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  2. Piano history and musical performance - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Piano - Wikipedia

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    Piano Grand piano Upright piano Keyboard instrument Hornbostel–Sachs classification 314.122-4-8 (Simple chordophone with keyboard sounded by hammers) Inventor(s) Bartolomeo Cristofori Developed Early 18th century Playing range The Well-Tempered Clavier, first prelude of Book I Played by Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka Problems playing this file? See media help. A piano is a keyboard instrument that ...

  4. Charles Manson - Wikipedia

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    Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [1]

  5. List of piano manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1845 as The Sterling Organ Company by Charles A. Sterling, the company merged with the Winter Piano Company after the Great Depression. They also produced the cheaper, but reputable, Huntington Piano. Story & Clark: Chicago: US 1884–1993 Straube Piano Company: Downers Grove, IL, US (1895–1904) Hammond, IN, US (1904–1940)

  6. Social history of the piano - Wikipedia

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    When the piano was invented in 1700, it failed to catch the public's attention due to its expense and the fact that the harpsichord was the preferred instrument of the time. Very few people knew of the piano until after the Seven Years' War when a young man named Johannes Zumpe fled Germany for London. While there he refined Cristofori's piano ...

  7. Edwin S. Votey - Wikipedia

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    The first pneumatic piano player that was practical was the Pianola, invented in 1896 by Edwin S. Votey of Detroit, MI, who received a patent on May 22, 1900. The patent was for an attachment of practical and economical construction that could be applied to and removed from any piano.

  8. In unearthed prison phone call, Charles Manson admits ... - AOL

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    A new docuseries about the cult leader features audio in which he admits to participating in multiple killings in Mexico before the notorious Manson family murders of 1969.

  9. History of home keyboards - Wikipedia

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    In 1915 he invented the first vacuum tube instrument, the audio piano. Until the invention of the transistor , the vacuum tube was an essential component in electric instruments. In 1935, the Hammond organ was introduced, [ 7 ] exploiting previous limited production efforts like the Robb Wave Organ [ 8 ] from 1923.