7 ZITATE AUF ENGLISCH MIT «UPRIGHT PIANO»
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upright piano.
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It was because I'd seen an old photo of Tom Waits - with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets - and fallen in love with it.
I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me.
My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere 'Over the Rainbow'.
When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.
10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «UPRIGHT PIANO» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
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The
Upright Piano Player
The Upright Piano Player explores with a tender, yet unflinching eye the small but devastating flaws in human nature that can shape our destinies.
2
My Mother Was an
Upright Piano: Fictions
'My Mother Was an Upright Piano' builds on the strengths of Tania Hershman's first collection of short stories 'The White Road', which was commended by the judges of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers.
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The Physics of Musical Instruments
The action in an upright piano is different from that of a grand piano in several
ways. First of all, the hammers and dampers move horizontally, and FIGURE 12.3
. Basic construction of a large upright piano. Note 354 12. The Piano 12.2 Piano ...
Neville Horner Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing, 1998
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The
Piano Owner's Home Companion: A Reference Guide
#1 Console Piano / 10 #2 Spinet Piano / 12 #3 Modern Upright Piano / 14 #4
Grand Piano / 16 #5 Grand Piano Action / 18 #6 Console Piano Action / 20 #7
Upright Piano Action / 22 #8 Vertical Piano With Lower Frame Removed / 24 #9 ...
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The Cambridge Companion to the
Piano
3) is derived from the English grand action. Upright piano actions comprise the
same component parts as grands, but arranged differently to suit the vertical
orientation of the strings. agraffe: a metal stud pierced with as many holes as
there are ...
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Under the Sign of the Big Fiddle: The R.S. Williams Family, ...
Many manufacturers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
pioneered refinements of the upright piano just prior to the time when R.S.
Williams began his involvement in the piano-making business. In the early
American piano ...
Ladislav Cselenyi, Ladislav Cselenyi-Granch, 1996
A Brief Geography of the Keyboard The upright piano appeared in England in
1795, in Austria in 1835, and by 1900, it had replaced the square piano as the
favored product of American and Canadian piano manufacturers.2 The first
upright ...
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The Picture Frame, and Other Stories
And so Johnny's lessons began then in earnest, with his father taking over their
expense from his grandfather and with now a real upright piano of his own in
their living room. (Johnny still burned for a grand piano and vowed to have one
some ...
It was a smaller upright piano sitting in the back of the stage. Her name was
Crystal Chickering. Chickering pianos have been manufactured in the United
States since 1823. That means Crystal came from the oldest piano manufacturer
– even ...
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Pianos and Their Makers: A Comprehensive History of the ...
A very ingenious and valuable invention is Pfeiffer's mechanism for organ pedal
practice, which can be built into any upright piano and used without affecting the
touch for hand playing. As the illustration shows, the pedal mechanism is so ...
10 NACHRICHTEN, IN DENEN DER BEGRIFF «UPRIGHT PIANO» VORKOMMT
Erfahre, worüber man in den einheimischen und internationalen Medien spricht und wie der Begriff
upright piano im Kontext der folgenden Nachrichten gebraucht wird.
New Zealand girl plays piano while FAST ASLEEP
Clearly exhausted, Isabelle, from the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's North Island, rests her head on the music rack of the upright piano as she runs her ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
This man has been traveling the world with his upright piano for 5 …
The world is your oyster when you've got a furry companion, a piano and about 10,000 friends. In 2010, New York City native Dotan Negrin quit his day job to ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
Homeless and luckless, piano man wows Internet and gets new start
The city of Sarasota, Fla., has a project called “Sarasota Keys,” which installs lovely old upright pianos in public places where anyone can play. One day last ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
Video: The day we pushed a piano for two miles through streets of …
IT'S hardly the last word in portable music players, but a Leeds suburb woke today to the sight and sounds of an upright piano being pushed through the streets. «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
In Struggling Camden, a Pop-Up Park Piano Brings Calm, 1 Player …
With his plastic bag of clothes resting by the bench, Bruce Chorzelewski is sitting down at an upright piano in front of City Hall and improvising a tune. It's the first ... «NBC 10 Philadelphia, Jun 15»
Thinking of Refinishing Your Own Piano? Don't.
Even these days, when cheap secondhand pianos are in plentiful supply, ... When I moved our old upright piano into our living room, I still had friends who would ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
Review: Yamaha's Genetic Experiment Splices Digital Grand Piano …
You get a grand-piano sound in a much more compact instrument. You spend $4,500, a fraction of a new upright piano's price. You can practice with ... «Yahoo Tech, Aug 14»
Casablanca 'As Time Goes By' Piano On Sale
The upright piano is one of two from the film in which actor and singer Dooley Wilson sang As Time Goes By, the song for the lovers played by Humphrey Bogart ... «Sky News, Jul 14»
Review: EZ Keys' Classic Electrics, Retro Electrics, Upright Piano …
Upright Piano: One of the most fascinating things about the piano is that the same instrument by name can sound uniquely different depending on the style and ... «SonicScoop, Jan 14»
World's oldest piano maker Pleyel shuts last workshop
Pleyel, the world's oldest piano makers still in operation and the favourite of Frédéric ... It was Pleyel who introduced the upright piano to France, who first used a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 13»
