"The image of the limousines that became grand pianos stuck with me, " Adams says.
But if someone drops seven more pianos on you, it doesn't hurt seven times as much.
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The firm that he took charge of in 1950 made pianos, mouth-organs and wind-up gramophones.
Genichi Kawakami was sure that Yamaha pianos sounded every bit as good as the American product.
But how many people use it to see how many free pianos they can acquire?
Most attribute Steinway's success to clever marketing as well as to the quality of its pianos.
Of all the YouTube memes, one of the most enduring involves cats cacophonously walking across pianos.
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We don't have that on our pianos, where even with the shift the hammers still strike two strings.
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These days, along with Yamaha pianos and motorbikes, there are water scooters, tennis rackets, golf clubs, machine tools.
The pianos are terrific for Corky, especially when an equally accomplished pianist comes over, and they play together.
The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz always took two pianos on tour, but not for use on the same program.
The haunting Stravinsky score - for four pianos and four singers - reflects the religious origin of the ceremonies.
Mr Kawakami decided that to sell his pianos in any number he first had to create a new market.
Even, comparable to the folk tale of Victorians putting trousers on pianos so no one could see the legs.
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Those clanging psychedelic sounds are created by iron pronged thumb pianos called lacembes(ph).
By the late 1980s, Yamaha had become the world's leading maker of musical instruments of all kinds, not just pianos.
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Enter George Antheil, an American avant-garde composer whose works were known for using unorthodox instruments such as player-pianos, airplane propellers and sirens.
But the Nashville, Tenn. duo tempers their melancholy with an infectious dose of finger snaps and claps, bouncing rhythms and tinkling pianos.
Instead they built huge, clean service bays and thousands of square feet of showroom space appointed with espresso machines and grand pianos.
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But unlike the cows, pianos are sensitive to the vagaries of weather.
At the heart of this music are three thumb pianos called likembe.
Sotheby's says the piano is one of only six Ruhlmann pianos whose whereabouts are known and one of three that are similarly shaped.
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Originally from Nebraska, Crystal has a great appreciation for classical music, and takes advantage of concert-going and hotel lobby pianos whenever she gets the chance.
Then there are big-ticket items such as pianos, bicycles and computers.
"I always scoffed at digital pianos, mainly because the ones I had tried in the past had a very unrefined sense of touch, " Ms. Dinnerstein said.
He wanted it to be a piece for all of the senses: to hear the voice, to hear the words, to experience this enormous orchestra, two pianos.
They also don't require tuning, are impervious to the swings in humidity that wreak havoc on standard pianos, and can be played silently with the use of headphones.
Horowitz could sound like he was playing multiple pianos simultaneously.
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