I really enjoyed your ambient album, Music For 1 Piano, 2 Pianos, & More Pianos.
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There are now some 300,000 digital pianos in China, about the same number as acoustic pianos.
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These pianos (with trendy names like AnyTime, QuietTime and Transacoustic) combine acoustic and digital pianos in innovative ways.
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In today's 21st-century American homes, pianos are often considered furniture: sales of new acoustic pianos in 2016 were down 19503% from the 282,000 units sold in 1978, according to the Blue Book of Pianos.
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Even with output of 170 pianos, Fazioli will never defeat Steinway, which makes about 2,000-2,0003 a year, with grand pianos starting at $63,000.
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In March 13, he expanded "Piano Phase" into "Four Pianos," in which four performers played electric pianos while listening to a "guide" player over headphones.
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Spirio, which starts at about $147,000 in China, traces its roots to a generation of player pianos that filled homes across America in the early 1900s, the golden age of pianos.
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It had been deemed "not salvageable" after an inspection by the staff at Fazioli Pianos, which produces grand and concert grand pianos in Sacile that can cost several hundred thousand dollars.
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Cosmicide Residency at Pianos in NYC: 4th Feb11th Feb18th Feb.
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And when it's not Halloween season, it sells discount pianos.
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Initially the nonprofit startup bought two pianos to give away.
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Occasionally, he stumbles upon interesting places that don't have pianos.
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I have drums, pianos, and flutes all around the house.
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We had long wanted to put pianos in transit hubs.
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Add some vibes, a couple of pianos, I'm home free.
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At other venues, she relied on dealers to provide pianos.
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Old Bolsheviks filled their apartments with pianos, samovars, embroidered towels.
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It builds for Steinway, maker of the world's finest pianos.
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More so in his music than most, the balances within the mix change subtly when you change the EQ." Hull also remembers Fagen only using "pianos and electric pianos that could be tuned manually.
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It's richly minimal, widescreen music, all rustling beats and animated pianos.
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Sales figures for acoustic pianos have long made for depressing reading.
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His main project involves taking photographs of pianos in abandoned buildings.
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Evan: It's the one with those pianos… Ian: Yeah, Max Rebo.
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The music score is sentimental, with shimmering pianos and trembling strings.
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Different pianos appeal to different people according to tone and touch.
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By the 1950s it had 500 pianos for some 20,000 people.
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Then Alex died – and from that heartbreak, he kickstarted Pianos for People, which so far has placed 160 pianos in low-income homes while enrolling about 80 people ages 5 to 85 in free piano lessons.
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Ghosts are taking over Hollywood, and playing pianos and lurking in vaginas.
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Last year Americans bought 150,000 digital pianos, 6.1% more than in 2015.
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They also helped him drag two pianos up the dark, dusty staircase.
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Steinway has pitched its pianos both as durable instruments and luxurious artifacts.
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Unlike sports cars or watches, pianos are not easy to show off.
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Mr. Wachter and Bruce Barnes, the associate musical director, play the pianos.
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For me, pianos always have the taste and texture of pineapple chunks.
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The complexity of underwriting the pianos comes from context, Professor Finn said.
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Of course, pipe organs are many orders of magnitude bigger than pianos.
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According to the company's website, Schoenhut has been making toy pianos since 1872.
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It replicates hundreds of models of keyboards and pianos for just under $400.
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He opened a piano factory, and not one making cheap pianos for children.
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And Lockheed Martin is not some poor guy selling pianos in Atlantic City.
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The app is designed to work with guitars, ukuleles, and pianos or keyboards.
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He recruited a Bentley salesman to help market the pianos to affluent customers.
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By December, Mr. Liu had sold 50 pianos at his store in Ningbo.
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He remembers his father's storeroom, a mysterious expanse of broken guitars and pianos.
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"I came across hundreds of different buildings with or without pianos," Thierry wrote.
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Vocal experimentation, pianos & treated ambiences collide, recalling Feels-era Animal Collective in places.
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These little thumb pianos seem to crop up on every shelf and mantel.
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Electric guitars increasingly defined rock 'n' roll, driving out pianos and horn sections.
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They celebrate the album's arrival at this concert, playing on two grand pianos.
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Strummed guitars and plucked pianos are integrated smoothly and hardly make a difference.
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Pianos, waling divas, the unmistakable smell of burnt rubber: what more could you want?
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Yes, the automated pianos with the rolls of paper with punch holes in them.
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Technicolor synth lines skitter along over placid pianos and a gently pulsing kick drum.
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Elgar tagged along as his dad tuned pianos and rehearsed in a local orchestra
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Steinway was making only about 2,63 pianos a year in New York and Hamburg.
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Mr. Liu's father had tried selling Steinway pianos a decade earlier with limited success.
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The Vintage Toy Synthesizer grew out of Lacey's fascination with vintage wooden toy pianos.
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President Vladimir V. Putin has a plan to change that — and it involves pianos.
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It calls for Russia to buy 900 pianos and build 50 covered ice rinks.
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In the years that followed, I learned four truths about baby grand pianos. 1.
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His father, Bob, sold pianos at Harrods, where his mother, Amy, was a secretary.
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Alicia Keys was a laid-back host (and deftly played two pianos at once).
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Expect twinkling lights, pianos, and at least one knee-bucklingly sweet gaze into the camera.
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" Pianos for People, she says, is "really doing what they say they're going to do.
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Bullets, arrows, pianos winched into position above the target; it is all the same principle.
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Even among serious musicians, few have homes of a size that can accommodate grand pianos.
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And like collector automobiles, grand pianos like Faziolis and Steinways will keep commanding premium prices.
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That makes him an important arbiter in the debate about pianos' attributes and financial value.
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In 2014 China imported nearly 6,000 grand pianos, up from fewer than 2,000 in 2005.
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Unlike its competitors, Steinway refused to churn out hundreds of pianos each day by machine.
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I read that you're not too fond of pianos, which are all over this record.
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Weed used to be "unspeakable scourge" that made people demand that pianos be played faster.
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But this does look a little bit like one of those finger pianos, doesn't it?
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And how many drunken teenagers are dancing on the campus pianos instead of playing Shostakovich?
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Ms Widiahtuti may have to decide whether pianos and vibrators are godly goods after all. ■
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Last year 150,000 pianos rolled off its assembly lines, almost a third of global production.
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In 1974, Mr. Kalish played in the premiere performance of Mr. Crumb's "Music for a Summer Evening" for two amplified pianos and percussion, a vibrantly colorful piece that has become almost as well known as Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, which inspired it.
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Along with this he also programmed parts for what are called self-playing pianos or pianolas.
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This is important, since traditional instruments, like violins, pianos, or guitars, require the use of hands.
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I was raised with pianos all around me, and with my mom singing all the time.
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Steinway pianos are coveted by piano-cognoscenti and command prices of tens of thousands of dollars.
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And you can even buy add-on LED strips for acoustic pianos that offer similar functionality.
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The various synth patches are processed to sound like howling winds instead of pianos or organs.
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The pianos will be on view and available to the public September 23–October 10, 2016.
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My friends popped pills, snorted lines of coke off shiny pianos, guzzled sake, and sang karaoke.
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Inside, waiters swirled around cafe tables and old pianos and it was like entering another world.
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This sound was followed by a synchronized, fortissimo cluster of notes, coming simultaneously from two pianos.
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The parcel that Wildflower is buying has been used as storage for finished pianos, Steinway said.
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This one is closest perhaps to a double concerto for two pianos that I just composed.
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At first the pianos played breathlessly spiraling figures and insistent rhythms, music that nodded to Bartok.
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There were drums, keyboards, pianos, mics, and lots of food and video games in the house.
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Flaming pianos, ridiculous costumes, holograms and digital graphics in the background at least make a song memorable.
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While customers may like digital pianos, such instruments sell at a far lower price than acoustic ones.
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He sits at a stool sandwiched between two pianos and users suggest songs for him to play.
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Firefighters later toured the space, with one calling it a "museum," and playing one of the pianos.
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At other junctures, the pianos seemed content to let their collective resonance slip mysteriously into the background.
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This concert, from the nation's most important new-music ensemble, asks how pianos and technology can interact.
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Keys memorably showed off her musical skills at last year's ceremony by playing two pianos at once.
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Erhard, who happens to be missing a finger, makes some money tuning pianos and driving a taxi.
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For decades it has also claimed another distinction: the largest number of pianos per person in China.
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The last part of the song is features a voicemail over soft pianos that feel distant and foggy.
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Is "y'all shipping keys, we shipping grand pianos" one of the greatest drug dealing bars you've ever heard?
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Depending on the size and number of keys, Schoenhut grand pianos can cost anywhere from $65 to $250.
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He recently staged a concert at Juilliard involving three pianos on stage, but only one pianist was there.
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For example, we now know that machines pay attention to drums before they listen for pianos and voices.
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Inside it are trees, bricked pathways, and wooden furniture, and its borders are made from busted old pianos.
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He'll be back in Europe this September, here's hoping he'll find a few more public pianos to play.
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But he denied tuning pianos outside of Florida and South Carolina, or ever visiting the US Virgin Islands.
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The instruments included a few of his signature thumb pianos, but it got weirder the more you looked.
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Pianos, in particular, can manage to find allies in friends and family who inexplicably rise to their defense.
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"Porter decorated the suite with two grand pianos placed curve to curve, the players facing," Mr. McBrien wrote.
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Recurring figures in triplets hover in the pianos, while a sighing, spare melody floats above in bare octaves.
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But this time, the quick assault of tones from the pianos issued from higher up in their ranges.
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Italian engineer and pianist Paolo Fazioli, the owner of Fazioli Pianos, declared the handmade instrument "unsalvageable," Hewitt wrote.
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Pianos and sex toys do not fall under that rubric, Ms Widiahtuti notes, so she rejected those applications.
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Welcome just-disembarked Parisians with a tune on the public pianos — one's a signed gift from Elton John.
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This happened pre-internet, certainly, as there were lawsuits over player pianos, radio, cable TV, the VCR, and more.
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Today, however, most of those American piano makers have ceased operation, and unwanted wooden pianos lie in garbage dumps.
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She has performed at a number of New York venues, including the Knitting Factory, Pianos, and the Bitter End.
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When player pianos became popular at the turn of the century, they posed a threat to the music industry.
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Over the past decade, sales of upright pianos have dropped by 41.1%, while grand piano sales plummeted by 61.1%.
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Halfway through the residency — the sixth of 11 planned concerts, "Pianos/Pianists," will take place at Purchase on Jan.
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"I always wanted to play two pianos," she said as she straddled a piano bench between the two instruments.
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Legend has it, he had at least 2 pianos at the crib but this particular one was his fave.
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Parasols and mannequin arms jutted out amidst pianos, draperies, and furniture, and miscellaneous Americana and non-Western art objects.
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Player pianos, or pianolas, peaked in popularity in the mid-1920s before improvements in recording technology rendered them obsolete.
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On this album, grim tidings arrive amid gorgeous backdrops: gentle pianos and acoustic guitars reinforced by a string orchestra.
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China is now Steinway's largest market for pianos outside the United States, representing about one-third of global sales.
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Indeed, for two months last year, the company sold more grand pianos in China than in the United States.
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Steve Heck, a piano mover, hauled out 20073 burnt pianos and turned them into a two-story sculpture/structure.
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"Fidelio," too, has been reduced to ninety minutes, and transcribed for two horns, two cellos, two pianos, and percussion.
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Check out more of Romain Thiery's work on his website where you can order his book "Requiem Pour Pianos."
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But the dissonances between the pianos are only ever highlighted gently, at hinge points when both are clearly audible.
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Cue a party piece: Bach's Concerto for Three Pianos, played by Thomas Adès, Kirill Gerstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
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When's the last time anyone actually played one of those grand pianos or cooked dinner in a shared lounge?
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"I went to see one of those pianos drowned in tsunami water near Fukushima, and recorded it," he said.
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He got away with it when he was a businessman buying $100,000 worth of pianos and stiffing the seller.
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The program ended with an exciting premiere, "Dimensional Bloom," for two amplified pianos and two-channel one-bit electronics.
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Her home, in London, has a wine cellar and a rehearsal studio with a small collection of Steinway pianos.
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The concert's other three selections featured two pianos — less claustrophobic for the players, no doubt, but no less musically dense.
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Plenty of kids have toy pianos — though maybe not ones this fancy — but the toy harp is much more unique.
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MM: Useless in terms of functionality, but useful in terms of the ideas and the memories that the pianos hold.
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The Mainichi newspaper said they included a manufacturer of pianos and acoustic devices as well as a food sales company.
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The band flew through hits while reminding the crowd of their first show in New York City—at Pianos, FYI.
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The discovery of these pianos leads both sets of detectives to a piano teacher, which helps them solve the case.
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For existing fans of the band, it's yet another great album full of alien guitars, haunting pianos, and thunderous drums.
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Not only can you purchase heels that look like pianos, but you can also find sneakers with built-in socks.
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The bar is filled with old pianos, making it an all-the-more memorable after-work or date-night spot.
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It will need to fine-tune a cultural mind-set in a country that once dismissed pianos as bourgeois luxuries.
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I have many pianos and other instruments in my studio as both contemplative objects and potential material for physical work.
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The score is punctuated by a kind of signal: two pianos, tuned a quarter tone apart, arpeggiating upward into silence.
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It included a revival of the jeweled "Femenine" and a clangorous, intense evening of Eastman's moody works for multiple pianos.
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I recently discovered a new favorite: Martha Argerich's recording of the suite arranged for two pianos, played with Nicolas Economou.
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In the two years since, he has filled it with a huge collection of synthesizers, pianos and custom-built instruments.
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The turntable, the Technics SL-1200, may not enjoy the name recognition of, say, Fender electric guitars or Steinway pianos.
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By 1925 it had expanded to more commercial clients, including Steinway Piano Company, for which it transported nearly 900,000 pianos.
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Sculptures, assemblages and rubbings derived from deconstructed pianos were also devised by Ms. Spalding, with two collaborators from Portland, Ore.
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Drumbeats lurch and sputter amid eerie, amorphous electronic sounds; instruments like guitars or pianos are relegated to the far distance.
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GEORGE ANTHEIL: 'Ballet Mécanique' The earliest music in BMOP/sound's catalog is also the most aurally assaulting, thanks to a stunningly controlled account of Antheil's earsplitting "Ballet Mécanique" (1924) — scored for 16 player pianos, two pianos, electric bells, propellers, a siren and more — and a brash, never-too-decadent performance of "A Jazz Symphony" (20133).
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That's still way more than most electronic pianos / MIDI controllers, but more accessible than before for independent artists and serious hobbyists.
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You could be playing pianos and drums in Playthings, but you can do that without VR, so I picked food instead.
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The Ghost Ship residents told THUMP, however, that the stairs were sturdy enough and wide enough to move pianos and refrigerators.
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Steinway drew up plans for a hybrid acoustic-digital instrument and broadly ramped up production of traditional pianos to meet demand.
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"You want it, right?" she asks on the chorus, as thumb pianos flicker and a fuzzed-out synth bass hovers below.
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Beckoning for passersby to "Play Me, I'm Yours," the street-wise pianos are outfitted with each artist's original design and aesthetic.
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Some saloons proclaimed middle-class respectability, packed with pianos and chandeliers; others were more honest, serving beer in old tomato cans.
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When reading that the score calls for two pianos, tuned a quarter-tone apart, you might reasonably expect some microtonal fireworks.
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Adalgisa "Gisella" Caccone, a researcher at Yale University, has spent decades studying the reptiles that are the size of upright pianos.
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In today's 360 video, step inside the Steinway & Sons factory in Hamburg, Germany, where grand pianos have been handmade since 1904.
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At the premiere of the luminously morose "Petra" in 1991, Amacher and Marianne Schroeder played the pianos, without a formalized score.
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At first it sounded like normal holiday schmaltz: the softest of soft-rock pianos, punched up with a twist of synth.
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Sure, they're as safe as a fallout shelters, accelerate like dropped pianos and have enough tech to embarrass the Starship Enterprise.
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"I'm teaching privately; that means my students are alone with a pervert and three microtonally tuned pianos," he said with a laugh.
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Every Saturday morning in front of a TV, I'd see these images of pianos and anvils falling on walking and talking animals.
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Pianists played Chopin on grand pianos as waiters passed around Moët Champagne, hot tea and bite-size chocolate éclairs on wooden trays.
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The strummed acoustic guitar, plinky pianos, sighing, honey-coated backup singers, and sparingly deployed horns and glockenspiel equal a consistent band sound.
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Last year, sales of grand pianos in America—a key market—fell by 15.8%, according to the National Association of Music Merchants.
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"The market for brand-new pianos has been declining since the 1930s," says Tom Sumner, senior vice president at Yamaha in America.
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It's a record of delicate curves and assonant murmurings, its electric pianos reverberating against what sounds like creaking baseboards and fumbled zippers.
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So large is the demand that Mr Fazioli is increasing the size of the factory to make 2000-22005 pianos a year.
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Shipments of Steinway pianos dropped substantially in 2009, and the company was forced to lay off workers at its factory in Queens.
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"We had to convince them that pianos should be a noble good, not something people buy from the grocery store," he said.
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The non-functioning pianos are often filled with confetti or candy, and t-shirts reading "Just Drop It" are sold for charity.
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Two pianos, under Adam Wachter's astute musical direction, deliver every nuance of the glorious score, with help from Joel Abbott's sound design.
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New York merchants supplied them everything from their pianos, to their plowshares, to the clothing that they gave their slaves to wear.
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As the tour continued I noticed right off the bat the familiar theme of thumb pianos and guitar pickups attached to everything.
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Built with a strong disco foundation, the pianos dance under her booming vocals and even give her whistled falsetto room to breathe.
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The Street Pianos Boston series is production of Celebrity Series of Boston, an organization which brings art and performance to the community.
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On Wednesday, more Mozart in the form of the Concerto for Two Pianos (Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss), plus Prokofiev and Mendelssohn.
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But many economists say the stimulus spending alone, no matter how many pianos are purchased, will almost certainly fail in this goal.
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Suites offer a variety of luxurious amenities, from full kitchens and 24-hour butler service to wood-burning fireplaces and grand pianos.
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Almost immediately the pianos, backed by various instruments, play a slippery theme in chords that dip and rise almost step by step.
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Twenty-four feet of water entered the Schermerhorn, Nashville's transcendently beautiful symphony hall, where the losses included two Steinway concert grand pianos.
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Their approach to the 2008 piece "Four Movements for Two Pianos" also seems to have taken on greater texture over the years.
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He's the guy who played amplified cacti, wrote music with bathtubs, and prepared pianos with screws and tacks to diversify its timbral palette.
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There Moncur enterprisingly arranges for the firm to sponsor John Kilbarron, "the Irish Liszt", who in return plays Channon pianos at his concerts.
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"We're home to a lot of guys who like stuff: classic cars, classic boats, art and even pianos and classical instruments," she said.
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She works out the melodies and lyrics on analogue pianos and guitars, with chords that sound almost simplistic compared to the final result.
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He reportedly owns one of Elton John's pianos and got John Legend to perform at his wedding on the Amalfi Coast in Italy.
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Jaap van Zweden recently conducted the New York Philharmonic and Katia and Marielle Labèque in the Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (214).
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She performs songs from the album "Ultraviolet," and plays, with Mazzoli, in the premiere of "Don't Trust Mirrors," for two pianos, one prepared.
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At the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, performers will activate remarkable pianos inspired by John Cage and commissioned by Italian collector Francesco Conz.
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So there were too many pianos in the house, and she didn't want to keep the wife's piano, she wanted her own piano.
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I would just go to the pianos at lunchtime and tell the kind of stories you would tell to a friend to the piano.
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Ms. Wu and Alessio Bax phrased as a pair with endearing naturalness in Anton Arensky's "Silhouettes," his Suite No. 2 for two pianos (1892).
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The pianos made for a dramatic sight, but they also seemed to cramp the stage, pushing the bustling, full-bodied dancing into the foreground.
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That could increase the price importing companies pay on a variety on consumer goods ranging including soccer balls, children's picture books, and grand pianos.
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Related: 60 Eclectic Street Pianos Ask to Be Played Throughout Boston Street Artist Literally Makes Streets Art Giant Olympic Athlete Sculptures Soar Over Rio
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In both, the Amish victims had secretly built their own makeshift pianos (out of popsicle sticks in Instinct and out of rocks in Bones).
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He even made an arrangement of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for their musical family to play at two pianos (eight hands).
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To round out the gimmick, the jazz pianist Chick Corea joined in for a freewheeling version of the piece: three pianists at two pianos.
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Several of China's most prestigious state-run music schools agreed to stock their classrooms only with Steinway pianos, a big win for the company.
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He would open a store focused exclusively on selling the brand of pianos he had worshiped during his days as a budding concert pianist.
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DAVID ALLEN Four grand pianos nestled together in front of the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village on Tuesday afternoon presented quite a sight.
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Related: It's Singing Pavement That Serenades Your Shadow Future Forward Presented a Glimpse Into Tomorrow "Caruso's Dream" Suspends Glowing Pianos Over San Francisco Sidewalk
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The Enspire, the seventh generation of the company's Disklavier line of reproducing pianos, has been incorporated into the MusicCast wireless multi-room audio system.
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Discussing the components of a piano, he explains how, since the industrial revolution, pianos have been made possible by imposition of civilization on nature.
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With 20 pianos crammed in, the space looked much like a musical showroom — except for the pianists engaged in a bizarre sequence of gestures.
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Now, you, too, can read about how much fun it is to swipe through rooms filled with bespoke pianos and faux log cabin interiors.
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The instrument has two knee-activated levers under the keyboard, the equivalent of the foot-operated damper and "una corda" pedals on pianos today.
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Spread through the facility there are pianos and drum sets, secret passageways, and a 20-foot robot that stands in the corner judging passersby.
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But said to be occupied by the pianos placed on the other three corners of the memorial plaza, he never showed up at mine.
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In the theater you can see how that actually happens: William Winant is in the center; the pianos are on each side of him.
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They tended to prefer separate pianos, Alan Morrison said, partly because they were too giggly to be in such proximity on one piano bench.
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"Pianos take on the characteristics of whoever is playing them, and the sound is molded by the touch of the pianist," Ms. Hewitt wrote.
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Pause: Broken Sounds / Remote Music—Prepared Pianos from the Archivio Conz Collection is presented at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art through January 19.
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This month on Craigslist, tucked among ads for worn couches and dusty pianos, was an odd and poignant offer from a woman in Tulsa.
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He said he cherished the story about how his grandfather peddled pianos from the back of his truck to rural households in Hope, Ark.
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Sure, the people in these jobs get to work early, stay late, spend eight-plus hours on their feet deboning chuck or lifting pianos.
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While the Schoenhut's small pianos are adorable and clearly quite popular among celebs and their kids, we're much more taken with the company's mini harps.
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On the main stage, Africaine 808 mixes up comical percussion sounds, pianos, whistles, and beats that are just a tad too cheesy for my liking.
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It wouldn't be unsound to call this Radiohead's "acoustic album," since Pool's primary building blocks are acoustic guitars, pianos, strings, sparing drums, and tape hiss.
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The cascading keys of "Decks Dark" build to a sinister unison groove subtly foregrounding pianos ahead of the album's belated first bit of electric guitar.
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Today Mr Fazioli's factory—more accurately, a hall filled with craftsmen and their tools—runs at full capacity, turning out 26 grand pianos a year.
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Stephen Carver is head piano technician at the Juilliard School in New York which, with 275 pianos, is the world's largest owner of Steinway grands.
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The company that makes Gibson guitars and Baldwin pianos filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Tuesday amid what it called a "devastating" financial fall.
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He created a mock living room, complete with Steinway-branded teacups and tissue boxes, to help customers visualize high-end pianos in their own homes.
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Of course, now that Mario could move in 360 around the Mushroom Kingdom, so too could his enemies, from lowly Goombas to haunted, hungry pianos.
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There are thousands of such instruments, from woodwinds to pianos, but many of them are too valuable to take apart, or too fragile to display.
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The twinkling pianos continue against images of glory days past, until the Good Guys Star Wars music starts playing to highlights of Super Bowl XLIX.
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Her work outside the Team took off after a 2010 production of "Three Pianos," a boozy song cycle riffing on the work of Franz Schubert.
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They also track each of the university's dozens of Steinway pianos through a detailed spreadsheet and set premium prices in part through shopping other carriers.
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This might allow a natural-language system to distinguish between pianos and church organs on one hand, and livers and other internal organs on the other.
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Since the last year has been filled with many trips to hospitals for Lincoln's treatment, Tanner began to notice many facilities had pianos in their lobbies.
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Then they discovered that nobody actually wants to kick an unwanted piano to the curb, and after spreading the word, donated pianos began to pour in.
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"Life for Rent" and "White Ladder" are both exemplars of "folktronica": a largely acoustic genre using pianos and guitars lightly overlaid by synths and electronic beats.
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It's a mixture of DFA's familiar clatter—Sebastien Grainger's battering ram drums, Jesse F Keeler's frantic, distorted bass guitar—mixed in with some 1990s house pianos.
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There's a long tradition of robotic music production, from player pianos and glitchy electronic music of Felix's Machines to the steam-driven "power trio" Z-Machines.
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That's because with all the brass and horns and guitars and pianos, Hug of Thunder sounds like what the concept of safety in numbers feels like.
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Can the electronics that strip the paint off of Jeff Witscher's placid pianos on "ok, American Medium" be as conducive to reflection as more genteel drones?
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"Phasma" called for leaning over the piano to reach inside and pluck, stop and unconventionally sound the strings, as in one of John Cage's prepared pianos.
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This one-off documentary about the Kanneh-Mason family will make you wonder why you bother to live in a house with fewer than four pianos.
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When the water was about an inch deep, the lights gradually came up, and Grimaud, dressed all in white, walked slowly to one of the pianos.
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My mother herself, during her Depression childhood, had cut out pictures of grand pianos and diamond tiaras and presented them as her wish list for presents.
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"These people next door had two pianos in their house, and they wanted to give away a piano for nothing," Anna was saying to the clergymen.
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With multiple layered pianos and a driving beat, Ed O'Brien (in his diary for the Kid A/Amnesiac sessions) called the song "a Neu thing"—but Neu!
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It was cluttered with carvings, mannequins, paintings, artwork, scraps of wood, pianos, furniture, tapestries and at least one recreational vehicle trailer, which were kindling for the fire.
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The company exports almost all its pianos, with Europe being the main market, followed by America, Canada, China, Japan and other Asian countries, including Thailand and Indonesia.
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Using specially developed software, he is reproducing recordings of now-dead pianists such as Glenn Gould as they would sound if they had performed on Fazioli pianos.
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For Hauschka, whose real name is Volker Bertelmann, modern player pianos—now equipped to read MIDI—appeared as an opportunity to start his own one-man band.
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In 1909, 19003,000 pianos were sold annually in the United States; by 2009, that number had slumped to 30,000, according to the National Association of Music Merchants.
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But Mr. Paulson, an amateur pianist with four Steinway pianos, did not change the company's methods, which he believed were crucial to dominating the high-end market.
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It was a time when jazz and ragtime flew off the keys, and Steinway was producing more than 6,000 pianos a year, triple what it makes today.
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The second week of concerts begins on Tuesday with a stride showcase featuring Mr. Charlap, Rossano Sportiello and Ted Rosenthal on pianos, and Anat Cohen on clarinet.
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"Live from a moment in time," he announces over the plodding pianos of "Luv," stretching the moment out for as long as his oozing vocal style allows.
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He's paired this complex mesh of digitally treated pianos, shuddering vocalizations, and dead eyed drones with another a gesture that comments on the reciprocal act of musicmaking.
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As part of the public art project Sing for Hope, a fleet of brightly painted pianos is being strewn along streets and sidewalks across the five boroughs.
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He is thought to be the only pianist to have recorded complete surveys of the Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert piano sonatas on both period and modern pianos.
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Later on stage, she showed off her raw musical talents by playing two pianos at once, and covering songs from Nat King Cole to Kings of Leon.
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Few Stravinsky scores are more incisive or thrilling: This is scored for four solo singers, a choir (Musica Sacra in the current performances), four pianos and percussion.
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Simon Markson, managing director at Markson Pianos in London, told CNN he thought a £150,000 ($194,000) estimate of the piano's value if it were new was accurate.
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But on Friday, April 28, two of the most accomplished masters of the keyboard join forces for a recital of music for two pianos at Carnegie Hall.
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Much of that effect seemed to be a result of a single compositional strategy: namely, Mr. Mincek's decision to tune the two pianos a quarter-tone apart.
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I love the way it grows for a while with just pianos and strings, and then when the beat drops halfway through the song, the energy is amazing.
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Bruno Mars, Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, The Lumineers, and Tom Waits are shown playing around on the tiny pianos, as well as the babies of stars like P!
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Any one of these methods might seem unusual for a film composer, but they're hardly surprising from someone who recalls putting chainsaws on pianos as a young man.
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The new Dirty Projectors song, "Keep Your Name," abandons the sneakily shredding guitars and unblemished vocal harmonies of past albums for pianos, programmed drums, and wild vocal modulation.
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Passing its main melody back and forth between plaintive pianos and distorted synths, the track's sense of frustrated mournfulness is further intensified by a pitched-down vocal sample.
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But the surging popularity of digital pianos like the One, as well as concerns that a slowing Chinese economy could hurt demand, has prompted the company to reconsider.
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It's a single 22-minute piece that relies largely on distant organ sounds and the healing chimes of electronics that sound like church bells and scrapyard thumb pianos.
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In 2014, Gares & Connexions and Yamaha organized a nationwide contest called Your Turn to Play, asking participants to submit video clips of themselves using one of the pianos.
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Underlying the era's brutal house-to-house searches for pianos and busts of Beethoven was the fear that music preserves a spirit that is incompatible with the collective.
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There is no mention of Art Department funding needs and images of painted pianos in Arts Everywhere promotional materials provide no acknowledgment of the work of student artists.
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There are moments when what sounds like an echo of that slippery opening theme emerges: The pianos try to catch hold of the tune and pin it down.
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Here in the university's Davey Risk Management and Insurance Program, 13 upperclassmen are underwriting those pianos and fellow students who seek to corner the market on fleece blankies.
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Court documents said Mr. Almena collected "fence boards, shingles, window frames, wooden sculptures, tapestries, pianos, organs" and other "ramshackle pieces" that served as the kindling for the fire.
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And in between the rafter-shaking drums and plinking pianos, the Skylar Grey-featured chorus provides a melodic soundtrack for the heartwarming familial ties of Macklemore and Grandma Helen.
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There are plans now to open a Pianos for People location in nearby Ferguson, where economic and racial inequality was highlighted in violence sparked by a 2014 police shooting.
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A paper notice requirement made sense in the age of player pianos when songwriters could hardly be expected to keep track of every player piano roll in the country.
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It might be the player pianos that inspired the law or it might be a reference to how the license works: it's what the law calls a compulsory license.
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Yamaha, the Japanese company better known for its motorcycles and pianos, is riding into the pedal-powered bicycle world with new models — all with an electric boost, of course.
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Like clockwork, the show opened with all the worst bits of Glastonbury rolled into one performance: long sleeve shirts under T-shirts, kooky flower arrangements on pianos, and Coldplay.
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These nonconventional building materials included recycled dry wood, such as fence boards, shingles, window frames, wooden sculptures, tapestries, pianos, organs, wooden furniture, RV trailers, rugs, and other ramshackle pieces.
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The album's debut track, "Nightjar" — aptly named after the studio and premiering exclusively here at T — started out completely instrumental, with actual pianos, strings, drums and a double bass.
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"Entre Chien et Loup," set to Poulenc's 1932 Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, shares a program with Balanchine's 1966 "Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet," new to the Paris Opera.
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Everything from a $1503,2150 Wexford leather club chair and a $217,2118 commercial foosball table, to $673,471 worth of golf carts, to $1.7 million worth of pianos, tubas, and trombones.
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These are albums that are full of soft, honey-colored pianos and expansive synth lines and magical walls of sound, but that's not to say they aren't bleak too.
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Sixty pianos, painted in full regalia by 60 artists, will flood the streets of Boston and nearby Cambridge when the instruments make their debut as playable art late-September.
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Announced in January, the Enspire has a number of high-tech amenities, at least so far as player pianos go, including built-in access to more than 500 songs.
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But he has a strong presence this season, leading the opening-night gala and first subscription program, which features Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Philip Glass's Concerto for Two Pianos.
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"Three Quarter-Tone Pieces" (2009) is named after Charles Ives's 1924 composition for two pianos, in which one is tuned one quarter of a tone higher than the other.
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With a pair of dueling pianos serenading, Bensen and Wise decided to opt-out of a first dance with each other and shared their first dance with their mothers.
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His sinuous, biomorphic chairs, tables, desks, pianos, clocks and vanities, which resembled giant teeth, a human tongue, elephants' feet and human forms, started as freestyle drawings on rag paper.
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Gregorius said he bought two pianos — one is in Tampa, where the Yankees' spring training facility is, and the other in his native Curaçao — and taught himself to play.
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Bar Car Nights, the garden's annual series of evening events for the 21-and-older crowd, is back as well, with cozy cocktails, a fire pit and dueling pianos.
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His fin de siècle hero — a sensualist, as is Boyd's wont in his young male stars — is Brodie Moncur, a quick-witted Scot with a gift for tuning pianos.
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Last week at Carnegie's Zankel Hall, he more than held his own as a pianist alongside the virtuoso Kirill Gerstein in a demanding program of works for two pianos.
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TIANJIN, China — At a port in Germany, 150 Steinway pianos are waiting to be shipped to this gateway city for the grand opening of the Juilliard School's second campus.
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So this is a welcome opportunity to hear an early Andres work, an hourlong epic in 10 movements for two pianos that was Mr. Andres's senior thesis at Yale.
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He began buying fortepianos and early 290th-century pianos, his collection growing so large that he had to acquire a house next to his in Vienna to maintain them.
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In 2010, they jointly wrote and performed in "Three Pianos," the musical play that turned a manic romp through Schubert's "Winterreise" song cycle into an eerie modern-day Schubertiade.
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They bought the cars from the artist Peter Max, the psychedelic art phenomenon who had put eye-popping colors on postage stamps, pianos, posters and even a Boeing 777.
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Around the midpoint there was also room for a sense of reverie, as the churning pianos familiar from some of Mr. Reich's past works were allowed to relent (briefly).
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The line of accessories, called Nintendo Labo, contain modular cardboard sheets that can be folded into a variety of playthings — such as motorbikes, fishing rods, pianos, houses or robots.
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But there was some inspiration: A live performance of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" included 84 grand pianos, which is still pretty jaw-dropping when you watch it today.
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NintendoLabo is like a next-level LEGO, with kits that let you do things like build working pianos that interact directly with Switch software, and even make your own robots.
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Related: Watch A Flying Piano Touch Down At Munich Airport Matthew Herbert's "20 Pianos" Features Electronic Modifications Of 20 Legendary Keyboards Hundreds of Facebook Images Get Transformed into Piano Music
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In the quiet twilight of Cape Cod, insulated from the boisterous pianos and merrymaking on Provincetown's Commercial Street, you can see the animals swimming, almost playfully, just 10 feet offshore.
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Spotify is being sued by Wixen because of mechanical licenses — a legal regime that was created in reaction to the dire threat to the music industry posed by player pianos.
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Syrupy strings and pristine pianos contrast with Tyler's gravelly flow — and then the song flips, with a quaking, Neptunes-inspired beat coming in alongside an impeccable Frank Ocean hook. —E.
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No longer reliant on distortion pedals and moshy sing-a-long choruses, Mackinder and Mercer have a new arsenal of instruments—pianos, horns, bells—giving them a more expansive sound.
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Gradually, more pianos are overdubbed: in rippling loops, low resonant tones and repeated chords, not so much filling out the arrangement as emanating alongside it, somewhere between harmonious and oblivious.
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Steinway executives said they dreamed of a day when the company's pianos filled living rooms across China and the company name was as well known in the country as Gucci.
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But they acknowledged that if Steinway were to thrive in China, it would need a cultural shift in a country where low-end pianos have dominated the market for decades.
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One salesroom here boasted a brisk business in secondhand Japanese pianos, selling for $1,500 to $8,000 for fastidious, well-off North Koreans who sneer at the sound of Chinese instruments.
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The pianos have proved to be very popular, and the music, blending with the sounds of shouting passengers, screeching trains and rolling suitcases, can give French stations a peculiar soundscape.
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Almena lined a hallway on both sides with pianos facing each other, so people walking through could stretch out their arms and run their fingers over both sets of keys.
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The Beijing restaurant, which is officially recognized by Ms. Teng's family in Taiwan, also includes a museum, on the first floor, displaying some of Ms. Teng's dresses, pianos and clocks.
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It showed how much experimentation can still be done with Eastman, as did an arrangement of "Gay Guerrilla" on Sunday for 11 electric guitars instead of the usual four pianos.
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A few years later, he drove a Dodge van to New York and rented an apartment on Ludlow Street, where he moved pianos by day and self-medicated by night.
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Though I was eager to hear the "Rite," I was even more excited to hear Stravinsky's inexplicably neglected Concerto for Two Pianos (a rare example of a concerto without orchestra).
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Pianos were manufactured there in the early 1900s, and young, aspiring tech executives were unlikely to be drawn, on their own, to a neighborhood with a 40 percent poverty rate.
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Guitars and pianos swirl in and out, and Ms. Gomez's vocals are chopped up to join the percussion, flinging well-chosen syllables — a recurring "whiskey neat" — at the offending ex.
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That's what I want to do with my life: I want to put exploding pianos hanging from the ceilings of buildings, but not if I have to learn to draw.
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You can still listen to the audio here and above is another new one and the announcement of a month-long weekly residency at Pianos in New York, starting this evening.
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It opens with pan pipes, pianos, and a damp guitar, all yawning into each other, before Shannon walks in in a trance, the drums trying to slow down to his pace.
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In addition to Stillman's singing, the other most immediate element of the band's signature sound would be its inclusion of synthesizers and pianos as supplement to the rest of the music.
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Prince's last days: Health scares, thrilling shows, purple pianos Parishioners at St. Louis Park congregation, gathering for the first service since Prince's death, have had years to push aside his fame.
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Elsewhere, Camila Cabello cleverly translated the percussive pianos of her Cuban musical heritage into "Havana," a worldwide megahit, while also tackling indie-leaning synthpop and acoustic textures on her debut album.
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Using a 16-track tape machine, I recorded and layered the sounds of four different pianos, recording endless layers upon layers of the sustain of the piano note without the attacks.
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The AvantGrand, for example, comes in the same small size as most digital pianos—though it also has a baby grand model—but feels and sounds much like an acoustic one.
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"I made this album for anyone that likes songs, and anyone that likes pianos, and anyone that can put up with my voice," Taylor says, wryly, from his home in London.
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Two of the three singles that Alex Giannascoli has released from his forthcoming LP as (Sandy) Alex G, Rocket, have been wistfully acoustic, leading with fiddles and harmonies and box pianos.
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She gets up to the dais, prepared to read a speech that slams her mother for not allowing a young Selina to practice at the better of the family's two pianos.
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Article continues after the video below Of course, now that Mario could move in 360 around the Mushroom Kingdom, so too could his enemies, from lowly Goombas to haunted, hungry pianos.
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In rich coastal cities, real estate scions and technology executives are buying Steinway pianos — some outfitted with diamonds and wood from Africa and India — to complement collections of Porsches and Picassos.
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"In Pyongyang, which is really where everything happens, if you have any musical inclination whatsoever, they have guitars, they have pianos, they have all sorts of instruments in school," says Zook.
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He favors three-piece suits, owns one of Elton John's old pianos and hired John Legend and Seal — and a youth orchestra — to perform at his wedding on the Amalfi Coast.
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"FIX YOU" VS. "SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW" With pianos, keys, and organs of all kind taking up breathing room in this match, it comes down to guitars to settle the score.
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In addition to shuttered venues like Brownies and Cake Shop, the tour visited spots that are still holding out, including long-running Lower East Side spaces like Pianos and Arlene's Grocery.
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The air in Tianjin is so dry that the pianos will require climate-controlled rooms, helping to nearly double the cost of the state-of-the-art campus to $225 million.
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" Mr. Goebbels first worked with Artangel in 2007, on a kinetic installation called "Stifters Dinge," which was made from five auto-playing pianos and was presented as a "no-man show.
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The interventions performed on many of the pianos are wildly visual, with artists reinterpreting the function of the piano as an object, in addition to affecting the sounds it can produce.
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The virtuosic powerhouse Marc-André Hamelin and Leif Ove Andsnes, known for his poetic sensibility, perform works ranging from the sunny simplicity of Mozart's Larghetto and Allegro for Two Pianos and Debussy's "En blanc et noir" to two bravura pieces by Stravinsky: the sparkling Concerto for Two Pianos and the composer's own brilliant arrangement of "The Rite of Spring," which challenges the players to faithfully render the score's vivid orchestral colors on black and white keys. (carnegiehall.org)
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Prince's last days: Health scares, thrilling shows, purple pianos Tyka Nelson: 'My brother would play the piano and I would sing' Nelson is Prince's younger sister and his junior by two years.
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But he was also capable of ferocious abstraction, as in the first section of his "Structures" (1951) for two pianos, a test case in applying serial principles to rhythm, volume and color.
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Dizzy pianos, spiderwebs of strings, distant chimes, and found sound samples all swirl around one another to find stillness in movement and moments of warmth in the bluster of these frigid passages.
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There's a lot of live guitars, pianos and instrumentation on Trap Muzik , which quickly moves from the minimalist bass of a UGK to the soulful jams of College Dropout-era Kanye West.
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The market for high-end pianos has been dominated for so long by the German-American Steinway brand that nobody thought Mr Fazioli would be able to sell even more expensive ones.
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The cardboard kit gets some innovative use out of the Switch's underlying technology, letting kids build robot, fishing rods, pianos and the like, using the console's Joy-Con controllers as the brains.
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And they need to woo music students who are increasingly turning to lower-cost keyboards and so-called smart pianos, which use lights, iPads and other technical tools to teach basic skills.
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Foxing is about to embark on a ten-day run in the UK with Pianos Become the Teeth, before fast-tracking back home and getting on the road again the following week.
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By that point, the 10,000-square-foot space had become deliriously maximalist: drums everywhere, chandeliers everywhere, vintage typewriters, Indonesian antiques, Afghan rugs, early 20th-century shipping trunks, dozens of pianos and organs.
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"Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus" features tuba, saxophones, cello, drums and three pianos, all playing parts that feel balanced and spacious and give each other enough room to land a plane.
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Dominic Maker and Kai Campos make serious music sound playful, stripping the overly academic electronic scene of pretense with plinking drums and stargazing notes that evoke a baby genius sampling toy pianos.
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Steinway Musical Instruments, best known for its grand pianos and controlled by U.S. hedge fund billionaire John Paulson, has attracted takeover interest from China Poly Group, Bloomberg reported on Monday citing sources.
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"I had the privilege of going in one of those schools that were closed [due to the budget deficit], and went into a room of pianos that were broken," Blackson told Hyperallergic.
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After starting out behind their respective pianos and pointing out that neither host had ever won an award before, the hosts took center stage and brought out ensemble members from every nominated musical.
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Both of these were interesting, but somewhat aimed at those who were already familiar with playing pianos or other instruments, or with creating and playing electronic music with synthesizers, FX processors and mixers.
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" The menagerie includes an emaciated recluse who collects pianos, a pair of retired porn stars who reign over the building and his mother's rotating cast of boyfriends "with broken teeth and crooked minds.
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Pianos, funky basslines, and snatches of vocal melodies drift in and out, creating grooves and blowing them up just as quickly, pulsing with the indistinct intimacy of the best kinds of studio outtakes.
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It will just be a random passer-by, jamming for the fun of it on one of the pianos that the national railroad company, S.N.C.F., has installed in nearly 100 stations across France.
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Imagine if it were Clinton who had ordered $100,000 worth of pianos from a small music store in Freehold, N.J., and then announced months after taking delivery that she would pay only $70,000.
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It's difficult, after hearing these works played so many times on modern pianos, to accept an instrument with such a different basic sound, but Mr. Schiff's playing is, as ever, alert and intelligent.
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As early as 1751, Franz Jacob Späth, a builder of clavichords, fortepianos and organs, was producing tangent pianos in Regensburg, Germany, assisted later by his son-in-law and partner, Christoph Friedrich Schmahl.
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Cheung donated the proceeds from 45 thumb pianos, which sold for about HK$250 a piece, to raise more than $10,000 for two organisations that support protesters with legal help or medical care.
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Mahler's Symphony No. 5 is home turf for these players, of course, but Philip Glass's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestras is not, even after years of Alan Gilbert's penchant for the new.
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But they produced some very cool things: border-straddling marvels like Neo-Zapotec pianos and the Aztec Hotel, a 1920s Mayan-Revival building in the San Gabriel Valley; Richard Neutra and Frida Kahlo.
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" Frenkel's description of that night and the following day is harrowing: "Pieces of furniture, pianos, chandeliers, typewriters, piles of stock lay strewn over footpaths; the street was covered with broken windows and mirrors.
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Cheung donated the proceeds from 45 thumb pianos, which sold for about HK$250 a piece, to raise more than $10,000 for two organizations that support protesters with legal help or medical care.
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It's telling that the climax of the piece, if it has one, involves the dancers drifting off one by one, to crowd around the pianos and assist in an accumulation of hammered notes.
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We head over to Pianos, a nearby bar with dancing, and chill for five minutes before deciding the music is abysmal and not worth paying the $7 cover for the upper-level dance floor.
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"Retune" builds from a single cycling pattern into a chaotic, tumbling climax, one that sounds like a bunch of toy pianos being thrown in a blender; closer "1804" fades out with hopeful, pointillist bursts.
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I have spent seasons chasing the thrills of LCD Soundsystem anthems—especially "All My Friends," a 2007 hit built on soul-searching and on galloping pianos—despite understanding only about half of the lyrics.
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No matter how much money the company spends promoting its craftsmanship, no matter how many performers endorse its pianos, China's middle class might ultimately be unwilling to make the leap to high-end instruments.
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I observed some of his arduous preparation for this recital on Monday afternoon, when he tried out pianos at Carnegie Hall (eventually picking a German-made Steinway) and practiced for a couple of hours.
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Baths' track, like many that he's released to date, is a crystal clear collection of plinking pianos and blissful harmonies over stuttering drums—the end result sounds something like a gently remixed Ryuichi Sakamoto record.
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SD: Your installation involves a projection onto the floor of the room of a prayer rug from the mosque's prayer space next-door onto pianos that had been tipped over and made useless by vandals.
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As music technology evolved, mechanical licenses did, too, following the shift from player pianos to physical records and finally to digital downloads and certain kinds of streaming (delightfully labeled "digital phonorecord deliveries" in legal jargon).
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We looked at the charms of Fazioli pianos (Chopin nocturne 19 in E Minor), the challenges facing the French army (Guerre de 14-18) and the new desperation of the hotel industry (Stay with me).
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"As a business model, protecting everything from pianos and antiques to wine collections before a disaster arrives is cheaper for insurers than the billions they would have to spend rebuilding and replacing properties," Morris wrote.
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Mr. Abrahamsen used his Bach arrangements as a model for two large-scale canons, written for a deliberately symmetrical instrumentation: a nonet comprising two trios of winds and strings, two pianos and a single percussionist.
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If you found Love Is Dead—the band's third LP, released last month—too routine, then the fluttering guitars and upright pianos that back lead singer Lauren Mayberry here won't do much to excite you.
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Faced with an order to vacate by the end of December, school officials will spend Christmas week packing up 12 grand pianos, its estimable Braille music library and other items, presumably to go into storage.
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Residents and visitors described it as both a haven for artists and a fire trap, with a warren of trailers, broken pianos and stacks of wood and a complex network of electrical cords and generators.
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She favors chittering pianos, the glissando sounds of Fender Rhodes, MIDI instruments that approximate harps, marimbas, and upright basses, none of which made prominent appearances, or at least not so straightforwardly, in her previous works.
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Levy uses the palazzo itself to structure her book, with six longer chapters detailing the building's history, "one for every century the house of Rucellai has persevered," and seven shorter pianos where her own story unfolds.
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His new album, "Old Locks and Irregular Verbs" (Pi), uses a different setup: two pianos (Jason Moran and David Virelles) and two alto saxophones (Roman Filiu and Curtis MacDonald), as well as cello, tuba and drums.
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Those will be among the premieres in this pair of programs, the second of which features Conrad Tao as both guest pianist, performing Steve Reich's "Finishing the Hat — Two Pianos," and composer of a new work.
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But the Slavic half of the program — Rachmaninoff's two splendid suites for two pianos — seemed what most of the full house (with Russian spoken all around) had come for, and no one could have been disappointed.
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My boyfriend has one of those digital pianos with several kinds of rhythms and noises and I've taken to playing roulette with the different demo sounds and just banging away at those freaking ivory keys, baby!
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Its collection spans centuries of European classical music and instruments, with intricately decorated pianos and hundreds of reeds, horns and string instruments, including a 10-foot-tall octobass that is played with the hands and feet.
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One aspect of that collection is a series of more than 65 pianos commissioned by Conz as a continuation of the tradition of the prepared piano established by John Cage at the end of the 1930s.
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Yamaha, which makes instruments and equipment ranging from pianos and double basses to drums and heavy-duty speakers, thanked people in the second tweet for liking its first post, which was retweeted more than 50,000 times.
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They raised three children in a home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx that had four pianos, Jane Mayer said, one of them in an upstairs studio, where Mr. Mayer did most of his composing.
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Honestly, let's mostly just revisit the brilliance of "y'all shipping keys, we shipping grand pianos" because damn, that's a good one, and we only have 60 more days to point out good Lil Wayne lines on here.
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The producer also helped the Beatles with the song's iconic finale, a ringing 40-second chord, in which Martin on the harmonium and Lennon, Starr, and McCartney on three separate pianos struck an E-major chord simultaneously.
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While building things like cardboard pianos and motorcycles, players are encouraged to learn more about how these objects' function, and there's also a creative mode where they can learn basic programming concepts and design their own interactions.
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And, in 1998, I found it unexpectedly moving to hear young players from the New Juilliard Ensemble in a commanding account of his 40-minute masterpiece "Sur Incises," scored for three pianos, three harps and three percussionists.
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It is the most comprehensive survey of Creed's work in the US to date, meaning that both indoors and outdoors, the city will be bursting with glowing text, slamming pianos, balloons, and other odes to playful minimalism.
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The next year, he filled a villa in the German city of Wuppertal with detuned and junk-stuffed pianos, a record player with a dildo instead of a tonearm and the head of a freshly slaughtered ox.
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"Royals" had the New Zealand singer/songwriter memorably stalking the plentiful space around kick drums and snaps, while new single "Green Light" embraces the busy pulse of both house pianos and producer Jack Antonoff's signature tumbling percussion.
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Ploughing the kind of fertile terrain that's sustained Four Tet and Jamie XX for years, the man known as Alex Crossan to his mum uses everything from bamboo flutes to thumb pianos to create his unique electronica.
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We all knew in our hearts that if we just waited long enough, the Internet of Things would come around to self-playing pianos; that surely the cloud would incorporate that last vestige of ol' timey technology.
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Le Petit Architecte also embraces its glitches; I found myself uncontrollably walking backwards while vaulting pianos into the distance until I fell backwards over an abyss, looking up at the Villa Savoye as I tumbled into oblivion.
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The interview inspired confidence that she'd execute the plan I set forth which includes some quirks (like engaging the senses through passed champagne upon arrival, having guests throw the flower petals, serving family-style, having dueling pianos).
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The program features Christopher Wheeldon's "Scènes de Ballet," created for students at the school in 1999 and an instant hit, and Peter Martins's "Hallelujah Junction" (2001; set to music by John Adams, it features two pianos onstage).
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The court documents filed by the district attorney's office on Monday said Mr. Almena collected "fence boards, shingles, window frames, wooden sculptures, tapestries, pianos, organs" and other "ramshackle pieces" that served as the kindling for the fire.
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From this suite, performed by five impressive young singers accompanied on two pianos by Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, "Dinner at Eight" seems much closer to a musical-theater work than his previous three grand-sized operas.
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They opened with an elegant, crisply articulate performance of Mozart's Larghetto and Allegro for Two Pianos, a work left in sketchy form by the composer and played here in a completion by the pianist Paul Badura-Skoda.
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The Wall Street Journal reported other targeted items included copper, logs, textiles, chemicals, pigments, fishing gear, sporting equipment, Christmas supplies, furniture, upright pianos, tires, condoms, engines, juices, gin, sparkling wine, nonalcoholic beer, communion wafers and bottled water.
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And in the evening's weirdest, wildest moment, she performed at two pianos simultaneously, shouting out songs she liked, playing a few bars of them, then singing along, as if she were grubbing for tips at a piano bar.
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Over the course of this past week, the Anaheim Convention Center was filled with a raucous cacophony of guitars, ukuleles, banjos, drums, cymbals, harmonicas, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, tubas, trombones, pianos, and a few weird hybrid creations in between.
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" A Son's Musical Legacy Sitting in a back room at Pianos for People's storefront location while Smith tutors students in the large front room, Townsend listens as they play and says, "I hear Alex validating what's going on.
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The Chinese company ONE Music Group makes both smart pianos with keyboards that light up, as well as a strip that you overlay on any keyboard, that also corresponds to an iPad app to learn to play piano.
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He's even attaching grand pianos to the walls, inside of which he'll project a film, The End is My Beginning, in which his Polish father-in-law, an ex-miner, inhabits the mise en scène of his paintings.
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A few that might make your heart sing: A concert on four grand pianos in the middle of a street, a spectacle with songs all about New York, and a series where musicians improvise with native city birds.
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Founded in 1853 in a Manhattan loft by a German immigrant, Steinway flourished for generations by selling high-end pianos, each crafted by hand from materials like Sitka spruce and cast iron, in the United States and Europe.
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In Cerro Gordo, a town nestled in the Inyo Mountains of California, near Death Valley, there's a single saloon with swinging doors, two out-of-tune pianos and a mysterious bloodstain on the wall beneath three bullet holes.
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And whereas most New York musicians struggle to find space for their instruments, Mr. Toth and Ms. Ellis are able to keep two keyboards and two pianos, one of which Ms. Ellis brought with her from Ditmas Park.
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When one of the writers of "Three Pianos," Dave Malloy, embarked on a long-shot quest to fashion a musical from a 75-page section of Tolstoy's "War and Peace," he again turned to Ms. Chavkin to direct.
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When I was a student at a prestigious music school, a widespread school legend told of the Juilliard School's fiercely competitive piano department, whose students would place razor blades in between the keys of rehearsal pianos in practice rooms.
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Younger generations seem to prefer a version of the instrument that is both portable and cheaper to purchase (the National Association of Music Merchandisers reported sales of 1.2m digital keyboards in 2015, compared with fewer than 40,000 acoustic pianos).
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The pop songs of today have decades of plugged-in predecessors: electric pianos and organs were plentiful throughout the past hundred years, and the programmable electronic keyboard hit its stride in the synthesizer sounds of Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder.
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"The piano has been around for 300 years, and the new hybrid pianos are a radical departure from what people are used to," notes Edward Bilous, the founding director of the Juilliard School's Centre for Innovation in the Arts.
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With every new innovation — from player pianos to cassette players to internet radio — legislators have tacked on some new patch to "fix" music copyright, creating an increasingly untenable monstrosity of flapping bits held together with staples and Scotch tape.
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It's also a bit slow to load, makes easy mistakes (check the "computer" tag and you get plenty of pictures of pianos, for example), and misses many useful categories, including the photographer, date, and who appears in each picture.
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Because the systems are high-end and bespoke, Crestron has been able to build automated systems for clients that run "dog walking scenarios," trigger self-playing pianos or turn the lights blue when a Yankee game starts, said Clancy.
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La Dispute are generally aligned with the same late-00s wave of post-hardcore that also gave rise to bands like Touché Amore, Defeater and Pianos Become the Teeth, but they always lay a little further left of field.
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We can't know what their curious device sounded like back in the 9th century, but as an incredibly early example of a programmable instrument, its significance endures in the player pianos and MIDI software that clang out tunes today.
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Some of the opera's smaller roles have been excised, and Mr. Schlosberg has arranged Beethoven's score for two pianos, two cellos, two horns and percussion — a chamber ensemble intended to emphasize musically the opera's story of heroism amid darkness.
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The soprano Bryonha Marie, the mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford, the tenor Joshua Blue and the baritone Justin Austin, all impressive, were backed, nightclub style, by Mr. Blier and Joseph Li at two pianos, and by a small jazz combo.
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