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"They had dropped my precious Fazioli concert grand piano," she wrote.

Onstage sat a nine-foot concert grand painted solid red, China's national color.

When she moved to a retirement community, she brought her Bösendorfer concert grand with her.

It was a Steinway D concert grand, on the stage of the New School's Tishman Auditorium.

Not a lot in there except an absolutely huge 1960s Baldwin Model D concert grand piano and some furniture.

Twenty-four feet of water entered the Schermerhorn, Nashville's transcendently beautiful symphony hall, where the losses included two Steinway concert grand pianos.

"It was my first ever full-size concert grand piano, and I was thrilled to bits when it was delivered," she added.

While I can read music, with effort, and play almost serviceable rock-band piano, I don't consider myself worthy of polishing a Steinway concert grand.

For 17 years, Angela Hewitt, one of the world's foremost classical pianists, has been performing recitals and creating acclaimed recordings with a rare concert grand piano.

In the center of the room, there was a nine-foot Steinway concert grand piano, and alongside it, an industrial humidifier for the preservation of the instrument.

Movers dropped Angela Hewitt's Fazioli concert grand piano — the only one of its kind in the world — as they were taking it out of a studio, the pianist announced this week.

It had been deemed "not salvageable" after an inspection by the staff at Fazioli Pianos, which produces grand and concert grand pianos in Sacile that can cost several hundred thousand dollars.

At nine feet long and nearly 1,000 pounds, with a steely black sheen and a price of more than $200,000, the Steinway & Sons D-274 concert grand piano seemed designed to intimidate.

The piano was a '50s Baldwin Concert Grand ... so huge they had trouble getting it across the island and installed there ... It wouldn't fit the first time they tried (it was 1200 lbs).

"The house, and the road down to the music room, had been designed with a concert grand piano in mind, and the fact that it would have to easily be transported," she said.

But his latest obsession was a red Steinway concert grand piano valued at more than $21900,0003, which he showed off to friends in a private salon decorated with fur rugs and bottles of Royal Salute whisky on the building's ninth floor.

For ears wanting perfection there was still The Sixteen and its band — playing on modern instruments with a Liberace-like continuo accompaniment on a concert grand, but styled and shaped by Mr. Christophers with all the care he would have lavished on a serious period performance.

James Barron: Piano - The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand. Times Books, New York 2006, . In subsequent years few changes occurred, though the instrument's length increased slightly (the "rim type" D concert grand pianos from 1884 to about 1895 were only 272 cm long).

Hornsby currently uses a Steinway & Sons concert grand piano. He bought the piano in Zurich, Switzerland, while on a solo show tour in Europe in 1995. With the Range and up until 1995, he used a Baldwin concert grand piano. He currently uses a Korg M1 synthesizer.

Gabriela Montero played a Steinway concert grand piano, model D-274. Anthony McGill played a Buffet clarinet.

Doppio Borgato Doppio Borgato Doppio Borgato is a double concert grand piano, joining a regular concert grand together with a second piano, activated by a pedal board with 37 pedals (A0 to A3), similar to that of the organ. Designed and hand-crafted by Luigi Borgato, it was patented in 2000.

This $3.8 million purchase included three new concert grand pianos and was the largest purchase order that Steinway had ever received in the history of the company.

Gill 1981:248. The Fazioli concert grand piano model F308 includes a fourth pedal to the left of the traditional three pedals. This pedal acts similarly to the "half-blow" pedal on an upright piano, in that it collectively moves the hammers somewhat closer to the strings to reduce the volume without changing the tone quality, as the una- corda does. The F308 is the first modern concert grand to offer such a feature.

In an interview published in 2010, Hiromi said she plays the Yamaha CFIII-S concert grand piano, Nord Lead 2, Clavia Nord Electro 2 73, Clavia Nord Stage Piano and Korg microKORG.

October 2005. "Bozak Concert Grand B-410 loudspeaker". Stereophile. (2005-10-16). The original midrange and tweeter cones were paper. In 1961 the B-209 midrange cone was changed to a radical new design.

Even a small upright can weigh , and the Steinway concert grand (Model D) weighs . The largest piano available on the general market, the Fazioli F308, weighs ."Fazioli, Paolo", Grove Music Online, 2009. Accessed 12 April 2009.

Susan Goldenberg: Steinway - From Glory to Controversy - The Family - The Business - The Piano. Mosaic Press, Oakville (Ontario, CDN) 1996, . The Steinway Model 'D' represents about 5 percent of all Steinway grand pianos produced, a significantly larger share of concert-grand output than the 1-2 percent that other manufacturers produce. An explanation is found not only in their exceptional quality but in their sophisticated marketing programs – the Steinway Artists program and the concert grand piano banks in New York City, London, and Hamburg have virtually guaranteed the loyalty of concert artists worldwide.

In addition to helping launch careers, the Competition offers impressive prizes including a commemorative, Concert Grand Gold Harp designed and built specifically for the USA IHC by Lyon & Healy Harps. Cash prizes are also awarded through eighth place.

Some of the characteristic tone colour of her recordings is due to her use of a Bösendorfer Imperial Concert grand piano for at least some of them, including her Mendelssohn recordings. She died in August 1994 in Athens.

It opened its doors on 8 December 2016. In 2015, Barenboim unveiled a new concert grand piano. Designed by Chris Maene with support from Steinway & Sons, the piano features straight parallel strings instead of the conventional diagonally-crossed strings of a modern Steinway.

A continuation of the Piano é Forte project, Chris Maene Concert Grand Piano is a 2018 project around a straight-strung grand piano built by Chris Maene and commissioned by Daniel Barenboim. Bram De Looze functioned as the jazz ambassador for this instrument.

Hi Fi Lit. Bozak 1956 product literature. JPG image. The B-310 and B-310A were the mono versions in which the tweeters were arranged as a sector of a sphere for widest distribution of high frequencies. The 'stereo' B-310B and B-400 had the eight tweeters arranged in a vertical row. All Concert Grand models starting from the B-310A contained two 16 Ohm B-209 midrange drivers. The Concert Grand loudspeakers were designed to fill large spaces and were not at their best with listeners closer than 20 feet away. In 1965, a pair of B-410 Concert Grands cost US$2000.

In 1879, Tanner and his wife traveled from Richmond to see the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. Tanner was referred as "one of our most critical lovers of good music." He bought a Knabe full concert grand piano with the finishings from Ramos and Moses.

Some valuable paintings were showcased throughout Steinway Hall, by such renowned artists as Rockwell Kent, N. C. Wyeth, Leopold Seyffert and Charles Chambers. The next gallery celebrates five generations of Steinway memorabilia, including design innovations, awards, and "fan mail" from luminaries like Thomas Edison. In the basement of Steinway Hall was a concert grand piano bank: an exclusive collection of Steinway concert grand pianos, maintained for the use in live concerts as well as for studio recordings by performing artists. Steinway & Sons sales and marketing departments saw business benefits in having their piano showrooms near Carnegie Hall. Steinway pianos were played at both the intimate New Steinway Hall and the cavernous Carnegie Hall across 57th Street.

Repertoire is primarily classical and/or sacred. RiverSounds was conceived as outreach to the greater Fort Lauderdale community. All Saints is recognized as one of the best mid-sized acoustical venues in South Florida. The addition of a 9' Petrof Concert Grand piano created additional appeal of this venue to musicians.

The collaborative work between Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Stefan Knüpfer is at the centre of the film. Bach's The Art of Fugue is to be recorded. Pierre-Laurent Aimard has decided in favour of concert grand piano Nr. 109 for the Bach recording. The film begins one year before the recording.

The Concert Grand was the crown jewel of Bozak speaker systems since its introduction in 1951.Charlie Kittleson. CITATION SERIES BY HARMAN KARDON, Vacuum Tube, issue #4. This refrigerator-sized speaker system originally contained four B-199 12" woofers, one 8 Ohm B-209 6" midrange driver and eight tweeters.

He taught harpsichord and piano at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Richmond, and Soochow University in Taiwan. He currently teaches and guest lectures in Taipei and Hong Kong. Alexander Sung plays a 9 foot Blüthner "Model 1" concert grand piano from Germany and a John Morley "Kirkmann" double manual harpsichord from England.

After several successful concert tours in England, Germany, Russia, Spain and other countries, he settled in Paris, and quickly gained a reputation as pianist, teacher, composer, and music critic. Magnus' performance on the Steinway concert-grand piano at the Exhibition Universelle of 1867 inspired a lithograph by Amédée de Noé. He died in Paris.

Such a high price limited ownership to a small number of hi-fi aficionados and audiophiles. The model line continued to be manufactured by Bozak until 1977. Henry Mancini and Benny Goodman, good friends of Rudy Bozak, owned Concert Grand speaker systems. Jack Webb put a pair in his Mark VII Productions listening room.

Nero is active in many charitable causes, including the funding of school music programs, fundraising for the building of new arts centers across the country, and research on cancer, dystonia and autism. Nero favors Steinway concert grand pianos. He is the father of two children, Beverly and Jedd, and has two grandchildren, Robert and Nicole.

Each room had its own white marble fireplace. Crystal chandeliers, lace curtains, and many other furnishings including the handsome, rosewood, concert-grand piano, were imported from Europe. Swiss Chalet The estate included pavilions and other outbuildings, a large barn and houses for the working staff. The Cook House was a three-room rectangular wooden building behind the main house.

Much of the 1920s was spent touring around the world; apart from concert appearances in Europe and the United States, Godowsky also gave extensive tours of South America and East Asia. Also during the 1920s he recorded many rolls for the Duo-Art reproducing pianos, the only reproducing piano mechanism which was available in concert grand Steinways.

Good, E. (1982). Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos: A Technological History From Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 22. The middle pedal may sometimes lower a muffler rail of felt between the hammers and the strings to mute and significantly soften the sound, so that one can practice quietly (also known as a "Practice Rail").Crombie 1995:94.

The building, which consists of three floors, encompasses an area of nearly 14.500 m2. The concert hall stage includes a stage lift which allows for the formation an orchestra pit used in operas. Two Steinway concert grand pianos are available. The interior walls of the concert hall are coated with movable acoustic panels, which make the concert hall a recording studio as well.

All brands and instruments made by C. Bechstein now exclusively originate from Europe. Along with the company's economic success, C. Bechstein's concert grand pianos are making their comeback on international concert stages and in recording studios. In 2006, the first international C. Bechstein Piano Competition took place under Vladimir Ashkenazy's patronage. National C. Bechstein competitions regularly foster the musical development of young artists.

In shorter pianos the wire stiffness in the bass register is proportionately high and therefore causes greater stretch; on larger concert grand pianos this effect is reduced. Online sources suggest that the total amount of "stretch" over the full range of a small piano may be on the order of ±35 cents: this also appears in the empirical Railsback curve.

The subsidiary made some 100,000 pianos and organs annually during its peak years in the 1960s and 1970s. An average day saw 250 pianos and 150 electronic organs shipped from the factory. Grand pianos from Kimball in Indiana ranged from compact models to larger models. In Vienna, the Bösendorfer division made concert grand pianos as large as : the Imperial Bösendorfer.

Atwell's husband, former stage comedian Lew Levisohn, was vital in shaping her career as a variety star. The two had met in 1946, and married soon after. They were inseparable up to Levisohn's death in Hong Kong in December 1977; they had no children. He had cannily made the choice, for stage purposes, of her playing first a concert grand, then a beaten-up old upright piano.

Performing Arts Complex (Queensland Performing Arts Centre) (1986) The Performing Arts Complex consists of three different areas: The Lyric Theatre, The Cremorne Theatre and The Concert Hall. It comprises the second stage of the Queensland Cultural Centre development. The smallest venue among these buildings is the Cremorne Theatre. The Concert Hall was designed as a classical hall to equip a concert grand organ that serve 2000 people.

The Yeager Recital Hall is a theatre seating 335 people. Lastly, the Black Box Theatre is a theatre seating 100 people. The Center for the Arts also includes modular practice rooms and studios, rehearsal rooms, a complete scenery shop and costume shop, computer labs, classrooms and Steinway concert grand pianos. Lastly, this facility contains three dance/rehearsal studios, providing additional space for rehearsal and instruction.

Pearl White was a respected silent-era theatre organist and piano player who worked in the Chicago area. She was born Pearl Eleanor Weiss on October 26, 1910 and at age three, was recognized as a child prodigy on the keyboard. At age four, she sang, danced and played concert grand at Chicago's Majestic (Shubert) Theatre. As a child, she studied piano with Rudolph Gantz and Florence LeClare.

Yet, despite > the speed with which Bilson played, every note was clear and distinct. To > feel the difference, I dusted off an old LP of the same piece, record by > another world-famous performer on a modern concert grand. The playing was > beautiful but, compared to the fortepiano, the sound seems almost muted, the > rapid passages of the allegro slurred. It was like listening to Bilson's > version with earmuffs on.

Toward the end of the 1970s, Corea embarked on a series of concerts and two albums with Hancock. These concerts were presented in elegant settings with both pianists dressed formally and performing on Yamaha concert grand pianos. The two traded playing each other's compositions, as well as pieces by other composers such as Béla Bartók. In 1982, Corea performed The Meeting, a live duet with the classical pianist Friedrich Gulda.

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.

During the making of the track, four additional studios – Roundhouse, Sarm East Studios, Scorpio Sound, and Wessex Sound Studios – were used. According to some band members, Mercury mentally prepared the song beforehand and directed the band throughout. Mercury used a C. Bechstein concert grand piano, which he played in the promotional video and the UK tour. Due to the elaborate nature of the song, it was recorded in various sections.

Wood in harp construction varies by instrument, but Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) is the most common soundboard wood. Various Lyon & Healy guitars, mandolins, and many other instrument types reside in major musical instrument museums in the U.S. and Europe. Lyon and Healy now primarily manufactures four types of harps—the lever harp, petite pedal harp, semi-grande pedal harp, and concert grand harp. They also make limited numbers of special harps called concert grands.

The Cathedral Organ, built by the Schantz Organ Company of Orville, Ohio, is a four manual 71-rank pipe organ. In addition to being an integral part of worship services, it is also used by organ students at Arizona State University. The Cathedral piano is a hand-crafted Bösendorfer concert grand from Vienna, Austria. Trinity Cathedral hosts concerts and exhibits in the Olney Gallery located on the lower floor of Cathedral House.

In Chicago's early years, Lamm used a simple setup of Hammond organ and Wurlitzer Electric Piano. After the band's first tour of Europe, he began using a Hohner Pianet. Initially, his use of the grand piano was limited to the studio until he began to use one more regularly on stage, purchasing a Steinway Model D Concert Grand by the early 1970s. The Fender Rhodes electric piano became a favorite around 1972.

In 2004, large orders were placed and production finally exceeded 100 units. That same year, the new offices and the Fazioli Concert Hall were completed. Equipped with variable acoustic devices, the hall is ideal for instrument testing, concerts and recordings alike. The Fazioli Concert Hall's first concert season was inaugurated by Aldo Ciccolini, who played the instrument which is still standing in the hall: the F278 concert grand nicknamed "Merlin the Magician" by Ciccolini.

A concert grand piano was installed in the Sydney Town Hall in Australia and its debut performance came in a concert attended by Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. Fazioli pianos were also chosen for the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in Salt Lake City. In 1993, Indonesian pianist Ananda Sukarlan recorded his first CD, The Pentatonic Connection on the first Fazioli piano in Holland. In 1995, the F308 model was unveiled at the NAMM Show.

In 1991, at the age of 28, he presented his first completely handmade concert-grand piano at the European congress ‘Europiano’.Günther Weingärtner, Europiano, April–June 1992 p.53-56 Luigi Borgato personally selects the wood and chooses all the materials and components for the construction of his pianos.,.Pierantonio Barizza intervista Luigi Borgato (Pierantonio Barizza interviews Luigi Borgato)Galileo Rivista di informazione, attualità e cultura degli Ingegneri di Padova (Paduan Engineer’s information, actuality and cultural magazine), n.

Luigi Borgato registered some patents. A first one, in 1991, providing the upper register of the keyboard with four strings struck per note in the 44 keys of the upper register, and innovative iron frame. In 2000, he registered a second patent: inspired by compositions written for piano with pedalboard he designed and built a new instrument, the Doppio Borgato, the first double concert-grand piano with pedalboard constructed in modern times.Brian T.Majeski, The Music Trades, November 2000, p.

The JIS orchestra is one of the few orchestras in Brunei and has performed for international dignitaries such as Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah, Prince Charles of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. As an expression of appreciation after a private concert, Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah gave the JIS Orchestra the Brunei model of the Fazioli concert grand piano which was produced with inlays of precious stones, mother of pearl and exotic woods. The piano is reportedly worth over US$400,000.

In 1932, Vierling worked with Benjamin Miessner to design and invent the Elektrochord piano, for the August Förster company. The Elektrochord was one of the first electric pianos, whereupon the vibrations of the struck string by the hammer, were electronically recorded and then amplified. The sound was controllable in that it was configurable to provide a range from a salon grand piano to a full concert grand piano. In 1925, Vierling was promoted to Phd with a thesis titled, The Electroacoustic Piano.

Wulsin's grandfather learned the piano business from piano maker Dwight Hamilton Baldwin. After the tenures of his grandfather and father, Wulsin III became president, chairman and CEO of Baldwin Piano Company in 1961. He served in these capacities until 1974, and remained with the company until 1981.1 During his tenure, Baldwin research contributed to American space flight, a 9-foot concert grand piano was unveiled, and Baldwin stock began trading on the NYSE. Wulsin supported music education and contributed to the American Music Conference.

In 1880, the two big grand models 'C' and 'D' were changed accordingly. The old 'Henry'-designed (father & son) C grand (formerly named 'Parlor Grand') also got a covered pinblock and a 'rim' (still with 85 keys), and the concert grand Model 'D' which had made a great success on the Centennial Exhibition 1876 in Philadelphia also got a 'rim' case. There are nearly no two identical grands of the 424 Centennial D-270 once built. One will find at nearly every grand tiny modifications.

The individual pieces have been described as "true concert works, being best served on a stage and with a concert grand." Although composed as part of a set, each piece stands on its own as a concert solo with individual themes and moods. The pieces span a variety of themes ranging from the funeral march of number three to the canon of number six, the Moments musicaux are both Rachmaninoff's return to and revolution of solo piano composition. A typical performance lasts 30 minutes.

Thomas Edison, who was quite deaf, did not care for Rachmaninoff's playing, or for classical music in general, and referred to him as a "pounder" at their initial meeting. However, staff at the Edison recording studio in New York City asked Edison to reconsider his dismissive position, resulting in a limited contract for ten released sides. Rachmaninoff recorded on a Lauter concert grand piano, one of the few the company made. He felt his performances varied in quality and requested final approval prior to a commercial release.

Born and raised in New Britain, Connecticut, she started playing piano at age 7, often practicing on her aunt's seven-foot Mason & Hamlin concert grand piano. Silver studied composition and music appreciation with Armin Loos before moving to Berkeley, California in January 1971. It was while in California that she first heard Sun Ra, Ravi Shankar, and Alice Coltrane in a concert at the University of California and she taught herself chords and harmony. She returned to Connecticut in June 1971 and started playing in local bands.

A final issue is that the modern concert grand, 19th-century technology though it is, already sounds very good indeed in the opinion of many listeners (that is, when it is made by the finest makers and skillfully adjusted and tuned). Any innovative piano must therefore compete in the market of musical taste against formidable existing pianos. The discussion below is organized according to some innovative contemporary piano manufacturers and the inventions with which they are associated. The Web sites of these manufacturers appear at the end.

D-274 that exemplifies the products of Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany D-274 (or D) is the model name of a concert grand piano, the flagship of the Steinway & Sons piano company,Fine, Larry, The Piano Book: Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano, Third Edition, Boston: Brookside Press 1994 first built in 1884."Grand piano guide to Steinway and industry standard sizes", Bluebook of Pianos. Accessed March 12, 2010.Katie Hafner: A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano, Bloomsbury Publishing USA: New York, 2008, and .

In concert hall settings, on the other hand, the D-274 is a major presence. An example would be the famous Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, offers contestants a choice of two D-274s owned by the Van Cliburn Foundation, one a mellow-toned instrument made in New York, the other a bright-toned instrument made in Hamburg. These are supplemented with a third Steinway piano brought in for the event. An estimate from 2003 suggested that more than 90 percent of concert grand pianos worldwide are D-274s.

He did, in fact, study law before deciding to commit to a professional singing career. The night he made his debut at the Berlin Staatsoper, a 12' Bosendorfer concert grand piano was delivered to the opera house with a card saying "welcome back to the family". In 1922, Janssen was offered his first contract at the Berlin State Opera, starting with small roles but rising in status quickly. A year later, during the 1923-24 Berlin season, he appeared for the first time as Wolfram in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser.

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.

In 1882 they delivered a rosewood concert grand to the White House for President Chester A. Arthur."A Knabe in the White House" New York Times December 16, 1882 p.5 Wm. Knabe & Co.'s Piano Factories, Corner Eutaw and West Streets, Baltimore. (1873) Shield emblem, used after 1904William Knabe, jr., died in 1889.Daniel Spillane History of the American Pianoforte D. Spillane, New York. 1891. p.132 The company was incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000 the same year, with Ernest J. Knabe as president. Ernest J. Knabe died in 1894Henry Hall, ed.

Steinway Hall in Chicago The in Vienna on the Ringstraße is one of the boutique Steinway showrooms that caters to entertainers in Austria and Central Europe. Besides the showrooms, the Steinway Haus in Vienna has several practice rooms and music classes open for students of all ages to polish their performing skills. The Steinway concert department has a "piano bank" of Hamburg Steinways. The of Vienna has been the main supplier of concert grand pianos to classical venues, as well as other entertainment centers in the capital of Austria.

Fazioli offers six models of grand pianos, the largest being the Fazioli F308 which, with its 3.08 m (10 ft 2 in), is the longest piano available on the general market. The Fazioli F308 has the "fourth pedal", which brings the hammers closer to the strings, thus reducing sound volume without changing the tone, functioning just like the soft pedal on an upright piano. Camerata Tokyo released a Blu-ray named The Sound of the Concert Grand Fazioli F278: Costantino Catena plays Debussy and Schumann (Camerata Tokyo 2013, CMBD-80005).

Don Bailey recollects that Ron Sharp was an 'extraordinarily talented person, largely self-educated, who has to his credit the design and construction of a number of organs, mostly in New South Wales. A nine-foot Steinway orchestral concert grand piano (Model D) was also imported from West Germany for installation in the Hall. The Concert Hall was the first in Australia to have a show relay installed so that latecomers could watch on two screens in the foyer while waiting for an appropriate time to enter. Another screen is located at Stage Door.

This hall is used for recital performances by the students and faculty members of the Lamont School of Music, but is also available for public rental. Hamilton Hall includes a 9-foot Hamburg Steinway concert grand piano and the William K. Coors organ, a 2,850-pipe tracker action organ designed and built by Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt in Berlin, Germany. It seats 222 people. As with Gates Concert Hall, acoustical banners can be raised and lowered via a winch system in the attic, thus increasing or decreasing natural reverberation, as appropriate depending on the nature of the event taking place.

Author Howard Breslin wrote a historical novel about Gottschalk titled Concert Grand in 1963. An interesting version of Gottschalk's famous composition Bamboula with added lyrics was recorded in April 1934 by trumpet player Abel Beauregard's dance band, the Orchestre Créole Matou from the French Caribbean Guadeloupe island.Bamboula by Abel Beauregard's Orchestre Créole Matou is included on Biguine, Anthologie de la tradition musicale antillaise (1930-1954) Volume 4 (Frémeaux et Associés). It is actually the first recording in existence of this composition, as the first 'classical piano' recordings of Gottschalk's works were made in 1956 by American pianist Eugene List.

Among the technical tricks in the piano-writing are three upward octave glissandi—one in the third movement, and two in the finale. Franz Liszt thoroughly revised the solo piano part to take into account the more expansive possibilities of the newer pianos of Liszt's day, as well as some newer limitations (octave glissandos) are pretty much impossible on the heavier pianos Liszt knew (and all concert grand pianos made since) (see S. 367a). Liszt also made a solo piano transcription of the Konzertstück (S. 576a). The Konzertstück has been recorded many times and is a favourite of the piano concerto repertoire.

In live performances, Justin Vernon is joined live by Sean Carey (drums, vocals, piano), Michael Noyce (vocals, baritone guitar, guitar, violin) and Matthew McCaughan (bass, drums, vocals). Noyce was Vernon's guitar student during high school. Vernon uses various keyboard instruments during live performances including synthesisers such as a Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 6 and a Teenage Engineering's OP-1, while during studio recordings his instruments have included a Steinway & Sons Model D Concert Grand Piano. Carey approached Vernon during one of the first Bon Iver shows, telling him he could play and sing all the songs.

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.

Schoenhut 37-key Concert Grand (F3 to F6) Child playing Keyskills 30-key toy piano (C4 to F6) The toy piano, also known as the kinderklavier (child's keyboard), is a small piano-like musical instrument. Most modern toy pianos use round metal rods, as opposed to strings in a regular piano, to produce sound. The U.S. Library of Congress recognizes the toy piano as a unique instrument with the subject designation, Toy Piano Scores: M175 T69. The most famous example of a dedicated composition for the instrument is the "Suite for Toy Piano" (1948) by John Cage.

The Bechstein concert grand at London's Trident Studios, over a century old and much sought-after for its sound, became one of the most frequently recorded instruments in rock history. The piano can be heard on The Beatles' "Hey Jude," Elton John's "Your Song," George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass," David Bowie's "Life on Mars?," Lou Reed's "Perfect Day," Queen's "Seven Seas of Rhye," Carly Simon's "You're So Vain," Nilsson's "Without You," and Supertramp's "Crime of the Century". It saw service in the studio from 1968 until the mid 1980s, and has since been sold at auction.

E.J. Thomas Hall on The University of Akron campus Facilities include a 300-seat recital hall, the 3,000-seat Edwin J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall, a music computer center, a music resource center, and an electronic music composition laboratory. Guzzetta Hall, home of the School of Music, combines with the Edwin J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall to form a center for the performing arts. The Nola Guzzetta Recital Hall is equipped with a three manual Moeller pipe organ, a Martin harpsichord, and two Steinway concert grand pianos. There is also a recording studio for the recording of concerts.

Marvel Comics. and hauling a concert grand piano, and the platform it rests on, via a harness, while climbing a sheer cliff.Wolverine: Weapon X #16 (Aug. 2010). Marvel Comics. Colossus and other allies use Wolverine's endurance and strength when throwing him at high speed in the Fastball Special. Another, lesser known, ability that Wolverine possesses, (though rarely utilizes), is an ability to 'speak with animals'. (Ala- Dr. Doolittle.) Though most clearly displayed in the Claremont-Byrne era of X-men comics, (Uncanny Z-Men #116), it has fallen into a state of general 'editorial disregard' amongst later writers.

Pancaroğlu returned to Turkey in 2000, and has been active as a soloist and teacher. She established the harp class at Yildiz Technical University’s Faculty of Art and Design and created the first-ever non-pedal harp program for children in Turkey in 2004. Invited to teach master classes in Japan, Serbia, Slovenia and in her native Turkey, Pancaroğlu is a published writer on practice techniques for harpists, an area of interest she has also lectured upon at the 9th World Harp Congress in Dublin. She performs on two Lyon & Healy Concert Grand harps made in Chicago in 1960 and 1992.

In 1968 he debuted with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Hollander has also performed with the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Washington's National Symphony, and internationally with the London Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, ORTF and New Tokyo Philharmonic. In 1969 Hollander gave the first public classical recital using the Baldwin Electronic Concert Grand at the Fillmore East, a venue that usually hosted rock concerts, where he hoped to expose his young contemporaries to classical music. The amplified piano was chosen because of the hall's unsatisfactory acoustics.

With his wife of 11 years, the Mexican opera singer Maria Ignacia Howard Toutorsky, he opened the Toutorsky Academy of Music and ran it for nearly four decades. Among the furnishings were collections of dolls; swans; World War I medals, decorations and uniforms; stuffed wild animals; a pedestal displaying under glass, Toutorsky claimed, Napoleon's hat; a bailalaika; a polar bear carpet; Persian carpets and tapestries; heavy antique furniture; and 21 pianos, including a Bechstein concert grand on which Franz Liszt had played. Toutorsky had studied piano with Liszt himself. One of the violin teachers he employed was Marius Thor.

In June, the F308 model was presented in China, leading to the purchase of one of these instruments by the Beijing Conservatory. Steve Beresford plays on a Fazioli piano In 1996, a Fazioli was chosen for concerts in the Vienna Musikverein by Ingeborg Baldaszti, Markus Schirmer, Jasminka Stancul and Elisabeth Leonskaya. The unique Brunei concert grand was built to order for the Sultan of Brunei, featuring inlays of precious stones, mother of pearl and exotic woods. In addition to standard black instruments, the company developed a series of unique art case models to cater to its most exacting customers.

Modern western ears easily tolerate fast beating in non-just intervals (seconds and sevenths, thirds and sixths), but not in perfect octaves or fifths. Happily for pianists, the string stretch that accommodates inharmonicity on a concert grand also nearly exactly mitigates the accumulation of dissonance in the perfect fifth. Other factors, physical and psychoacoustic, affect the tuner's ability to achieve a temperament. Among physical factors are inharmonic effects due to soundboard resonance in the bass strings, poorly manufactured strings, or peculiarities that can cause "false beats" (false because they are unrelated to the manipulation of beats during tuning).

H. Sohmer, Piano Case. United States Design Patent D15,250, August 12, 1884 "Only five feet long," these pianos were advertised as "the smallest grand ever manufactured,"advertisement, John Frost, ed. History of the State of California. Hurst & Co., New York, n.d. (ca.1885) having "great power and volume of tone, together with the tone-sustaining quality and elastic touch heretofore only found in the concert grand.""Merit and Enterprise" The New York Times, January 1, 1886 The company also patented improvements in agraffe bars and actions in 1882, and in 1887 an agraffe for a quadruple strung "reverbation scale" and a pianissimo pedal in uprights, and bridge agraffes in 1890.

Maene is a piano and harpsichord manufacturer based in Ruiselede, Belgium. The company was founded by Albert Maene-Doutreloigne in 1938. Projects of the company, under the direction of the son Chris Maene, include producing replicas of historical instruments (Walter, Steinway,Steinway Replica n°1 (1836 - 2006) at Pianokonzert: Steinway No.1 at ...) and developing new instruments like the Barenboim piano.Daniel Barenboim reveals radical new piano design: 'I've fallen in love with it' in The Guardian, 26 May 2015Chris Maene & Daniel Barenboim launch new concert grand at Royal Festival Hall London at Daniel Barenboim's bespoke piano is an absolute stunner - here's why, Classic FM, 14 November 2017.

Named for the late Goldwyn Girl and businesswoman, Martha Montgomery (1920–2005), the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture, also known as MAHMA, was conceived and designed by architect Eric Lloyd Wright, grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright. Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture, in the California craftsman architectural style, is open year-round for classical concerts, and host artists and speakers from around the world in a salon-style environment. The three concert spaces within the house include MAHMA’s Music Room, Great Room, and Indoor/Outdoor Festival Space. Concert grand pianos grace each of the spaces, and acoustics were carefully considered in the construction and design.

As Stott considers "It's very important at an event like this that we should let people play", both festivals featured multiple Steinway grands that the public were allowed to try, as well as a variety of novelty pianos including a red "Ferrari" Steinway, an "exploded" piano revealing the internal workings, a grove of woven pianos, and a concert grand fitted with a pool which played a variety of watery sounds.Ward D. Piano hits right note for festival. Guardian (5 December 2002) (accessed 9 December 2008) In 1998, Stott directed a concert series "Out of the Shadows" with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, featuring two neglected female composers, Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn.

All rooms are connected to the same ventilation system used by the recording stages, so the stored instruments are always pre-acclimated for recording. An elevator connects the storage rooms directly with Stage A. Synchron Stage Vienna currently offers three concert grand pianos, a Steinway D-274 and two remotely accessible pianos, a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial with CEUS performance reproducing system and a Yamaha Disklavier CFX EN PRO. The Bösendorfer CEUS technology and the Yamaha Disklavier reproducing system incorporate computer controlled mechanisms to record performances and accurately play them back on the acoustic instrument. With the CEUS system, solenoids activate each key and pedal to mirror the original, recorded performance.

During the Mark II and Mark IIXG era, various models of uprights were introduced that included a silent system. When the silent system was engaged, the hammers were prevented from hitting the strings and the instrument produced no sound acoustically. The player was able to wear a headset and hear themselves play as though they was playing a digital piano with the sound of a nine-foot concert grand. Some Disklavier uprights with this system also contained a Celeste or practice pedal which when engaged brought a rail with a curtain of felt between the hammers and the strings thus significantly reducing the volume of the acoustic piano.

Although early Viennese pianos were in general rather inferior instruments, the fortepianos made by Mozart's friend Stein and Anton Walter, instruments that Mozart much admired, were much more suitable for Mozart's purposes. The fortepianos were of course much quieter instruments than the modern concert grand piano, so that the balance between the orchestra and soloist may not easily be reproduced using modern instruments, especially when small orchestras are used. The rise in interest in "authentic performance" issues in the last few decades has, however, led to a revival of the fortepiano, and several recordings now exist with an approximate reconstruction of the sound Mozart might have himself expected.

Imperial Bösendorfer in the Music Hall of the University of Bamberg The Bösendorfer Model 290 Imperial , or Imperial Bösendorfer (also colloquially known as the 290) is the largest model and flagship piano manufactured by Bösendorfer, at around long, wide, and weighing . It has an eight-octave range from C0 to C8. For 90 years it was the only concert grand piano in the world with 97 keys, until it was joined in 1990 by the instruments of Stuart & Sons of Australia. Music critic Melinda Bargreen has described the Imperial as the ne plus ultra of pianos, while pianist Garrick Ohlsson dubbed it the "Rolls- Royce of pianos".

Bösendorfer Imperial Concert Grand pianos, handcrafted in Austria, retail for between US$256,000 and $560,000 in the U.S., depending on finish, design and whether the Disklavier Enspire computer reproducing system is installed. (Bösendorfer's CEUS reproducing system, "Create Emotions with Unique Sound", developed in-house, is more expensive still.) In 1977, the price was reported to be $35,000, $ in current value. While the concert piano market is dominated by Steinway & Sons, which signs prominent artists to a performance agreement and urges them to refrain from playing any other piano brand, performers preferring the Bösendorfer Imperial will often have that piano shipped with them while on tour.

They lost thousands of musical scores, ballet costumes and irreplaceable musical instruments, including three Steinway concert grand pianos. In 2004, after Hurricane Ivan, Belfor (UK) and Belfor (Canada) performed thermal vacuum freeze drying to restore more than 4,000 boxes of documents, half of the vital records in the Cayman Islands National Archives. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Belfor was called to the scene within days for early reconnaissance, as part of Tulane's campus-wide emergency plan. including the “Landmark Undertaking” of the Tulane Libraries Recovery Center. Chile earthquake – installed more than 753,000 square feet of shrink wrap protection and restored one of South America’s largest data warehouses, including millions of documents and data media.

In 1983, the company began collaborating with Zeltron (Zanussi Institute for Research) with the aim of further improving tonal quality. Initial success followed in 1984 and 1985 when pianists including Aldo Ciccolini, Alfred Brendel, Martha Argerich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lazar Berman, Nikita Magaloff, Michel Beroff, Annie Fischer, Louis Lortie and many others began to play on Fazioli pianos. A number of important concert halls purchased the F278 concert grand piano, and the firm started exporting to major European countries and the United States. The demand for an instrument having even greater power and richness of tone, for use in large concert halls, inspired the concept of the F308 model, which is still the longest piano available on the market.

After moving to the United States, Taussig developed a technology tool at the Yamaha Corporation, Musical Sculpting. Using the company’s Disklavier-PRO computer-driven concert grand, the application allowed handicapped pianists to record with minimal use of their fingers. To demonstrate the potential inherent in this novel recording technique Taussig released two albums created entirely without the use of fingers, Bach's The Art of Fugue, (2001) and The Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1 (2002). In 2007 he collaborated with Dr. E. Paul Goldenberg of the Education Development Center (EDC) of Waltham, Massachusetts in the development of a math through music curriculum and they launched a pilot program at an elementary school in Ohio.

Most notably, he enlisted Fred Mandel (a Canadian musician who also worked for Pink Floyd, Elton John, and Supertramp) for his first solo project. From 1982 Mercury collaborated with Morgan Fisher (who performed with Queen in concert during the Hot Space leg), and from 1985 onward Mercury collaborated with Mike Moran (in the studio) and Spike Edney (in concert). Mercury played the piano in many of Queen's most popular songs, including "Killer Queen", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy", "We Are the Champions", "Somebody to Love", and "Don't Stop Me Now". He used concert grand pianos (such as a Bechstein on "Bohemian Rhapsody") and, occasionally, other keyboard instruments such as the harpsichord.

Of his own compositions and arrangements, "Country Gardens", "Shepherd's Hey" and "Molly on the Shore" and "Lincolnshire Posy" were recorded most frequently; in recordings of other composers, piano works by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Liszt and Schumann figure most often.Thwaites (ed.), pp. 227–32 Grainger's complete 78 rpm solo piano recordings are now available on compact disc as a CD box set. During his association with the Duo-Art company between 1915 and 1932, Grainger made around 80 piano rolls of his own and others' music using a wooden robot designed to play a concert grand piano via an array of precision mechanical fingers and feet; replayings of many of these rolls have subsequently been recorded on to compact disc.

That's because the musicians - supported on some tracks by special guest William Tsilis on concert grand marimba - have arrived at their maturity and self-assuredness through decades of experimental efforts. They've spent careers redefining jazz, and the fruits of their labor result in music that is relaxed and understated, yet emotive and powerful".Wagoner, J. All About Jazz Review, accessed March 9, 2018 In JazzTimes, David Franklin wrote: "The primary attribute that distinguishes Arthur Blythe’s Focus is its sound. First there’s Blythe’s unique alto tone. Room filling and reedy (you can almost hear the individual vibrations) and ornamented by a quick, rhythmic vibrato, Blythe’s muscular sound identifies him immediately. Then there’s the quartet’s unusual instrumentation: tuba in place of string bass and marimba instead of piano.

While studying at Juilliard, Garrett supplemented his income by working as a model. Garrett performing in Cologne on 15 January 2010 Garrett's 2008 album Encore pursues an aim of arousing young people’s interest in classical music. The release contains his own compositions and arrangements of pieces and melodies that have accompanied him in his life so far. Together with his band, consisting of keyboard, guitar and drums, he gives concerts that include classical sonatas (accompanied by a concert grand piano), arrangements, and compositions, as well as rock songs and movie themes. In Autumn 2007, Garrett was chosen by the Montegrappa firm (whose items are distributed by Montblanc throughout the world) as an ambassador for the launch of the new pens from the Tributo ad Antonio Stradivari collection.

So one can regard the concert grand Centennial D-270 (1875–1884) as a transient model for continuous improvement. Of the known still existing Centennial grands, there is ca. a 2/3 portion with 'constructed case' and a 1/3 portion with 'rim'.Private investigations, author of this information is hunting Centennial D information since 2010. After the concert success of an 1883 prototype 'D' that featured a laminated case, radically higher string tension and capo bar (which began at note 36 yet retained vestigial agraffes all the way to note 88), Steinway unveiled the 1884 'D', a fully realized new model with a redesigned scale (including a 20-note instead of a 17-note bass), a capo bar in both upper treble sections, a newly designed pedal lyre, and a multi-laminated case.

"Killarney 1 & 2" is a suite of two piano instrumentals performed on a Young Chang concert grand piano, the second of which includes an acoustic guitar. Rabin found it difficult to play the piece after he had written it, so he revisited a book of piano exercises and practised scales for as long as two hours a day over a period of around five weeks. The track is a tribute to the influence that classical music had on Rabin in his youth, and working on film scores for a number of years provided him with a natural influence for the piece. Though "Killarney 1 & 2" was not its original title, Rabin felt it was appropriate to rename it after the Johannesburg neighbourhood of Killarney where he grew up.

The experimental nature of the Concerto pathétique gives it an outstanding presence in the Liszt oeuvre. The composer made many attempts to find an appropriate title — Grand solo de concert, Grand Concert, Morceau de Concert, etc. — indicating that this work was an experiment with new forms. Even the Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major which Liszt begun work on in the same year (1849) as the Grand Solo de concert/Grosses Concert-Solo had its genesis ten years earlier in a seemingly self-contradictorally entitled work Concerto sans orchestre (S.524a). The fact that the solo Grosses Concert-Solo has been overshadowed by the later two- piano version has obscured the importance of the former as one of Liszt’s largest and most ambitious original works for the instrument.

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.

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).

During the Brain Salad Surgery tour of 1974, Emerson's keyboard setup included the Hammond C-3 organ, run through multiple Leslie speakers driven by HiWatt guitar amplifiers, the Moog 3C modular synthesiser (modified by addition of various modules and an oscilloscope) with ribbon controller, a Steinway concert grand piano with a Minimoog synthesiser on top of it, an upright acoustic-electric piano that was used for honky-tonk piano sounds, a Hohner Clavinet and another Minimoog synthesiser. Emerson also used a prototype polyphonic synthesiser produced by Moog, which was the test bed for the Moog Polymoog polyphonic synthesiser. The original synthesiser setup as envisioned by Moog was called the Constellation, and consisted of three instruments – the polyphonic synthesiser, called the Apollo, a monophonic lead synthesiser called the Lyra, and a bass-pedal synthesiser, called the Taurus, but Emerson never used the Taurus.

Layout of a musical keyboard (three octaves shown) 88-key piano illustration Steinway concert grand piano A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave. Depressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument produce sounds—either by mechanically striking a string or tine (acoustic and electric piano, clavichord), plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to flow through a pipe organ, striking a bell (carillon), or, on electric and electronic keyboards, completing a circuit (Hammond organ, digital piano, synthesizer). Since the most commonly encountered keyboard instrument is the piano, the keyboard layout is often referred to as the piano keyboard.

Yamaha Piano Salon pictured in 2005 Located in the 1927-opened Aeolian building at 689 Fifth Avenue,City Review Article on Aeolian Building the third floor piano salon, an acoustically isolated space originally occupied by a showroom of the Aeolian Piano Company,American Guild of Organists NYC Chapter which made its reputation in organs, reproducing organs, pianos and most particularly piano roll mechanisms and rolls themselves from 1887 until 1985. Encompassing the entire third floor, the piano saloon features a performance venue seating up to 150 and houses a selection of concert grand pianos and "disklavier" performance reproducing pianos. The Aeolian Building itself was designated a NYC Landmark in December 2002.NY Times on Aeolian Building History The program maintains relationships with classical piano performing artistsBeth Levin NY Times Review – 6/2005 and the performing arts world in general, by extension.

" Tony Catterall of The Canberra Times reviewed their first live album, ... In Concert in April 1975, he praised Braithwaite's voice as their "one major strength" but found their major weaknesses were "an almost total lack of writing ability that, coupled with the band's extremely erratic musicianship, makes it hard to understand the frantic screams of adulation." He felt that Porter provides "some interesting mellotron and organ work... although his piano playing (on a Steinway Concert Grand!) is dreadfully pedestrian." Further Porter and Shakespeare co-written top 10 hits for Sherbet followed: "Life" (August 1975), "Only One You" (November) and "Child's Play (February 1976). While a member of Sherbet, Porter also worked as a session musician and producer. In 1974 he appeared on band mate, Braithwaite's solo single, a cover version of Cilla Black's recording of "You're My World".

The Dutch Rondane Quartet plays on four Fazioli pianos The prototype of the first F308 received its first public performance in 1987, at the Teatro Comunale in Monfalcone, where French pianist François-Joël Thiollier performed both of Tchaikovsky's piano concertos. Later that year, Lazar Berman played Liszt's Second Concerto on the F308 concert grand at the Carnegie Hall in New York. Murray Perahia also requested the same model for his concert at the Teatro Goldoni in Venice. Toward the end of that year, Alfred Brendel chose to perform on Fazioli pianos for his Italian tour. The cooperation with the Zanussi R&D; Center led to the optimization of the entire product line: the six improved models (F156, F183, F212, F228, F278, F308), which today still represent the entire Fazioli range, were showcased at the 1988 edition of the Musikmesse Frankfurt.

For the convenience of touring performersSteinway & Sons – 150 Years, p. 32. and in the belief that every D-274 is somewhat different in character,Lenehan, Michael, "K 2571: The Making of a Steinway Grand," originally published, in slightly different form, in Atlantic Monthly as "The Quality of the Instrument" in August 1982; updated in 1997 (accessed March 23, 2010) Steinway maintains a collection of D-274s in "concert grand piano banks" across the world; for instance, the company maintains more than 40 in the basement of Steinway Hall in Manhattan. Such pianos are given "CD" designators, and they receive replacement stencils calculated for greater visibility at a distance. A pianist visiting one of these banks may sample and choose from a range of D-274s, according to taste, for public performance or recording; Steinway prepares and transports the chosen instrument, although the artist bears the cost of these services.

It was her fourth disc that catapulted her to huge popularity in the UK. A complex arrangement called "Cross Hands Boogie" was released to show her virtuoso rhythmic technique, but it was the B-side, a 1900s tune written by George Botsford called "Black and White Rag", that was to become a radio standard. Atwell was championed by popular disc jockey Jack Jackson, who introduced her to Decca promotions manager Hugh Mendl, who launched his career as a staff producer at Decca producing Atwell's recordings. "Black And White Rag" started a craze for her honky-tonk style of playing. The rag was originally performed on a concert grand for the occasion, but Atwell felt it did not sound right, and so got her husband to buy a honky tonk piano for 30 shillings, which would then be used for the released version of the song.

Gasser collaborates with contemporary composers and has premiered and recorded compositions by 20th-century composers such as Alfred Schnittke, Ross Edwards, Constant Lambert, Benjamin Britten, Henri Pousseur, Henry Cowell, Toru Takemitsu, George Crumb, James MacMillan, Alistair Zaldua, Michael Tippett, John Webb, James Dillon, Phillip Whilby, Richard Barrett, Cat Hope, Aldo Clementi, Mike Vaughan, John Cage, Luigi Dallapiccola, John Adams, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Olivier Messiaen, Luigi Nono, Edgard Varèse, Judith Bingham, Pierre Boulez, Joël-François Durand, Frank Zappa, György Ligeti and Ronald Stevenson. Gasser has also worked with contemporary artists such as Pink, Jarvis Cocker and Björk. Gasser performed Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH at Carnegie HallGasser Hits High Note at Carnegie Hall, article / Interview Telegraph Newspaper ARTS News) 26 October 2001. as a charity concert shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, to raise money for the families of rescue workers who died in the September 11 attacks, and most recently at the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House (2012) to launch Yamaha's CFX Concert Grand Piano in Australia.

Sellars was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Classmate and future magazine publisher Sloane Citron remembers Sellars as: Sellars attended Harvard University and as an undergraduate, he performed a puppet version of Wagner's Ring cycle, and directed a minimalist production of Three Sisters, with mature birch trees on the stage apron at Loeb Drama Center and Chopin Nocturnes played on a concert grand piano seen through a suspended gauze box set. Sellars's production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in the swimming pool of Harvard's Adams House brought press attention well beyond campus, as did the subsequent techno-industrial production of King Lear, which included a Lincoln Continental on stage and ambient musical moods by Robert Rutman's U.S. Steel Cello Ensemble. In his senior year, he staged a production of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector-General at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1980. This was followed during the summer of 1980 by staging of Don Giovanni, cast, costumed, and presented to resemble a blaxploitation film, with Don Giovanni partying almost-naked (underwear only) and shooting heroin.