He began as a trainee piano tuner before taking up the drums.

The film presents Steinway's chief piano tuner and concert technician for the Vienna-area, Stefan Knüpfer, in his work with pianists such as Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Philip was a blind organist, composer (" Dominion March ", played on carillon at Jack's lying-in-state ), piano tuner, and piano retailer.

Her maternal grandfather, a cartoonist, piano tuner and member of a barbershop quartet, was Irish.

A piano tuner may verify tuning accuracy by timing the beats when two strings are sounded at once.

Their children were: Hiram Percy Maxim ; Florence Maxim, who married George Albert Cutter, and Adelaide Maxim, who married Eldon Joubert, Ignacy Jan Paderewski's piano tuner.

The natural inharmonicity of a piano is used by the tuner to make slight adjustments in the tuning of a piano.

In the 1980s and 1990s, he toured 30 American cities — largely in the Midwest — in a twelve-ton truck with his own Steinway pianos and piano tuner.

Nyro was born Laura Nigro in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Gilda Mirsky Nigro, a bookkeeper, and Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz trumpeter.

He had two sisters, Florence Maxim, who married George Albert Cutter, and Adelaide Maxim, who married Eldon Joubert, Ignace Paderewski's piano tuner.

# It takes a piano tuner about two hours to tune a piano, including travel time.

# Each piano tuner works eight hours in a day, five days in a week, and 50 weeks in a year.

We can similarly calculate that the average piano tuner performs

1000 piano tunings per year per piano tuner.

:( 125, 000 piano tunings per year in Chicago ) / ( 1000 piano tunings per year per piano tuner ) = 125 piano tuners in Chicago.

For the above example, we might try to find a better estimate of the number of pianos tuned by a piano tuner in a typical day, or look up an accurate number for the population of Chicago.

`` And next year we will do -- also a Ford commission -- a piano concerto by Elliott Carter, with Jacob Lateiner as soloist.

He could, he said, play the popular will like a piano, leading the masses wherever he wanted them to go.

Ironically, Groucho used an even more risqué line in introducing Chico's piano sequence: " Signor Ravelli's first selection will be, ' Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping ', with a male chorus.

The vibraphone also has a sustain pedal similar to that used on a piano ; when the pedal is up, the bars are all damped and the sound of each bar is shortened ; with the pedal down, they will sound for several seconds.

The rhythm section of a jazz band consists of the percussion, double bass or bass guitar, and usually at least one instrument capable of playing chords, such as a piano, guitar, Hammond organ or vibes ; most will usually have more than one of these.

Veteran systems engineer and live sound mixer Bruce Main recommends that high-pass filters be engaged for most mixer input sources, except for those such as kick drum, bass guitar and piano, sources which will have useful low frequency sounds.

In the MCC Theater production, his music will be performed by a piano “ orchestra ” – complete with a traditional piano, a toy piano, and a prepared piano ( a piano that has had its sound altered by attaching objects – such as tin foil, rubber bands and playing cards – to the strings ).

Once the audience is clapping clave along with him, Palmieri will sit back down at the piano and proceed to take his solo.

The tack piano is a piano that has been altered by inserting thumbtacks or small nails into the striking end of each hammer, so that the instrument will produce a more percussive sound and brighter timbre.

On normal pianos, felt coverings on the hammers will harden and compress with use ( though not usually for at least several decades, unless it is a heavily used concert piano ), yielding a characteristic bright, tinny sound.

The spool fits into the player piano spool box whereupon the free end of the music sheet is hooked onto the take-up spool which will unwind the roll at an even pace across the reading mechanism ( the " tracker bar ") The music score to be played is programmed onto the paper by means of perforations.

He also had a collection of keyboard instruments in which he took great delight, especially a piano made at Florence in 1730 ( called in the will ), and violins by Stradivarius and Amati.

Similarly, the pitch to which they are tuned is rarely close to the standard of 440 Hz for the A above middle C. A typical toy piano will have a range of one to three octaves.

Previn is initially enthusiastic as a guest, but he is perplexed by the news that he will not, after all, be conducting Yehudi Menuhin in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, but Edvard Grieg's A minor Piano Concerto with Eric as piano soloist:

However, when a string is struck or plucked, as with a piano string that is struck by a hammer, a violin string played pizzicato, or a guitar string that is plucked by a finger or plectrum, the string will exhibit inharmonicity.

For instance, a stiff string under low tension ( such as those found in the bass notes of small upright pianos ) exhibits a high degree of inharmonicity, while a thinner string under higher tension ( such as a treble string in a piano ) or a more flexible string ( such as a gut or nylon string used on a guitar or harp ) will exhibit less inharmonicity.

To access the cave, a similar way to Batman Begins, tapping three keys on the piano will reveal a now modernly built elevator which takes the passenger straight to the cave.

The most sophisticated, expensive types will trigger both a change in volume and a change in timbre, which simulates the way that very hard strikes of a piano or electric piano cause a difference in tone — as well as an increase in volume.

Schweitzer's pedal piano was still in use at Lambaréné in 1946.

In the English-speaking world, worship is typically accompanied by organ or piano, though in recent years a few ecclesias have promoted the use of other instruments ( e. g. strings, wind and brass as mentioned in the Psalms ).

Since there is no established instrumental ensemble that includes the double bass, its use in chamber music has not been as exhaustive as the literature for ensembles such as the string quartet or piano trio.

Other examples of chamber works that use the double bass in mixed ensembles include Serge Prokofiev's Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass ; Erwin Schulhoff's Concertino for flute / piccolo, viola, and double bass ; Fred Lerdahl's Waltzes for violin, viola, cello, and double bass ; Mohammed Fairouz's Litany for double bass and wind quartet ; Mario Davidovsky's Festino for guitar, viola, cello, and double bass ; and Iannis Xenakis's Morsima-Amorsima for piano, violin, cello, and double bass.

In the late 18th century the harpsichord was supplanted by the piano and almost disappeared from view for most of the 19th century: an exception was its continued use in opera for accompanying recitative, but the piano sometimes displaced it even there.

The piece calls for some instruments ( harp, piano, samplers ) to use just intonation, a tuning system in which intervals sound pure, rather than equal temperament, the common Western tuning system in which all intervals except the octave are impure.

For some instruments, teachers also train students in the use of the feet, as in the case of piano or other keyboard instruments that have damper or sustain pedals on the piano, the pedal keyboard on a pipe organ, and some drums and cymbals in the drum kit such as the bass drum pedal and the hi-hat cymbal pedal.

Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal.

One innovation that helped create the sound of the modern piano was the use of a strong iron frame.

Other important advances included changes to the way the piano was strung, such as the use of a " choir " of three strings rather than two for all but the lowest notes, and the implementation of an over-strung scale in which the strings are placed in two separate planes, each with its own bridge height.

Most forms of Western music can make use of the piano.

She was also noteworthy early in her solo career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument.

Williams, in particular, would add many lines of his own (" Lau your luppers on the strillers bona " ( play the piano ) being his most extreme use of obscure Polari ).

Several short-lived Comets reunions were attempted in the 1970s and 1980s, including one contingent ( organized by Baltimore-based piano player Joey Welz who played piano for the Comets during the summer of 1965 ) that appeared on The Tomorrow Show, and another run by an Elvis Presley impersonator named Joey Rand ( this group later lost a legal action over the right to use the Comets name ), but only one group was officially sent out to perform by Haley himself, and his management / production company, which were the official Comets who played with Haley throughout the 1960s and 1970s and continued to perform as the Comets between gigs and during Haley's retirement.

The 100, 000th Steinway grand piano was replaced in 1938 by the 300, 000th, which remains in use in the White House.

The piano remains in use in the White House.

The piano was chosen for use at the Expo 2010 Shanghai China.

Steinway maintains a " piano bank " from which performing pianists, especially Steinway Artists, can select a Steinway piano for use in a certain concert, recording or tour.

Performing artists choose a piano for use at a certain venue after trying some of the pianos of the " piano bank ".

Artur Schnabel complained once that " Steinway refused to let me use their pianos Steinway pianos owned by Steinway unless I would give up playing the Bechstein piano – which I had used for so many years – in Europe.