• incorporated into pianos, and this innovation is discussed below. But in a sense, it is a far greater challenge to improve the piano in its own terms, as...
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    have made it a familiar instrument in the Western world. The piano was founded on earlier technological innovations in keyboard instruments. Pipe organs...
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  • List of piano manufacturers Innovations in the piano Pedal piano Piano acoustics Piano key frequencies (in equal temperament) Piano roll Piano tuning Player...
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    Jan Ladislav Dussek (category Composers for piano)
    Czech music abroad in the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Some of his more forward-looking piano works have traits...
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    led to innovations in making tougher piano wire. In 1834, the Webster & Horsfal firm of Birmingham, United Kingdom brought out a form of piano wire made...
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  • buying from piano stores. It also documents innovations in piano building. The book is written from the viewpoint of the piano technician. The book was accompanied...
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  • Agraffe (category Piano)
    eliminate the likelihood of buzzing, even as the agraffes wear. They are installed with their width perpendicular to the strings. Innovations in the piano Good...
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    digital piano is a type of electronic keyboard instrument designed to serve primarily as an alternative to the traditional acoustic piano, both in how it...
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    German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's...
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    A piano concerto, a type of concerto, is a solo composition in the classical music genre which is composed for piano accompanied by an orchestra or other...
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    electric pianos include Baldwin Piano and Organ Company, and the Wurlitzer Company. Early electric piano recordings include Duke Ellington's in 1955 and...
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    in Richard N. Foster's book "Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage" and in the paper Strategic Responses to Technological Threats. Not all innovations...
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    Fortepiano (redirect from Hammer piano)
    early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698 up...
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    innovated Everett's old pianos. One of those innovations was the Balanced Tension Back. It allowed the sound quality to stay sharp in different conditions...
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    and composer. Born in Paris, she lived in Passy and played and composed for the harpsichord and the piano. She learned to play the harpsichord as a child...
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    The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including...
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    The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between June 1900 and April 1901. The...
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    Leslie speaker (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Bearman, Noah (2003). The Big Book of Jazz Piano Improvisation: Tools and Inspiration for Creative Soloing. Alfred...
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    note duration, and the piano keyboard. The concrete environment of the specially planned classroom allows the child to learn the fundamentals of music...
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    Piano OMRI (Italian: [ˈrɛntso ˈpjaːno]; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in...
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    Sébastien Érard (category Piano makers)
    one of many Érard innovations still found on modern pianos - for example, Érard was the first maker in Paris to fit pedals on the piano, and his instrument...
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    has the prophetic notation "Old Man Jazz". Kenton started learning piano as a teen from a local pianist and organist. When he was around 15 and in high...
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  • international reputation as the greatest violinist of his time and inspires other instrumentalists to mimic his innovations on the piano (Chopin, Liszt). November...
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    Gulbransen (category Piano manufacturing companies of the United States)
    In the history of musical instruments, Gulbransen is notable for several innovations. In its early years, Gulbransen made the first upright piano with...
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  • Joseph Pramberger (category Piano makers)
    worked together in the restoration and rebuilding of pianos. Joseph joined Young Chang in 1995 where he made dramatic innovations in sound and action...
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    Gottfried Silbermann (category Piano makers)
    reintroduced to the piano in the 20th century, in the form of the fourth and fifth pedals of pianos made by the Borgato firm; see Innovations in the piano. There...
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    (1954–2012). The seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes Metaflex fabric innovations thereof: University of St. Andrews (2010) application of the first...
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    Casio (category Piano manufacturing companies)
    the desk-sized calculator was finished in 1954 and was Japan's first electro-mechanical calculator. One of the central and more important innovations...
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  • & Pioneer Innovations Corporation. Retrieved 2016-07-31. "CASIOPEA CASIOPEA". JVCKENWOOD Victor Entertainment Corporation. Archived from the original on...
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    String (music) (redirect from The G string)
    of the history of metal strings evolved through innovations with the piano. In fact, the first wound metal strings ever used were used in a piano. However...
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