Cover of The piano shop on the Left Bank

The piano shop on the Left Bank

by Thaddeus Carhart

2000 242 pages eng

Ever since the piano was invented, people have longed to own one. By the nineteenth century the big, unwieldy instruments were everywhere: they shrank in the heat of the colonies, swayed on steamships and sang in the drawing room of every genteel home. Some of these old pianos have become treasure…

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