SONATAS, MACHINES, AND INTERLUDES IN BRAZIL
http://www.felixsmachines.com/
Inspired by the work and the thought of John Cage, the English musicians Sarah Nicolls, Kathy Hinde, Felix Thorn and Frenchman Pierre Malbos present concert based on the prepared piano technique of the American composer. Felix's Machines presents a prepared piano using custom built solenoid attachments activated by Christmas tree light controllers with live processing through Logic.

European countryside mural
This European countryside mural was done out by Red Mountain in a beautiful castle-like stone home. This is in the front room behind the most beautiful piano I’ve ever seen (or played!).

HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER Perhaps one of the 7 Wonders of the piano world....
In 1901 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, now Glasgow’s most famous architect, entered a German-based competition to design a ‘Grand Residence for an Art Lover’.
http://www.houseforanartlover....inside/more_on_rooms

Joseph Beuys - Infiltration for Piano 1966

"... everything in the scale in the possibilities is involved from noise to concept,the sound of the piano is trapped. The piano is an instrument to produce sound, when not in use is silent but still has sound potential. When no sound is possible the piano is condemned to silence..."
http://wool-felt.blogspot.co.n...ation-for-piano.html

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The piano is an instrument to produce sound, when not in use is silent but still has sound potential.

One little correction - produces MUSIC!

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Originally posted by LL:

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The piano is an instrument to produce sound, when not in use is silent but still has sound potential.

One little correction - produces MUSIC!

Unless I'm playing it - in which case it mostly produces NOISE!

The white one makes me cringe.
The smothered one is too kinky.

It is a piano but not as we know it... The most famous grand piano in history has come to life again! Introducing the Steinway piano played by Vladimir Horowitz.
http://www.supremepiano.com/product/thor.html

In the Name of the Holocaust(1942) - John Cage

from Rich on FB

How this becomes this then this then this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guano/favorites/page102/

Steinway Uninote

Farewell the Amazing Year of Franz Liszt

Boesendorfer's personal gift to Liszt
"a two-door writing desk, with 3 drawers made of walnut. In the place of the middle drawer, there is a small pull-out piano with three-octave keyboard."
..."The small instrument, in which the miniature hammers, which are supplied with sound-dampers as well, strike fixed metal-sheets."


The glass-piano of Liszt - "joujou d'harmonica en verre"
made by Georges Bachmann, He called his invention piano-harmonica, introducing it in l865. It had a range of 4 octaves (c1-c5) with piano action. Instead of strings there are glass plates.

His Chickering

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Franz Liszt and some of his famous students in Weimar, 22 October 1884, his birthday.

Franz Liszt and the violinist Armah Senkrah in Weimar 1885

Well it is New Year Day What better way than to spend it with your piano and cat....

Josef Danhauser: Franz Liszt at the Piano, 1840 (at the age of 29)
Seated are Alexandre Dumas Sr., George Sand, and Marie d’Agoult; standing are Hector Berlioz, Nicolò Paganini, and Gioachino Rossini. On the piano is a bust of Beethoven by Anton Dietrich,and on the wall is a portrait of Byron.