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The Piano
«The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| Keywords:
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«No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.»
Author: Kenneth Miller
| About:
Music,
Mystery
| Keywords:
acoustic, An electric, electric, expressive, instrument, match, piano, pianos, range, The Piano, The Range
«[The piano is] able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.»
«The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuosi and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.»
Author: Kenneth Miller
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
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«They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'»
«The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
annoying, machine, piano, relation, sister, The Piano, typewriting, typewritten