The Piano Book

The Piano Book
Author: Larry Fine
Publisher: Brookside Press (MA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Piano
ISBN: 9780961751241

Essential advice for buying and caring for a new or used piano. A '97-'98 supplement is available.

Pianos Inside Out

Pianos Inside Out
Author: Mario Igrec
Publisher:
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Piano
ISBN: 9780982756300

Pianos Inside Out takes an in-depth look at the history, design, and maintenance of the piano, and provides practical guidance to anyone who wants to learn how to improve action performance, or tune, repair, regulate, voice, or rebuild pianos. Covering a wide range of topics, from introductory to advanced, the book puts between two covers all the advancements and understanding gained by the piano industry over the last 30 years, to provide a unified and coherent view of that much-needed information, from coincident partial tuning and interval inharmonicity, to touchweight analysis, string leveling, and the different types of modern lubricants. Although written for hobbyists, students, and piano technicians, Pianos Inside Out will also help pianists and owners of pianos to better understand their instruments and to communicate more effectively with their technicians. The book is full of clear, concise, step-by-step instructions, and more than 700 illustrations and diagrams.

On Pitch

On Pitch
Author: Rick Baldassin
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781427619341

The subject of this book is tuning theory and the integration of aural and electronic tuning techniques. All of the information presented will be analyzed from both aural and electronic perspectives, so that every technique used aurally will have an electronic equivalent, and every technique used electronically will have its aural test. The information is equally helpful for those who tune strictly by ear or exclusively with an electronic aid, and provides a firm understanding of the equivalent tests and procedures from both worlds for the growing number of tuners that use both their ears and an electronic aid.

The Piano Tuner

The Piano Tuner
Author: Daniel Mason
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1400077710

A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.

The Contemporary Piano

The Contemporary Piano
Author: Alan Shockley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 144228188X

With Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer’s Guide to Techniques and Resources, Alan Shockley provides a comprehensive resource for composers writing music that uses extended techniques for the piano, and for pianists interested in playing repertoire that makes use of techniques and/or implements unfamiliar to them. Shockley explains dozens of ways to prepare a piano without damaging the instrument, how to notate every standard technique and many, many obscure ones, and the specific geographies of every common concert hall piano. This will be the standard reference for pianists touring and playing inside-the-piano repertoire, and for composers at all levels of familiarity with the piano hoping to understand the mechanical miracle that is the modern piano.

Rebuilding the Player Piano

Rebuilding the Player Piano
Author: Larry Givens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258818173

Instructions On How To Rebuild The Player Piano And Related Instruments.

Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos

Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos
Author: Edwin Marshall Good
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1982
Genre: Piano
ISBN:

This illustrated book treats the history of the piano from its invention in 1700 to the present in terms of its technology. Looking at the technologies of design, materials, and manufacture, and focusing its description on specific existing pianos, it describes the changes in pianos from the earlist days to contemporary instruments.