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There is no such thing as music note by note just as there is no such thing as a book word by word. We have to accept that things are ambiguous.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

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[elephantsay]

As I got older I came to use attitudes about pianos as a measure of person's worth.

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[elephantsay]

The famous grand piano presented by Beethoven by its maker, John Broadwood, in 1817, was signed by five of London's leading pianists as a special dedication from the English community of musicians.

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[elephantsay]

So a tuner is part scientist, part artist, and part psychologist. It is best if he knows the basic physics of harmonics and wave dynamics, if he knows his clients and can ascertain their needs, if he has the sure touch of a fine mechanic when he takes up his tuning wrenches.

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[elephantsay]

Some idea of the piano's prevalence in polite society can be gleaned from Oscar Wilde's comment at the end of the century: 'I assure you that the typewriting machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.'

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

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[elephantsay]

Perhaps the easiest image to grasp is contained in the phrase coined by the English poet Leigh Hunt in the early nineteenth century: 'a harp in a box'.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

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[elephantsay]

Hit the key hard and a loud, bright tone is produced; depress it gently and the note sounds softly. This property is embodied in the combination of all the hidden parts - collectively called the action - that translates the downward motion of the key into a tone of variable volume.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

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[elephantsay]

I sat down on the piano bench. A strange giddiness possessed me, as if I might start pounding the keyboard at random and expect it to pass for a difficult piece...

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

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[elephantsay]

He went on to tell me the whole story, and the details seemed to help him accept to the reality of the situation, as if to recite its wonders were a way to caress it gently before he let it go.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

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[elephantsay]

This part of the city retains a quiet air, one less infused with commerce than with narrow residential streets, numerous parks, and several of the urban campuses of the University of Paris.

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[elephantsay]

Luc described Bosendorfers as 'the aristocrat of pianos.' It wasn't clear whether he considered this to be altogether a good thing, but it was a trait, with its overtones of the Vienna of the Mozart and the Hapsburgs, that seemed to have a particular resonance with the French.

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[elephantsay]

He looked at Mathilde and then at me, and said simply, 'You can never have too many dream pianos.'

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[elephantsay]

This special moment takes the two pianists - master and student - someplace that no one else can go. The French call this sort of sharing, this meeting of minds, complicite, and the word captures perfectly the special bond that instantly develops as two pianists explore together the edge of music.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

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[elephantsay]

To a young man who had just given a powerful reading of Beethoven's Sonata no. 30 in E Major, opus 109, he cautioned: 'Everything Beethoven tells us is important; but if everything is equally important, then we become anesthetized.'

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

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[elephantsay]

The Church says that they were doing it for God, who sees everything. Faith was certainly part of it, but I agree with those who say that they did it for each other, too.

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[elephantsay]

The subtle art of voicing is what actually gives the piano its distinctive tone, its character: its voice.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart

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