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17 January 2010, 07:11 AM
Brian BecroftPiano picture of the day
Creation - the Movie How piano playing affected Charles Darwin's theory of evolution(!)
His wife, Emma Darwin, studied piano with the celebrated composer Frédéric Chopin.
"Emma often played the piano for Charles, and in Charles' 1871 "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex," Darwin spent several pages on the evolution of musical ability by means of sexual selection."
She was a gifted pianist and often played for the family and guests. The bassoon apparently belonged to Francis, and Charles made use of it in attempts to determine if plants could 'hear' the instrument.
Actually this is a fascinating read!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Darwinhttp://news.softpedia.com/news...y-Music-105956.shtmlhttp://creationthemovie.com/ 17 January 2010, 07:51 AM
OperaTenorBrian, I was just teasing you.
I very much look forward to seeing what you've found. I say you just go ahead and hog the thread!
17 January 2010, 03:13 PM
Steve MillerLove your pictures, Brian!
Keep 'em coming!
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Life is short. Play with your dog.
18 January 2010, 07:20 AM
Brian BecroftThis has to be a first - just carve out the back of the piano to make for some steering room for the bike! Hey, that therfore has to be an electronic keyboard sitting in the piano doesn't it? Otherwise how can you have a frame in the instrument with the back cut away like that!
18 January 2010, 07:36 AM
Brian BecroftLook at the lovely case on this 6ft Ronisch (c1890) It is a decorative figured walnut case on turned octagonal legs.
18 January 2010, 07:44 AM
Brian Becroft A special kind of deep-sided table, 6ft,
Broadwood made these especially for the flower-vase, pot-plant and home-photo market...
19 January 2010, 05:15 PM
Brian BecroftOver on PTG this pic, the feeling being that the piano therein probably doesn't need tuning!
19 January 2010, 05:38 PM
Brian Becroft The Church of PianoIt looks like, as first impression, a vain spectacle of piano worship. It is an Olympic example of piano prayer!
21 January 2010, 07:49 AM
Brian Becroft ANTIQUE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PIANO WITH 2 CHAIRSCheck here for some wonderful closeup photos:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-RU...Z37975QQcmdZViewItem 21 January 2010, 05:56 PM
Brian BecroftIt's an Organ but it is like
a Piano on the FeetCameron Carpenter performs the Revolutionary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbEEhee3GUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQxyQktNFwc 22 January 2010, 07:38 PM
Brian Becroft Judy Garland at SixteenBackstory:
http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/category/chelsea/ 23 January 2010, 04:12 PM
Brian Becroft Tribute To Earl Wildhttp://mrdproductions.com/video/flvplayer3.htmlAccording to his official website, the great American virtuoso pianist, teacher, and raconteur, has died at 94.
http://www.earlwild.com/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01...ts/music/24wild.html"Earl Wild's 90th birthday concert, and a more elegant evening of patrician pianism I could hardly wish for.
Throughout the evening, I was struck again and again by Wild's still-generous virtuosity at 90, "
http://nightafternight.blogs.c...11/back_to_work.htmlInterview:
http://www.shumeiarts.org/article_wild.htmReview:
http://www.shumeiarts.org/latimes_earlwildreview.html Born in 1915, Mr. Wild has been a legendary figure performing throughout the world for seven decades, and has the singular honor of having performed at the invitation of six Presidents of the United States. " In 1997, he received a GRAMMY award for his brilliant disc devoted entirely to virtuoso piano transcriptions entitled, "Earl Wild - The Romantic Master."
He wrote some wonderful Transcriptions
25 January 2010, 04:18 AM
Brian BecroftEarl Wild's cover for Rhapsody In Blue
26 January 2010, 09:26 PM
LLUp on ebay
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27 January 2010, 05:48 AM
Brian Becroft One-of-a-kind Dining Table Artistic PianoLilylady, on my computer the picture does not show so after some searching I found this, there is more of the story and many other close up photos here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Custom-Mad...?hash=item45f0b28e23"This project investigated the ability to reduce waste through the reuse of a hard to recycle object, the upright piano. This piano was found described as “must go or will be forced to throw away.”
Custom one-of-a-kind dining table was made from and existing upright piano as a project to showcase the artistic value of reuse as opposed to disposal or recycling."