piano

Text and photographs describe the methods and tools used in making a concert grand piano at the Steinway factory in New York City.

A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Only one of the men realizes that her affections may be won through her beloved piano.

Mabel loves taking piano lessons and practicing so much that her parents buy a brand-new piano, and when they decide she should perform a concert at a family party, her little sister Violet gets jealous and threatens to unleash magic in order to get attention.

Khalida is just learning to play piano when a song awakes, tickling her fingers and dipping into her ear, but it will be many hours before she can catch and share it.

"In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed . . . a Bl?thner piano, . . . on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America . . . and her piano is lost in the shuffle. In 2012, in . . . California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, which is complicated by the gift her father had given her . . . shortly before he and her mother died in a fire: . . . a Bl?thner upright she has never learned to play. Orphaned, she was raised by her aunt and uncle, who in his car-repair shop trained her to become a first-rate mechanic . . . But this work, her true mainstay in a scattered life, is put on hold when her hand gets broken while the piano's being moved--and in sudden frustration she chooses to sell it. And what becomes crucial is who the most interested party turns out to be . . ."--OCLC.

Photographs and simple text provide an introduction to pianos, explaining what they look like, how they sound, where they come from, and how they are played.

Bartolomeo Cristofori, a young musical inventor, attempts to create an instrument than can do "pianissimo" sounds that are light and soft, as well as "forte" sounds, that are strong and loud. When Prince Ferdinando de Medici invites him to his court in Florence, Bartolomeo sees and hears goldsmiths' tiny hammers and blacksmiths' big sledgehammers making both sounds and realizes hammers are the key to a new, beautiful instrument. Includes a timeline, notes on today's piano, and links to piano selections online.

Magnolia is a little girl with a big idea, determination, and one very heavy upright piano that she insists on taking with her to the beach, but in a series of mishaps, Magnolia quickly learns that a piano does not mix well with sand, sun, and seagulls.

In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old Greta purses her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.

A lesson book for the piano which guides the late beginner musician through the key of D minor, the G major scale, moving up and down the keyboard with harmonic sixths, and more, and includes exercises and songs.