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	Encyclopedia: Piano
		Piano went on to relate that Brunelleschi, who is Piano's favorite architect from history, studied the mechanism of the clock so that he could apply it to a system of great counterweights which in turn was used to raise the beams for the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
		Piano was approached by Padre Gerardo, an administrator to the monks of San Giovanni Rotondo, to design a temple for the ever-increasing numbers of pilgrims coming to visit the places where Padre Pio, a friar famous for his stigmata, used to live.
		Piano won the competition to develop the master plan for the area which when finished will be home and workplace for some 40,000 people, a figure that will double during each day with people drawn to the various activities there.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Piano (716 words)

	Piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Hence pianos have gained a place in the popular consciousness, and are sometimes referred to by nicknames, including: "the ivories", "the joanna", "the eighty-eight", and "the fl(s) and white(s)." Playing the piano is sometimes referred to as "tickling the ivories".
		by Thad Carhart (Random House, 2002; ISBN 0375758623) is a partly autobiographical exploration of the diversity and history of the piano, and is a readable introduction by an enthusiast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pianoforte (4424 words)

	ipedia.com: Piano Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence, Italy.
		Pianos that are prized and appreciated by their owners are tuned regularly, roughly once every four to six months for domestic pianos, and always just before a performance in concert halls.
		Pianos that are more than slightly out of tune tend to be unpleasant to play and listen to, to an extent that varies with the ear of the listener.
	www.ipedia.com /piano.html (4193 words)

	Piano
		Piano concerto A piano concerto is a orchestra.
		Piano Quintet (Schumann) The Piano Quintet by cello).
		The Piano The Piano is a Anna Paquin.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/piano.html (1800 words)

	The Story of the Piano - History of the Piano
		Piano teachers swarmed like ants, and of their even more numerous pupils, nine out of ten would themselves become teachers.
		More than any other instrument, the piano has relied for its extraordinary success not only on its musical merits and uses, but on its acceptability as an item of furniture in homes ranging from those of the humblest labourer to the salons and palaces of the unimaginably wealthy.
		In the case of the former, a fantastic amount of ingenuity and expertise has gone into effectively "shrinking" the piano to the point where there was scarcely a household in the industrialized world that could not accommodate it.
	www.concertpitchpiano.com /Pianostory.html (624 words)

	Piano Accessories: Piano Benches & Lamps - History & Analysis - ClicShop
		As the "social anchor" in middle-class homes of the 19th century, the piano was simultaneously an elegant piece of drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity and a mean of introducing the young to music and entertaining their elders.
		Overviews the literature on piano music from the 17th century to the late 20th century in its historical context, tracing the development of composers' styles, and discusses compositions for piano duet and two pianos.
		From the design, manufacturing and styles of the piano to the individuals who made their mark in music history with the piano, this includes a delightful range of color drawings and illustrations along with a lively history certain to delight any avid fan of the instrument.
	www2.clicshop.com /Stores/thepianoshop/c77222.2.html (3774 words)

	history of piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The piano was already established as the principal source of home entertainment and as a prime accomplishment for respectable young ladies.
		The player piano craze, which reached its peak in the 1920's, was an attempt to provide variety, but once it became customary for a machine to provide entertainment, the piano was vulnerable to these fresh rivals.
		Then came gramophone and radio, which rapidly killed the pianola (in the public's mind, the Pianola became synonymous with player pianos, much as Hoover is with vacuum cleaners), and put an end to the piano's ubiquity, for social patterns too were changing, and the depression years took their toll.
	www.roselandpiano.com /history.html (3724 words)

	History of Piano Tuners by Gill Green MA
		Piano tuning was a recognised job in the piano factories by the beginning of the 19th century, and two of Broadwood's journeymen fought a duel on Primrose Hill in 1809 over the tuning of a piano - with no result.
		The advent of the bigger square pianos and of the grand pianos definitely discouraged all but the bravest piano owner from tuning their own instruments and the career of piano tuner was born.
		Piano tuners of the day had to contend therefore with these relics of a bygone age whose owners often were not overly enthusiastic on spending money on them: and as the century wore on the remaining harpsichords and clavichords were getting older and older.
	www.uk-piano.org /history/piano-tuner-history.html (12708 words)

	Ancestry.com - The Immigrant Experience: Social History, Part 1
		By researching social history and placing your ancestors in their time and place, you learn what life was really like for them.
		By researching the key elements of social history in books on ethnic groups, you’ll learn about the general experience shared by many immigrants from the same country, realizing that your ancestors probably did the same things.
		Because social history books are not about specific families but are about general experiences shared by many people with the same ethnic identity, social histories describe everyday life as our ancestors probably encountered it.
	www.ancestry.com /library/view/ancmag/2501.asp (1274 words)

	Men, Women and Pianos : A Social History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is partly a history of the instrument itself: Loesser shows how the desire of musicians for a keyboard instrument more versatile and/or powerful than the existing clavichord, harpsichord and organ led makers in several countries more or less simultaneously to invent the basic action of the piano at the turn of the eighteenth century.
		It is partly, of course, a history of great pianists and composers and their particular regards and attitudes toward this newfangled contraption.
		It is partly a history of instrument makers and their innovations, from Bartolomeo Cristofori, who is widely credited with the actual invention of the "pianoforte," to the Steinways, whose instruments still set the standard in piano-making today.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0486265439 (388 words)

	WannaLearn: Men, Women and Pianos : A Social History
		Arthur Loesser, pianist, composer and longtime faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music, was also a historian and writer of talent, as evidenced by this "social history" he penned in the 1950s.
		And of course there's the story itself, beginning in the era when Democracies were replacing Monarchies, the 18th Century, and ending in the US around the First World War, when the instrument began its abrupt decline, using old newspapers, magazine articles, publishers' catalogs, etc., as sources, translated as needed by the author.
		Piano Roles: A New History of the Piano
	www.wannalearn.com /Fine_Arts/Music/Instruments/Piano/0486265439.shtml (397 words)

	Relevant History: Piano Tuner Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Two pianos can both be "tuned," in other words, yet sound different.
		Professional work, services, and skilled work (like piano tuning) involve kinds of knowledge and judgment that can't be reduced to ones and zeros, and poured into databases.
		It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on the ways we design tools-- whether we think more in terms of reating software whose purpose is augmentation of human abilities, rather than their replacement.
	askpang.typepad.com /relevant_history/2003/07/piano_tuner_blu.html (634 words)

	Acknowledgements. and Selective Bibliography
		The History of the Piano, Simpkin Marshall and Co 1889
		Hipkins Alfred j, A Description and History of the Piano forte.
		Many individuals on the Internet, who have past on information about their pianos plus over 25 years in the trade and the thousands of pianos I have tuned.
	www.uk-piano.org /history/bibliography.html (300 words)

	Scotch-Irish: A Social History, University of North Carolina Press, James G. Leyburn
		In this day of specialization, a social historian who undertakes to recount the life of people through three centuries and in three countries knowingly risks his scholarly head.
		Scottish history is full of old controversies...Irish history has been so turbulent...few of its events is agreed upon." And Leyburn accomplishes this in only 330 pages.
		Truly understanding Ulster's history, (I believe), the conflicts, the circumstances and the social make-up of Northern Ireland itself, at distinct times in its history, is essential to the peace process there.
	www.sharisgarden.net /mystores/item_0807842591.html (1199 words)

	Journal of Social History: An Economic History of London, 1800-1914 - Book Review
		There is some of that, to be sure, but, by and large, the authors' style is lucid and their notions are more intriguing than intimidating.
		The balance between economic theory and history is a healthy one and in no way taxes the reader.
		The market has been awash, that is, comparatively speaking, with London histories over the past few years, but this volume in the Routledge Explorations in Economic History series, is one of the best and certainly most sophisticated.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_0/m2005/4_36/104635129/p1/article.jhtml (711 words)

	LIBRARIES
		Every student of history should tour pertinent UO collections in the early days of this course.
		Calm yourself about the overwhelming number of Russian history books there, and about the fact that so many of them are in Russian.
		But at the next level, foreign language is to history as calculus is to physics.
	www.uoregon.edu /~kimball/libraries.htm (1929 words)

	Men, Women and Pianos : A Social History id (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the later 19th Century, the piano was the focus for entertainment in the Victorian home and popular sheet music sold millions of copies--but changing culture, as much as technology, soon doomed the instrument.
		Loesser skillfully utilizes his dry and frequently wry wit in detailing the history and usage of keyboard instruments, as well as those who merely were the players of them.
		In addition, social history is also brought into prominence, as well as those artisans who have moved us with their performances.
	ourlyrics.net /ID_0486265439,lit (1059 words)

	The Piano: An Inspirational Guide to the Piano and Its Place in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Piano provides a lavishly illustrated history of the instrument, presents a comprehensive survey of its best-known makes and manufacturers, and offers a complete guide to purchasing the right piano, from selection to care and restoration.
		Fans of music history will appreciate the stories about the pianos used by such composers as Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Debussy.
		The Piano also features an all-inclusive survey of the instrument's best-known makes and over 40 manufacturers, offering a unique insight into what differentiates a great instrument from a lesser one.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0823081516.html (195 words)

	Social History :Atomic Culture
		In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of movies also attempted to make social commentaries on the war.
		Mathematics teacher Tom Lehrer rose to prominence as a comedic piano player and singer in the 1960s with such songs as New Math and The Vatican Rag.
		Students will develop an understanding of the cultural, social, economic, and political effects of technology.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Social/atomic_culture/SH23.htm (1343 words)

	* NZine * Growing Up In New Zealand - Part 6 - Discipline, Church Attendance, New Zealand Social History, Sewerage, ...
		For entertainment at home we sang around the piano or from 1925 we listened to our wireless - the cat's whiskers kind of early radio.
		Listening to music was not a major interest in our house, but we learnt to play the piano.
		From the age of five I was called at six in the morning to do piano practice, increasing to an hour every morning.
	www.nzine.co.nz /views/guinz-6.html (1826 words)

	Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900- 1989. Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History: Electronic Edition.
		In the pulpit, on the oratorical platform, and in the legislative hall, speakers heralded the family as "the cradle of morality" and the "nursery of patriotism." In 1833 James Seawell declared before the General Assembly: "The social relations of family connections.
		Indeed, what else is it but the social ties of family connections, when rendered happy and prosperous by their own industry, that stamps a value upon society?"
		About 1820 the newspapers were full of scorn for "that ape of female foppery, called a beau." "If you were to see one of our beaux by the side of his dulcina," said one writer, "you would think he proceeded by as many rules as a mathematician when making trigonometrical calculations.
	docsouth.unc.edu /nc/johnson/chapter7.html (10444 words)

	Men, Women and Pianos : A Social History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Piano: An Inspirational Guide to the Piano and Its Place in History, Price:
		Piano Roles: A New History of the Piano, Price:
		The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier, Price:
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	the atrium \| golden threads \| social history \| ancient greek music
		I recall a volume by ?Graeme Barker in a Cambridge U Press history of music series on ancient Greek music theory.
		I've performed this stuff over many years, sung songs from the 17 th century on to history classes, given an academic seminar on religion and folk mu sic, conducted workshops at folk festivals on broadsides, songs of the Industrial Revolution and "The Scots Musical Museum." Is another monster unleashed?
		Since Horace has now come up too, you'll know that the only poem in Latin in the pesionicus a minore is Hor.
	atrium-media.com /goldenthreads/ancientgreekmusic.html (3780 words)

	Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History
		Internationally known pianist’s delightful "piano’s-eye view" of western European and American social history (17th century to the present).
		Loesser traces the history of the instrument’s design and manufacture and music written for it—from the clavichord and harpsichord to the modern spinet and concert grand.
		Rachmaninoff’s "Essentials of Artistic Playing," Busoni’s "Important Details in Piano Study," etc. 2 Introductory Essays.
	www.doverdirect.com /0486265439.html (103 words)

	History in southern NSW
		Mrs Kleeman still has a memorial of this event, her mother's prized piano, which was on board the Alpha.
		"The boys went down as she got on the sandbar and lifted that lovely old piano on to a table.
		Mrs Kleeman said after the boat was repaired, sge, Morris and his new wife took the Alpha to Euston Weir, a major undertaking.
	www.journ.freeserve.co.uk /henty/henty2.html (1569 words)

	Pianoforte : A Social History of the Piano - HILDEBRANDT, DIETER; GOODMAN, HARRIET (TRANSLATOR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pianoforte : A Social History of the Piano - HILDEBRANDT, DIETER; GOODMAN, HARRIET (TRANSLATOR)
		HILDEBRANDT, DIETER; GOODMAN, HARRIET (TRANSLATOR) Pianoforte : A Social History of the Piano
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	www.antiqbook.com /boox/bou/21089.shtml (82 words)

	AllRefer.com - zydeco (Music: History) - Encyclopedia
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Music: History > zydeco
		The most important and traditional instrument used in performing zydeco is the piano accordion.
		Other instruments often included in a zydeco band are the guitar, electric bass, saxophone, drums, and "rubboard" (washboard).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Z/zydeco.html (191 words)

	History Sheet Music! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rock, Reference The History of Rock: The Early '90s Sheet Music by Hal Leonard.
		Rock, Reference The History of Rock: The Late '90s Sheet Music by Hal Leonard.
		Classical, Reference Yogi Horton: A History of R & B / Funk Drumming Sheet Music by Warner Brothers.
	www.laurasmidiheaven.com /Sheet-Music/History--PAGE2.html (829 words)

	Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900- 1989. Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History: Electronic Edition.
		On the right was the large parlor with its piano, mahogany furniture, oil portraits, and heavy carpets.
		Also in 1810 President Caldwell of the University of North Carolina, addressing the young ladies of the female department of the Raleigh Academy, solemnly assured them that "maidenly delicacy" was the foundation of the social structure.
		But women's rights had been launched under anti-slavery auspices, and in 1850 when abolitionists joined with advocates of women's rights in the famous Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, the North Carolina press unanimously condemned the movement.
	docsouth.unc.edu /nc/johnson/chapter8.html (10910 words)

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