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The piano was evidently destroyed during the Second World War. Piano scholar Edwin Good (1986; see References below) has examined a very similar Streicher piano made in 1870, with the goal of finding out more about Brahms's instrument. This 1870 Streicher has leather (not felt) hammers, a rather light metal frame (with just two tension bars), a ...
Fine, Larry. The Piano Book: Buying and Owning a New or Used Piano, Fourth Edition. Jamaica Plain, MA: Brookside Press, 2005. ISBN 1-929145-01-2; Good, Edwin. Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos: A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand, Second Edition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047 ...
Edwin Hughes (August 15, 1884 — July 17, 1965) [1] was an American pianist, music educator, music editor, and composer. In 1940 he co-founded the National Music Council . Life and career
Edwin Frank Duchin (April 1, 1909 – February 9, 1951), commonly known as Eddy Duchin or alternatively Eddie Duchin, [3] was an American popular music pianist and bandleader during the 1930s and 1940s.
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano) pub. 1897 as Love alone will stay — C. Alice Elgar: Boosey 37.3: 1899 "Sabbath Morning at Sea" song: from Sea Pictures contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano) — Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Boosey 37.4: 1899 "Where Corals Lie" song: from Sea Pictures contralto or mezzo-soprano ...
Fortepiano by Paul McNulty after Walter & Sohn, c. 1805 A fortepiano [ˌfɔrteˈpjaːno] is an early piano.In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1700 up to the early 19th century.
Edwin Bechstein (1859 – 15 September 1934) was a German piano maker and businessman and early supporter of Adolf Hitler.He was the son of Carl Bechstein and was the owner of the C. Bechstein piano company from 1900 to 1923 when it became a limited company.
C. Bechstein suffered huge property losses in London, Paris, and St. Petersburg during World War I. The largest loss was in London. Although the company's position in the United Kingdom was initially unaffected, with the company still listed as holding a royal warrant in January 1915, [14] warrants to both King George V, and his wife Queen Mary were cancelled on 13 April 1915. [15]