Pianos Inside Out - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pianos Inside Out write by Mario Igrec. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Pianos Inside Out available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pianos Inside Out takes an in-depth look at the history, design, and maintenance of the piano, and provides practical guidance to anyone who wants to learn how to improve action performance, or tune, repair, regulate, voice, or rebuild pianos. Covering a wide range of topics, from introductory to advanced, the book puts between two covers all the advancements and understanding gained by the piano industry over the last 30 years, to provide a unified and coherent view of that much-needed information, from coincident partial tuning and interval inharmonicity, to touchweight analysis, string leveling, and the different types of modern lubricants. Although written for hobbyists, students, and piano technicians, Pianos Inside Out will also help pianists and owners of pianos to better understand their instruments and to communicate more effectively with their technicians. The book is full of clear, concise, step-by-step instructions, and more than 700 illustrations and diagrams.
The Lost Pianos of Siberia
The Lost Pianos of Siberia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Pianos of Siberia write by Sophy Roberts. This book was released on 2020-08-04. The Lost Pianos of Siberia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street Journal Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos traveled into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia follows Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful—and peppered with pianos. “An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.” —Paul Theroux
Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding for the Professional, the Student, and the Hobbyist
Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding for the Professional, the Student, and the Hobbyist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding for the Professional, the Student, and the Hobbyist write by Arthur A. Reblitz. This book was released on 1993. Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding for the Professional, the Student, and the Hobbyist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides all the information needed for restoring and maintaining pianos, both for professionals and amateurs.
Men, Women and Pianos
Men, Women and Pianos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men, Women and Pianos write by Arthur Loesser. This book was released on 2012-04-27. Men, Women and Pianos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A renowned concert pianist traces the instrument's design, manufacture, and music in a delightful "piano's eye-view" of the social history of Western Europe and the United States from the 16th to the 20th centuries.
The Piano Tuner
The Piano Tuner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Piano Tuner write by Daniel Mason. This book was released on 2003-12-16. The Piano Tuner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.
