The Cat Piano is an award winning animated short film directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson and narrated by Nick Cave . Infobox film name The Cat Piano image image size caption director Eddie White director br Ari Gibson producer Jessica Brentnall writer Eddie White director starring Nick Cave Narrator music Benjamin Speed cinematography editing Jeremy Hill Brooks distributor released 2009 runtime 8 minutes country Australia language English budget gross followed by Plot The Cat Piano is narrated ... human shoeprints. The main character begins to explain the Cat Piano and its terrible function. We are informed that the Cat Piano is an instrument, much like any ordinary piano or harpsichord. The terrible reality is that instead of using strings and hammers to produce the desired noise, the Cat Piano produces noise by striking a nail into the tails of one or more cats that are caged in the piano ... becomes forbidden. For a short while, the poet is tortured of thoughts of The Cat Piano, and can ... of an organ than a piano, but nevertheless it is a terrifying torture machine equipped with hundreds of needles. The poet meets eyes with the singer, who is placed at the very top of the organ. The man ... The film won two prizes at B Animasjonshelg in Norway. ref name The Cat Piano Annecy Selection ... Piano Adelaide, Melbourne & Sydney Film Festival Awards http www.shortfilmcentral.com film 2023 The Cat Piano Australian Film Festival Awards ref ref name The Cat Piano Dendy Award http www.sydneyfilmfestival.org default.aspx 2009 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards ref ref name The Cat Piano IF Awards ... ref ref name The Cat Piano APRA Screen Music Awards http www.apra amcos.com.au apraawards screenawards ... The official website for The Cat Piano , including the whole film http www.thepra.com.au ... film 2023 Information about The Cat Piano at the Short Film Central database imdb title 1401657 AACTA Award Best Short Animation 1990 2009 DEFAULTSORT Cat Piano, The Category Animated short films Category ... more details
See also, Solo music and Solo Piano disambiguation Unreferenced date January 2008 The piano is often used to provide harmony harmonic accompaniment to a singer voice or other instrument music instrument . However, solo music solo parts for the piano are common in many musical styles. These can take the form of a section in which the piano is heard more prominently than other instruments, or in which the piano may be played entirely unaccompanied . The term piano solo is also often used to mean a musical composition written solely for piano. Category Piano Category Music performance Category Musical groups by numbers 1 music stub pt Piano solo ... more details
Man , Scorched Earth , Arrow Hohner Electra Piano Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven , Misty ...distinguish Electronic piano Image 018 RHODES MARK II.jpg thumb 250px Rhodes Mark II 73 Stage Piano div ... electric piano 1937 .jpg width2 122 caption2 Vierling August F rster F rster piano 1937 ref name ... volume 37 year 1988 issue 1 2 pages 214 221 2 3 172 176. ref div An electric piano is an electric ... signals by Pick up music technology pickups . Unlike a synthesizer , the electric piano is not an Electronic ... electric grand piano was among the first. Probably the earliest stringless model was Lloyd Loar s Vivi Tone Clavier . The popularity of the electric piano began to grow in the late 1950s, reaching its height during the 1970s, after which they were eventually replaced by synthesizers capable of piano ... for home or school use, or to replace a heavy and un amplified piano on stage, while others were conceived for use in school or college piano labs for the simultaneous tuition of several students ... Yamaha , Baldwin Piano Company Baldwin , Helpinstill and Kawai s electric pianos are actual grand ... character similar to that of an acoustic piano. Struck reeds Image I stayed in the music room.jpg thumb 160px Wurlitzer 200A Wurlitzer electric piano s use flat steel reeds struck by felt hammers. The reeds ... neoprene originally felt tip of a hammer activated by a greatly simplified piano action each key ... beyond its tip see also tonewheel . The Rhodes piano has a distinctive bell like tone, fuller than the Wurlitzer, with longer sustain and with a growl when played hard. Hohner s Electra Piano uses ... instrument , and the electric piano has thus acquired a musical identity of its own, far beyond that of simply being a portable, amplified piano. In particular, the Rhodes piano lends ... a soulful and useful tremolo. Examples Rhodes piano Hohner Cembalet , Clavinet , Pianet , Electra Piano Wurlitzer electric piano Wurlitzer EP 200A Yamaha Corporation Yamaha Electric Grand Piano CP 70 ... more details
Infobox film name Pianopiano, non t& 39 agitare image image size caption director producer writer narrator starring Claudia Cardinale music cinematography editor distributor released 1967 runtime country Italy language Italian language Italian budget Pianopiano, non t& 39 agitare is a Italian films of 1967 1967 Italy Italian film . It stars Claudia Cardinale . ref cite web url http www.mymovies.it filmografia ?a 202 title Claudia Cardinale publisher Mymovies.it accessdate December 1, 2010 ref References reflist External links imdb title id title Pianopiano, non t& 39 agitare CinemaofItaly Category 1967 films Category Italian films Category Italian language films 1960s Italy film stub ... more details
In European classical music , a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments, most commonly piano, two violin s, viola , and cello i.e., piano and string quartet . Among the most frequently performed piano quintets are those by Piano Quintet Schumann Robert Schumann , Piano Quintet Brahms Johannes Brahms , Piano Quintet No. 2 Dvo k Anton n Dvo k and Piano Quintet Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich . Franz Schubert Franz Schubert s Trout quintet Trout piano quintet features the less common instrumentation of piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass . The genre .... The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet , p. 324. ref Classical roots of the piano quintet While the piano trio and piano quartet were firmly established in the eighteenth century by Mozart and others, the piano quintet did not come into its own as a genre until the nineteenth century. ref The quintets for piano, oboe , clarinet , Horn instrument horn , and bassoon composed by Quintet for Piano and Winds Mozart Mozart and Quintet for Piano and Winds Beethoven Beethoven are usually described as quintets for piano and winds so as to distinguish them from compositions for piano and four strings. ref Its roots extend into the late Classical period music Classical period , when piano concertos were sometimes transcribed for piano with string quartet accompaniment. ref name Harvard http ... for piano and string quartet, more commonly, a piano would be joined by violin, viola, cello and double bass. As the double bass would generally double the bass line in the piano part, such works were in effect piano quartets with basso continuo . Franz Schubert Schubert s Trout Quintet Trout Quintet ... books?id 7TzEBCIO8sgC&lpg PP1&dq piano 20quintet&pg PA3 v onepage&q&f false Smallman, Basil The Piano Quartet and Quintet Style, Structure, and Scoring , p. 3. ref ref name Smallman26 http books.google.com books?id 7TzEBCIO8sgC&lpg PP1&dq piano 20quintet&pg PA26 v onepage&q&f false Smallman ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 A piano trolley is a two or four wheeled trolley approximately 0.5m long used by removal s companies for moving pianos. It is placed under the centre of mass of the piano and allows it to be turned on its axis to manoeuvre round a building. By placing the trolley at one end of the instrument stairs may be negotiated. In tight spaces the piano may be turned on end and rested on the trolley. Typical features include solid rubber tyres, very strong construction, thick rubber bumpers along the top and on the ends. Before a piano trolley can be used to move a grand piano , the piano must be protected by a piano shoe , a wooden frame which protects the polished surface and provides additional strength for the sides. DEFAULTSORT Piano Trolley Category Moving and relocation Category Human powered vehicles ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 A piano reduction is sheet music for the piano a piano score that was once music for other instruments that was reduced to its most basic components within a two line staff for piano. It is also considered a style of orchestration or music arrangement less well known as contraction scoring , a subset of elastic scoring . See also Vocal score DEFAULTSORT Piano Reduction Category Musical terminology Category Musical notation Category Piano Music stub ca Reducci m sica de Klavierauszug et Klaviir eo Partituro por piano he nl Orkestuittreksel pl Wyci g fortepianowy pt Redu o para piano ru fi Pianopartituuri sv Klaverutdrag ... more details
More footnotes date February 2009 Steck Steck is a brand name of the Aeolian Company Aeolian Piano company , and was used on player pianos produced in the early twentieth century. ref http www.pianola.org history history playerpianos.cfm The Pianola Institute History of the Pianola Player Pianos ref . A large number of Steck pianos were produced in Gotha town Gotha , Germany. The factory named Gothaer Piano Hofmanufaktur was purchased in 1905 from Ernst Munck and renamed Steck in 1906. References references See also Pianola http www.pianoshop.co.uk info pianos s steck.php Virtual Piano Shop Steck http www.playerpiano.co.uk steck.htm Player Piano Steck grand piano DEFAULTSORT Steck Piano Category Piano manufacturing companies ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A piano sextet is a composition for piano and five other musical instruments, or a group of six musicians who perform such works. There is no standard grouping of instruments with that name, and compared to the string quartet or piano quintet literature, relatively few such compositions exist. The best known piano sextet is probably Chausson s Concert , widely regarded ... describes it as superb . The following is an incomplete list of piano sextet composers and their works in this genre Ernest Chausson 1855 1899 , Concert in D major, Op. 21, composed 1891, for piano, violin, and string quartet Aaron Copland 1900 1990 , Sextet, composed 1938, for piano, clarinet, and string quartet Ern Dohn nyi , Sextet for string trio, clarinet, horn, and piano Mikhail Glinka 1804 1857 Grand Sextet Sestetto originale in E flat major, composed 1832, for piano, string quartet ... major, composed 1832, for piano, string quartet, and double bass Gordon Jacob 1895 1984 , Sextet in B flat major, composed 1956, for piano and wind quintet Bohuslav Martin 1890 1959 ballet, La Revue de cuisine , composed 1927, for piano, violin, cello, clarinet, bassoon, and trumpet Piano Sextet, composed 1929, for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, and two bassoons Felix Mendelssohn 1809 1847 , Piano Sextet Mendelssohn Piano Sextet in D major, Op. 110 , composed 1824, for piano, violin, two violas, cello, and double bass Krzysztof Penderecki , Sextet for string trio, clarinet, horn, and piano Francis Poulenc 1899 1963 , Sextet, composed 1939, for piano and wind quintet Sergei Prokofiev 1891 1953 , Overture on Hebrew Themes in C minor, Op. 34, for piano, clarinet, and string quartet Ludwig Thuille 1861 1907 , Sextet in B flat, Op. 6, for piano and wind quintet Felix Weingartner Sextet Op.33 for piano, two violins, viola, violoncello and double bass Closely related forms of chamber music include the piano trio , the piano quartet and the piano quintet . DEFAULTSORT Piano Sextet Category Piano ... more details
The Nord Piano is a series of electronic keyboard s developed in Sweden , by Clavia . Although the Nord Pianos are a sample players that can play any of the sounds in the Nord Sample Library, it is primarily intended as replacements for electronic and acoustic piano s. ref name info Cite web url http www.nordkeyboards.com main.asp?tm Products&clpm Nord Piano title Nord Piano Information publisher Clavia accessdate 2012 03 13 ref Models The Nord Piano, released in 2010, has 88 keys with hammer action, an effects section with effects such as reverb and amplifier simulations. ref name specs Cite web url http www.nordkeyboards.com main.asp?tm Products&clpm Nord Piano&clnp Specification title Nord Piano Specification publisher Clavia accessdate 2012 03 13 ref It also has some unusual features designed to make the piano sounds more realistic, such a simulation of unplayed strings resonating in sympathy with the played strings, and samples of the pedals noises. ref name info In 2012 Clavia released the Nord Piano 2. The main differences are that the Nord Piano 2 adds a second section of samples dedicated to playing non piano samples either layered with the piano sounds or by splitting the keyboard. ref name info2 Cite web url http www.nordkeyboards.com main.asp?tm Products&clpm Nord Piano 2 title Nord Piano 2 Information publisher Clavia accessdate 2012 03 13 ref References Reflist electronic musical instrument stub Category Clavia synthesizers fr Clavia Nord Electro no Clavia Nord Electro ... more details
music for Dizzy Fingers by Zez Confrey, one of the most popular of the novelty piano composers. Novelty Piano is a genre of piano music that was popular during the 1920s. A successor to ragtime and an outgrowth of the piano roll music of the teens, novelty piano can be considered a pianistic cousin of jazz , which appeared around the same time. Its originators were mostly piano roll artists from the Chicago area, where two of the largest piano roll companies, QRS and Imperial, had their headquarters. It is distinct from stride piano , which was developed in New York at about the same time. The earliest composers of novelty piano were piano roll artists looking to sell piano rolls. These pieces .... The pioneer of this style was Charley Straight , whose compositions were issued on piano roll years ... Nonsense, Rufenreddy, and Wild And Wooly. Novelty piano came to the attention of the public in 1921 ... continued unabated. Novelty piano slowly succumbed to, or was absorbed into, the new orchestral styles as the piano moved off center stage and took a support role. Although novelty piano has structural ... public to hear music as performed by skilled musicians the hand played piano roll and the phonograph record. Novelty piano was developed as a vehicle to showcase the talents of these professionals, and was thus more often sold in the form of recordings and piano rolls than as sheet music. It was a new turbo charged piano form, shorn of hackneyed Victorian era stylings, infused with chromatic piano roll flourishes, and influenced by the modernistic sounds of the art deco twenties. Prominent artists in the novelty piano genre include Zez Confrey , Charley Straight , Roy Bargy , Fred Elizalde ... pbmidi8.shtml category14 Perfessor Bill Edward s collection of novelty piano pieces DEFAULTSORT Novelty Piano Category Popular music Category American styles of music fr Novelty piano nl Novelty piano ... more details
File Silent piano.JPG thumb right Yamaha U1 upright piano with cloth interposing hammers A silent piano is an acoustic piano where there is an option to silence the strings by means of an interposing hammer bar. A silent piano is designed for private silent practice. ref name Crombie94 Crombie 1995 94. ref In the silent mode, sensors pick up the piano key movement. Older models used mechanical sensors which affected the touch and produced a clicking sound, whereas newer models use optical sensors which do not affect the feel or sound of the piano. The key movement is then converted to a MIDI signal and can link to a sound module, allowing the person to utilize headphones. The pianos also have full MIDI capability and can be linked to a computer for use with computer music notation software , etc. Mechanics In all silent systems, engaging the silent function causes a bar to move into place such that it intercepts the shank and stops the hammer from hitting the piano string . In more advanced systems, usually on grand piano s, the piano s Action piano action is also altered when the silent function is engaged. This changes the action s setoff setting so that the escapement trips at a lower point in the hammer s motion towards the string. This allows the action to be regulated correctly in the non silent setting. Without it the action must be regulated to be a compromise between what is needed in non silent mode and what is needed in silent mode. Manufacturers Silent pianos are available from many manufacturers, including Steinway , Bechstein , B sendorfer , Grotrian Steinweg , Kawai , Yamaha , Schimmel and Seiler . References reflist Category Piano de Silent Piano es Piano silencioso fa fr Piano silencieux nl Silent piano ... more details
A transposing piano is a special piano with a mechanism activated by the player e.g. with a lever or pedal to Transposition music transpose . This mechanism allows the keyboard to change position in relation to the action see Piano Development of the modern piano Development of the modern piano for details . There are no longer many in existence, but they have been used, for example, by people whose skills are restricted to playing in certain keys, or by those who need to transpose music, but lack the necessary skill to do so at sight. Individuals with absolute pitch may have difficulty playing on such a piano, because the pitches they actually hear do not match the notes they are playing on the keyboard. Some such people are able to overcome the difficulty with practice, however. Irving Berlin had two such instruments one was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1973, and is on display in the National Museum of American Jewish History ref http latimesblogs.latimes.com culturemonster 2010 10 irving berlin piano spotlighted at national museum of american jewish history.html Irving Berlin piano spotlighted at National Museum of American Jewish History ref . Berlin never learned to read music, playing his songs entirely by ear in the key of f sharp, employing his trick piano to do the work as necessary. ref http www.straightdope.com columns 060728.html Cecil Adams article on Irving Berlin at straightdope.com . ref Many electronic or digital pianos and keyboards have wide ranging facilities, including the ability to transpose. The harmonium is an instrument that also features a mechanically shifted keyboard for transposition. References reflist Category Piano ... more details
Infobox Italian comune name Roveredo in Piano official name Comune di Roveredo in Piano native name image skyline imagesize image alt image caption image shield RoveredoinPiano.gif shield alt shield size px image map map alt map caption pushpin label position pushpin map alt latd 46 latm 1 lats latNS N longd 12 longm 37 longs longEW E coordinates type type city 5,113 region IT coordinates display title coordinates footnotes region Friuli Venezia Giulia province Province of Pordenone Pordenone PN frazioni Tornielli, Villote mayor party mayor Renzo Liva area footnotes area total km2 15.9 population footnotes ref name istat All demographics and other statistics Italian statistical institute Istat . ref population total 5464 population as of 2007 pop density footnotes population demonym Roveredani elevation footnotes elevation m 99 twin1 twin1 country saint St. Bartholomew day August 24 postal code 33080 area code 0434 website official http www.comune.roveredoinpiano.pn.it footnotes Roveredo in Piano is a comune municipality in the Province of Pordenone in the Italy Italian region Friuli Venezia Giulia , located about 100 km northwest of Trieste and about 6 km northwest of Pordenone . Roveredo in Piano borders the following municipalities Aviano , Fontanafredda , Porcia, Italy ... Official website it icon Province of Pordenone DEFAULTSORT Roveredo In Piano Category Cities and towns in Friuli Venezia Giulia FriuliVeneziaGiulia geo stub ca Roveredo in Piano de Roveredo in Piano es Roveredo in Piano eo Roveredo in Piano fr Roveredo in Piano fur Lavor t ia Roveredo in Piano it Roveredo in Piano lmo Roveredo in Piano nl Roveredo in Piano ja nap Roveredo in Piano pms Roveredo in Piano pl Roveredo in Piano pt Roveredo in Piano ru roa tara Roveredo in Piano uk vec Roveredo in Pian vi Roveredo in Piano vo Roveredo in Piano war Roveredo in Piano ... more details
The tangent piano is a very rare keyboard instrument that resembles a harpsichord and early piano s in design ... what is believed to be the first keyboard instrument which used a Tangent tangent piano tangent ... with the creation in 1705 of the first tangent piano. Christoph Gottlieb Schroter claimed that he invented the new tangent piano by letting blank harpsichord jacks hit the strings, also incorporating sustain pedal dampers into the action. A famous early piano maker, Gottfried Silbermann , was making ... and the England English tangent piano. In 1777, Mozart referred to the tangent piano as the Spattisches ... evidence that the tangent piano spread throughout Europe. By the earliest decade of the 19th ... enabled it to compete with the piano. At the same time, the fortepiano began to eclipse the harpsichord and clavichord as the keyboard instrument of choice. The creation of the tangent piano, and the fortepiano ... piano and fortepiano offered a variety of sound that was appealing to the changes in classical ... piano had a short life in popularity, and dropped off somewhere in the late 18th century or early ... evolved to the massive modern iron framed giant of 88 keys. The tangent piano s popularity lasted ... piano is an appropriate choice for the keyboard instrument in the concerti. In addition, other sons of the famous German composer JS Bach wrote pieces expressly for the tangent piano. Miklos Spanyi recently released a recording for them on the tangent piano http www.classicsonline.com catalogue product.aspx?pid 225124 Recording with MP3 samples featuring the Tangent Piano . Mechanism A tangent, when referred to in the context of the action of a tangent piano, refers to the small slip of bare wood ... piano, the tangent immediately rebounds from the string so that the string is allowed to vibrate ... feature on many early pianos . See Piano pedals . Tonal quality The tangent piano has an unusual sound that fuses the qualities of the harpsichord and piano. The treble resembles the bright sound ... more details
A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello , or a piece ... together for a number of well known piano trios, see below. Form Works titled Piano Trio ..., this genre was felt to be more appropriate to cast in the four movement form. Piano trios ... music making made the piano trio a very popular genre for arrangements of other works. For example Beethoven transcribed his first two symphonies for piano trio. Thus a large number of works exist for the arrangement of piano, violin and violoncello which are not generally titled or numbered as piano ... in E flat major Op. 44. After the classical era, works for piano and two instruments continue ... articles treating works for piano trio, see Category Compositions for piano trio . The role of the three instruments The piano trios of the Classical era, notably those of Joseph Haydn Haydn , are dominated by the piano part. ref Wheelock 1999 115 ref The violin only plays the melody a certain amount of the time, and is often doubled by the piano when it does. The cello part is very much subordinated, usually just doubling the bass line in the piano. It is thought that this practice was quite ... the piano was fairly weak and tinkling in tone, and benefited from the tonal strengthening of other ... rather dominated by the piano part. With time, a new ideal of piano trio composition arose, in which ... in the power and sonority of the piano that took place during Beethoven s career, making it more feasible for the piano to play independently in an ensemble. The new idea of equality was never implemented ... three trios for Flute cello piano trio flute, cello & piano Hoboken catalog H. 15 15 17 , a combination ..., WoO 37 1786 for Flute bassoon piano trio flute, bassoon, and piano . Francis Poulenc s Trio op. 43 1926 is for Oboe bassoon piano trio oboe, bassoon and piano . The Horn violin piano trio is exemplified ... and Piano Ligeti Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano . Trios with clarinet include masterpieces by Mozart ... more details
16 October 2011 ref Show The Red Piano was originally scheduled to be 75 shows over three years. John ... universalmusiconline.com elton john the magnificent red piano show universalmusiconline.com, Retrieved ... Daniel song Daniel Believe Elton John song Believe Rocket Man song Rocket Man I m Still Standing Songs ... Your Song Red Piano Las Vegas Tour dates col begin col 6 class wikitable style text align ...?id EkVlyEZlupskjaZyUU&style Default 20News 20Style&tmpl viewnews title UPDATE Remaining Red Piano ... with the flu publisher EltonFan date accessdate 2012 02 04 ref Red Piano Europe Tour dates class wikitable ... Default 20News 20Style&tmpl viewnews title UPDATE Remaining Red Piano UK & Dublin dates cancelled publisher ... 20News 20Style&tmpl viewnews title Elton cancels European Red Piano dates publisher EltonFan date accessdate ... title Elton cancels European Red Piano dates publisher EltonFan date accessdate 2012 02 04 ref ... , Republic of Ireland Ireland The O2 Dublin The O2 Cancelled Recordings The Red Piano was filmed and released ... news index.php 2009 05 04 elton john s the red piano concert spect 6 starpulse.com, Retrieved 16 October 2011 ref ref http www.newswire.ca en story 325919 best buy presents elton john the red piano show ... ref References reflist External links http www.eltonjohn.com concerts The Red Piano http www.eltonjohnredpiano.co.uk The Red Piano UK Tour website Elton John DEFAULTSORT Red Piano Category Elton John ... Category 2007 concert tours Category 2008 concert tours Category 2009 concert tours de The Red Piano Show it The Red Piano Tour ja ... more details
Infobox Software name Elektrik Piano logo Image Elektrikpiano logo.png 200px screenshot Image Elektrikpiano.png 200px caption Elektrik Piano 1.0 developer Native Instruments latest release version 1.5 latest release date April 2007 latest preview version latest preview date operating system Microsoft Windows , Mac OS X genre Audio instrument plugin license Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.native instruments.com en products producer elektrik piano Native Instruments product page Elektrik Piano is a Sampling music sample based ref name waugh cite web url http www.musictechmag.co.uk mtm reviews elektrik piano title NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Elektrik Piano last Waugh first Ian date 2004 07 01 work Music Tech Magazine publisher Anthem Publishing accessdate 2009 08 25 ref software synthesizer developed by Native Instruments . The instrument is an Emulator emulation of four classic electric piano s &ndash the Rhodes piano Models Fender Rhodes MKI and MKII , the Clavinet Hohner Clavinet E7 and the Wurlitzer electric piano Wurlitzer A200 . ref name ward cite web url http www.soundonsound.com sos dec04 articles nielektrikpiano.htm title Native Instruments Elektrik Piano last Ward first Paul date 2004 12 work Sound on Sound publisher SOS Publications Group accessdate 2009 08 25 ref It was originally released in May 2004. ref name harmonycentral cite web url http messe.harmony central.com Musikmesse04 article Native Instruments Elektrik Piano.html title NI s Electric Piano Instrument Now Available date 2004 03 31 work Harmony Central accessdate 2009 08 25 ref The latest version, 1.5, was released in April 2007. ref name sonicstate cite web url http www.sonicstate.com news 2007 04 23 elektrik piano updated title Elektrik Piano Updated date 2007 04 23 work Sonic State accessdate 2009 08 25 ref References reflist Native Instruments Category Native Instruments musical instrument stub music software stub ... more details
Image Amsterdam Muziekgebouw 0420.jpg thumb 300px A piano tuner and technician at work The piano requires ... of the piano. Care by technician Tuning Main article Piano tuning Pianos that are prized by their owners ... before a performance in concert halls. The longer a piano is left out of tune, the more time and effort it will take for a technician to restore it to correct pitch. When a piano is only slightly out of tune, it loses the glowing tonal quality characteristic of a freshly tuned piano, probably because ... with the ear of the listener. A tuning hammer is the main tool that piano technicians use. Pianos ... special equipment to regulate humidity, inside or underneath the piano. There is no evidence that being out of tune permanently harms the piano itself. However, a long term low humidity environment ... and composers who are tuning the piano to non standard tunings, in order to achieve different kinds of harmony not possible with the standard 12 tone equal temperament tuning normally found on the piano ... the piano can only hold so much tension before it breaks. Voicing Image Piano tuner.jpg thumb A piano tuner at work The felt hammers of the piano tend to harden over time. They also form grooves at the points ... ultimately become harsh and undesirable. Piano technicians can soften hammers using special tools called ... tone quality across the piano, since the hammers are not used with equal frequency and therefore tend to wear unevenly. How much and how forcefully the piano is played is a factor in how often a piano is voiced, as are the piano s setting and the preferences of its players. Over time, the strings ..., and the head of the hammer flattened enough, that voicing cannot restore the piano s tone. At this point ... time, the performance of a piano action tends to decline, due to the compression of felt, warping of wood .... The goal of regulation is to make the piano s touch and sound consistent across all notes ... a piano may require. The most important include adjustment of Let off , the point when the hammer ... more details
Refimprove date October 2009 Peacock date May 2011 Overs Piano is an Australian brand of grand piano , owned by Ron Overs. Overs specialises in the manufacture of grand pianos, as well as their restoration and rebuilding. Technology Overs Pianos have been active in innovative piano design, and their work in this field has resulted in them becoming a member of the Australian Technology Showcase . Citation needed date October 2009 In 1999 Ron Overs designed a new grand piano action which has the advantage of considerably less friction than other grand piano actions. Citation needed date October 2009 In 2003, after ten years of work, Overs developed a Piano Construction structurally and Piano acoustics tonally improved Sound board music soundboard design. Citation needed date October 2009 In 2004, the Government of New South Wales New South Wales Treasurer and Minister for State Development, Michael Egan Australian politician Michael Egan , stated that Overs piano technology is rapidly establishing Overs Pianos as a world leader in piano design . ref http www.parliament.nsw.gov.au prod parlment hansart.nsf V3Key LC20040602019 New South Wales Parliament Hansard 2 June 2004 Page 9269 Speech of the Hon. Michael Egan New South Wales Treasurer and Minister for State Development ref Recordings Numerous recordings have been made with Overs pianos by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , Citation needed date January 2008 including recordings made on the piano owned by the Sydney Conservatorium ... grand pianos, Overs also Piano maintenance maintain , restore and remanufacture grand pianos, as well as consulting on piano design. Citation needed date May 2011 See also Other Australian piano manufacturers Historic Beale Piano Wertheim Piano Current Stuart and Sons References Reflist External links ... piano action 22&OS 22Grand piano action 22&RS 22Grand piano action 22 US Patent for the Overs action Use dmy dates date May 2011 Category Australian music Category Piano manufacturing companies ... more details
notability date June 2010 Piano Summer is an international summer institute and festival dedicated solely to piano music it was founded in 1995. It features an integrated approach to learning and performance under the artistic direction of master pianist and teacher Vladimir Feltsman . Gifted students from around the world join devoted musicians and teachers to learn more about the art of the piano. The Piano Summer is a part of the SUNY New Paltz Music Department . Festival Symphony Gala The Jacob Flier Piano Competition was established to honor a distinguished Russian pianist. The pianist taught for many years at the Moscow Conservatory and brought up generations of prominent musicians including Vladimir Feltsman . The winner performs a piano concerto with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic as part of the Symphony Gala. The performance is conducted by Maestro Vladimir Feltsman and concludes the three week program. The competition is open to all students under the age of 35 and is held from July 19 21. The winner performs with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic orchestra. The second and third ... year s Piano Summer Institute. In the first portion One prelude and fugue from J.S. Bach s The Well ... any concerto by one of the following composers an accompanist will be provided who will play the piano ... , Grieg , Barber or one of the following Piano Concerto No. 1 Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 Saint Sa ns Symphonic Variations Franck Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Rachmaninoff , Piano Concerto No. 2 Rachmaninoff or Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Piano Concerto No. 1 Prokofiev or Piano Concerto No. 3 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 McDowell Concerto in F Gershwin or Rhapsody ... Valley Philharmonic orchestra. ref cite web title Piano Summer At New Paltz newspaper date url http www.newpaltz.edu piano about.html accessdate May 18, 2010 ref References Reflist Category Classical music festivals in the United States Category Piano competitions in the United States ... more details
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File Piano strings.jpg thumb right 180px Piano string ends File Piano inside.jpg thumb right Piano strings Piano wire , or music wire , is a specialized type of wire made for use in piano strings, as well as many other purposes. It is made from tempering tempered high carbon steel , also known as spring steel . Manufacture and use General purpose, high carbon steel, drawn music wire such as ASTM A228 is manufactured in both inch and Metric system metric music wire gauges m.w.g. in diameters as small ... from steel of a specific composition by Drawing manufacturing cold drawing . Piano strings are among ... when plucked. Piano wire must also be extremely consistent in size variations greater than 0.0003 inch 8 m will produce audible falseness in modern instruments. Fact date February 2007 Piano wire is sold ... quickly dull the cutter. Other applications Piano wire is also used in the fabrication of springs ... . Earlier wire, used in harpsichords, was of brass or iron . Starting around 1800, the piano ... tension. This led to innovations in making tougher piano wire. In 1834, the Webster & Horsfal firm of Birmingham brought out a form of piano wire made from cast steel according to Dolge it was so superior ... of innovation and intense competition ensued, with rival brands of piano wire being tested against one another at international competitions, leading ultimately to the modern form of piano wire ... from other special wire products like telegraph and barbed wire . Innovative piano makers kept pace .... See also Piano acoustics Notes references References Dolge, Alfred 1911 Pianos and Their Makers A Comprehensive History of the Development of the Piano from the Monochord to the Concert Grand Player Piano . Covina Publishing Company. External links Jean Louchet, http jean.louchet.free.fr ... . Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 1895 Category Piano Wire Category Wire ca Corda de piano es Cuerda de piano fr Corde piano ja no Pianotr d pt Corda de piano fi Pianolanka sv ... more details
unreferenced date November 2007 In music , the tack piano sometimes referred to as jangle piano , junk piano or honky tonk piano is a permanently altered version of an ordinary piano , in which tacks or nails ... the instrument a tinny, more percussive sound. See prepared piano . Perhaps this preparation attempts to emulate the sound of a poorly maintained piano as the felt hammers age and compact through use they become hard and cause the piano to yield a similar sound fact date March 2011 . A piano ... hammers in the piano, like a piano popularized by Mrs Mills Mrs. Mills which resides at Abbey Road Studios. Problems and disadvantages Using tacks on a piano runs the risk that the tacks will be ejected ... of the piano to dark mush once the tacks are removed. A safer alternative to real tacks is a device ... commercially or built by hand, and ultimately causes the piano hammers to be worn away from repeated ... music Canadian pianist Glenn Gould experimented with a tack piano made especially for his use by Steinway & Sons Steinway , which he called a harpsipiano a portmanteau of harpsichord and piano ... placed amongst an orchestra and capable of dynamic expression as on a piano. Gould used it in a 1962 ... Collection . Lou Harrison called for a tack piano in his Symphony No. 2 Elegaic , the octet Solstice ... television series of the same name, Mike Wofford plays a tack piano. On the jazz combo Weather ... em Autumn em , Pete Robinson plays tack piano on em Scratt and Fluggs em , a jazz inflected version ... Reichel had considerable success c. 1955 57 on the Top 40 hit parade with his tack piano recordings ..., ragtime and blues pianist Johnny Maddox also recorded The Crazy Otto Medley with a tack piano, starting a honky tonk piano fad. Both purportedly used thumbtacks in the felt hammers. Paul Revere and The Raiders used a tack piano on their hit single Him Or Me, What s It Gonna Be . The 5th Dimension hits Sweet Blindness and Wedding Bell Blues both start with a tack piano intro. The Zombies use a tack ... more details
Refimprove date January 2011 File Concerto on stage.jpg thumb upright 1.4 Performance of a piano concerto involves a piano on stage with the orchestra A piano concerto is a piece of music written for a piano, where the piano is accompanied by either a large body of instruments or a whole orchestra. See also harpsichord concerto some of these works are occasionally played on piano. Joseph Haydn and Thomas ... usage the late 18th century . Piano concertos were also somewhat common in the time of Bach and Handel. History Classical and romantic As the piano developed and became accepted, composer s naturally ... in these early stages was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Mozart s body of masterly piano concerti put his stamp firmly on the genre well into the Romantic era. Mozart wrote many of his piano concertos for himself to perform his Mozart piano concertos 27 piano concertos also include concerti for two and three pianos . With the rise of the pianist piano virtuoso , many composer pianists did likewise ... , Johannes Brahms , and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky . Edward Elgar made sketches for a piano concerto but never completed it. In the 19th century, Henry Litolff blurred the boundary between a piano concerto ... choir in the last movement of his hour long Piano Concerto Busoni concerto . In a more general sense, the term piano concerto could extend to the numerous often programmatic concerted works for piano ... of such works. The few well known piano concerti which dominate today s concert programs ... scene during the 19th century. 20th century and contemporary The piano concerto form survived through ... symphonic works the piano is given occasional prominence like any other instrument of the orchestra ... , Samuel Barber s violin concerto, and the Symphony No.3 by Michael Tippett . Works for piano left ... likewise but to a lesser degree. The results of these commissions include List of works for piano left hand and orchestra concertante pieces for orchestra and piano left hand by Sergei Bortkiewicz ... more details
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