piano
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“I keep a piano because finally, finally, finally, I’m going to learn to play the piano.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
At one point, the man who created such transporting excursions into grace as the Opus 39 Waltzes had to scrounge around for his own piano.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“The piano world,” the author writes, “is, in many ways, the worst of the canon-worshipping repertoires, a leftover of Clara’s own legacy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Sprinkled between the solemn piano chords, his signature requinto melodies punctuate the verses and make way for the singer to ease into a more relaxed vocal tone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The piano player was making an awful racket, pounding out low, somber notes that didn’t fit the mood of the film at all.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Many of the 1,500 unique job titles represent specialist roles, like a lighting technician for performing arts who may also tune the pianos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The mixture of two pianos and harmonium creates a timbre that somehow manages to seem both eerie and comfortable, and the silences that surround the sounds are as important as the sounds themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
And it ends with Sabotage, where discordant pianos and jump-scare strings soundtrack her self-destruction.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
When he played the piano, he shared how he had lost two much-loved pianos when his house burnt down in the LA fires earlier this year.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
“Here comes the Lord of the Sun and Moon, the Lion that prowls by Night!” they sang to the sounds of hand pianos, iron bells and the shell anklets of the dancers.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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Music - Middle School
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