Next to the microphone stand, an upright piano collected dust.
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Two months later they had a donated upright piano in their living room.
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"I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano," Ms. Bareilles said.
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To Parker's left is Monk on upright piano, microphone slung over the instrument.
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An upright piano on which Lennon once wrote tunes for the Beatles' iconic Sgt.
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Handwritten sheet music covered a writing stand and the rack of an upright piano.
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It matches the upright piano standing against one wall, and the two twill couches.
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When we met we connected immediately and wrote this sitting at an upright piano together.
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Firefighters could be seen on video afterward hauling out an upright piano near the entrance.
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Erickson on an old upright piano, which was tuned once a year for the occasion.
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But the mikes were great and it had his upright piano from his first record.
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The upright piano, while not precisely a thing of beauty, was in her childhood home.
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The new owners saved the old-fashioned sign and an upright piano from the previous location.
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A protester was playing it on an upright piano as couples danced and people sang along.
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Garcetti didn't, but he still composes music on the Knight upright piano in his City Hall office.
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On the otherwise empty stage, Blitzstein accompanied them at an upright piano, forgoing his 23-player orchestration.
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In an alcove by the bar, the D.J. deck faces an upright piano that's available to anyone.
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He closed both sold-out runs at the Kings Theatre with "00000 Million," seated alone at at an upright piano.
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On the sidewalk outside the front of the house sat an upright piano, clearly damaged by 4 feet of flooding.
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He had furnished that apartment with a rented upright piano, which he ended up buying and bringing to Los Angeles.
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The keyboard had been replaced by a glossy upright piano, and Sampha's silhouette, backlit in burnt orange, looked imposing and artful.
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My favorite memory was of Jerry onstage at an upright piano, sitting atop two telephone books, playing the entire score for us.
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Among the flotsam are prescription drugs, family photos, encyclopedias, toys, rugs, TV, cabinets, mattresses, children's clothing, soggy food and even an upright piano.
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"Process", Sampha's latest album, gained attention after he filmed a video for the song "Plastic 100º C" on an acoustic Blüthner upright piano.
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About halfway through his one-man show "Concert," the dancer Colin Dunne sits down at an upright piano and plunks out a tune.
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I went to the upright piano, which he'd had tuned for my visit, and he handed me the score for Brahms's first violin sonata.
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They took an upright piano and laid it on its back so the sound hole, a small hole that exposes the strings, was upright.
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A woman with improbable eyelashes and a Pierrot's face has us gather around an upright piano as she sings a sad tale of a minstrel.
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"I only ever had an upright piano before I started making some money with 'The Stranger,'" he told Vulture's David Marchese in a recent profile.
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The first floor is largely given over to a high-ceilinged exhibition space, sparsely furnished with plants and stylish castoffs, including a working upright piano.
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It has Cash and Carter Family memorabilia on the walls, an 1889 Steinway upright piano and assorted recording rooms presided over by stuffed deer and fish.
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They bring the same furious passion to the group performance of glee-club standards like "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond," accompanied by an upright piano.
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He and Savini left their umbrellas in the Maestro Suite (Steinway upright piano; portraits of Bernstein and Toscanini) and headed to the main stage, Stern Auditorium.
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Nor, in abjuring technical tricks, does he give us anything worth paying attention to between scenes unless you like watching an upright piano get wheeled around.
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Mixing drinks at his bar, Standards, Paul is a genuine charmer, as pleasantly soothing as the covers that Harry sometimes plays on the upright piano there.
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Behind the mannequin is a four-poster bed outfitted with two dusty and sheet-less mattresses, and beside the bed is a chifforobe and an upright piano.
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In the '30s, the major home-entertainment platforms were radio and the upright piano in the parlor, and movies offered a cheap, accessible and climate-controlled escape.
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A console or studio piano — what I had always thought of as an upright piano, for example, could sit against the wall, leaving room for other furniture.
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It's virtually empty, apart from an upright piano and a few wooden chairs, along with a copy of an old master painting that looms above the mantel.
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Nearby are a small laundry room, a powder room with a stone-pedestal sink and a windowed area connected to the dining room, which currently holds an upright piano.
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She plays her favorite composers — Bach, Schubert, Scarlatti, Haydn, Brahms — on a Yamaha upright piano, sometimes on a mute setting with earphones so as not to disturb her neighbors.
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He needed enough space for his upright piano and round dining table, on which he wrote a biography of Bob Hope called "Hope: Entertainer of the Century" (Simon & Schuster, 2014).
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Early on in the show, visitors encounter a room devoted to analog communications devices from past decades: Burroughs's Underwood typewriter, a manual model with the profile of an upright piano.
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I've got this old, very tall upright piano from the 1880's at my house; a few-mallets-functioning-only-because-I've-rigged-them-with-dental-floss kind of beast.
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Its cheer is a match for their house, warmed on the inside by an upright piano, a plump sofa facing the weathered wood fireplace, and family portraits lining the walls.
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His début album, "Big Baby D.R.A.M.," demonstrates the same genre-hopping sensibility: bright upright piano flutters over skittish 808 drums in its brainiest moments, but at its best it's all id.
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Sitting at Robbie's upright piano, I was quick to pick up the scales — that osmosis thing was real — and I threw myself into filling out the sight, reading worksheets she gave me.
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There's an upright piano on the stage of the Atlantic Theater Company, where "Marie and Rosetta," a new play by George Brant, supplemented by some mighty music-making, opened on Wednesday night.
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Inside, a chandelier hangs from the 15-foot ceiling in the living room, and the dining room has a bar, an adjacent half-bath, a large wood table and an upright piano.
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The room in which we find ourselves, with the upright piano at its center, at first suggests a cozy parlor, surfaced in well-trod Oriental rugs and accented by down-home religious iconography.
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Somebody is holding the music, and that's the idea of how I want this tour to be: sitting outside, windy, somebody holding the music, an upright piano, and a lot of people coming around.
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His apartment windows face a brick building next door, and he composes on an upright piano that is out of tune because he cannot afford the $125 tuning cost "at this present time," he said.
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When the upright piano on which Sam, portrayed by actor Dooley Wilson, played "As Time Goes By" in the Paris flashback scenes was put up for auction at Sotheby's in December 2012, it sold for $602,500.
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But then, Henze and Berkoff just let us get on with it, and Mark and I banged it out in his tiny bedroom in a shared flat, where he had an upright piano in a corner.
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But there it is on YouTube: a 2015 video of Frederic Rzewski pounding out his 1975 masterpiece, an hourlong fantasia on "The People United Will Never Be Defeated," on an upright piano at Wholey's, a Pittsburgh institution.
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Finally, high inside the shelving is a gleaming upright piano on which the pianist and producer Antoine Baldwin, also known as Audio BLK, plays his own flowing jazz compositions Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 3 to 5 p.m.
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The musician in me is slightly distracted by (and drawn to) the upright piano in the corner, whilst the only sign of nearby startup life is a rather lonely looking foosball table in the centre of the room.
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This jarring conversation wasn't exactly what I expected when walking past his company's upright piano and cute circular fish tank embedded in one of the many colorful walls, then into Singolda's corner office for an early morning meeting.
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The stage in the video is eerily empty and completely bare save for a couple of plastic chairs off to one side, a boxlike plinth draped in black fabric, and an upright piano at which sits a female figure.
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As James, the youngest of them, tells the story of his family to an intimate audience in the Ford Studio, he tunes an upright piano, its innards exposed for us to see — the taut wires, the soft felt hammers.
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Across the street, a paneless picture window looked into what had been a living room; an upright piano stood at an odd angle in the dark beside an overturned couch and an overturned swivel chair and a folded stroller, all covered in dust.
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The election of Mr. Smith, 53, who played an old upright piano while growing up in Denver and was told that with enough practice he might make it to Carnegie one day, brings to an end a low moment at the hall.
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"A friend of my father's fell on hard times and was living out on the street, and he had this old, vintage upright piano, and my dad offered to keep it at our house," Springs, 27, tells PEOPLE, recalling her performing roots.
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Mr. von Essen learned the importance of waiting for the reviews before pulling out the checkbook when he was cast in the 2002 Broadway musical "Dance of the Vampire" and promptly traded in his upright piano for a cherry wood Schumann baby grand.
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For the eight years I lived there I had an upright piano in my apartment and a couple of microphones and a computer with ProTools, so I've always had a version of studio in pretty much every place I've lived since I was 18.
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"We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a moldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm," Fagen said in a statement on Sunday published by Variety.
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The haul included a chair and a half where she reads and meditates; those two poufs; a wood-and-metal cabinet; a stained-glass guitar lamp made from found materials, a gift to herself when she finished her third album, "Kaleidoscope Heart"; and a Yamaha upright piano.
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In his highly readable if disjointed CHOPIN'S PIANO: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music (Norton, $27.95), Kildea, a conductor and writer, takes on the fate of a humble upright piano on which Chopin composed many of his groundbreaking Preludes during his fateful sojourn on Majorca.
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At the opening tonight, the musician Antoine Baldwin will play an upright piano situated on the second level of "Antoine's Organ," a giant sculpture created in a 3-D steel grid 28 feet wide and more than 10 feet tall, which houses over 250 plants brought from Florida and planted in pots made by Johnson himself.
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They've spent 11 years together building an online following, mostly on the strength of their idiosyncratic, hyper-proficient pop covers—Lady Gaga's "Telephone" featuring eight-part harmonies, a xylophone, and a toy piano (9.5 million YouTube views); Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" arranged for upright piano, jazz bass, and an old Polaroid camera repurposed as a percussion instrument (11 million views).
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He sits at a battered upright piano and presses the keys for the notes that have brought fans to attention since 1970: twenty thousand people listen breathlessly as Mr Young's vulnerable voice—a counterpoint to his biting lyrics—cries through "After the Gold Rush", a surreal story that ends with Earth's most precious seeds being flown away from the planet on a spacecraft for their protection.
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There is an upright piano in the northeastern corner of the church.
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Benedict also moved personal possessions to the Papal Apartments, including an upright piano.
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According to sources, it was recorded at Sound Control Studios on a Yamaha upright piano.
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Strings in an upright piano usually have a tension of 750 to 900 N (75-90 kg weight) each.
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In 1865, a convertible bed in the form of an upright piano was available, which could provide home entertainment while saving space.
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Joe bought a used upright piano, received a cabaret license on August 30, 1956, and opened a week later under the name the Five Spot Café.
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On the modern upright piano, the left pedal is not truly an una corda, because it does not shift the action sideways. The strings run at such an oblique angle to the hammers that if the action moved sideways, the hammer might strike one string of the wrong note.Good 1982:22. A more accurate term for the left pedal on an upright piano is the half-blow pedal.
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Lastly, Mars finishes the song while singing and playing an upright piano while Kelley watches and smiles. The video was inspired by the artwork of Erika Iris Simmons.
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Tubac Schoolhouse in Arizona The Model K or "Vertegrand" is an upright piano introduced in 1903 by Steinway & Sons. It is the oldest essentially unchanged upright piano design currently in mass production. Although production was interrupted from about 1939 until its reappearance in 1982, the structural design has remained essentially the same for well over a century. Notable Vertegrands include a vintage 1905 piano named in honor of British pianist Mrs Mills, which has remained in use at Abbey Road Studios for over 50 years.
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His opponent is a lion who uses an upright piano. The lion is first to play. Despite getting some disturbance from a passing bee, the lion manages to perform without flaws. Krazy is next to perform.
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A recording of the work ("Source Record Number Six") came with that issue of the periodical. The score specifies that the performer uses an upright piano that is beyond repair. In the composer's words, > Piano burning should really be done with an upright piano; the structure is > much more beautiful than that of a grand when you watch it burn. The piano > must always be one that’s irretrievable, that nobody could work on, that no > tuner or rebuilder could possibly bring back. It’s got to be a truly defunct > piano.Lockwood, Annea (July 2009).
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This lifting motion causes the piano wires to be struck and then stopped by damper pads when the key is released similar to an upright piano (although on a minipiano, the highest 13 notes do not have dampers).
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Hawkins portable grand piano of 1800 John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855) was an inventor who practised civil engineering. He was known as the co-inventor of the ever-pointed pencil, an early mechanical pencil, and of the upright piano.
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They have performed many unique customizations such as installing an upright piano for Harry Connick Jr. and a treadmill for Taylor Swift. They have also installed amenities such as full recording studios, an indoor fireplace, tanning beds, and more.
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Muselars were popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and their ubiquity has been compared to that of the upright piano in the early 20th century, but like other types of virginals they fell out of use in the 18th century.
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In 2013, he tours with Ayo. In 2014, he devotes himself to writing his upright piano solo album 88. In 2015 he tours with Zaz. In 2016, he writes and produces 5 tracks for Gaël Faye's EP Rythmes et Botanique.
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Steinway piano on which he composed "Imagine" Lennon composed his biggest solo hit "Imagine" on a Steinway upright piano. In 2000, this piano was bought by George Michael at an auction for £1.45 million. Later, the piano was on charity tour.
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In the mid-1970s, the Aeolian piano company marketed the Melodipro upright piano, a semi-roadworthy version of its Melodigrand 64-note piano fitted with a Helpinstill pickup system. The shortcomings of this instrument inspired Helpinstill to produce its own completely portable instruments.
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Harmonichord built in 1835, false colors. An illustration from 1860 showing Friedrich Kaufmann playing the harmonichord. A harmonichord is a kind of upright piano in which the strings are set in vibration not by the blow of the hammer but by indirectly transmitted friction.
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Hobart M. Cable pianos are built using Alaskan Sitka spruce soundboards and Japanese hammer felt. The company makes upright pianos, console pianos and grand pianos. Upright piano model numbers begin with UH, grand piano model numbers begin with GH and console models begin with CH.
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A minipiano differs from an upright piano in many ways. The primary factor that sets it apart from types of piano still manufactured today is the fact that the soundboard, the piano wires and the piano action mechanism which produces sound by striking the wires, are extended beneath the instrument rather than above it (as in an upright piano) or behind it (as in a grand piano). It is also well known for its 'braceless' removable back. Braces are wooden pieces designed to support the structure of the instrument, but are entirely unnecessary when the back consists of a single removable wooden frame with a central support beam.
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The music video for "The Fighter" was filmed in April 2012. It was released to YouTube on May 24, 2012. The video features American gymnast John Orozco. It depicts Tedder playing at an upright piano, and the band members around him singing and playing their instruments.
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The attic also contained a mellotron, an electronic organ, a piano, a Vox AC30 amplifier and several guitars (including his first Rickenbacker 325, a Hofner Senator, and his Rickenbacker 1996), all of which were used when songwriting. Lennon also wrote on an upright piano in the sunroom.
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Although an acoustic piano has strings, it is usually classified as a percussion instrument rather than as a stringed instrument, because the strings are struck rather than plucked (as with a harpsichord or spinet); in the Hornbostel–Sachs system of instrument classification, pianos are considered chordophones. There are two main types of piano: the grand piano and the upright piano. The grand piano is used for Classical concerto solos, chamber music, and art song, and it is often used in jazz and pop concerts. The upright piano, which is more compact, is the most popular type, as it is a better size for use in private homes for domestic music-making and practice.
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Upright Piano Case. United States Patent 327,714, October 6, 1885 (an example is shown by Michel, "Mathushek Upright No. 19111", p.201) Parmelee died in 1902,"Henry S. Parmelee Dies on His Yacht, the Alert" Brooklyn Daily Eagle. September 28, 1902 but the company continued manufacturing at the same address.
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Morricone started to repeat a short musical theme of just three notes (by his term a micro-cell)Morricone, Ennio. Classical Music Library Biography SibeliusMusic site. Retrieved 27 June 2007 on an upright piano. He had copied the snippet of melody from the siren of a police car in Marseilles.
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Modern pianos have two basic configurations, the grand piano and the upright piano, with various styles of each. There are also specialized and novelty pianos, electric pianos based on electromechanical designs, electronic pianos that synthesize piano- like tones using oscillators, and digital pianos using digital samples of acoustic piano sounds.
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Many other members of Brown's family were allegedly psychic, including her parents and grandparents. She worked for the Post Office from the age of 15. In 1948 she acquired a second-hand upright piano, and took some lessons for three years. In 1952 she married Charles Brown, a government scientist.
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Trayser started a small factory in Covington, Kentucky (Traeyser & Co.), and had Morse & Guernsey as consignment agents in Louisville, Kentucky in 1851. Trayser was granted his first patent for an upright piano in Cincinnati in 1853.U.S. Government Patent Office, patent 9640, 29 March 1853 Trayser traded in and repaired pianos.
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337 just below the two best known firms of Pleyel and Érard.Revue et Gazette Musicale de Paris, June 22, 1862, p. 203Revue et Gazette Musicale de Paris, July 13, 1862, p. 225 He concentrated his attention on various styles of upright piano, which was replacing the square piano as the predominant design.
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May hides this package inside her upright piano. As the story progresses, Monica returns to May's apartment after deducing that these items had to be in May's apartment. At first May claims to know nothing about them. Monica offers to make her some tea and drugs her so she can thoroughly search the apartment.
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In 2017 the album Velvet was released, an album played on his first upright piano. The album Velvet received an Edison Publieksprijs 2017 nomination. An extensive tour for the Velvet project took place in 2017, bringing Michiel to more than 35 venues, including Paradiso Amsterdam. A pianobook of this album was published, also in 2017.
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Johannes Roller, a German piano maker, became a partner in the firm until his retirement in 1851. Their first upright piano was made in 1827, and they led the production of high-quality uprights after designing an improved model in 1830. Nicolas’s son P. A. C. Blanchet succeeded to the family business in 1855.
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Nickrenz was born in Seattle to Herbert C. and Mary Volz and had four older siblings (two brothers and two sisters). A year after her birth, her family moved to Bremerton, Washington, where they had lived previously. Her father worked at the naval shipyard. Nickrenz learned piano on an upright piano given to the family.
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I've always been interested in fooling around writing music".McCrary, interview, p. 197 Barab also suggested that his relationship with a singer, Pat Neway, and the upright piano in his rented Parisian apartment, that led to the start of his composition in France, saying, "I would play and she would sing. I would act like sort of a coach.
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In an upright piano, the sound board is a large vertical plate at the back of the instrument. The harp has a sound board below the strings. More generally, any hard surface can act as a sound board. An example is when someone strikes a tuning fork and holds it against a table top to amplify its sound.
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Apocalypse Now is Pere Ubu's third live album, and their first to document a single performance. The show in question, recorded on December 7, 1991, at Schubas Tavern in Chicago, was performed semi-acoustically, with synth-man Eric Drew Feldman instead handling an upright piano, and Jim Jones playing an amplified (and occasionally heavily distorted) acoustic guitar.
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Upright piano with player mechanism (Hammond Melo-Harp) by the Straube Co., Hammond, Indiana, manufactured 1916, serial no. 26494. AAA-c5 (7+ octaves). Three pedals: half blow, "Melo-Harp" (tabs with staples for a jarring, "honky- tonk" tone), dampers. Purchased by Perry Fulton Pinkerton (1873–1952) for his wife, Isadora Edna (née Rouff; 1876–1923), in 1918.
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The spinet organ, a product of the mid-20th century, served the same function (domestic context, low cost) that was served by spinet harpsichords and spinet pianos. The spinet organ physically resembled a small upright piano, and presented simplified controls and functions that were both less expensive to produce and less intimidating to learn than other organs.
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Internals of a Wertheim upright piano These pianos were hand crafted in the factory on Bendigo Street, Richmond, using predominantly Australian materials. These were the first pianos ever manufactured in the state of Victoria. Around 18,000 were produced, many were exported interstate and overseas. They were used for many purposes, from live performance to performance halls, school theatres and by piano teachers.
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Its construction differs considerably from a standard piano, and had some technical weaknesses. The tuning pins often loosened with time and improper storage, and these parts, as well as the rods leading to the striking pads behind the instrument are difficult to repair or replace. The 'Royal' model resembles and sounds more like an upright piano was brought onto the market in 1958.
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He played the fiddle whilst his wife played the upright piano. The younger Coulter recalls this piano, made by Challen, as "the most important piece of furniture in the house". "I always stayed away from the fiddle, having inflicted enough pain on my family with the piano," he laughed. Coulter confesses that he came close to abandoning the piano at an early age.
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In the same year, Nippon Gakki sold nearly 250 organs to several schools in Japan. With this success, the company looked into the production of pianos, harmonicas, and xylophones. In 1899, Torakusu made a five-month tour to the United States, visiting W.W. Kimball and Company, Mason and Hamlin, and Steinway and Sons. In 1900, Torakusu and Nippon Gakki produced its first upright piano.
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Mason & Hamlin trade card from the 19th century An 1895 Mason & Hamlin Model 512 reed organ. Displayed above the keyboard are the various medals and awards won by the company at international exhibitions. Detail of an 1894 Mason & Hamlin upright piano, showing the "screw stringer" apparatus. Edward P. Mason, of Mason & Hamlin, 1892 Trade card, 19th century Mason & Hamlin is a piano manufacturer based in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
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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.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 25, 1976, Bianco is the youngest child of James Bianco, Jr. and Jane (née Levy) Bianco. The family, which also includes one older sister, moved from Brooklyn to Long Island, New York. According to his biography, in 1979 Bianco's father traded two 35 pound barbells and a bench press for the first upright piano in the Bianco home.Bianco, Jim.
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The first experience of music at his early age was an upright piano at his mother's maiden home. In 1967, he entered Amagasaki Korean Middle School and studied clarinet in school band. He also studied improved Korean folk instruments sent from North Korea. In 1969, School Band of Amagasaki Korean Middle School won a grand prize of 'Competition of Korean Students resident in Japan' under his direction.
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By 1911, the Duvall Citizen began publishing regular editions of news events.Duvall Newspaper Index from the Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History On April 28, 1968, nearly 3,000 fans attended a rock concert at a farm in Duvall where an upright piano was dropped from a helicopter. Performances included Country Joe and the Fish. This concert is well known to locals as the Piano Drop.
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The Round Barn Theatre is the National Home of Plain and Fancy, the 1955 Broadway musical that ran for 461 performances. It won the Olivier Award during its subsequent extended run in London. It has been produced at Amish Acres since 1986 in two venues. It first opened in The Locke Township Meeting House with four actors, an upright piano, six-inch (152 mm) elevated stage, no sets, and 150 seats.
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A music video was produced for the song, directed by Gen Natsume. It is set in a forest at night, and features Ochi singing the song on the steps of a wooden hut. Other musicisna surround her in the forest and perform the song alongside her, including a man performing on an upright piano. Additional scenes featured Ochi riding on a white horse, and Ochi staring up at the full moon.
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Champian Fulton in red at the TSF Jazz Radio studios, sitting at an upright piano Champian Fulton was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1985. Her father, Stephen Fulton, was a jazz trumpeter who was often visited by musician friends such as Clark Terry and Major Holley. At the age of five, she took piano lessons from her grandmother. After trying trumpet and drums, she returned to piano and singing.
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René wrote the song as a tribute to the annual springtime return of the cliff swallows to Mission San Juan Capistrano in Southern California. A glassed-off room in the mission was later designated in René's honor, and displays the upright piano on which he composed the tune, the reception desk from his office, several copies of the song's sheet music and other pieces of furniture, all donated by René's family.
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An upright piano is the most popular and simpler to move than a grand piano. It is moved by lifting the piano and sliding a piano movers' dolly underneath or lifting the piano up onto the dolly. The dolly has a sturdy frame for moving and large rubber wheels for ease of moving and not scratching the floor. The piano is transported to its new location and removed from the dolly.
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The symphony is composed for an orchestra containing 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 2 harps, celesta, pianino (upright piano), strings, and solo piano. Structurally, there are two parts, each comprising three sections. Each movement is named after the six sections of Auden's poem, trying to mirror the moods and events in the poem.
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Three days later, the vocals were recorded. They are doubletracked, just as they are on most Beach Boys songs. The instrumental track features Carl Wilson on both lead and rhythm electric guitars, Alan Jardine on electric bass guitar, Brian Wilson on acoustic upright piano and Dennis Wilson on drums. The song features Brian Wilson on lead vocal and Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine on backing vocals.
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The Yamaha Disklavier player piano. The unit mounted under the keyboard of the piano can play MIDI or audio software on its CD or floppy disk drive. In the 2000s, some pianos include an acoustic grand piano or upright piano combined with MIDI electronic features. Such a piano can be played acoustically, or the keyboard can be used as a MIDI controller, which can trigger a synthesizer module or music sampler.
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The clavicytherium as portrayed in Praetorius's Syntagma Musicum A clavicytherium is a harpsichord in which the soundboard and strings are mounted vertically facing the player. The primary purpose of making a harpsichord vertical is the same as in the later upright piano, namely to save floor space. In a clavicytherium, the jacks move horizontally without the assistance of gravity, so that clavicytherium actions are more complex than those of other harpsichords.
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Fei-Ping Hsu (Chinese: 许斐平; December 20, 1949November 27, 2001) was a Chinese- American pianist. Hsu was born on the island of Gulangyu in southeast China. As the youngest son of a Christian pastor, he grew up singing hymns while his mother played on an upright piano. By the time he was twelve, he played the complete Chopin Etudes and had performed with the Shanghai Philharmonic.
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Aside from the living room, the second floor consists of two bedrooms, kitchen, and dining area, or comedor. A passageway, leading towards the bedrooms, or the zaguan, contains some of the memorabilia from Gen. Baldomero Aguinaldo, books of the municipal library, a history exhibit, and an arrangement of early to mid-20th century household items such as an upright piano. The bedrooms have iron bedsteads from the 1930s.
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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.
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The floors were laid with cream-colored linoleum ("lino") tiles interspersed with black medallions. Armchairs and sofas upholstered in blue were provided just off the staircases and potted palms in raised holders dotted each level. On the Boat Deck level was an upright piano allowing the ship's orchestra to hold impromptu concerts in the stairwell. The Grand Staircase of the Olympic with the famous clock, thought to be identical to the one on Titanic.
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Featuring the same lineup as the post-2014 Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Leigh Delamere & the Gordanos have gigged around the UK since 2016 as "an upright-piano mangling barrelhouse banjo homage to the greats of rhythm’n’blues, garage rock, boogie woogie and ragtime in an old-timey skiffle party style". They appeared at the Great Estate, Boardmasters and Masked Ball festivals in Cornwall, and ran a 1930's speakeasy stage "The Blind Pig" at these.
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Atwell had made the recording in 1952, on a specially de-tuned grand piano, not the upright piano she acquired later and made famous. The first series of Pot Black in 1969 was hosted by Keith Macklin. It was then hosted by Alan Weeks until 1984, and David Icke took over in 1985 and 1986. Eamonn Holmes hosted the event in 1991 and 1992, but was replaced by David Vine in 1993.
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In 2003, Nikolaus W. Schimmel gave the management to the next generation. Regarding the transforming market the company expanded their product line and developed the new product series “Schimmel Konzert” for the premium section. Over the next 10 years, 6 new grand piano and 3 upright piano models were developed. The newly developed and patented method of construction based on the construction of a grand concert piano, which is used for all instruments.
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The play (subtitled "A Mysterious Overture") is an extended one-act, lasting about an hour, with a single set. The action takes place at the house of Niles, a jazz musician, although it is indicated very sparsely. There is an upstage wall and two pieces of furniture: an armchair and a floor lamp with an elaborate lamp shade depicting a tropical scene. An upright piano painted white, matching the upstage wall, is against the wall.
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Some piano companies have included extra pedals other than the standard two or three. On the Stuart and Sons pianos as well as the largest Fazioli piano, there is a fourth pedal to the left of the principal three. This fourth pedal works in the same way as the soft pedal of an upright piano, moving the hammers closer to the strings. The Crown and Schubert Piano Company also produced a four-pedal piano.
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By the 1930s, a gramophone etched it laterally across a disc.Robert Philip, "Pianists on record in the early twentieth century", in David Rowland, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Piano (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp 75–77. Constrained in tonal range, whether bass or treble, and in dynamic range, records made a grand, concert piano sound like a small, upright piano, and maximal duration was four and a half minutes.
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Cziffra (2006), "Prelude" His earliest training in piano came from watching his elder sister Yolande practice. She had decided she was going to learn the piano after finding a job which allowed her to save the required amount of money for buying an upright piano. Cziffra, who was weak as a child, often watched his sister practice, and mimicked her. He learned without sheet music, instead repeating and improvising over tunes sung by his parents.
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However, on Turns to Gold, he performed all but one song on an upright piano. This choice conveyed a different energy. He and the musicians, including Jano Rix on drums (The Gabe Dixon Band, The Wood Brothers), Viktor Krauss on bass (Lyle Lovett), and Kris Donegan on guitar (Cam), cut everything to analog tape with no click track. The album also features vocal performances by Jason Eskridge, Garrison Starr and Boots Ottestad.
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Removalists moving an upright piano with the trolly, and heavy straps The trolly can be used to carry piano's over steps. Here they are moving a baby grand piano over steps. A piano trolley is a two- or four-wheeled trolley approximately long used by removals companies for moving pianos. It is placed under the centre of mass of the piano and allows it to be turned on its axis to manoeuvre round a building.
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Parallel to these he pursued traditional classical projects, often introducing non-classical elements. In 2013, he released Bach's Art of the Fugue recorded on an old tape dictaphone. In 2015, he released “Beethoven: The Last Sonatas” performed with ear stoppers and noise-blocking headphones, in order to experience the perspective of the deaf composer. 2017 saw the release of Chopin: Nocturnes played on his faithful companion - a small 6-octave upright piano which he rarely tunes.
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Mathis was born in Gilmer, Texas, on September 30, 1935, the fourth of seven children of Clem Mathis and Mildred Boyd. The family moved to San Francisco, California, settling on 32nd Avenue in the Richmond District, where Mathis grew up. His father had worked in vaudeville, and when he saw his son's talent, he bought an old upright piano for $25 (US$ in dollars) and encouraged him. Mathis began learning songs and routines from his father.
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Blitzstein played a battered upright piano while the cast, barred from taking the stage by their union, sat in the audience and rose from their seats to sing and deliver their dialogue. Welles and Houseman broke with the Federal Theatre Project in August 1937 and founded their own repertory company, which they called the Mercury Theatre. The name was inspired by the title of the iconoclastic magazine, The American Mercury.Brady, Frank, Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles.
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He worked extensively with large sheets of treadplate steel and dynamite to create both free standing and wall mounted sculpture. He even experimented at times with blasting rock. Shooting became a more integral part of his medium. In 1972, after pounding the keys of an upright piano until they no longer made any sound Bradshaw and choreographer Steve Paxton dragged the piano into a field at which time he shot it once and declared it dead.
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Sound board of a harpsichord with Chladni patterns A portion of the sound board of a Vose & Sons upright piano 15\. Soundboard A sound board, or soundboard, is the surface of a string instrument that the strings vibrate against, usually via some sort of bridge. Pianos, guitars, banjos, and many other stringed instruments incorporate soundboards. The resonant properties of the sound board and the interior of the instrument greatly increase the loudness of the vibrating strings.
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Cohn remembered: > When I arrived, Muriel, who ... was in her 60s, was onstage playing a beat- > up old upright piano and singing gospel standards ... I felt an immediate > connection to her voice, her spirit, her face, and her smile. I was totally > transfixed by her music. While many of the patrons were busy eating and not > paying close attention to Muriel, I couldn't take my eyes off her. During > her breaks, the two of us would talk.
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The Siena piano is an upright piano with dual pedals whose wood carvings are characteristic of early 19th century Italy. The finishing touches and decorations on the piano were put on by Sebastian Marchisio's great-grandson, one of Italy's most famous craftsmen at the time, Nicomedo Ferri and a cousin. They engraved laughing, dancing, playing cherubs and other designs such as harps, pipes, faces and lions. Portraits of Händel, Mozart, Aretino, Cherubini and Gluck were also made.
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Porter's father was also a talented singer and pianist, but the father-son relationship was not close.McBrien (1998), p. 10. Porter as a Yale College student J. O. Cole wanted his grandson to become a lawyer,Bell, J. X. "Cole Porter Biography" , The Cole Porter Resource Site, accessed March 7, 2011 and with that in mind, sent him to Worcester Academy in Massachusetts in 1905. Porter brought an upright piano with him to schoolMcBrien (1998), p.
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The pianos in Zumpe's style were built from about 1760 to 1800. In Zumpe's day they played a role not unlike the upright piano of today: they were more compact and affordable than the full-size wing-shaped instrument. As such, they played an important role in the spread of the piano among musicians, particularly amateurs. By the time the last Zumpe pianos were made, the piano had essentially displaced the harpsichord from its formerly predominant position.
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Located stage left is the double- load in doors that the stage alley connected and leads to and from Vine Street. All stage scenery was moved in and out of the stage load-in entrance. Opposite this stage load-in door was the "star dressing room" which was completely rebuilt for Jerry Lewis. The first floor dressing room had a small front bar with a mirrored back bar, an upright piano, and a sofa lounge area.
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The studio occupies a large room that was originally one of the bedrooms. Sillona himself was the one who conceptualized the look, which pictures a modern bachelor pad with dark carpeting and sofas, and a bar for small parties. Recording equipment he acquired in the U.S. include a personal computer, a black upright piano and a recording booth.Dennis Ladaw, Homeworkz Records, House Music , Manila Bulletin, January 26, 2010 In 2008, he renamed it as Homeworkz Entertainment Services.
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Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Tony spent his formative years in the seaside town of Blackpool where his parents had an upright piano. When he was a child, his mother sent him to piano lessons. At the age of 13 in 1959, whilst Ashton was a student at St. George's School, Blackpool, he joined a local group, The College Boys, on rhythm guitar and piano. When Ashton left school at the age of 15 he was already an accomplished pianist.
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Sticker Happy is the Eraserheads' fifth album, released by BMG Records (Pilipinas), Inc. in 1997. At the time, the album cover courted a healthy amount of controversy as to the identity of the nude woman playing an upright piano in the middle of a field (later revealed to be then-Channel [V] VJ Joey Mead). Musically, the album is heavier as the band brought to the fore various guitar effects purchased during their New York visit.
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Betty points out that she has not received any letters from Bing either and they then realise that her mother has been withholding their letters. Betty's mother chases Bing with an axe and he takes refuge in an enclosure containing the studio lion. Breaking down the door, Bing flees from the lion up a flight of stairs and hides in an old upright piano. The lion pursues him and also leaps into the piano which topples downstairs.
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The portrait was destroyed in the Second World War, and only photographs of it remain. Cristofori continued to make pianos until near the end of his life, continually making improvements in his invention. In his senior years, he was assisted by Giovanni Ferrini, who went on to have his own distinguished career, continuing his master's tradition. There is tentative evidence that there was another assistant, P. Domenico Dal Mela, who went on in 1739 to build the first upright piano.
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The Quartet was first performed in January 1941 to an audience of prisoners and prison guards, with the composer playing a poorly maintained upright piano in freezing conditions.Rischin (2003), p. 5 Thus the enforced introspection and reflection of camp life bore fruit in one of 20th-century classical music's acknowledged masterpieces. The title's "end of time" alludes to the Apocalypse, and also to the way that Messiaen, through rhythm and harmony, used time in a manner completely different from his predecessors and contemporaries.
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In 2011 he performed with Marit Larsen a new version of Erik Bye's Vår beste dag. This has become NRK's tune in their profile campaign. In 2017, he took part, playing multiple instruments such as upright piano, harpsichord, harmonium, dulcitone, mandolinette, autoharp and kokles on a-ha's MTV Unplugged recording of the Live Album, "Summer Solstice" in Giske, Norway and the Subsequent Unplugged tour in Jan and Feb 2018. He played keyboards for their Electric Summer tour in June through August 2018.
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Broberg was born and raised in Minneapolis. Interested by the upright piano in his family home that was a wedding gift to his parents from his maternal grandparents, he began playing piano at the age of 6. At 9, he began studying piano with Dr. Joseph Zins at Crocus Hill Studios in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He went on to study with Nancy Weems at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 2016.
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Like other photoplayers, the Bartola was designed around an upright piano, and consisted of several ranks of organ pipes and various percussion instruments and sound effects housed in a case, all installed in the theatre's orchestra pit. There were four models. The larger ones had several cases-one for organ pipe ranks and the other for percussions and sound effects. The traps and other percussions were powered directly by electric solenoids and not pneumatically as was the case with most other photoplayers.
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Irreler Bauerntradition shows an early threshing machine (Stiftendrescher) at the Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum Irreler Bauerntradition shows a winnowing machine at the Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum Early threshing machines were hand-fed and horse-powered. They were small by today's standards and were about the size of an upright piano. Later machines were steam-powered, driven by a portable engine or traction engine. Isaiah Jennings, a skilled inventor, created a small thresher that doesn't harm the straw in the process.
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Lars Fredrik Frøislie (born 28 July 1981 in Hønefoss, Norway) is a Norwegian musician. His main instruments are keyboards and drums. He is also a music producer and runs Termo Records together with Jacob Holm-Lupo. Frøislie mainly uses vintage analog instruments like Mellotron M400, Chamberlin M-1, MiniMoog Model D, Hammond C3, Rhodes MkII, Hohner Clavinet D6, Arp synthesizers, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Roland VP-330, Solina String Ensemble, Korg VC-10, Spinet, Upright Piano, Marxophone, Tremoloa and so on.
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I know because in the D&B; days I lived in John Garfield's old house in the Hollywood Hills and there was a guest house with an upright piano in it. Rita and Jim were up there in the guest house and invited me to join in on writing this song with them called 'Time'. ... Her sister Priscilla wound up recording it with Booker T. Jones. ... Jim took the melody from Rita's song and didn't give her credit for writing it.
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On recording the clean guitars, Clarke notes, "recording always becomes fun around this time because the stressful bulk is completed and we're able to really experiment with different sounds and space, even using an EBow for the first time." The next two days focused on clean sections and interludes. For these parts, a Kawai upright piano was employed as well as a 1960s Hammond M3 organ. The sixth and last day of recording involves small additions to the record and Clarke's vocals.
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Although unsuccessful in the London finals which followed, Ferrier won a Cramer upright piano as a prize.Leonard, pp. 12–14 On 10 March 1929 she made a well-received appearance as an accompanist in a concert at Blackburn's King George's Hall.Cardus, pp. 15–16 After further piano competition successes she was invited to perform a short radio recital at the Manchester studios of the BBC, and on 3 July 1930 made her first broadcast, playing works by Brahms and Percy Grainger.
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Eden comes from a musical family, as her father played harmonica and her mother would play church hymns on an antique upright piano in their house. As a young child, Eden first wrote songs by taking her poems and putting them to melodies on the family piano. When Malakouti was in the 5th grade she was cast as Wendy Darling in her elementary school's production of Peter Pan. Eden had a love for performing and writing music from an early age.
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In other words, the fundamental frequency alone is responsible for the pitch of the note, while the overtones define the timbre of the sound. The overtones of a piano playing middle C will be quite different from the overtones of a violin playing the same note; that's what allows us to differentiate the sounds of the two instruments. There are even subtle differences in timbre between different versions of the same instrument (for example, an upright piano vs. a grand piano).
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The celesta or celeste , also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. It looks similar to an upright piano (four- or five- octave), albeit with smaller keys and a much smaller cabinet, or a large wooden music box (three-octave). The keys connect to hammers that strike a graduated set of metal (usually steel) plates or bars suspended over wooden resonators. Four- or five-octave models usually have a damper pedal that sustains or damps the sound.
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Growing up in Ottawa, Bradley began studying classical piano at four. At age 10, he obtained a pre-1900 Nordheimer upright piano. Bradley eventually used a sampler to record each key of this oddly detuned piano at many different volumes, recreating a digital version of it to be used as an organic centerpiece in his recordings and later on in his live shows. Also studying jazz saxophone from 14, saxophonists Stuart Matthewman of Sade, Branford Marsalis and John Coltrane were early influences.
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Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire on 10 March 1924 under the name of Walter "Wally" Stott. Morley's father was a watchmaker who played the ukulele-banjo, and the family lived above their jewellery shop. Morley's mother also sang. Morley was a fan of dance music before being able to read the labels on the records, listening notably to Jack Payne and Henry Hall as a child, and began learning the piano at the age of eight on a Challen upright piano.
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He then took his musical involvement to the classical genre, studying solfège and piano at Conservatori Municipal de Mollerussa. At the age of thirteen, Marc's parents bought him an acoustic upright piano. He practiced the piano for seven years but instead of setting out on the path of classical music the young Marc followed his initial interest in electronic music. His knowledge and training in the classical arts would create a foundation for his success as an artist in this realm of music.
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In 1953 Callaway took up the newly created position of Reader in Music in the University of Western Australia's faculty of education. > On his arrival at UWA his facilities had consisted of a desk, an upright > piano, the Carnegie History of Music records and a small pile of music – the > library. That small pile developed into what is widely regarded as > Australia's finest music library – the Wigmore. In 1959 Callaway became the University's Foundation Professor of Music when it moved into the Faculty of Arts.
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The massive dining table – with a base featuring carved herons pinching frogs in their bills – is now in the collection of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The cameo-carved master bedroom suite is now at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, New York. The Neo-Grec case for the Roosevelts' upright piano (with cameo-carved panels) and their library table (with oversized Corinthian capitals) are unlocated. The late antiques expert/dealer Robert EdwardsRobert Edwards Collection, from Winterthur Library.
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In 2017, a collection of 633 gold sovereigns and 280 half sovereigns was discovered to have been hoarded inside an upright piano which had been donated to a community college in Shropshire, England. The coins, which date from 1847 to 1915, were found by a technician who had been asked to tune the piano, 'stitched into seven cloth packets and a leather drawstring purse' under the piano's keyboard. Despite inquiries being made as to who could have stored the coins, no owner or claimants were found.
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The second floor featured the C&G; Club with a revolving stage, upright piano clad in mirrors, and glass-topped bar. In addition to a program of out-of-town entertainers, Greenlee promised two special programs: "Chill Night" featuring Greenlee himself in the kitchen, and "Jewish Night", when his wife, Helen, did the same. The second-floor club opened in March 1935 with entertainment produced by Billy Maxey, featuring New York and Ohio performers. Local press declared it the Hill's "most popular 'hot spot'".
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It has four movements: # Fließend, mit heiterem Schwunge (Flowing, with cheerful motion) # Scherzo: Molto agitato, rasch und feurig (Quickly and fiery) # Molto andante (Träumerisch) (Dreamy) # Finale: Patetico - Allegro Giocoso The work is scored for 2 flutes, piccolo (also third flute), 2 oboes (the second also cor anglais), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet in B, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, glockenspiel, triangle, snare drum, cymbals, bells in F and B, 2 harps, celesta, upright piano and strings.
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In The Key Of Night is a solo piano/voice album by Australian pianist Peter Head. It was released in 2004 and was recorded to capture the classic feel of Head's late night piano bar shows, at the request of Big Beat Music. It features Head's interpretation of songs by Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Randy Newman and Gram Parsons, alongside his original tunes. It was recorded in the Big Beat Studio in Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, on a Yamaha Grand and a Laffargue upright piano.
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This instrument contrasted starkly with the piano on which Rubbra practised, which was a new demonstration upright piano, lent to his family by his uncle by marriage. This uncle owned a piano and music shop, and prospective buyers would come to Rubbra's house, where he would demonstrate the quality of the piano by playing Mozart's Sonata in C to them. If the sale went through, the Rubbra family was given commission, and a new demonstration piano took the place of the sold one.Grover, Aldershot, 1993, p.
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McCartney, Harrison, Starr and Lennon pouring paint over the piano–harp construction. Journalist and broadcaster Joe Cushley describes the clip as "the mad music professors' outdoor seminar". Instead of a performance of the song, the clip relies on abstract imagery and features reverse film effects, stop motion animation, jump-cuts from day- to night-time, superimposition and close-up shots. The Beatles are shown playing and later pouring paint over the upright piano; at one point, McCartney appears to leap from the ground onto a branch of the tree.
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The show's theme song, titled "The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)", was credited as being written by Ritchie Adams and Mark Barkan, but that was merely contractual. In fact it was written by N. B. Winkless Jr. on the upright piano in his living room—a piano that also spawned the "Snap, Crackle, Pop" jingle, among others. Adams and Barkan were music directors for the show. The song was released as a single, attributed to the Banana Splits, and peaked at number 96 on Billboard's Top 100 in February 1969.
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A rejected third line, "like a dog without a bone" gives way to "now you're unknown". Earlier, Dylan had considered working the name Al Capone into the rhyme scheme, and he attempted to construct a rhyme scheme for "how does it feel?", penciling in "it feels real", "does it feel real", "shut up and deal", "get down and kneel" and "raw deal". The song was written on an upright piano in the key of A flat and was changed to C on the guitar in the recording studio.
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This study was first performed in Aptos, California, on 27 August 1977 and has been arranged for two pianos and for piano four-hands. The last study from 1965 is Study No. 30, which was rejected by the composer for him having problems with the preparations, because the preparations did not stay with the strings of an upright piano. After this study, Nancarrow decided to go back to the unprepared piano. Nancarrow recorded the piece, but never published the score and discarded it, for he was not pleased with the result.
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A metal soundboard extends beneath the keyboard and is hidden behind the set of 73 metal rods which enact the piano action mechanism that produces sound on the instrument. Sound is produced by the striking and stopping of a set of piano wires which are strung to the soundboard. In a minipiano, two types of piano wire are used; bass strings which are all monochords and treble strings which are bichords. Like on an upright piano, an economical use is made of the space within the instrument by crossing different groups of strings.
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All of his brothers had a love for music and the talent to go with it. He started making music at the age of eight and has never stopped. After learning to play on an upright piano that one of his brothers purchased, he knew that music was what he wanted to do. His first professional job was in Martinsville when one night Fats Domino was too sick to perform for an annual event, the June German Ball and Robert was asked to play piano, along with his brother Mouncie.
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Lauderdale was born in Oakland, California, and adopted by Kerby Roy and Linda Sue (Mikesell) Lauderdale. In 1972, the family moved to Indiana, where his father was pastor at Eel River Church of the Brethren. After church services, Lauderdale would go to the piano, and try to replicate the hymns he heard. His parents bought an upright piano at an auction and he began his formal musical studies at age six with Patricia Garrison of North Manchester, Indiana and later, Joyanne Jones at Indiana University/Purdue University in Fort Wayne.
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The term "honky-tonk piano" means an old upright piano in which the strings are slightly out of tune, which creates a wavering effect that, while it might be jarring in a pop ballad, is appealing on a down-home, earthy country blues song. hook : A motif that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener". horn : In a jazz, blues, or R&B; context, the term "horn" refers generically to any brass instrument (e.g. saxophone, trumpet, etc.).
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"A Trick of the Tail" was the first Genesis song to be accompanied by a promotional video, and the first single featuring Phil Collins as the band's lead vocalist. Previously their drummer, contributing very occasional vocals, Collins was now the band's lead singer, while continuing to play drums and percussion. The video, directed by Bruce Gowers, features the band gathered around an upright piano, with the front panels removed, performing the song. Special effects make Collins, in miniature size, appear to walk and dance inside the piano, as well as on Steve Hackett's guitar.
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K 280, K 256, K 230, K 219, K 195, K175 (grand pianos) and K 132,K 125, K 122 (upright pianos) The series "Schimmel Konzert" includes 6 grand pianos of 175 cm to 280 cm length and three upright piano models, each available in different designs and colours. The series was developed to cater for the needs of professional pianists. The instruments can be found worldwide on concert and theatre stages and has received awards for the sound and construction. The Schimmel "Art Collection" is also part of this series.
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First page from the handwritten score of The Rite of Spring Stravinsky's sketchbooks show that after returning to his home at Ustilug in Ukraine in September 1911, he worked on two movements, the "Augurs of Spring" and the "Spring Rounds".Van den Toorn, p. 24 In October he left Ustilug for Clarens in Switzerland, where in a tiny and sparsely-furnished room—an closet, with only a muted upright piano, a table and two chairsStravinsky and Craft 1981, p. 143—he worked throughout the 1911–12 winter on the score.
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A Grotrian-Steinweg upright piano with its signature radial rear brace adding strength In 1954, Grotrian- Steinweg initiated a piano-playing competition known as Grotrian-Steinweg Klavierspielwettbewerb, featuring young pianists from music schools. The competition took place in the Braunschweig location of the Hertie department store, with audience applause used as the gauge to determine the winner. In 1968, Grotrian-Steinweg entered into talks with the German National Music Council and the Hannover University of Music to increase the scale of the competition. It increased in odd years to encompass a national and international scope.
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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).
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Prominent East Coast piano makers snubbed the Chicago exposition because they feared Chicago favoritism, and because of philosophical differences between their reliance on traditional name brand faithfulness and Kimball's streamlined modern efficiency which greatly threatened their sales. In 1890, Kimball hired Englishman Frederic W. Hedgeland, trained at his family's organworks in London: W.M. Hedgeland. Hedgeland supervised a portable pipe organ design about the size of a large upright piano. The pipe organ division of Kimball also built large, permanent pipe organs, including one for the Mormon Tabernacle in 1901.
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Euphonicon (1843) by F. Beale & Co. A euphonicon is a variety of upright piano. The distinguishing feature of the euphonicon is that the iron harp frame projects from the body on the left, such that the bass strings are open to view. It also has unusual stringing and tuning arrangements, and an early example of drop-action. Rather than a single soundboard, it has three soundbases which imitate the appearance of the cello (behind the bass strings), viola (behind the tenor strings) and violin (behind the treble strings).
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Tuning an upright piano Piano tuning is the act of adjusting the tension of the strings of an acoustic piano so that the musical intervals between strings are in tune. The meaning of the term 'in tune', in the context of piano tuning, is not simply a particular fixed set of pitches. Fine piano tuning requires an assessment of the vibration interaction among notes, which is different for every piano, thus in practice requiring slightly different pitches from any theoretical standard. Pianos are usually tuned to a modified version of the system called equal temperament.
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Around 1815, Pleyel was the first to introduce the short, vertically strung cottage upright piano, or "pianino" to France, adapting the design made popular in Britain by Robert Wornum.Margaret Cranmer, "Pleyel (ii)", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). Their pianos were such a success that in 1834 the company employed 250 workers and produced 1000 pianos annually. The company's success led them to invest in experiments, resulting in the double piano in 1890, invented by Hungarian composer Emánuel Moór.
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The musical began with of a cast of four and an upright piano in the Locke Township Meeting House, a replica building designed as a movie theatre, but has evolved into a classic production with a cast of nine on the proscenium stage of The Round Barn Theatre. The building was dismantled, reconstructed and converted to a state-of-the-art theatre seating 400 in 1992. In 1995 repertory theatre was added to Plain and Fancy in rotating performances in the same stage. The company is created from annual auditions held in New York City.
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Autolux produced Transit Transit themselves with guitarist/vocalist Greg Edwards serving as engineer. Most of the record was recorded at Space 23, the band's makeshift studio in their rehearsal room near downtown Los Angeles. A few drum tracks - "Highchair", "Spots" and "The Science of Imaginary Solutions" - came from an earlier session with engineer John Goodmanson. The title track (the last song to be recorded) was recorded in Denmark by Edwards, using a virtually unplayable upright piano and a sample of a coffin-style freezer found in a nearby basement, and then finished back in Los Angeles.
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Under the upright piano where the modern pedals would be located is a semi-circular hollow space where the feet of the player could rest. The una corda and damper pedals are at the left and right of this space, and face straight in, like the table piano pedals. Eventually during the 19th century, pedals were attached to a frame located centrally underneath the piano, to strengthen and stabilize the mechanism. According to Parakilas, this framework on the grand piano "often took the symbolic shape and name of a lyre", and it still carries the name "pedal lyre" today.
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"Grenade" was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and seven Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), as well as six times by Music Canada (MC). Worldwide, it was the second best selling digital single of 2011 with 10.2 million copies. The music video, directed by Nabil Elderkin, was released on November 19, 2010. In the video, Mars is seen dragging an upright piano through Los Angeles, by the time he arrives at the home of his beloved, he discovers she is with another man, so he decides to leave and ends up by killing himself.
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Hermann began playing piano in the local band Beanland with George McConnell on guitar appearing on JoJo's Defector, Smiling Assassin, and with Widespread Panic (1992–present). After a friend of the band heard JoJo playing on an old upright piano at the Hoka Club also in Oxford. After extensive touring of the Southeast with Beanland, he then went on to join Athens, Georgia based Widespread Panic in 1992 with whom he still plays keyboard and organ. JoJo is known for his lead vocals on many New Orleans style jazz and blues covers and originals along with gospel-style organ playing.
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A friend had given her an old, upright piano, a pivotal gift for Keys as it allowed her to play and take lessons as a child. Keys began receiving classical piano training by age seven, practicing six hours a day, learning the Suzuki method and playing composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, and Satie. She was particularly drawn to "blue, dark, shadowy" and melancholic compositions, as well as the passionate romanticism of "blue composers" like Chopin. Inspired by the film Philadelphia, Keys wrote her first song about her departed grandfather on her piano by age 12.
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The six regular players of The Fires of London were augmented to 12 as follows: flute doubling piccolo and alto flute, clarinet in A doubling bass clarinet in B; horn in F, trumpet in C, and trombone; solo strings (violin, viola, cello, double bass); piano doubling celesta and out of tune upright piano, guitar doubling banjo. The percussion comprised marimba, glockenspiel, timpani, crotales, rototom, bass drum, bones, small suspended cymbal, side drum, tambourine, maracas, tom-toms and tamtam, all played by one percussionist, and in addition flexatone and referee's whistle (pianist), bass drum (guitarist), tamtam (violinist), and two more flexatones (violist).
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As a child, he was also introduced to music and learnt to play the piano to a high standard, writing a number of his own compositions by the age of sixteen. :As an undergrad at ANU in the 1970s I well remember attending his Asian Civilizations lectures in the HC Coombs lecture theatre. One morning in 1974 we noticed that an upright piano had been left from a performance the previous evening. Upon arrival for his lecture, Prof Basham calmly strolled over to the piano, sat down and played the most beautiful Chopin for five minutes or so.
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Teaching continued under the first principal of the school, Thomas Henry Weist Hill, who eventually had some ninety teaching staff. Guildhall's Silk Street building from inside the Barbican Estate The new site, designed by the architect Sir Horace Jones, comprised a common room for professors and 45 studios, each surrounded by a one-foot thick layer of concrete to "deaden the sound". Each room contained both a grand piano and an upright piano. Additionally, there was an organ room and a "practice" room, in reality a small concert hall which was used for orchestral and choir rehearsals.
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Co. advertised "established 1866" but later pianos have "estab. 1863" in the label as well as cast into the iron frames. # No pianos won first premium and second premiums were also awarded to Manner & Co., for the Union piano, and Ouvrier & Sons, for an upright piano. "American Institute Fair" New York Times October 27, 1867 # Victor Hugo Mathushek is referred to as both Mathushek's son and grandson. He was son of Haermine Mathushek, born in Germany about 1835, and who was listed partners in Barlow & Mathushek, a piano store at 694 Broadway, New York, with former portrait seller Warren Sumner Barlow in 1869.
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The stage of the Kaiserkeller was made of planks of wood balanced on the top of beer crates, so the two groups made a bet to see to who would be the first to break it. After punishing the stage for days, a slight crack appeared, and when Storm jumped off the top of the upright piano it finally broke. Johnny 'Guitar' Byrne remembered that as Storm hit the stage, it cracked loudly and formed a V-shape around him. He disappeared into it, and all the amplifiers and drummer Ringo Starr's cymbals slid into the hole.
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Bono composed "Baby Don't Go" on an $85 upright piano that he had purchased and kept in the couple's garage or living room. Working in the middle of the night and lacking paper, Bono wrote the lyrics down on a piece of shirt cardboard, a practice he would continue with. The musical arrangement features a rhythmic, rolling piano-and-clavietta foundation with a hyper-staccato electric guitar joining late in the verses. Lyrically, Cher sings as a poor 18-year-old girl from a broken family, unliked and frustrated in the small town she's lived in all her life.
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Mseleku's father was a musician and teacher, and a Cambridge University music graduate, who had religious beliefs that prevented his children from ready access to the family's upright piano in case any of them should pursue something as "devilish" as music.Jon Lusk, "Bheki Mseleku: South African jazz pianist", The Independent, 16 September 2008. His mother gave him the keys while his father was away, but the piano ended up as firewood one winter's evening. During his childhood, Mseleku suffered the loss of the upper joints of two fingers in his right hand from a go-karting accident.
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Though only Gordon has been officially credited with this part, the band's keyboardist Bobby Whitlock claimed: > Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend, Rita Coolidge. I know > because in the Delaney & Bonnie days, I lived in John Garfield's old house > in the Hollywood Hills and there was a guest house with an upright piano in > it. Rita and Jim were up there in the guest house and invited me to join in > on writing this song with them called "Time". Her sister Priscilla wound up > recording it with her husband, Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. & the M.G.'s).
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By 2000, Steinway had made its 550,000th piano. John Lennon's Steinway upright piano sold at auction to George Michael in 2000 for £1.67 million In 2003, Steinway celebrated its 150th anniversary at Carnegie Hall with a three-day concert series with performances by Peter Cincotti, Art Garfunkel, Herbie Hancock, Ben Heppner, Ahmad Jamal, Ramsey Lewis, Randy Newman, Roger Williams, Nancy Wilson, and Eroica Trio, among others. The first concert featured classical music, the second jazz, and the third pop. As part of the 150th anniversary, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld created a commemorative Steinway limited edition grand piano.
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High Noon is the title of "Best of" and rarities collection by Mark Heard, released in 1993, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records. The album consists of primarily tracks from Heard's final three albums, 1990's Dry Bones Dance, 1991's Second Hand and 1993's Satellite Sky. The new tracks that are added are "My Redeemer Lives," from the 1992 Derri Daugherty/Steve Hindalong produced Various Artists album, At The Foot Of The Cross, three previously unheard songs, "She's Not Afraid", "No," and "Shaky Situation," and a rough demo of "What Kind Of A Friend," recorded on a poorly tuned upright piano.
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The next half of Super One starts with "Better Days", a song with the message of warm comfort and empathy from SuperM in the current difficult situationexpressed through flexible rap flows and warm vocals, led by a vintage upright piano and contrabass. Vocal group Heritage participated as choir. The ninth track "Together At Home" is described as an R&B; disco song driven by a funky bass line, with lyrics that create a good time uniting one another in a new way, not a physical space. The next track, "Drip", is a trendy trap hip-hop genre with a sexy and provocative atmosphere.
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Following World War II, most electronic home organs were built in a configuration usually called a spinet organ, which first appeared in 1949. These compact and relatively inexpensive instruments became the natural successors to reed organs. They were marketed as competitors of home pianos and often aimed at would-be home organists who were already pianists (hence the name "spinet", in the sense of a small upright piano). The instrument's design reflected this concept: the spinet organ physically resembled a piano, and it presented simplified controls and functions that were both less expensive to produce and less intimidating to learn.
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Impressed by an audio tape sent him by Longden, Mackintosh offered him £25,000 to stage what was then called Moby Dick: A Whale of a Tale. Originally an intimate piece with a cast of twelve performing with an upright piano, it became a greatly expanded version featuring a troupe of thirty and a six-piece band. The end result was a madcap romp, with veteran cabaret star Tony Monopoly playing the headmistress/Captain Ahab in drag, that immediately developed a cult following among the university students. One of its first venues was aboard Ki Longfellow's Old Profanity Showboat where after a slow start, it quickly became sold out.
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An image of a claviharp from the 1891 Scientific American The claviharp is a 19th-century musical instrument that combined a harp with a keyboard. Johann Christian Dietz invented the instrument in 1813 CE. His grandfather was one of the first upright piano manufacturers. Struck by what he saw as difficulties and defects of the harp, in 1810, he built an instrument à cordes pincées à clavier, which connected a keyboard to the harp strings. He made the instrument to address limitations of the harp—susceptibility of catgut strings to atmospheric change, inconsistency of sound as finger motion varies, limited diatonic scale (without pedals), and lack of dampers.
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This composition has four movements and takes 22 to 25 minutes to perform. The movement list is as follows: It is scored for a very large orchestra, which, in addition to the most common instruments, should also include two pianos (a grand piano and an upright piano tuned one quarter tone lower), six percussionists playing a large range of instruments, and a celesta. The piece starts with an untitled movement with cowbells and the flat piano, which is immediately followed by the horns and the high-pitched sound of the strings. The general atmosphere of the movement becomes much more agitated when the rest of the orchestra joins in progressively.
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Damon Knight, Kate Wilhelm, Thomas M. Disch, Judith Merril, Lester del Rey, Anne McCaffrey, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl and many, many more made the afternoons and evenings at Arrowhead merry and stimulating. There were sleeping bags on the expansive porches, bleary-eyed writer-folk sitting around the kitchen table come morning (or afternoon...) and many a story idea was expounded, dissected, and fleshed out. Folk (and Filk) songs were sung, guitars and an upright piano backed decidedly non-professional voices who made up in enthusiasm for what they lacked in technique. Rock bands practiced and jammed in Arrowhead's basement studio space during the 1970s.
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The sketch begins with a preamble by Eric Idle (impersonating the British film critic Philip Jenkinson), who praises American film director Sam Peckinpah's predilection for the "utterly truthful and very sexually arousing portrayal of violence [sniff] in its starkest form" in Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971). Throughout this speech, he constantly sniffs, despite onscreen captions telling him to stop. He then segues to a clip from Peckinpah's latest project, which is an adaptation of the musical Salad Days. Well-dressed, well-spoken, upper-class youngsters frolic in an idyllic garden around an upright piano, responding enthusiastically to Michael Palin's suggestion of a game of tennis.
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The piano solo at the beginning of Part 2 was recorded by Edgar Froese on an old upright piano at The Manor Studio. Immediately after the Croydon concert the band brought a four-track recording of the show to The Manor. Each band member's equipment rig had been recorded on a single channel, and a fourth channel was used for an audience mic to capture crowd noise and overall ambience. The band selected two roughly eight-minute sections from the performance and edited down the individual parts performed by the band members in those sections, mixing each bandmember's parts in and out and panning the tracks to simulate a stereo field.
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250x250px An accompanying music video for "Cardigan"—written, directed, and styled by Swift—was released along with the album. The "homespun" and "dreamlike" video starts out with Swift sitting in a candlelit cottage in the woods, wearing a nightgown and playing a vintage upright piano. This scene also features a photograph of Swift's grandfather, Dean, who fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal, and a painting that she painted during the first week of isolation. When the soundboard starts glowing, she climbs into it and is magically transported to a moss-covered forest, where she plays the song on a grand piano producing a waterfall.
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Willie used arithmetic to help guess the number, and the upright piano was delivered the next day. From that day forth, he sat down at the piano and played. He would play songs he heard in the clubs, including Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin, Cannonball Rag by Joe Northrup, Black and White Rag by George Botsford, and Don't Hit that Lady Dressed in Green, about which he said "the lyrics to this song were a sex education, especially for a twelve year old boy.". His other favorites picked up from the saloons were She's Got Good Booty and Baby, Let Your Drawers Hang Low.
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"Disney Girls (1957)" is a song written by Bruce Johnston for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1971 album, Surf's Up. The lead vocals are by Johnston, who also plays upright piano, Moog synthesizer, and mandolin. It is included on his 1977 solo album, Going Public. The song is a nostalgic reflection sung from the viewpoint of a man who rejects reality in favour of the nostalgia he felt towards the fantasy world of the girls in Walt Disney movies and television shows, songs by Patti Page and the days he made wine in his garage, enjoying lemonade in the country shade.
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He then attended Pasadena College where he appeared in numerous student theatre productions. In the 1930s, he sang on the stage of the Radio City Music Hall in New York City and appeared on the radio shows of Voice of Firestone and Major Bowes Amateur Hour, where he won second prize, an upright piano. He eventually won a scholarship to the Eastman School of Music to pursue graduate studies. Kelley's operatic career was put on hold however with the outbreak of World War II. He served in the United States Army from 1940 to 1945, performing on the radio show Fort Bragg Salutes America.
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He was also deeply moved by the music of Robert Schumann, especially the great C Major Fantasia, opus 17. In college, he became engrossed in the piano music of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Bartok, playing and absorbing their music over and over again on his Poole upright piano (which he tuned himself since he could not afford a professional piano tuner) in his dingy second-storey Cambridge apartment. This way he acquired a deep love for classical-romantic music, which is strongly present in his own compositions. In 1970 St. Clair made a solo piano appearance in a recital of his own music in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
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The Astin- Weight piano company of Salt Lake City, Utah introduced two related innovations to the upright piano which were designed and patented by Edwin R. Astin Sr. Their purpose was to obtain the largest possible soundboard, and indeed, Astin-Weight soundboards cover the entire rear surface of the piano. This is made possible by placing the pinblock forward of the soundboard, and using a peripheral metal frame instead of back posts. The Astin-Weight piano is said to produce a very rich tone, not to every listener's taste but greatly prized by Astin-Weight owners.The Astin-Weight company apparently went out of business in about 2008; .
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Dolge 1911:191. Schumann preferred the pedal board to be connected to the upright piano, while Mendelssohn had a pedal mechanism connected to his grand piano. Dolge describes Mendelssohn's pedal mechanism: "The keyboard for pedaling was placed under the keyboard for manual playing, had 29 notes and was connected with an action placed at the back of the piano where a special soundboard, covered with 29 strings, was built into the case".Dolge 1911:191. In addition to using his pedal piano for organ practice, Schumann composed several pieces specifically for the pedal piano. Among these compositions are Six Studies Op. 56, Four Sketches Op. 58, and Six Fugues on Bach Op. 60.Williams 2002:40.
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Raised primarily in the Bronx, NYC, Porter decided at age 10 that he wanted to be a musician, and took violin lessons from about age 10 to 12, then taught himself at the family's upright piano, eventually taking some lessons in college and afterward. Porter earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Rochester in 1972, and, while there, studied music at Eastman. He went on to earn a Master of Education in Counseling from Northeastern University in 1976, followed by a master's degree in Music Theory from Tufts University in 1979, under T. J. Anderson, his primary mentor. In 1983, Porter received his Ph.D. in Musicology from Brandeis University, where he studied under Joshua Rifkin.
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Ziman, who grew up in Greenwich Village, trained from youth as a classical pianist, writing her first songs on an upright piano at age 6. She attended the Berklee College of Music on a scholarship to study classical composition, and was awarded the 2001 ASCAP Leiber and Stoller scholarship for her song "Like Water is to Sand." Her original plans to pursue film scoring were changed in 2002 when Patti Austin came to Berklee to recruit background vocalists for an Ella Fitzgerald tribute tour. Ziman toured with Austin for 18 months, causing her subsequent compositional style to draw heavily from jazz vocalists such as Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.
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In 1935 Poul Henningsen (PH) designed the PH Pianette and PH continued the piano design with the PH Bow Grand Piano from 1937 as well as the PH Upright Piano in 1939. Today, all piano models designed by Poul Henningsen are put in production by the Danish company ToneArt A/S (PH Pianos) that holds the world wide, exclusive rights to produce, market and sell all PH Pianos under license of the Poul Henningsen family. On behalf of ToneArt A/S a few models of the PH Grand Piano are being produced by the German piano manufacturer Blüthner. All the PH Pianos are illustrated and documented in the publication: PH Furniture & Pianos - The Revival of Poul Henningsen Design Classics.
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The St. Pauli quarter was well known as being an area where prostitutes were to be found, and was dangerous for anyone that looked different than the usual clientele.Spitz 2005. p221 The stage of the Kaiserkeller was made of planks of wood balanced on the top of beer crates, so the two groups made a bet to see to who would be the first to break it.Spitz 2005 p219 After punishing the stage for days, a slight crack appeared, and when Storm jumped off the top of the upright piano, it finally broke.Spitz 2005 p219 Storm's guitarist, Johnny 'Guitar' Byrne, remembered that as Storm hit the stage, it cracked loudly and formed a V-shape around Storm.
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Young's 2003 release joanna is to date his only solo unaccompanied album. A portrait of his battered old upright piano, it was described in The Guardian as ‘a hymn of devotion that both dignifies and delights in his old piano's imperfections.’ Coinciding with the release of joanna, a period of illness (adhesive capsulitis) affected the use of Young's arms and prevented him from performing. In 2006 Young was invited to co-curate the exhibition The Fabric of Myth at Compton Verney Warwickshire. Young returned to the stage in October 2008 with The Golden Hunger, a ‘Liederabend’ referencing Berlin's post-war creative drive, as part of the Nico tribute evening Nico 70/20 at The Volksbühne in Berlin.
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H.V. McInnis, at age five. When she was in kindergarten, her parents traded in the family phonograph as the down payment on an upright piano. At 14, she was taken on a school trip to hear Marian Anderson sing a recital in Jackson, an experience she later said was inspirational. "The minute she came on stage, I knew I wanted to walk like that, look like that, and if possible, sound something near that," she told an interviewer in 2008. Price in 1951 In her teen years, Leontyne accompanied the "second choir" at St. Paul's Methodist Church, sang and played piano for the chorus at Laurel's all-black Oak Park Vocational High School.
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Avner Carmi had, in fact, achieved a near-legendary status among piano technicians and tuners in the New York area; this was for his amazing abilities in restoring and tuning pianos, if not for his tall tales. Carmi’s heart was in Israel, but he was a presence in New York City. At that time there was a huge, multi-story used piano store on Manhattan’s West 23rd Street named Brodwin Pianos. (At one time Carmi lived in the Chelsea Hotel, down the street from the piano store.) He bought the heavily carved, ornate upright piano from the store’s manager, the owner Harry Brodwin’s son-in-law, Hy Myerson, sometime in the 1940s.
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EB says he built his first pianoforte in 1780. 1914 Érard upright piano made in London Before he was twenty-five he set up in business for himself, his first workshop being a room in the hotel of the duchesse de Villeroi, who gave him warm encouragement. He built his first pianoforte in 1777 in his Paris factory, relocating fifteen years later to premises in London's Great Marlborough Street to escape the French Revolution - his increasing fame and several commissions for the likes of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette having placed him at risk. Returning to Paris in 1796, he soon afterwards introduced grand pianofortes, made in the English fashion, with improvements of his own.
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In addition to Rossellini and Pan, the production includes puppets, handled by puppeteer Schuyler Beeman, and still photos, home movies, animation and excerpts from her "Green Porno" film series projected on a large screen behind the set decorated with Rossellini's childhood toys, including a marionette stage and a toy upright piano, which Rossellini plays in the show. The set was designed by Andy Byers, who is also the costume designer and composer for the show. In promoting the show, which was performed twice at The Gateway, Rossellini appeared in Long Island's Newsday. Proceeds from The Gateway production of "Link Link Circus" also benefited The Plaza Cinema & Media Arts Center, a non-profit located near Rossellini's Bellport home in Patchogue, New York.
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"Wireless Phones Being Installed", (Portland) Oregonian, March 22, 1919, page 5 In early 1919, British Marconi shipped a bulky combination desk and 500-watt transmitter, shaped like an upright piano, to the Canadian Marconi building in Montreal at 173 William Street (later re- numbered as 1017). The set, capable of two-way radiotelephone and longer-range radiotelegraph operation, had been developed during World War One, but with the end of the war was now surplus. The parent company hoped there might be commercial interest within the Canadian paper and pulp industry in using transmitters like this for communication between their mills and offices."Early Days in Canadian Broadcasting" (Adventures in Radio - 14) by D. R. P. Coats, Manitoba Calling, November 1940, page 7.
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Oteri is also an active music journalist and has been the editor of NewMusicBox since its inception in 1999."About NewMusicBox". Oteri has served as the MC for the ASCAP Thru The Walls showcase in New York City as well as Meet The Composer's The Works marathon in Minneapolis in 2002. From 2000 to 2010, he curated his own series, 21st Century Schizoid Music, at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.Anne Midgette,"Faux Underwater Singing and a Sit-Down Comic at an Upright Piano", The New York Times, August 18, 2005. In 2007, Oteri was the recipient of the ASCAP Victor Herbert Award for his “distinguished service to American music as composer, journalist, editor, broadcaster, impresario, and advocate”8th Annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards, ascap.
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There is a sunken sitting area with the ever-present stereo system found throughout Graceland, as well as the dark brown upright piano upon which Elvis played for what were to be his last songs, Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody". Reports conflict about which one was the last song. The sitting area has a floor-to-ceiling shatterproof window designed to watch the many racquetball games that took place there when Elvis was alive. In the early hours of the morning Elvis died, he, his girlfriend Ginger Alden, his first cousin Billy Smith and Billy's wife Jo played a game of racquetball ending the game with the song on the piano before Elvis walked into the main house to wash his hair and go to bed.
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Born in Covington, Louisiana, he is best known for his hit song "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano". The song, written as a tribute to the annual springtime return of the cliff swallows to Mission San Juan Capistrano in Southern California, spent several weeks at the top of Your Hit Parade charts during its initial release in 1940. The lyrics say: The song has been recorded by such musicians as The Ink Spots, Fred Waring, Guy Lombardo, and Glenn Miller. A glassed-off room in the mission has been designated in René's honor and displays the upright piano on which he composed the tune, the reception desk from his office and several copies of the song's sheet music and other pieces of furniture, all donated by René's family.
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As a student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he extended his facility in piano technique. This classical background gave him the ability to engage different music genres authentically. So diverse were the genres he regularly frequented, that often the only identifying mark of his songs as "Raposo" were common lyric allusions to "sunny days" or "flying", or his signature use of piccolo and glockenspiel atop the melodic or contrapuntal line, as well as the prominent uses of guitar in the rhythmic line. Most overtly, however, Joe Raposo's sonic trademark was his seemingly obsessive, and often exhaustively authentic, live replication of the tonal quality and exact playback cadence of the 20th-century self-operating player piano when composing for and performing on a grand, baby grand or upright piano.
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Furrball (vocal effects provided by Frank Welker; on the episodes "Cinemaniacs" and "Buster and the Wolverine", Rob Paulsen provides his voice) is a young, blue male cat with a hole on his right ear and a bandage on his tail. Furrball is usually depicted as living in a cardboard box in an alleyway, although other times he is shown as one of Elmyra's pets and briefly had a home with Mary Melody. He is often a quite peaceful and innocent character, but he is also one of the most unfortunate characters in the show, since he is almost always chased, abused or bullied, often by being squashed. For example, during the intro credits, he gets flattened by a falling upright piano to the lyric of "Furrball is unlucky" while sniffing a flower peacefully.
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'''''' : Ichijo has monstrous strength despite having a weak and feminine appearance and is a member of the amateur wrestling club. Her power amazes even her strongest male classmates.Karen carries an upright piano without any signs of physical stress, while Harima and Hanai were on the verge of breakdown trying to carry objects of the same weight - a chest of drawers and a refrigerator, respectively It would also seem that she is not able to control her strength well, as shown when she nearly suffocates Tenma when trying to cover her mouth so that she does not blurt out secrets. Lara Gonzalez is her only rival in this regard, but has not been able to physically defeat her (In fact, Ichijo defeated her with her ultimate move, the "Frankensteiner").
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AvantGrand is a brand of digital piano introduced by Yamaha in 2009. The product line consists of a baby grand piano (the N3, replaced by the N3X in 2016), two "vertical" grand pianos (the N2 and the N1 replaced by the N1X in 2019), and an upright piano (the NU1, replaced by the NU1X in 2017). The AvantGrand pianos use samples taken from four locations in a Yamaha CFIIIS (CFX and Bosendorfer Imperial for the N1X, N3X and for the NU1X, CFX for NU1) Concert Grand pianos and attempt to emulate all aspects of conventional piano sound and play, down to the tactile response of keys and pedals. In covering the piano's release, Slate editor Chris Wilson wrote that the AvantGrand piano represents a substantial functional improvement over the conventional piano, while sounding practically indistinguishable from one for 95% of the world's pianists.
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Brazil was actually scheduled to go into the studio with John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Blood Brothers) in January 2006, but due to problems with their former record label they were forced to postpone recording the album until the following May. The Philosophy sessions with Fridmann were scheduled only one week prior to entering the studio. Many of the songs on the album were recorded in pre- production up to three separate times in separate sessions over the course of eleven months leading up to the Tarbox sessions. The album was tracked in May 2006 and mixed the following July at Tarbox Road Studio in Cassadaga, NY. Along with traditional rock instrumentation, the band used a wide array of non-traditional instruments, including grand piano, upright piano, Rhodes electric keyboard, Wurlitzer electric keyboard, Hammond B3 organ, timpani, concert chimes, glockenspiel, and Latin percussion.
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While tuning the temperament octave, a felt strip is typically placed within the temperament (middle) section of the piano; it is inserted between each note's trichord, muting its outer two strings so that only the middle string is free to vibrate. A Papps mute performs the same function in an upright piano and is placed through the piano action to mute either the 2 left strings (of a trichord), or the 2 right strings similarly. After the center strings are all tuned (or right if a Papps mute is used) the felt strip can be removed note by note, tuning the outer strings to the center strings. Wedge-shaped mutes are inserted between two strings to mute them, and the Papps mute is commonly used for tuning the high notes in upright pianos because it slides more easily between hammer shanks.
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Colin Huggins (born January 6, 1978) is an American classical pianist and busker who travels with a grand piano. Huggins, whose hometown is Decatur, Georgia, started playing guitar at an early age, and took piano lessons from 1994 to 1998, but then quit, and worked odd jobs for some time. He moved to New York City in 2003, and spent four years working as an accompanist for ballet dancers at the Joffrey Ballet, before beginning to busk in 2007. He brought his upright piano to Father Demo Square or Union Square and busked there, until police and nearby residents began to complain about the large crowds he would attract while playing; he subsequently began playing in the New York City Subway—where he made an appearance on the television series Louie—and at Washington Square Park two to three days per week, for up to twelve hours at a time.
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From September 1914 > ammunition boxes were built here instead of pianos, but the music vending > machines were used even more efficiently because the company set up a > 'mighty musical work' on the tower of their factory site, which performed > the Prinz-Eugen-Lied every evening at 8 a.m., the watch on the Rhine, the > imperial song, “Hail you in the wreath, My Austria, the Radetzky and the > Rákóczi march. The music can be heard in wide areas and is enthusiastically > received everywhere.” The two most popular pianos sold were the Hofmann 7 octaves grand piano MOD XV (later Hofmann & Czerny M15) with double escapement mechanisms from Renner and the Belcanto 7 ¼ upright piano with the novel and additional harpsichord sound when the middle pedal is held down. The combination of Renner’s piano action and Hofmann & Czerny’s affordable shell made the instrument one of the most popular in Europe at the time.
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The musicians who went on to birth Swamp pop listened to (and often performed) traditional Cajun music and black Creole (zydeco) music as children, as well as popular country and western (hillbilly) songs by musicians like Bob Wills, Moon Mullican, and Hank Williams. However, like other American youth in the mid-1950s, they discovered the alluring new sounds of rock and roll and rhythm and blues artists like Elvis Presley and Fats Domino. As a result, these teenaged Cajuns and black Creoles shifted away from Louisiana French folk compositions like "Jolie Blonde", "Allons a Lafayette", and "Les flammes d'enfer" in favor of singing rock and roll and rhythm and blues compositions in English. At the same time, they switched from folk instruments like the accordion, fiddle, and iron triangle to modern ones such as the electric guitar and bass, upright piano, saxophone, and drumming trap set.
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Though composed of sixty-two players, the orchestra often lacked necessary instruments. As Arthur Foote said: "When a harp was needed in the orchestra ... , one of us would do the best we could to replace it by playing its part on an upright piano." In 1882, after having suffered monetary losses for eight years, the Harvard Orchestra was dissolved and turned over the last of its funds, $1,000 to the association. Association member Henry Lee Higginson, however, sought to revivify orchestra music in Boston, and in 1881 placed an ad in the Boston newspapers, which would lead to the creation of the first professional symphony orchestra in Boston: Although Higginson had intended for members of Harvard Orchestra to play in the new one, most were not good enough musicians to reach the level of perfection required to fulfill Higginson's hopes for the professional orchestra.
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Hall then came up with the idea for B. Bumble and the Stingers, taking the same approach to a piece of classical music. Prompted by record producer Kim Fowley, he approached pianist Jack Fina, whose 1946 swing arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee" for Freddy Martin and his Orchestra, called "Bumble Boogie" (RCA Victor 20-1829), had reached number 7 on the chart and been used in the 1948 Walt Disney animated film Melody Time. Using Fina's arrangement, Fowley recorded pianist Ernie Freeman on two tracks, one using a grand piano for the rhythm part, while the other featured a "tack piano", a modified upright piano with tacks pressed into the hammers to create a tinny "honky tonk" sound. The other musicians on the session, at Gold Star Studios, were Palmer on drums, Red Callender on bass, and Tommy Tedesco on guitar.
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Filmed over fifteen months with the help of a 12-person team of animators, the 100-second animated film Pacific Sun (2012) is based on a video of cruise ship Pacific SunThomas Demand's Pacific Sun, March 29, 2012 Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. caught in a storm between the Republic of Vanuatu and Auckland, New Zealand which the artist found on YouTube, and follows the full narrative arc of the ship's violent encounter in the Tasman Sea. The film was made on a full scale set and, like Demand's models for his photographs, was completely constructed of paper and then destroyed. It comprises a total of 2,400 frames, filmed one at a time, as animators meticulously retraced the movements of each item in the ship's dining room, shifting the paper models of plates, lemons, pendant lamps, chairs, an upright piano, and a refrigerator by several millimeters at a time.
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Spanning a floor area of 2,300 square metres (24,760 square feet), the layout plan of library@esplanade comprises four clusters or "villages" for music, dance, theatre and film on the same level. This arrangement seeks to create a conducive environment that supports creativity, learning and entertainment for both the layperson and the professional artiste. The library features an exhibition space known as the Innovation Gallery, a performing stage equipped with a glass projection wall and a miniature grand piano, a practice room with an upright piano and an electronic keyboard, screening rooms with home theatre systems, music sampling posts, a dance alley, a ″Silent″ Studio with electronic drums and instruments for the public to use, and a special collection room with an archive on the performing arts scene in Singapore. There is also a café in the library that is operated by a private vendor.
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The album mixes elements of jazz and pop - Abrams has said that he "learned how pop music works" from his co-writers. Describing the album's genre as "organic focal", he placed heavy emphasis on melodies and harmonies - the "focal point" - while relying primarily on organic instruments, such as acoustic guitar, upright piano, and double bass. Commenting in particular on the double bass (or upright bass), which he gained notice for using during his run on American Idol, Abrams said that he feels the instrument "adds depth, changing frequencies you wouldn't hear on an electric bass." One of the takeaways that Abrams hoped fans would get from this album is his ability to play more instruments than just those that he used on TV. In addition to the double bass, Abrams played the cello, the drums, the acoustic guitar, the melodica, the recorder, the shaker, and a wurlitzer on the album.
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Gneixendorf Music – A Winter Journey is a piano concerto by Brett Dean from 2019 to be performed in both an upright piano with the half-blow pedal activated and a grand piano. As his previous compositions Pastoral Symphony and Testament, it is inspired in Ludwig van Beethoven, specifically in his stay in a farmhouse in Gneixendorf late in his life, where he revised his Symphony No. 9 and completed his String Quartet No. 16. The work was commissioned by Jonathan Biss and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as the final installment in a project for five new compositions for piano and orchestra to be coupled along with Beethoven's five piano concertos,Brett Dean's new Piano Concerto receives world premiere with Jonathan Biss and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Intermusica, 10 February 2020 and premiered by Biss and the Swedish Radio Symphony under David Afkham in the Berwaldhallen on February 13, 2020 next to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5.
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Performance of a piano concerto involves a piano on stage with the orchestra A piano concerto is a type of concerto, a solo composition in the Classical music genre which is composed for a piano player, which is typically accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble. Piano concertos are typically virtuoso showpieces which require an advanced level of technique on the instrument, including melodic lines interspersed with rapid scales, arpeggios, chords, complex contrapuntal parts and other challenging material. When piano concertos are performed by a professional concert pianist, a large grand piano is almost always used, as the grand piano has a fuller tone and more projection than an upright piano. Piano concertos are typically written out in music notation, including sheet music for the pianist (which they typically memorize so that they can play the concert without sheet music), orchestra parts for the orchestra members, and a full score for the conductor, who leads the orchestra in the accompaniment of the soloist.
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Marching band (Act I, scene iii): ;Woodwinds: : 1 piccolo : 2 flutes : 2 oboes : 2 clarinets in E : 2 bassoons ;Brass: : 2 horns in F : 2 trumpets in F : 3 trombones : 1 tuba ;Percussion: : bass drum with cymbals : snare drum : triangle Berg notes that marching band members may be taken from the pit orchestra, indicating exactly where the players can leave with a footnote near the end of Act I, scene ii. Tavern band (Act II, scene iv): ;Woodwinds: : 1 clarinet in C ;Brass: : 1 bombardon in F (or tuba, if it can be muted) ;Keyboard: : accordion ;Strings: : guitar : 2 fiddles (violins with steel strings) In addition, for the Tavern scene in Act III, scene iii, Berg calls for an out-of-tune upright piano. Chamber orchestra (Act II, scene iii): ;Woodwinds: : 1 flute (doubling piccolo) : 1 oboe, : 1 English horn : 1 clarinet in E : 1 clarinet in A : 1 bass clarinet in B : 1 bassoon : 1 contrabassoon ;Brass: : 2 horns ;Strings: : 2 violins : 1 viola : 1 violoncello : 1 double bass The instrumentation matches that of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1.
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41 no.17 p.576 October 25, 1902 In 1880 the Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co. established their own New York warerooms at 23 East 14th street, and advertised having more than 5,000 in use.advertisement. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 17, 1880 By 1897 their factory was located at Washington avenue, at the corner of Brown in West Haven,New Haven Directory, 1894 and they advertised having sold more than 30,000 pianos.advertisement Brooklyn Daily Eagle March 7, 1897 The Parmelee Piano Works where Mathushek Piano Manufacturing Company's instruments were made had one of the first non-experimental fire sprinklers, installed by M. Seward & Son, of New Haven based on the design patented by Henry S. Parmelee in 1874.Dana Gorham Automatic Sprinkler Protection T. Groom & Co. 1914. p.326 Parmelee licensed the patent and improvements on a royalty basis by 1879 to the Providence Steam and Gas Pipe.Paula M. Stathakis, Grinnell/General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex Historical Context , 2005 Henry S. Parmelee patented seven improvements for sprinklers between 1874 and 1882, and also received patents for sounding board construction in 1884 and upright piano cases in 1885, with the central part of the case angled inwards to form a music rest.
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According to the account in the 1882 Music and Drama article, by 1870 Mathushek had returned to New York and was only nominally associated with the Mathushek Piano Manufacturing Company; Dolge dated this one year later, when he was listed there in unassigned patents he received for a system compensating wires arranged to counteract the bending strain of the main strings, and vertically bent key levers for upright pianos.F. Mathushek. Piano. United States Patent 113,073, March 28, 1871; F. Mathushek. Piano Action. United States Patent 113,074, March 28, 1871 (an example is shown by Michel, "Mathushek small upright piano made in New York", p.176) A later account describes that Mathushek manufactured his own pianos through 1873 as a member of Mathushek & Co., with warerooms on 9th street near Broadway and a factory at 145th street and Brook avenue, in partnership with his daughter Hermine, who as early as 1869 was listed as a member of Barlow & Mathushek, with W. S. Barlow selling pianos at 694 Broadway, and that Mathushek continued alone for the next three years, assisted by his grandson who was then "known publicly and privately as the son of Frederick Mathushek.".
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Richmond Palladium-Item, 11 February 1991, p. A7 Trayser moved his family to Richmond, Indiana in 1865 except for his son Frederick, who lived most of his life in Maysville, Kentucky. George L. Trayser became a naturalized US citizen in 1866. Trayser was granted another patent for upright piano in Indianapolis in 1867 andU.S. Government Patent Office, patent 66653, 9 Jul 1867 established the Trayser Piano Company in 1869 in Richmond, Indiana. In 1872 the Starr Piano Company was founded as the Trayser Piano Company, co-founded by James Starr. In 1878, Benjamin Starr joined his brother James and the company was reorganized as the Chase Piano Company. They bought land in Richmond, Indiana in 1884 and constructed the buildings, renaming the business Starr Piano Company in 1893.Archivegrid Starr Piano Company collection 1872-1919. In 1873 Frederick was granted a patent for piano action in Maysville. He was listed in the Maysville city directory in 1876.Maysville City Directory, 1876 In 1875 George Trayser was granted another piano patent in Richmond.U.S. Government Patent Office, patent 169386, 2 Nov 1875 In 1876 the family resided at 43 N. Pearl, while the Trayser Piano Company was at 145 N. 5th.
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