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	Grand and Baby Grand Piano Restoration Service by Michael Sweeney Piano Craftsman
		Piano restoration is a living 'old world craft' that requires excellent tools, fine metals, old growth wood, paints and finishes applied with precision by skilled human hands.
		Note: piano restoration often requires the replacement of hammer shanks and flanges, whippens, damper heads, springs, screws, the damper lift rod, hammer rail cloth, screw punchings, hammer butt springs, etc. We believe that the piano restoration is not complete unless everything that needs replacing is replaced.
		Since new strings always stretch, we continue to tune and re-tune the piano during this initial phase of stretching because it helps the piano stay in tune longer once the piano restoration process is complete.
	www.sweeneypiano.com /interstate/services/restoration.cfm (0 words)

	USATODAY.com - Architect has built a grand piano
		Before he was an architect, Daniel Libeskind was a musician, so it's natural he'd be asked to design a piano.
		Libeskind, a virtuoso accordionist before he shot to fame as the remaker of Ground Zero, was tapped last year by Schimmel Pianos, a 119-year-old German company.
		But Nina Libeskind, the architect's wife and business manager, says the couple probably won't be getting one of his pianos: It's too big for their apartment.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-10-13-libeskind-sidebar_x.htm (257 words)

	Animated Piano Action
		The purpose of the piano action as a whole is to accurately translate every nuance of the player's finger and hand movements into a musical note that reflects the exact intentions of the player.
		Since the keys of the piano become longer as you approach the lower notes, lower notes require more key leads than higher notes so as to make all keys feel the same to the player.
		The brass is considered more durable and has less tendency to add a metallic quality to the piano's tone and the wooden dowel helps to provide better stability for the screws that run through the rail as well as eleminates unwanted metallic resonance.
	www.musicplay.com /action/action.html (0 words)

	The Grand Piano Extravaganza
		M.C.-ed by David Love, associate vice president/ director of research development and sponsored programs, the Grand Piano Extravaganza combines serious music-making with off-the-wall circus acts, all in the name of fund-raising for Oberlin piano department scholarships and special projects.
		Robert Shannon, professor of piano, and Haewon Song, assistant professor of piano, a duo whose four-hand performances are fondly recalled by Oberlin audiences, will share the spotlight in a two-piano version of Rhapsodie Espagnole by Maurice Ravel.
		Proceeds from the Grand Piano Extravaganza go towards supporting piano department scholarships and other special projects.
	www.oberlin.edu /con/bkstage/200005/grand_piano_extravaganza.html (0 words)

	Piano Grand Pianos Pianists :: Lesson Tips Tuning Manufacturers Pianos for Sale (News)
		A digital piano is a copy of what the acoustic or original piano is. However, instead of strings and hammers, it uses digitally sampled sounds, amplifiers and speakers.
		Digital pianos were invented about 20 years ago and when they where first introduced they were pretty terrible, the keys were much too light, spongy and nothing like a real piano.
		Piano Students often think they have to be Beethoven or Mozart to compose their own pieces.
	www.grand-pianos.org (0 words)

	Piano Soundfont & Sample Page - From Steinway Grand Piano
		The overwhelmingly positive and supportive feedback from users of my piano sample sets encouraged me to continue to produce new, larger and more sophisticated Grand Piano sample sets as new software samplers emerged.
		I was very pleased that my piano sample sets were used by several professional studios that produced music for TV and film, so you have probably heard my piano samples as part of the background music on several popular TV shows or in the movies.
		If I feel that my future generation piano sound sample sets are sufficiently superior to other commercial piano sets, I may make them available to the public again.
	www.pianosounds.com (0 words)

	Baby grand piano - baby grand piano - definition of baby grand piano by the Free
		Short grand pianos such as the "baby grand" pictured are about as long as they are
		Grand Piano and Baby Grands; Restoration, Repair, Refinishing and
		Grand Pianos, Baby Grand Piano - We offer a wide range of grand and baby grand pianos to suit every budget and size requirement.
	xn--fhq663bs5b.com /neyq/baby-grand-piano.html (511 words)

	Courtney Pianos: Types of Grand Piano
		The manner in which grand pianos are constructed is, in principle, the same as an upright, but the size (length) varies considerably.
		Actions in grand pianos are nearly always defined as `Roller' (the most sophisticated and responsive type of action), though baby grands often have `Simplex' (spring & loop), as they are more compact - and invariably inferior.
		Grand pianos much less than 5ft long suffer from loss of tone quality due to short strings, though a small grand made by one of the better-known makers can be a worthy instrument, if it is built with a `roller' action.
	www.courtneypianos.co.uk /grand-types.html (455 words)

	Antique Piano Restoration by Vintage Piano Shop
		The new and more powerful grand and upright pianos of the 19th century were initially considered harsh and unpleasant to listen to, so the more primitive square piano remained popular with the general public well into the 20th century.
		Pianos from about 5'8" to about 7 feet in length are classifieds simply as grand pianos, and they come in all variations of sizes therein.
		The advantage of the console piano was an improved touch and tone resulting from the extra 4 to 6 inches in height while keeping with the small, neat appearance of the spinet piano.
	www.vintagepianoshop.com /identify.cfm (2610 words)

	Grand Pianos from Maximiliaan's House of Grand Pianos - Piano locations in Miami Florida, New York, Dallas Texas, ...
		We carry images of the grand piano and its players in our hearts and minds--everything from Frédéric Chopin and his romantic compositions and Irving Berlin with his popular melodies to the flamboyant Liberace and the rambunctious Jerry Lee Lewis, who was reputed to have once set fire to a piano onstage.
		For the baby grand in the Hollywood films, the answer is probably no. In fact, it's likely that the piano at the old MGM studios wasn't even a musical instrument at all, but simply a white, piano-shaped object used as set decoration.
		Pianos are plentiful, and numerous options are open to the buyer in terms of new instruments, older instruments both refurbished and not, and the specialty trade in one-of-a-kind or limited-edition pianos.
	www.pianomax.com /pubcigar.htm (1274 words)

	Piano History
		The other major feature of his early piano action was a hammer escapement mechanism, that enabled the hammer to disengage from the key once the note had been played, and then played again at a different velocity, changing the expressiveness of the notes.
		Music began to be written specifically for the piano in 1732, and the true career of the piano as a concert and ensemble instrument began.
		Grand pianos began being mass-produced in the 1800's, with the establishment of makers such as John Broadwood and Sons, Jonas Chickering, Julius Blüthner, Ignaz Bosendorfer, Friedrich Bechstein, Henry Steinway, and Sebastien Erard, whose company fully developed the basis for the modern grand action by 1821.
	www.atonal.ca /history/history.html (1130 words)

	eBay Guides - Piano Buying Guide
		Grand pianos come in many different shapes and they run in size anywhere from 4 feet 6 inches to more than 9 feet long.
		Germany/Austria: Bechstein pianos, Bosendorfer pianos, Grotrian pianos, Hamburg Steinway pianos, Sauter pianos, Seiler pianos, Feurich pianos, Forster pianos, Bluthner pianos, Ibach pianos, and Schimmel pianos
		Piano cases are made or finished in either wood or wood-grained finishes (also known as clear) or opaque finishes.
	pages.ebay.com /buy/guides/piano-buying-guide (1804 words)

	Grand piano (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A large traditionally (harp shaped) piano where the strings run horiziontally.
		This is the preferred concert instrument and is available in several sizes from the baby grand (around 5 feet long) to the concert grand (around 9 feet long).
		The concert grand is also known as a "9-foot grand" although it may not actually be 9 feet in length.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/textg/Grandpiano.html (59 words)

	Chicago Piano Store / Pianos in Chicago - Baby Grand Pianos in Chicagoland!
		Acoustic grand pianos (inclusive of "baby grands", which are simply smaller grands) are a major accomplishment of musical engineering -- peerless in all of the families of instruments.
		Preferably, a grand piano should be purchased from a trustworthy, full-service dealer that has done the meticulous setup that these fine instruments require.
		Price ranges of used grand pianos is a difficult topic to briefly discuss, given a couple hundred years of production from thousands of manufacturers.
	www.chicagopianos.com /grands.htm (1078 words)

	Sister Wendy's American Collection \| Selected Works \| Grand Piano
		The piano was built in 1796 in London during a period of rapid advancement in the art and science of piano making.
		Grand pianos are still produced by makers around the world, but instruments today are prized for their musical, not decorative, character.
		The Broadwood piano was given to the MFA in 1985 and stands as the centerpiece of the museum's culturally diverse Musical Instrument Collection.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/sisterwendy/works/pia.html (392 words)

	Upright Piano Instruction Guide - Piano Structure Draft. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Piano - (The name piano is actually short for pianoforte, which in Italian means "soft-loud").
		A musical instrument, a piano variation with the strings in a vertical position, designed in 1811.
		At first, pianos had a wooden frame and linear arrangement of the strings.
	www.tkk.pl /~xpc/upright_piano (80 words)

	How Pianos Work - Piano Construction, Function and Technical Books
		Pianos and Their Makers by Alfred Dolge This famous paperback, written by one of the greatest industrialists ever to be involved in piano manufacturing, tells all about the history of the piano business prior to 1911.
		- the rim of a grand piano is the wooden framework to which the plate is bolted and the soundboard is glued.
		On some of the best pianos, the inner and outer rim are made as one piece to provide a stronger foundation for both structure and sound.
	www.concertpitchpiano.com /GrandPianoConstruction.html (2345 words)

	Cathedral Stone - Yamaha CP70 - Yamaha CP70B Electric Grand Piano - Yamaha CP-70 CP-70B - CP80 CP-80
		The CP70B is called an electric grand piano, even though it has hammers and strings, because it has a sophisticated piezo type pick-up system that translates the vibrating strings into an audio signal.
		It is not nearly as percussive as many grand piano's, particularly the the Yamaha C and G series.
		I turned on the piano and connected one of the outputs to the line-in of the Peterson unit with Monster 1000 series instrument cable.
	www.cathedralstone.net /Pages/YamahaCP70B.htm (1047 words)

	grand piano tilter (was piano horse, et al.) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		grand piano tilter (was piano horse, et al.)
		A concert grand could be >upped on its side by one man, and loaded into >a moving truck w/electric winch inside.
		> >It is designed to roll the piano from standing on its side, on padded >8-inch blocks, to the normal horizontal position and height where the >legs can be re-attached and the "tilter" removed from under the piano.
	www.ptg.org /pipermail/caut/2003-February/007946.html (397 words)

	GRAND PIANO
		Lorie Line is the last person who thought she would spend 16 years of her life on the road, hauling a grand piano and three semitruck loads of scenery around the country.
		Yet, here she is, the pride of Minnesota, bringing her annual piano extravaganza to Phoenix for an 8 p.m.
		I started studying the piano at age 5 and always knew that I would be a professional pianist.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/1223pianist1223.html (785 words)

	Grand Piano Gallery; Pianos and Piano Photo References
		A traditional acoustic piano that also can be played silently with headphones, this RX-1 is small enough to fit in any room and yet engineered to offer the full rich tone and precise touch response required by the most demanding pianists of a fine piano.
		Imagine coming home to this piano after a hard day at work, the stress draining from your tired muscles as you coax the first crystalline tones from this magnificent instrument.
		The piano is made in China using German hammers and strings and a solid spruce soundboard.
	rickjonespianos.com /grands.htm (4365 words)

	Steinway & Sons - Steinway Pianos - Catalogue - Steinway's Unsurpassed Instruments: Ebony Grands & Verticals
		Steinway & Sons pianos are manufactured in Steinway's New York and Hamburg factories to an identical standard of excellence.
		The Concert Grand Piano Model C-227 and the Orchestral Concert Grand Piano Model D-274 are the "crowning glory" of Steinway's artistic creativity.
		A grand piano with full tone yet small enough to fit in any home or apartment.
	www.steinway.com /steinway/catalogue/models.shtml (409 words)

	NMAH \| Grand Piano
		This beautiful piano, veneered in the best English tradition, has a range of five and one-half octaves, a rather advanced compass for its time.
		Broadwood was for many years England's largest piano maker, and the company's pianos were famous for a big tone.
		This Broadwood grand dates from the year of one of Haydn's visits to London, and is the type of instrument for which he wrote his last piano sonatas and trios.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=69 (151 words)

	Schoenhut Toy Piano Company - Over 130 years
		Schoenhut Piano Company, Inc., leader in the world of toy pianos since 1872, has taken the concept of toy pianos for the young a step further with this new three-octave elite baby grand piano with bench.
		Schoenhut Piano Company, Inc., leader in the world of toy pianos since 1872, has taken the concept of toy pianos for the young a step further with this new three-octave traditional deluxe spinet piano with bench.
		This smaller version, with its scaled-down keyboard, is designed specifically for little folks to have a their very own first baby grand piano just the right size for them.
	www.toypiano.com /pianos.htm (820 words)

	Grand Piano's Gifts
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		Giant man turns up at concert with grand piano in case.
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	Sweetwater Grand Piano CD \| Sweetwater.com
		In 1994, when Sweetwater released its first Grand Piano CD ROM, Kurzweil K2000s shipped with a mere two megs of RAM, and upgrading to 16 megabytes was far too expensive for most musicians.
		The piano was custom ordered in 1994 by a customer in Sacramento, California, who was kind enough to allow Stratus Sounds to record the instrument while it was still in the dealer's showroom being tuned after its long trip overseas.
		A pair of AKG 414s were used to record this piano, though it was summed to mono for this disk.
	www.sweetwater.com /store/detail/PianoCDv3 (915 words)

	Grand Staff Piano Studio - Home Page
		Our spacious new studio offers motivational lessons for both piano and violin students in a beautiful setting convenient to Quakertown and surrounding areas.
		Our new Violin room is restful and cool in pale green and ivory, with a piano as well, to facilitate learning in conjunction with violin, viola, and cello lessons.
		It also serves as a piano instruction room when not in use for string lessons.
	www.grandstaffpiano.com /default.htm (181 words)

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