station WMMR's contest to win a Hooters show at a local high school) decided on July 26, 1984 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, to sign The Hooters to a multi-album contract to the company. On July 13, 1985, The Hooters opened the Philadelphia segment of Live Aid, a concert event to raise funds to benefit Africa.
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This year the series entered a transition stage, in which the field of front-wheel drive touring cars used in the T4 Series in previous years was changed for rear- wheel drive stock cars, as a way to help the drivers develop their abilities and prepare for the next steps in their careers. However, for this season the old front-wheel drive cars were grandfathered into the series. Ironically, in the first two races of the season, the newly built rear-wheel drive cars were affected by reliability issues that have given some advantage to the drivers running with the old car. It was the first four-cylinder series in NASCAR since the mid-1990s Goody's Dash Series in the United States, which was a 4-cylinder series from its 1975 inception as the Baby Grand National, until 1998, when six-cylinder engines were permitted.
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In 2014, Electric Six recorded a cover of "Gary's in the Park" as part of a pledge package for their Absolute Treasure Kickstarter campaign. The cover was subsequently released online. In January 2014, Wilson and long-time contemporary (also one-time art mail exchange colleague back in 1970's) R Stevie Moore finally received the chance to share the same stage for two nights in Brooklyn, NY. On January 24, 2014, both were invited as guest artists at Issue Project Room where R Stevie performed a solo set and Gary debuted a rarely performed piece titled "Gary Saw Linda Kissing John Cage". The performance piece paid much respect to WIlson's avant garde and cable access roots involving light arrangements of prerecorded Musique Conrete/electronic noise style samples, Wilson improvising on a baby grand piano, and the improvisational accompaniment of the TX Blind Dates Electronic Choir (Paul Millar, Chef Pittman, Sam Vandelinder, Patrick Healy, and T.W. Bond).
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Alissa has graced stages across the northeast and beyond including the House of Blues, the Hard Rock Cafe, Foxwoods Resort & Casino, the Rhode Island Convention Center, the Wang Theatre, Boston's prestige hotels, restaurants, universities and events for Fortune 500 companies, charities and political candidates. She has maintained long-term weekly residencies in the region's premiere venues and is a preferred entertainer within New England's top agencies. She has built a local following as a cast member in the popular Point Street Dueling pianos show, Rhode Island's only rock and roll piano show, and through her weekly piano bar sing-along at the historic Jacob Wirth Restaurant, Boston's second oldest restaurant. From May-October 2017, Alissa was a guest pianist in the Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed, and Style exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum and performed on 1935 baby grand piano that once graced Normandie’s Deauville suite. As a performer for Billboard Onboard, the pop piano show aboard Holland America’s luxury cruise ships, and a resident guest entertainer for Princess Cruiselines.
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As Petty led the race late, Allison pitted and got fresh tires on a late pit stop, running down Petty and passing him on the final lap. It was considered as one of the most exciting races ever at North Wilkesboro Speedway. In 1975 the NASCAR Baby Grand Series, later known as Goody's Dash Series, ran its first race at North Wilkesboro, with a win by Dean Combs. Thirty-seven races were run at the track from 1975-1984,1986-1987, and 1995-1996. Dean Combs had the most wins at the track with 15 victories. In the Gwyn Staley 400 of 1977, Cale Yarborough became the first driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race on his birthday. Neil Bonnett beat Yarborough for the pole, but in the race Yarborough led 320 laps on the way to his birthday victory. Only the top three, Yarborough, Richard Petty and Benny Parsons finished on the lead lap. In the Wilkes 400 of 1978, Darrell Waltrip won the pole in his No. 88 Gatorade DiGard team Chevrolet.
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Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D., "Turning off the Music", WestView News, August 7, 2016 Andy Warhol had a favorite chair, which is still there., and Bette Midler celebrated her birthday by the Caffe’s famous fireplace in 1986. Other notable guests have included John Cusack, and Rob Reiner,Jeremiah Moss, "Caffe Vivaldi Vanishing", November 7, 2011 as well as Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.Andrea Swalec, "Ethan Hawke And Daughter Give Surprise Performance At Caffe Vivaldi; Uma Thurman Looks On", HuffingtonPost’’, May 23, 2012 Over its 35 years, Caffe Vivaldi has hosted over 20,000Jeremiah Moss, "Caffe Vivaldi", June 15, 2016 singer- songwriters, duos, trios, quartets and bands, poets, comedians, theatrical readings and spoken word artists, and has offered residencies to artists such as Kristin Hoffman, who’s had over 250 shows there."Reflective Qualities: Kristin Hoffman begins residency tonight at Club Metronome", ‘’The Burlington Free Press, January 12, 2006 A fixture at Caffe Vivaldi is the baby grand piano,Staff, " Orpheus Piano Co. provides regular piano service to legendary Greenwich Village music venue Caffe Vivaldi" that has been played every night for over thirteen years.
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Mingus' 2013 ARCA car Mingus began his racing career in 2002, competing in quarter midget competition, moving up to the MMRA Mini Cup Series in 2005 and the MMRA Baby Grand Series in 2008,"Who is Mason Mingus ". Mason Mingus official website. Accessed 2013-10-14. winning the series championship. In 2009 he joined the Ken-Ten Pro Late Model Series, finishing eighth in series points; he returned to the series in 2010 and won the circuit's championship. In 2011 he moved to the Champion Racing Association CRA Super Series, competing in that series in 2011 and 2012; he also made his ARCA Racing Series debut in 2011, driving for Win-Tron Racing at Salem Speedway. He returned with the team for a limited schedule in 2012 in addition to the full CRA Super Series schedule; he shuffled his racing career with football obligations, qualifying for the All-American 400 in October on the same day as a playoff football game. For the 2013 season Mingus competed full-time in the ARCA Racing Series, finishing second in series points behind champion Frank Kimmel.
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