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	Upto11.net - Artist Profile for Piano
		As a keyboard stringed instrument, the piano is similar to the clavichord and harpsichord.
		The Broadwood firm, which sent pianos to both Haydn and Beethoven, was the first to build pianos with range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six by 1810 (in time for Beethoven to use the extra notes in his later works), and seven by 1820.
		On upright pianos, the soft pedal is replaced by a mechanism for moving the hammers' resting position closer to the strings.
	www.upto11.net /artistprofile.php?ar=48067 (4230 words)

	Piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a keyboard stringed instrument, the piano is similar to the clavichord and harpsichord.
		The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence, Italy.
		The Broadwood firm, which sent pianos to both Haydn and Beethoven, was the first to build pianos with range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six by 1810 (in time for Beethoven to use the extra notes in his later works), and seven by 1820.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano (4364 words)

	Piano - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As a keyboard stringed instrument, the piano is similar to the clavichordand harpsichord.
		The Broadwood firm, which sent pianos to both Haydn and Beethoven, was the first tobuild pianos with range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six by 1810 (in time for Beethoven to use the extra notes in his laterworks), and seven by 1820.
		In 1863, Henri Fourneaux invented the player piano, a kind ofpiano which "plays itself" from a piano roll without the need for a pianist.Also in the 19th century, toypianos began to be manufactured.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Piano (3635 words)

	piano - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		When he built his first piano is not entirely clear, but Franceso Mannucci wrote in his diary that Cristofori was working on an "arcicembal che fa il piano e il forte" ("harpsichord that plays both softly and loudly") as early as 1698.
		The problem is that much of the most widely admired music for piano—for example, that of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven was composed for a type of instrument that is rather different from the modern instruments on which this music is normally performed today (for example, tuning for A was set to 422 Hz).
		Every note on the piano except for (approximately) the top two octaves is equipped with a damper, which is a padded device that prevents the strings from vibrating.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/piano (3968 words)

	Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The word ''piano'' is an abbreviation for ''pianoforte'', Italian languageItalian/ for ''soft-loud'', referring to the ability of the piano to play notes at different volumes depending on how hard its keys are pressed.
		The Broadwood firm, which sent pianos to both Joseph HaydnHaydn and Ludwig van BeethovenBeethoven, was the first to build pianos with range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six by 1810 (in time for Beethoven to use the extra notes in his later works), and seven by 1820/.
		The hospital treating a mute piano virtuoso, found wandering on a British beach last month, dismissed speculation that the man was a hoax.
	www.infothis.com /find/Piano (4269 words)

	Piano - Wikivisual
		Silbermann's pianos were virtually direct copies of Cristofori's, with one important addition: Silbermann invented the forerunner of the modern damper pedal, which lifts all the dampers from the strings at once.
		The Broadwood firm, which sent pianos to both Haydn and Beethoven, was the first to build pianos with a range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six octaves by 1810 (in time for Beethoven to use the extra notes in his later works), and seven octaves by 1820.
		The rare transposing piano, of which Irving Berlin possessed an example, uses the middle pedal as a clutch which disengages the keyboard from the mechanism, enabling the keyboard to be moved to left or right with a lever.
	en.wikivisual.com /index.php/Piano (5020 words)

	Piano Summary
		These are: the case of the wing-shaped grand piano (or the cabinet of the vertical or upright piano); the soundboard and the ribs and bridges that are its components; the cast iron plate; the strings; and, collectively, the keys, hammers, and piano action or mechanism.
		The 220-240 strings of the piano are attached to hitch pins along the curved edge of the cast iron plate and to tuning pins across the front of the piano, roughly parallel to the keyboard.
		The word piano is a shortened form of the word pianoforte, which is seldom used except in formal language and derived from the original Italian name for the instrument, gravicèmbalo col piano e forte (literally harpsichord with soft and loud).
	www.bookrags.com /Piano (5951 words)

	PIANO FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Modern pianos come in two basic configurations and several sizes: the grand_piano and the upright_piano.
		A relatively recent development is the prepared_piano, which is a piano adapted in some way by placing objects inside the instrument, or changing its mechanism in some way.
		Piano strings (also called piano_wire), which must endure years of extreme tension and hard blows, are made of high quality steel.
	www.witwik.com /piano (4090 words)

	PK/the mi3
		The colors of the Rhodes, the level of musicianship, and good old inspiration make for the most musical of collisions.
		You can imagine how great it felt to have any such wish pre-empted by a disc that jumps right into the stratosphere with a leadoff take on Dolphy's "Gazzelloni" that fits the proposable scheme as tight as I could hope for.
		In the liner notes to Leo Records' release Disambiguation, Kevin Whitehead notes: "This is what jazz should be like at the dawn of its second century: deft and complex without making a big fuss over either quality." His latest CD is Foreground Music a duo collaboration with Ken Vandermark.
	karayorgis.com /mi3.html (1216 words)

	Industry - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The labor theory of value holds that the worth of a given object exists only because of the work that somebody has exerted to set it into its current state or form.
		Unimproved, natural objects such as trees and rocks generally have little value; but if wood is carved into a piano, or rocks are built into a house, then the resulting object suddenly has value because of this labor.
		Marxists therefore advocate that the workers themselves should own the means of production - capital assets such as factories and equipment used for production.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Industry (479 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Piano" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When he built his first pianoforte is not entirely clear, but Franceso Mannucci wrote in his diary that Cristofori was working on an "arcicembal che fa il piano e il forte" ("harpsichord that plays both softly and loudly") as early as 1698.
		I'm always on the lookout for good instrumental music to listen to at work while writing code.
		The album is described as "piano and cello jazzy new age." The first track, "The Tale of Room 620", is just indescribably good
	omnipelagos.com /entry?n=piano (4330 words)

	Estonia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Estonia (song) - a song by the British rock band Marillion, inspired by the only British survivor of the M/S Estonia disaster
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Estonia_(disambiguation) (175 words)

	Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Validates their status as the best of the best : Sax and piano.
		His lyrics are picturesque, his voice is mellow and honest, his musicianship (piano and guitar) is more than admirable...
		Penguin Guide "Recommended Recording" : With his 27 piano concertos, Mozart developed the form to a new level of artistry and claimed dominion of the piano concerto genre.
	music.mysic.com /Piano (1279 words)

	PIANO \| Catalog.com Online Shopping
		An upright piano A piano is a large musical instrument with a keyboard instrumentkeyboard.
		Learn to play "Chord Piano" instead of being tied to the written music.
		Track Listing:Sonata for Piano no 3 in B minor, B 155/Op.
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	Biography
		Her parents were members of a local big band in which her father, an attorney, played trumpet.
		The family was very musical and owned three pianos.
		Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born June 18, 1942) is an English singer, instrumentalist and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of The Beatles.
	www.musicstarx.net /sections/biography (2077 words)

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