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according to the new book piano by james baron steinway and sons begins building one new concert grand and its queens new york factory every working day a crew of seven men ben's along heavy piece of a laminated wood and the familiar double curve that makes the chassis of the instrument launching eleven month process that mingles craft science art the only guarantee after the thousands of man hours and painstaking adjustments is that each piano very good potential for reasons no one could discern the great scientists on used to go to a concert soloist instrument center iraq to hunt one of those very special candidates have the luxury i would say doesn't happen to the recalls to in that genetic glitches and piano for that is you play and then he played now that will be really a dream today who is known symphony president alan valentine for many years came to nashville and saw the nineteen hundred seat laura turner concert hall when it was still

in cinder blocks that was enough to give you an idea of the qualities he was looking for as he hunted for the perfect instrument so he needs to have the real power to cancel your sense contributed to last row but still having a beautiful warm round because that's what i like also at the register bazan that merely singing the enemy simply president alan valentine says t but i had played piano as at the steinway factories in both new york and hamburg germany but none of them left to the fore then last winner today visited a favored candidate or in paris oh well you know he caught myself on and he's our and this is shown eve i'm i have it right that circle member down valentine says getting the right piano was vital because after all pianists don't travel with their instruments like violinists the last thing the symphony wants is for an international soloist to be impressed with the hall and the

symphony but the underwhelmed by the piano some way people would say well i can't really hear the difference but the difference lies in not only about the characteristics of the sound some have a very large aggressive kind of sound some have a much more subdued kind of sound but it also lies in the the touch and feel of the piano the action and he's all of those things ever will affect on pianist you know when the pianist playing an instrument it's a great instrument they open up and they relax and they or really able to extract a lot more color and detail of the mass of the instrument than if they're playing instrument that their it they feel like they're having to fight despite the care that went to the hunt for the humber build steinway isn't pianist won't have to play a valentine one to give performers the option of american made steinway which are thought to have a brighter more aggressive sound than the hamburg models although the symphony sent a delegation of six to new york to examine steinway's at the factory show room they didn't find one they liked as well as a concert grand the symphony had been leasing for some

time from nashville steinway piano gallery that instrument now purchased lives in a climate controlled room beneath the screamer horn stage mr turner hall yesterday afternoon john yves thibault de got re acquainted with the humber piano he discovered in paris nearly a year ago the sweeping passages come from the peace in play here for the next three nights second piano concerto in a major by franz liszt he says it's a work that undermines the general impression of this as someone who only show you it was a very deep and very serious composer and music is not always just offensive line the true this is a very introverted piece and i think it's a wonderful show together return again it has all of that together in case there were already enough reasons to celebrate this year happens to be a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the

model that most of the world saw was part was the rolls royce of canada's first steinway grand was built and exhibited at the crystal palace in new york than eighteen fifty six national public radio and it's been it's been it's been it's b it's b

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