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  2. Pianist - Wikipedia

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    Sergei Rachmaninoff at the piano Motion capture of two pianists' fingers playing the same piece (slow motion, no sound). [1] ' Humoresque' by Sergei Rachmaninoff. A pianist (US: / p iː ˈ æ n ɪ s t / pee-AN-ist, also / ˈ p iː ə n ɪ s t / PEE-ə-nist) is a musician who plays the piano.

  3. Piano - Wikipedia

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    Piano Grand piano Upright piano Keyboard instrument Hornbostel–Sachs classification 314.122-4-8 (Simple chordophone with keyboard sounded by hammers) Inventor(s) Bartolomeo Cristofori Developed Early 18th century Playing range The Well-Tempered Clavier, first prelude of Book I Played by Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka Problems playing this file? See media help. A piano is a keyboard instrument that ...

  4. Social history of the piano - Wikipedia

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    This new piano was extremely difficult to play, and very few people learned how to play the instrument because of this. That changed when Zumpe convinced Johann Christian Bach, the personal music master to Queen Charlotte and an international celebrity, to purchase and play on a Zumpe piano for the first ever Zumpe piano concert in 1768 ...

  5. Chilling video surfaces of 'ghost' playing piano by itself - AOL

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    A ghostly presence was captured on an English ghost hunter's camera, which was installed to discover the truth behind an eerie phenomenon - a piano playing entirely by itself.. After seeing the ...

  6. List of classical piano duos (performers) - Wikipedia

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    Piano Duo Liva-Stregapede: They play unusual repertoire such as Saint-Saëns' 2-piano arrangement of Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and Shostakovich's arrangement of Honegger's Symphony No. 3; performed world premieres of works by Ástor Piazzolla, unpublished versions for 2 pianos and a version for piano duo by Casella of Beethoven's 9 symphonies ...

  7. List of classical pianists - Wikipedia

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    This is an alphabetized list of notable solo pianists who play (or played) classical music on the piano. For those who worked with other pianists as piano duos, see List of classical piano duos (performers). For a list of recorded classical pianists, see List of classical pianists (recorded)

  8. Player piano - Wikipedia

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    A restored pneumatic player piano Steinway reproducing piano from 1920. Harold Bauer playing Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22, excerpt of 3rd movement. Duo-Art recording 5973-4. A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electromechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or ...

  9. Keyboardist - Wikipedia

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    In the 2010s, professional keyboardists in popular music often play a variety of different keyboard instruments, including piano, tonewheel organ, synthesizer, and clavinet. Some keyboardists may also play related instruments such as piano accordion, melodica, pedal keyboard, or keyboard-layout bass pedals.