In an anonymous old building, at the top of too many flights of stairs, a door opened to reveal a tall lady, a Bechstein piano and two Siamese cats.
The rest of the house has high-end features like Italian marble, mahogany cabinetry, onyx slab flooring, wine and piano room, two pools, billiard room and solar power-generating system.
Dishman incorporated two tests that measure the strength of a patient's speech with a recording chip, and three others--a peg board, two piano keys and videogame-type buttons--that measure reaction time and speed of movement.
Downtown Louisville has undergone a renaissance in recent years, thanks to a handful of new hotels and museums as well as Fourth Street Live , a lively -- though somewhat touristy -- strip between Liberty St. and Muhammad Ali Blvd. with English pubs and piano bars, two-step joints, high-end lounges and restaurants within staggering distance of other attractions.
For a time, "Pinetop" lived in the same rooming house as two other piano players: Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis.
Two of Hines's most prominent self-confessed devotees were Teddy Wilson, who performed a marvelous two-piano duet with Hines in 1965 (available on YouTube) and Nat King Cole, both of whom were nearly as influential as Hines himself.
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One of his mentors was a talented painter, and Jiang himself plays piano, erhu (Chinese two-stringed violin) and flute.
Kahn's building helped to change that, as did two buildings Renzo Piano designed for the Menil Collection in 1986 and 1995.
He's made two CDs of piano arrangements of songs by the British rock band Radiohead, and one each of songs by Nick Drake and Elliott Smith.
This "A Taste of Honey" shows that skill in action: Playing with great whimsical spirit, Booker methodically takes apart the theme until he reaches the top two octaves of the piano, at which point he slips and slides through a barrelhouse fantasia on the theme.
About 12 years ago she acted on her dream of learning to play the cello (she had been proficient on the piano) and now is a member of two amateur orchestras and a string quartet.
Somewhere toward the middle of that spectrum are Claude Debussy's two books of Etudes, for solo piano.
Schumann added two more movements, and the resulting Piano Concerto in A minor has become one of the most popular romantic piano concertos in the repertoire.
Now, Dr Cummer and his colleagues have shown off an acoustic cloaking technique that works in air, for audible frequencies between one and four kilohertz - corresponding to two octaves on the higher half of a piano.
Their more relaxed sound substitutes an organ for a piano, while their more family-oriented touring schedule accommodates their two young children, who generally hit the road with them.
Piano keys each have three strings that, when struck by a felt-covered hammer, make a musical sound. (The exceptions are the bass keys, which have either two strings or one.) Pressing the soft pedal shifts the hammers so only two of the three strings are touched, giving the piano a much softer tone.
With this album, Bach's Two-Part Invention in F Major became a favorite of many piano students.
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Having made the Piano Concerto No. 2 a virtual calling card by performing it more than two-dozen times last year, Mr. Bronfman returns to the piece this spring.
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Encased in an elegant, high gloss piano black bezel, the W806 models feature Full HD 1080p and come with two pairs of 3D glasses for truly immersive and realistic 3D entertainment, .
An NPR holiday tradition celebrates two decades this winter: It's the 20th annual A Jazz Piano Christmas.
Consider your own family travel for a minute: Imagine you had to go to three events (soccer game, piano lesson, and food shopping) on a Saturday in three different towns with two children.
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