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BOOKS ABOUT MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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Piano Art Prints and Charts
for the music classroom and home schoolers, home, office, and studio.
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The piano is a musical instrument with keys that when depressed cause felt hammers to strike steele wire strings, producing sounds. The piano, considered a keyboard, percussion, and string instrument was developed from the harpsichord which plucked the strings rather than stiking them. One man, Bartolomeo Cristofori, a harpsichord builder in the employ of the Medici family, seems to be responsible for the key development of the piano, a mechanism to release the hammer from the string, allow the string to continue vibrating. The word ‘piano’ is from the Italian pianoforte which means soft and loud, referring the the ability to strike both softly and with force.
Many composers are accomplished pianists due the suitability of the instrument for composition. Among notable virituosos of the piano are Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Mozart, Paderewski, Schumann and Van Cliburn; composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote for the organ and humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer is also notable as a Bach intrepreter.
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The harpsichord is a stringed keyboard instrument, was developed in the late Medieval period, and used through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.
• Greatest Hits: Harpsichord
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Girls at the Piano is an example of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the Impressionist bringing attention to the heroics of everyday domesticity.
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Pianist Hand sculpture by Auguste Rodin.
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Shoot the Piano Player/ Tirez sur le pianiste, is a 1960 French film directed by Francois Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour.
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Shine was a 1996 Australian Academy Award winning film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott (b. 1947).
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The ‘geological piano’ of Honore Baudre was a lithophone (Gk. lithos “stone” + phone=“sound”) consisting of a rock, or pieces of rock, which are struck to produce musical notes.
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FYI- One of the definitions of “catatonia” is excessive motor activity or purposeless agitation; someone was doing a play on words for this vintage illustration.
•more cat posters
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