The piano shop on the Left Bank
Paris (france), intellectual life
Musicians, biography
Piano
Homes
Erlebnisbericht
Maintenance and repair
Homes and haunts
Americans
Music
Intellectual life
Nonfiction
History
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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