We were right next-door to a grand piano, and we're singing and they're taking this grand piano out!
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A baby grand piano filled a third of the space.
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A grand piano occupies one corner of the great room.
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Fans liked to say Steinway invented the modern grand piano.
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Its grand piano, dating from the '60s, is coming apart.
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His heaven will be a grand piano full of baked potatoes.
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You can carry this grand piano down to the officers' mess.
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The grand piano played to larger audiences than could earlier instruments.
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You feel weighed-down, trapped beneath a grand piano of sadness.
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"They had dropped my precious Fazioli concert grand piano," she wrote.
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Just past the bar is a seating lounge and a grand piano.
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There are also Picassos on the walls and a baby grand piano.
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A Steinway grand piano, fittingly, will be the centerpiece of a lounge.
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There was a grand piano and, in the basement, a pottery kiln.
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The one striking difference is a baby grand piano wedged into one corner.
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"It stands out like a flat note on a grand piano," he said.
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She is a classically trained musician and owns a 1910 Steinway grand piano.
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Mr. Baker sees Beethoven's lapel as a great place for a grand piano.
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One of the suite's rooms is dedicated entirely to a Ronisch grand piano.
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The documents clearly show a building designed to show off a grand piano.
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The aircraft filled a warehouse, but weighed as much as a grand piano.
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Legend is sitting at a grand piano between two classic cars bouncing on hydraulics.
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Hotel employees were wiping down the lobby's grand piano and other already spotless surfaces.
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My baby grand piano has been in my house longer than I've been alive.
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The odorless New School location has a fabulous grand piano and neatly curtained walls.
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The grand piano, which was originally a church piano, sits next to the fireplace.
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Columns set it off from a light-filled gallery that comfortably holds a grand piano.
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He mixed Brazilian tiles with midcentury furnishings, vintage wall art and a clear grand piano.
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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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Money was raised among his friends to purchase a Steinway grand piano for the church.
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Among the offerings up for auction are chandeliers, televisions, beds, vases and a grand piano.
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The Ivory Lounge, for example, has a saltwater fish tank and a baby grand piano.
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The home's grand piano is said to be played at night by "a ghostly entity."
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The first-floor parlor is large enough to dwarf the grand piano in the corner.
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Just for kicks, leave a grand piano unattended in the hallway and see what happens.
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There were six bedrooms and a living room with silk curtains and a grand piano.
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Performing "Money," the Bronx rapper provided a luxe performance dancing atop a bedazzled grand piano.
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Mr. Cohler decorated the space around a family heirloom: a Steinway grand piano from the 1920s.
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In the lobby, an elderly gentleman played Gershwin on a grand piano at four each afternoon.
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It includes Carey dressed in a long glittery white dress, leaning against a white grand piano.
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At the other, an automated grand piano plays a "moon-altered" version of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata".
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A woman played a grand piano in a gleaming white reception area by a sweeping staircase.
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A battered grand piano covered in actual graffiti sat on a stage in the beer garden.
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As the story goes, Ledger had sent a grand piano to his musician friend, Ben Harper.
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In the living room, they found a baby grand piano that did not belong to them.
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The two-floor suite also has a full-size kitchen, a library, and a grand piano.
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He walked past the marble staircase and the grand piano to a table in the back.
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That amount of space lets them safely scan a grand piano, as you see at right.
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He depicted him on top of all the sacks that were piled on the grand piano.
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"The actual design is inspired by a grand piano in the room," Renner said in an interview.
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But at home, she played on a grand piano made by Kawai, a low-cost Japanese maker.
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At a grand piano in the orchestra pit sits Mr. Eubie Blake, composer of all the music.
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The movers, in the meantime, had their ropes around the grand piano and were dragging it out.
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My favorite part of the space was the grand piano — it made for the perfect statement piece.
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In the living room, the shy young Aretha awed friends with her playing on the grand piano.
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A customer called one morning to say she wanted to buy a grand piano costing more than $20,000.
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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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That's not even mentioning instruments, which have included everything from tubas to Chick Corea's 900-pound grand piano.
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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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She insisted that it was causing her curtains to shrink and her Steinway grand piano to grow mold.
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At close to midnight, I found the last free seat at the grand piano in the front room.
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They left immediately, abandoning the grand piano, the bookshelves, and the table in the middle of the room.
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There's a grand piano, a bar along the left side of the room, a bookcase and a fireplace.
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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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You can choose between 128 different instruments, everything from Acoustic Grand Piano to a Gunshot to Applause are options.
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Over the past decade, sales of upright pianos have dropped by 41.1%, while grand piano sales plummeted by 61.1%.
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And at center is a white grand piano where Ms. Wolf and Max Barros perform, accompanied by other musicians.
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Not a lot in there except an absolutely huge 1960s Baldwin Model D concert grand piano and some furniture.
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The entrance from a long covered front porch leads to a foyer big enough to hold a grand piano.
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We get it: you're a real musician whose songs are sturdy enough to be played on a grand piano.
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In the grand ballroom, a wall of decorative panels splits open to reveal a stage with a grand piano.
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The five-bedroom home costs an estimated $5.2 million, and is reportedly decorated with pricey sculptures and a grand piano.
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Small nods to Jonas can be found throughout, including a guitar on display in his den and a grand piano.
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A two-part exhibition in neighboring galleries focuses on individual work by Schastey, including an extravagantly ornamented Steinway grand piano.
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On the other side of the wall was a small auditorium, with a grand piano set up on a stage.
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The room should have plenty of mahogany and leather, plasmas, darts, a grand piano and a professional full-service bar.
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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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The pairing made a bold graphic statement, much like a Franz Kline painting, or a penguin, or a 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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The gallery wall that broke Michael Pajón's body crashed into the art handler with the force of a grand piano.
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A grand piano is the first thing you see in the dining room, and afternoon tea is served on weekends.
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It's not the grand opening of a store we are thinking about but rather the opening of a grand piano.
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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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The black-and-white clip opens up with Tomlinson, 27, alone in a warehouse, sitting in front of a grand piano.
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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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But the most special keepsake for Kourt is the grand piano momager Kris Jenner gave her when she was a kid.
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The largest question mark is Pau Gasol, whose $16.1 million player option dangles over San Antonio's head like a grand piano.
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A pocket door separates the library from the music room, which contains a late 1800s Steinway grand piano crafted from rosewood.
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In the back room, the grand piano boomed: someone must have jumped inside it and others were banging on the keys.
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"I Think of Saturday" begins as a dark skeleton of a disco track, then disintegrates into grand piano and spoken word.
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St. Louis Lambert International Airport recently adopted a "Play Me" grand piano and installed it in the Terminal 1 "Aero" event space.
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The ship carried renowned pianist Ludovico Einaudi, a grand piano, and a floating wooden platform made up to look like a glacier.
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Facebook's solar-powered drone, Aquila, has a greater wingspan than a Boeing 737 yet weighs only as much as a grand piano.
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While recording 1999's Dark Side Of The Spoon, Jourgensen claims R. Kelly urinated in his grand piano while recording at Trax.
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By then, all of Kaplan's old gear had been removed—except for Neil Diamond's grand piano, which the new owners had purchased.
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Using his engineering skills, Mr Fazioli set about designing a grand piano that would produce a sound superior to any other piano.
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There are also TVs, vases, poker tables, and even a grand piano looking for new homes, according to the NCL auction page.
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It was a sunny, fall day, and Touissant was sitting at his Steinway grand piano in an elegantly pressed blue suit, reminiscing.
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He was so used to the sound of a stretched tuning, like a grand piano, that that's what sounded right to him.
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And no one is quite sure what to do with the see-through grand piano now sitting in a supermodel's Malibu home.
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Dozens took refuge in a choir classroom, which a teacher barricaded with a grand piano before tending to a student's gunshot wounds.
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"It was my first ever full-size concert grand piano, and I was thrilled to bits when it was delivered," she added.
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The Scotts' studio is jammed with a Steinway grand piano, a Murphy bed, two recliners and a china closet full of antiques.
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So when you play the keyboard, it should sound like playing a regular grand piano, both to you and anyone else listening.
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Ian Isiah, a Brooklyn-based R&B singer, sat at a grand piano on a stage floating in the hotel's large pool.
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Elegantly flanking the stage, Joseph Kubera and Adam Tendler each sits at a grand piano, playing an unidentified score by Julius Eastman.
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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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Wearing a grey fur coat and a knit Detroit Lions hat, Franklin sat behind a grand piano — which she played throughout the song.
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Called the "Lion Gate Estate," the house comes fully furnished with a grand piano, two vintage cars, and an army of creepy statues.
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DiCaprio and other celebrities like Miranda Kerr had to give up presents they received, like a grand piano, and a Pablo Picasso painting.
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Supporters will grumble under their breath, the stadium will turn monochrome, and the discordant tinkling of a grand piano will echo through Islington.
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The Club Reception will boast a glamorous 1920s style imperial staircase, as well as an oyster bar, a grand piano, and a chandelier.
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The only successful new entrants into the grand-piano market have been companies like Yamaha, a Japanese brand, which sold a cheaper product.
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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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Steve tells us Jamar was instantly drawn to his grand piano ... and now Jamar's got everything he needs to jam out at home.
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Last night, for the broadcast, they decided to write a new song on the spot, on the grand piano in our office lobby.
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On a recent afternoon, Maye and a dozen aspiring chanteuses were in a midtown rehearsal room, with a grand piano and a microphone.
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A videographer was adjusting the light balance on one of four cameras surrounding the Steinway grand piano, while an audio engineer positioned microphones.
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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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Shortly after "The Stranger" took off, Joel treated himself to a brand new grand piano, a purchase he believes truly improved his life.
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They would meet in the morning (they're both early risers) and sit at the grand piano in Weisbord's apartment, laughing and testing notes.
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They innately understand the finality of Mr. Rodriguez's absence, and rather than alarm, they simply picture him floating away on a grand piano.
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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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"Fred had just started as music director at the church, and I had this grand piano I was looking to sell," she said.
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With melancholic and sunken body language, Moore drinks wine and plays a grand piano inside an animated, snowing version of the Columbine cafeteria.
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The place seemed to darken a bit toward the grand piano in the corner, which was lit up to provide a stage for performers.
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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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The music Mr. Felder performs on a gleaming grand piano is pleasant, but he never manages to slip into the maestro's skin (26200:21987).
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The music Mr. Felder performs on a gleaming grand piano is pleasant, but he never manages to slip into the maestro's skin (1:22929).
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Sylvia's husband, John, waves hello, while we walk past a grand piano and through to a bright conservatory at the back of the house.
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The music Mr. Felder performs on a gleaming grand piano is pleasant, but he never manages to slip into the maestro's skin (1:45).
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Mini medical professional In the early 2000s, Genentech invited me to attend a hematology conference and play the grand piano at their trade booth.
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Maybe he took a long walk, lost in his thoughts, not noticing the grand piano teetering out of a fourth-floor window above him.
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In 2007, movers delivering an $89,000 grand piano to the Two Moors Festival in Devon, southern England, dropped the instrument out of their van.
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Seven hundred people sat on bleachers surrounding a sunken rectangle in the drill hall's floor, at each end of which was a grand piano.
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The tour starts in the front hall, with a grand piano and several of Siwa's eccentric, bedazzled outfits from her tours and music videos.
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One day, on arriving "home," the painter discovered five dogs, a grand piano, a young woman, and her parents moving into his old apartment.
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She uses London slang so people fall for it, when in reality, she has a grand piano in her house and is from Kensington.
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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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In 1984, the company released the Kurzweil 250, widely considered the first computerized instrument that could realistically mimic the grand piano and other orchestral instruments.
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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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The ebony bulk of a grand piano is majestic, yet it is also made into a drum-kit for Mr Frahm to beat against hypnotically.
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You can even change the feel of the entire piano at will, switching from a grand piano to a church organ, or even a synthesizer.
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This time around, Urban jilted his beloved guitar to accompany himself on a grand piano, tapping into his feminine side to deliver a transcendent performance.
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This is served in a light-filled, modern lobby with a 13-foot-high ceiling, a bright carpet, a grand piano, and a luxurious bar.
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It was this huge, old, grand Chinese restaurant where all the waiters wore tuxedos, there was red leather everywhere, and there was a grand piano.
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As for the aesthetic, well, the video up top has a grand piano turning slowly on a neon-colored Saved By The Bell-style background.
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He even decided to start taking piano lessons — something he has wanted to do for years — after seeing the grand piano in an upstairs lounge.
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The couple bought a Classic Six in a West 21.58s co-op building, circa 21.5, with a big living room for her Steinway grand piano.
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The foyer (designed to be large enough for a grand piano) has a carved oak ceiling and a carved oak staircase with a window seat.
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But with a Steinway grand piano and a high-tech sound system for electronic music, it has become a go-to place for contemporary fare.
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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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I meet her in a classroom in Kabul, where she sits behind a grand piano surrounded by young women and girls clutching violins, clarinets, and cellos.
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"There was a grand piano in the Franklin living room, and we all liked to mess around," Motown singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson told Ritz in Respect.
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Benmont Tench, the keyboardist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, incorporated his Steinway acoustic grand piano into the keyboard and organ rig he takes on tour.
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At the entrance to another residence, soldiers swap jokes and take turns playing on a grand piano and shooting pool next to a fake Christmas tree.
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I took a grand piano and, instead of just playing it, I hit it with open hand on the strings on different parts of the piano.
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Epstein did in fact have grand piano in that 'temple,' but the roof leaked because the AC units are on top, and the roof is flat.
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Once, during a meeting at the home of Secretary of State John Kerry, M.B.S. spotted a grand piano, walked over, and began playing the "Moonlight" Sonata.
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At home, in a room that housed a grand piano, the Franklins hosted everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Duke Ellington.
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The virtuoso Gary Graffman, the teacher of Yuja Wang and Lang Lang, celebrated his birthday with musical royalty (and a grand-piano "Happy Birthday to You").
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The grand piano isn't for show and neither are the books or the open affection and respect with which Elio and his parents treat one another.
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In 22016, Mr. Low bought the clear-acrylic grand piano from Crystal Music Company in the Netherlands and had it delivered to Ms. Kerr in Malibu.
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The club has a speakeasy feel with stone walls made warm with mood lighting and casual seating, not to mention a Steinway Model B grand piano.
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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.
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Harlem Nights is a monument to music and to easy living—the frame of a Weber grand piano has been nailed to an exposed-brick wall.
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She positioned me in a chair from which I could see her hands on the keyboard of a grand piano and launched into the percussive opening.
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Yamaha sent Prince a $200,000 purple grand piano a few days before he died in hopes of closing the deal -- and it seemed to be working.
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Stephen spent his waking hours on his prized Steinway grand piano, which sat in a makeshift studio just off the main living room of the Paulus household.
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Its cozy den features an L-shaped couch, a fireplace and an exposed brick wall, while the formal living room boasts a grand piano and a fireplace.
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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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"It's definitely countercultural right now," Mr. Ladner said toward the end of a recent lunch service while the sound of a grand piano crested in the background.
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"This is a very important year for America," Mr. John said from behind a grand piano, his sequined blue jacket shimmering under the glow of a spotlight.
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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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I'd have one room for just a grand piano, guitar, trumpet, and saxophone - the instruments I play already - and one for every other instrument known to man.
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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.
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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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Adding another, unexpected and visually dazzling dimension to all these horizontal proceedings is a grand piano — complete with player — which every so often descends from the rafters.
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He led me through a stranger's living room with a grand piano in it and collection of porcelain figurines on glass shelves, out onto a big balcony.
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All this filled three moving vans, but he couldn't take the biggest pieces of furniture or the grand piano, because they wouldn't fit into his Madrid apartment.
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That day, the painter drew a group of five dogs beside a cage with a cat, a grand piano viewed from above, and a stern young lady.
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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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Almost all of Fischer's 20 sculptures are cast in bronze and hand-painted, from a miniature rat playing a grand piano to a wilted tulip in a vase.
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First, Deuber walks through the room with "great acoustics" that houses the couple's Steinway grand piano and a bar with custom wood to match that of the instrument.
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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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The works range from the relatively innocuous, like a slamming grand piano and ticking metronomes, to the controversial, like his infamous short films of people vomiting and defecating.
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"See Charlie over there?" she says, pointing to a ceramic statue of Charlie Chaplin sitting on a grand piano once owned by fellow silent film star Harold Lloyd.
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The bracelet is shows a row of eight orchestral musicians with the conductor at the center, as each musician plays instruments from timpani, cello, grand piano and harp.
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Joel's concerts there didn't singlehandedly bring down the Berlin Wall, but, much like he did to that grand piano, they knocked a great big chunk out of it.
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"I am so so so devastated that words can not describe how I feel right now," he captioned an image of Shawty Lo at a white grand piano.
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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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The 2,443-square-foot suite has multiple rooms, a grand piano, a private sauna, a jetted soaking tub, a panic button, and an unbeatable view of the Kremlin.
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On a velvet-roped couch near the bar, Ms. Teigen bounced Luna on her lap; Kris Kardashian grabbed a seat in front of Mr. Legend's ivory grand piano.
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The overtones and harmonies, the polarities in the sound, the physicality of the instrument, the unparalleled touch—harnessing the beast that is, and can be, a grand piano.
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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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Today, the children decorated his dogs with glasses and horns, watered the poppy until it melted, then performed a tap dance in muddy sneakers on the grand piano.
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He was an academic, and his apartment was filled with genteel clutter—calligraphy scrolls on the wall, rosewood furniture, a grand piano, and sheet music covering every surface.
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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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I'd listen to her play the grand piano — the passion that had taken her to Juilliard decades earlier — and marvel at the lightness of her hands on the keys.
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But this 2009 performance is the perfect embodiment of what made her huge, with its high-strung dancing, massive vocals, and a stunning breakdown on a white grand piano.
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Written for three sopranos standing around a grand piano, the opera is a capacious combination of Irish keening, medieval-style close harmony, torch-song blues and Weill-esque cabaret.
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Two playing areas — including one that suggests a minimalist interpretation of van Gogh's painting of his room at Arles — flank a white grand piano and four decorously arranged chairs.
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Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly received Marlon Brando's 1954 Oscar from Low, as well as a Pablo Picasso painting, and supermodel Miranda Kerr was gifted jewelry and a see-through grand piano.
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Guests can watch their shows on the world's largest TV screen by Bang & Olufsen, entertain on a Steinway grand piano, and admire an art collection of rare and ancient pieces.
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Front doors open to a generous wood-paneled foyer with a fireplace and a platform where the owners keep a grand piano, lighted by a large window on the stairwell.
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Although Alpha Piano hasn't disclosed pricing, the mPiano won't be cheap — Porsche Design's last grand piano cost $272,699 when it was released, but hopefully the mPiano won't be that costly.
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Heritage Auctions tells TMZ ... Gabor's home furnishings and memorabilia from her career will be up for grabs, along with her Louis Vuitton luggage, designer clothes, paintings and a grand piano.
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Neatly depicting a prepossessing waiter, Ben Houghton also occasionally tinkles away at a grand piano and lends his tenor voice to several Coward songs such as "If Love Were All."
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For $18,000 per night, the presidential suite has a dining room, a formal living room, a grand piano, a fireplace, an outdoor sitting area, a private pool, and a courtyard.
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There, in a 12th floor suite, was Diane Lane, seated by a grand piano belting out show tunes like "Maybe This Time" with a handful of tuxedo-wearing theater types.
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Inside the temple, the piano tuner saw a Wurlitzer grand piano and a portrait of Epstein and the popeAfter the golf-cart driver dropped him off, Baron entered the building.
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He began and ended his performance playing a conch-shell trumpet above a grand piano with a pedal held down; the resonating strings echoed the conch like an angelic choir.
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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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Swift, 29, then slowed it down to end her performance with a beautiful, acoustic rendition of "Lover" while wearing a long pink cape, playing the track on a grand piano.
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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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They also tracked down a $250 million yacht, a $35 million Bombardier jet and a see-through grand piano that is in the living room of the supermodel Miranda Kerr.
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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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Dumbfounded, I told her some of my memories of the sprawling place: my mother's early death, my father's happy remarriage, the grand piano I played (or didn't), my fabulous tuxedo cat.
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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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The rookie teacher, who started in January, quickly wheeled a grand piano in front of the door and ushered dozens of her students into an office, locking the door behind them.
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The music that Mr. Felder plays, quite nicely on a gleaming grand piano, is the best part of this show, which at an intermissionless 105 minutes is both overlong and insubstantial.
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If you're the sort of traveler who desires a private pool, a grand piano or seating for 24 in your hotel room, look no further Are such rooms worth the price?
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After a platform lifted himself and the coffin to the main level, Lamar slowly crossed the stage, stopping to gesticulate in synchrony with the music, until reaching an unoccupied grand piano.
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Who else would perform this otherwise straight-forward ballad while wearing a sparkling cowgirl hat on a holographic crystal grand piano with lasers firing down onto the keys as she plays?
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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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And Mr. Mays was an integral part of that lean quartet from its early days, whether giving depth and color to its sound on synthesizers or soloing gracefully on grand piano.
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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.
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And, of course, we know there are occasional emergencies, like having to take delivery of your great aunt Bessie's grand piano, and we're happy to be flexible when these occasions arise.
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When investigators combed through the living room where Sharon Tate lay dead at 10050 Cielo Drive on the morning after the murders, they found a grand piano mere feet from her body.
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In one of the exhibitions outside the dressing room, the most impressive Schastey piece is a grand piano with Steinway inner workings, created in 1882 for William Clark, a Newark thread manufacturer.
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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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So, when the Wall Street Journal reports that caftans for men are currently having "a moment," the news can strike Mr. Typical with the force of a grand piano from the sky.
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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.
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He also performed at what appeared to be a self-driving grand piano that could cross the stage as he played, below a video screen framed by a frieze of career highlights.
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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 prize consists of a three-course Michelin-starred meal with wine pairings, cocktails, a bottle of Champagne, chocolates, luxury candles, live music from a grand piano, and photographs of the magical evening.
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Buttressing the intimacy of chamber music and cabaret with some rock theatrics, she sat at a grand piano that was brightly illuminated from below, with its ribs suggesting a dungeon or a skeleton.
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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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Forty minutes east of Hiroshima, a couple asked for a house in 2004 where they could relax and play their grand piano, even though their tiny plot hugged a constantly rattling rail line.
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At the time, she was living in an apartment in a townhouse where Mr. Morris, a classically trained pianist, was allowed to practice on the grand piano in exchange for doing odd jobs.
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"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.
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The grand piano sits at one corner, and throughout the room are photographs of the couple, their family, and their many famous friends and acquaintances, including a young Ms. Newman and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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Sitting at a white grand piano covered in feathers made to look like angel wings, the star played while singing the powerful lyrics of her album's title track while Mark Ronson strummed a guitar.
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Introduced by Elizabeth Hurley, Sir Elton John played a riveting performance at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Tuesday, pounding out hit after hit on the keyboard of a thundering grand piano.
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His money gone to drugs, he sold his last item of value — a grand piano — for $5,000 and rented a single-engine plane to fly from California to Florida in search of The Mayan.
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He opened for the Mamas & the Papas at Carnegie Hall; he made albums with Marc Bolan and Morrissey; he wrote string arrangements at a grand piano for Band on the Run alongside Paul McCartney.
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Stars checking into the exclusive address tend to occupy the 3,200-square-foot, two-story Presidential Villa, which boasts a private screening room, a grand piano and a dining room that can seat ten.
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He has handed out solar-powered lamps to children in refugee camps, delivered a white grand piano to a traumatized Syrian pianist and photographed the freshly arrived as they scrambled off boats in Lesbos.
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The 1,800-square-foot suite will be filled to the brim with the hottest toys of the season, including 10-foot plushes, a toddler-sized grand piano, ride-on horses, train sets, and more.
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I took piano lessons for 10 years, so the grand piano was one of the most exciting parts of the suite for me, and I spent a good portion of the evening playing it.
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In front of a grand piano in the foyer, Liu Lei, 31, a primary schoolteacher and member of the Hezhen, or Nanai, ethnic group from Heilongjiang Province, posed for photographs in a bright costume.
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He could have played the track on an acoustic guitar, an 808, a grand piano, or a set of tuned garbage cans; you'd still be fixed on Bazan's narrative arc and stoic, soft delivery.
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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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Mr. Magania starts by sitting next to a stool bench parked in front of an empty grand piano — the instrument merely is an outline of itself, the ghostly black frame resting on red carpet.
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The stately living room, with a grand piano and views of the Pacific Ocean, is neatly decorated with treasures of a well-traveled life, like etchings of Cairo and Ann's framed watercolors of Tunisia.
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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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Even in moments of deference to Ms. Dinnerstein — who sits at a grand piano center stage, like the sun around which the dancers orbit — the choreography meets the music in a balanced, unstrained partnership.
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The living and dining areas have exposed brick walls and hardwood floors, and there is a central space described as a media room with enough space for a pool table or a grand piano.
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Ewan McGregor stars as Lumiere the candelabra, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth the clock, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Plumette the feather duster, Stanley Tucci as Cadenza the grand piano and Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belle's father.
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The historic terrazzo floors are dominated by a grand piano churning out live jazz at happy hour, a concierge desk, bar and restaurant, and walls lined with museum-quality art that the owners curated themselves.
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Diehl began the composition there on a Steinway grand piano that was carefully hauled off a truck and into a whisky warehouse on the distillery grounds, surrounded by hundreds of old aging casks for inspiration.
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After Alfred arrives and gets a nice kick into the nearby grand piano, we get a rundown of all the times Batman gave into dark thoughts — which includes the Caped Crusader's every live-action movie.
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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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Vásquez de la Horra conveys her own sense of impending destruction in "Momento Efímero (Fleeting Moment)" (2016), a graphite drawing of another pianist, this time a silhouette seated a grand piano, completely consumed by flames.
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On Loud City Song, "Horns Surrounding Me" led with its rattles and synths, but here it's graceful and soft, with swelling strings and a grand piano and Holter's voice in a whisper, not a cry.
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A spacious gallery opens to an enormous living room — big enough to comfortably fit a grand piano — with south-facing windows and a wood-burning fireplace of French Pyrenees marble (one of three working fireplaces).
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While others scraped by in a difficult era, her parents had plum jobs and the family had a large apartment, a grand piano, maids, paintings, all the records and theater tickets and other privileges imaginable.
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She studied English literature at Bristol University, where friends remember her painting the floor of her student housing with a giant sun and using the guts of a grand piano as a piece of furniture.
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After the performance, he was presented with a cake in the shape of a grand piano, and thousands in the crowd sang "Happy Birthday," basking in a moment that Joey himself seemed to take in stride.
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We were moving from one studio to the other and we weren't quite ready to record, so we went to another studio and funnily enough, there was a grand piano, and the piece was totally improvised.
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" Ms. Peacock, 77, put her hands on the grand piano and unloosed a slow drag of notes, no more than two or three at a time, wending her way into the ballad "So Hard It Hurts.
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A couple of months ago — before the Gilmore was announced, but after he learned it would be his — Mr. Levit paced nervously in the living room as his enormous Steinway grand piano went out the window.
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There are, however, beautiful moments, as when a woman slowly balances on a grand piano played by two rhinoceros-headed humanoids, while a person attempts to grab at papers sent soaring on a hidden air blower.
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And while waiting at a state guesthouse for China's president, Xi Jinping, Mr. Putin sat down at a grand piano and played two tunes: "Evening Song," by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, and "Moscow Windows," by Tikhon Khrennikov.
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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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But Mr. McConaughey has one more twist in store: A bright moon appears in a night sky, we hear sweet music, and guess who is sitting at a grand piano situated, incongruously, on an expanse of grass?
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Must've been nice because we're told they got hooked up in an 1800 square foot room on the Celebrity Solstice that came with 2 bedrooms, grand piano and what we can only imagine were sick views of glaciers.
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The Indigo projects he was proudest of, according to his wife Julie, were made in the late 70s with Neil Young, Olivia Newton-John, and the aforementioned Mr. Diamond, who would later sell Kaplan his Yamaha grand piano.
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"I wanted to first thank my fans for your patience & support during my time away throughout my battle with Lyme disease over the past two years," she captioned a rainbow-hued photo of herself seated at a grand piano.
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There is also the Skyline Penthouse, which features photography by the Plutziks, a family heirloom chandelier modeled after those in the Vienna Opera House, a grand piano, and wraparound terrace, starting at $1,699 and shooting way up from there.
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In his debut TV performance on Jools Holland's BBC1 show, he ended this speculation: playing the song while seated at a grand piano, as accomplished musicians like Paul Weller, Little Dragon, and alt-j watched on from the audience.
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The tour ended with Joel so comfortable among his newfound Russian fans that he took his shoes and socks off, did cartwheels off his grand piano, and surfed through the crowd who draped him in American and Soviet flags.
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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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He reportedly offered her an apartment in the hotel that was nearly ten times the size as her small suite, with a view of Central Park and new furniture, new dishes, and, at her insistence, a Steinway grand piano.
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But he's equally intent on charting internal developments within the group, particularly as they emerged through The Grand Piano, the long-term project of collective memoir by ten poets associated with the California wing of the movement, including himself.
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At the right, a musician bends over a purple grand piano, behind which hangs a patchwork of green and purple on red, a textile such as Bakst might have designed, or Diaghilev might even have worn as a cape.
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Every time that I look between our grand piano and our baby chickens, I'm amazed by the stark differences between our childhoods, and how in raising livestock, my dad shares a piece of his own rural upbringing with me.
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BUENOS AIRES — At Don Julio, a much-beloved steakhouse in the city's low-rise Palermo neighborhood, a 110-square-foot grill dominates the soaring dining room in the way that a grand piano commands attention on a concert stage.
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BUENOS AIRES — At Don Julio, a much-beloved steakhouse in the city's low-rise Palermo neighborhood, a 110-square-foot grill dominates the soaring dining room in the way that a grand piano commands attention on a concert stage.
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At the grand piano is Tina de Varon, a terrific musician and a genius child wrangler: She has the kids singing and dancing, calling out favorites, and even the chubby 2-year-old in blue is boogieing with style.
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Since 2009, The Biltmore Hotel has been owned and operated by Millennium & Copthorne Hotel group and houses 683 rooms ranging from standard Deluxe to a 4,000 square foot Presidential Suite with three bedrooms, five bathrooms, and a grand piano.
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A tiny pink Schoenhut piano was even spotted alongside a full-sized grand piano — that just so happens to be a Kardashian family heirloom — in a photo of Kourtney Kardashian's "piano room" shot for a 2014 home tour story for InStyle.
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There's more absurd, kinetic work in the newly restored Veterans Room, where the lid and fallboard of a cream-colored grand piano open slowly, like a bird spreading its wings for the first time — before slamming shut with a determined bang.
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When adult Otis sasses his counselor (Martin Starr) at a recovery facility, so high end it has a grand piano in its reception area, Hedges and Ha'rel don't present the character as a damaged person having a difficult time accepting help.
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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.
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From behind his grand piano and a bank of synthesizers — or sometimes standing out front, with a keytar — he held magnanimous court, presiding over an evening that reaffirmed his legacy in the realm of vanguardist pop, jazz-funk and R&B.
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According to the duo, the track title refers to a lake in Wisconsin where the Paulus family spent their summers, and the melody—played on Stephen's prized Steinway grand piano—borrows from a chord that he often used in his music.
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It was hard to imagine the inside of a ship as a luxury hotel until I saw the six-story Grand Lobby atrium with its 22-foot bronze relief mural of the ship itself, Art Deco chandelier and white grand piano.
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At Barclays, he made his appearance behind what looked like a grand piano (in fact, the grand case concealed an electronic keyboard), signalling to the exuberant people in the bleachers that this would be a concert, not a d.j. set.
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To this, I would ask you as to why your faith in Uzi would ever waver, but to conclusively answer the question, here's someone showing just how beautiful this song sounds when reduced to just melody and harmony on a 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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She could put curtains on the windows so they could not see into her apartment for a glimpse of her grand piano or a look at where she and her husband, Nicholas, work — she is a structural engineer, he is an architect.
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I'd bet $5 and a half-used ChapStick that at some point in their lives, Rick Ross and Martha Stewart have had a couple of drinks at a bar, made out on top of a grand piano, and went their separate ways.
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"It'll just be a grand piano with Adam facing me, and an empty stage," said Mr. Patinkin, sitting in the small rehearsal room in his apartment, beside a Yamaha upright left to him by a friend who died of AIDS in the 1980s.
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His female counterpart might be one Fannie Lowenstein, whom none other than Donald Trump is said to have ended up bestowing a sprawling suite in the venerable Plaza Hotel at 853 Central Park South, complete with a Steinway grand piano and maid service.
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But the huge sums of money that were stolen bought much more than tiaras, including a $250 million yacht, a $35 million Bombardier jet and a see-through grand piano that is currently sitting in the living room of the supermodel Miranda Kerr.
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Inside, the place was done up in a generic Mediterranean style, although there were personal flourishes here and there — a Lucite grand piano with a gold-colored "Artist Formerly Known as Prince" symbol suspended over it, purple paisley pillows on a couch.
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Also off the living room are a small library wrapped in bookshelves and a room described as a den that is big enough for a grand piano; it has a Crab Orchard stone floor, a wood-burning fireplace and a wet bar.
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Descend from the 27th century straight into the 225st at Rike Park, a feat of modern urban planning that is shaped like the map of Georgia and has picnic areas, a climbing maze, a giant grand piano and a choreographed musical fountain.
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In the Veterans Room, the best-known of the period rooms once used for receptions, stands a grand piano — it is stark white and couldn't be more different from the extravagant interior, which is mostly the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated Artists.
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The beginning of "For the Girls," directed by the record and concert producer (and celebrated diva handler) Richard Jay Alexander, found Chenoweth alone onstage, back to the audience in an oversized T-shirt, with a 7-11 Big Gulp soda on the grand piano.
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In April, Farhoud, who is seventy-six, packed a U-Haul with a grand piano, two hundred violins, ten cellos, and some furniture and paintings, and moved across the country, to a town called Mountain Center, an hour from Luke Goebel's place in the desert.
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An interpretation of Gérard Grisey's score of the same name, "Vortex Temporum" brings together seven dancers of her company, Rosas, and seven members of the contemporary music ensemble Ictus, setting them all in motion (even the grand piano dances) on a stripped-down stage.
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The sight of Mr. Shinners at a Yamaha grand piano behind the plate-glass windows of a former bank branch on 0003th Street and Broadway, within view of the stage door of Carnegie Hall, is drawing a stream of listeners for short doses of Bach.
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Newly opened this year, the hall's decorations include a stained-glass ceiling, a life-size reproduction of part of the Acropolis, a large photograph of the battle site of Waterloo and, to one side, a grand piano and a statue of a ballet-dancing hippopotamus.
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One (Brian) played air guitar in Louis Vuitton pajama bottoms next to a pinball machine; another (AJ) moved from singing in front of a vast sneaker collection to posing before a grand piano under a framed plaque commemorating the group's 3x platinum record sales.
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Over the course of the film, her instincts about Peter's instability and dangerous possessiveness are proven absolutely correct: He immediately turns violent, coldly destroying the grand piano we see him playing early on and smashing one of the Christmas tree ornaments on the sorority house's grand tree.
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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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The orchestra level, which contains hundreds of seats, will be closed and converted into a stage, over which the opera's title character (Rod Gilfrey, of "Anna Nicole" at Next Wave in 22014) will be held in midair, with a grand piano hovering in the distance behind him.
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Gone are the days of East 17 performing on Top of the Pops bare-chested, over a grand piano; Boyz II Men topping the Billboard chart for 17 weeks; 5ive telling us what happens when the lights go out in a way deemed acceptable for mainstream radio.
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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 her singing at the funeral of M.L.K. to 'the hat' at the first Obama inauguration to singing for Carole King at the Kennedy Center Honors (but not before going back offstage to get her pocketbook, which she safely placed on the grand piano where she could watch it).
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The coin, released on Monday, features the band's logo and instruments played by the Queen members: the Bechstein grand piano played by Freddie Mercury for "Bohemian Rhapsody", May's "Red Special" guitar, Roger Taylor's Ludwig bass drum with an early-day Queen crest and John Deacon's Fender Precision Bass.
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There were rhythms that seemed explosive enough to flip a few people upside-down in a mosh pit, and the performance culminated in singer Vicentico jumping on a grand piano while bassist Flavio shattered his own instrument to pieces—proof that Los Cadillacs are still down with their punk roots.
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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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In a sense — and despite the somewhat gnarly, involuted language in which much of it is couched — Questions of Poetics is a quite personal attempt to follow up The Grand Piano with another round of stock-taking: an individual rather than collaborative response this time, but not an individualistic one.
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The historian shared a good part of his library with her, taught her more than she would have learned in any school, and let her practice on the grand piano once played by his wife, who now could no longer recall what on earth this huge black monster was for.
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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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The half-German, adult orphan Schlegels, on the other hand, are the type of rich people who frequent "ghastly" restaurants, to quote Tibby, speak to those less fortunate than them, and spend most of their time either playing their single grand piano or having long-winded conversations about Ideas-With-A-Capital-I.
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Guernsey's two-day auction featured African-American historic and cultural items, including a letter by Rosa Parks in which she described her first encounter with Martin Luther King Jr., the first record label contract signed by the Jackson Five in 1967 and a Steinway Grand piano owned by jazz legend Art Tatum.
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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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If you ever have the opportunity, don't turn down the chance to check out the 6000 square-foot Penthouse Suite complete with balconies, a two-story circular library, a chef-grade kitchen, and a grand piano; JFK, Prince Charles, and Mick Jagger are just a few of the names who have stayed there.
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Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker When you walk into the apartment—which is small and dark—the first thing you see is a royal-blue nylon curtain suspended from the ceiling like a shower curtain and drawn around a lumpish object that turns out to be a Steinway grand piano.
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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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If the media was a grand piano, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is playing them to hit every key he wants them to this week.
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Opened in November 2016 in what was once a metals factory called Casa Cohen, the hotel has a fresh vibe — from zigzag floor tiles to floral wall murals — with shared spaces that include an outdoor patio and pool; a sitting room with a grand piano; and a library stocked with books like "Imperfect Utopia," by the artist Carlos Betancourt.
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Two video projections, each taking up the width of nearly a whole wall, showed subtly violent scenes: A woman thrashed on the floor of a cardboard-padded room; another woman straddled a mirror, her bare legs inscribed with what looked like the stitching of skintight jeans; a grand piano played itself, producing an ominous looping refrain.
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Under slate-violet skies, "Pueblo del Rio: Concerto" and "Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque" place a man playing a grand piano and six ballet dancers in tutus on a street or sidewalk in Pueblo del Rio, a large housing project built in Los Angeles in 1942 with design input from the architects Richard Neutra and Paul Williams.
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Surrounded by the faded trappings of their wealth and social status — from a commissioned portrait painting of Big Edie in her youth, to a dusty grand piano and battered but ornate furniture — they also cohabited with dozens of semi-feral cats (and mountains of empty cat food tins), semi-domesticated raccoons, peeling wallpaper, piles of magazine cuttings, and mounds of couture.
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Not only will the three-course dinner from New York's Nordic Agern restaurant come with wine pairings, but the fortunate winner and guest will receive a couple of cocktails and a bottle of Champagne courtesy of the Grand Central-located Campbell Bar while being serenaded with music on a Steinway & Sons grand piano direct from the Steinway NYC Concert & Artist bank of pianos.
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At Paisley Park, if he was not at his purple grand piano, he would be recording; and though he produced 39 studio albums, four in his last 19 months alone, he still had shelves of recordings that were not quite ready, not sufficiently perfect, in his vault: enough material (some said) to make annual albums for the next hundred years.
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After dropping his first full-length LP in five years, Everybody Looking, at midnight, he then proceeded to release two new music videos, one for "Waybach" and one for "Out Do Ya." For the average person, that would have seemed like a good moment to kick back, tinker with a grand piano, maybe watch a little TV, drink a soda.
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Ahead of their double headline show in London recently (which featured Lee wearing a cape of feathers and playing a grand piano), I drank as much of the free coffee as I could, waiting for her at her label's office and then got jittery when she floated in wearing a huge dress, wearing the same electric blue and black as the Fallen cover.
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Several hours later, after Lady Gaga dazzled a crowd of 1,400 with a grand piano performance of her song "Bad Romance" at the stately Princess of Wales Theater, a caftan-swathed André Leon Talley reclined next to Lady Barbara Black (wife of the former media mogul Sir Conrad Black) holding court at a midnight supper party hosted in his honor by the real estate tycoon David Daniels.
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Yet Gaga is a performer who revels in that which doesn't make sense: Where a year earlier an invisible Calvin Harris pushed buttons for a frenzied crowd, there she was writhing atop a grand piano in a red Joanne hoodie and sequined thigh-high boots, singing a Broadway-style ballad to 100,000 screaming people, and reminding us that maybe what's around us isn't supposed to fit in an ideological box.
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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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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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In which the studio grows L-shaped, with an alcove for the bed, you modest dream, in which the railroad widens sideways, new door a sudden wing ought to invade the brownstone next door, but that brownstone loses nothing in the dream in which another room it's huge, with grand piano and French doors opening on a view of my private beach, why have I never bothered going in this room before?
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Other pieces include "Under the Weather #2" (2016), a wooden tower of bent and twisting forms that stands more than eleven feet tall; "Wave" (2018), a massive work of smoothly painted steel, about the size of a grand piano, with an undulating footprint and a scalloped top; and "Mire" (2017), a low-lying network of devilishly intricate wooden structures covered by stainless-steel plates that are attached with a great many screws.
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