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How one of America’s last piano manufacturers stays alive
Piano-building was once one of the country’s largest industries. Today, only two companies remain in business.
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Finding and Choosing Piano Fingering - Practising the Piano
The only correct fingering is the one that works for your hand! This blog post provides some tips and suggestions for finding and choosing piano fingering.
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Piano Music of Amy Beach
American composer Amy Beach’s significant contribution to the solo piano repertoire is finally beginning to receive the recognition and popularity it deserves. This collection offers ten intermedia…
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Creative Ways to Practise Scales - Practising the Piano
This week's blog post gives some creative ideas, tools and resources for making practising scales more interesting, enjoyable and effective!
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Piano Sight Reading: A Progressive Method
Having looked at more than a few sight reading resources over recent years, I find this series especially appealing. Put simply, as a teacher I feel that these are no-fuss publications which can be…
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» State Of the Art Innovations – The 102 keys Stephen Paulello Grand Piano
For more than 30 years, Stephen Paulello has systematically studied all the components of the piano, including the instruments of previous eras. But as a pianist dreaming of more complex and expressive sonorities, he doesn’t content himself with a cult of the past. Instead, he has often used his findings to challenge generally accepted ideas. His unique grand pianos are constructed to order in his workshop-laboratory 100 kms south of Paris, where there is also a recording studio. Piano Street’s Patrick Jovell has interviewed Stephen Paulello about his visions and achievements.
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Sheet music sales soar 25% as UK turns to piano practice during Covid lockdown
Digital piano sales rocketed too as millions of Britons with time on their hands sought out online tutorials to help them dust off skills
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Virtuoso mourns beloved £150,000 piano smashed by movers
A unique piano which was treasured by the Canadian virtuoso Angela Hewitt as her “best friend” was broken beyond repair when it was dropped by specialist instrument movers. The expensive accident happened late last month after Hewitt finished recording Beethoven’s piano variations at a studio in Berlin. She said it left her in such shock that it took her 10 days before she could announce the news to her followers.
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Erik Satie's Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire
Gala Kossokowski, Luis Arias, arrangement by Pablo Díaz
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Piano
Last fall, we asked our writers and editors, and some of our favorite artists, to select the five minutes or so they’d play for friends to make them fall in love with classical music. (See the picks.) Choosing was hard, but we loved it so much that we’re bringing it back — this month, with the goal of persuading those same curious friends to love the piano, the most powerful and protean of instruments. We know you’ll make memorable discoveries, and we hope you enjoy.
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Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Frankfurt Radio Symphony featuring Khatia Buniatishvili, Paavo Järvi conducting
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Improvisation at the train station in paris!
A moment in time.
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Bud Powell at Birdland, 1953
The modern jazz piano starts with Bud Powell. In fact, it's almost impossible to fully appreciate any post-World War II jazz pianist without first studying Powell's recordings. Thelonious Monk would be the exception, but even with Monk, there are connections...
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Australian behind world's grandest piano
Australia's last remaining piano-maker has just created an instrument the likes of which the world has never seen. Most grand pianos have 88 keys but Wayne Stuart's family-run business in Tumut, southern New South Wales, has built the first known piano with an impressive 108 keys. This means it boasts a nine octave range, unheard of on the piano until now.
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Black & White Are Beautiful
Hazel Scott
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Clair de Lune for Anpam
Paul Barton
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Beethoven's Piano Concerto № 3
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Alice Sara Ott
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Billy Joel on His Songwriting Silence, the Country Today, and His Ideal Farewell
“I never felt like I was as good as I wanted to be. My bar was Beethoven.”
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You Can't Risk Moving Your Piano All By Yourself - Hire Professional Removalists
I recently moved to Adelaide from Melbourne. You very well know moving is something you want to avoid your entire life but circumstances ...
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Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1, Romance
Olga Scheps
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