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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 treasured family heirlooms, some just firewood. But others have led a more itinerant life, occasionally finding their way to a secret, glass-roofed workshop in Paris where they are lovingly restored by a piano repairer with a passion for his job.When T. E. Carhart came upon Luc and his atelier, his life changed. As he explored the Eldorado of pianos in Luc's back room, absorbed Luc's wisdom on life and music and finally found the baby grand of his dreams, he rediscovered his deep love for this most magical of instruments.In this wonderfully atmospheric book, full of Parisian life, the story of a musical friendship and a mutual obsession is intertwined with reflections on how pianos work, their glorious history and the people who care for them, from the most amateur pianist to the tuners and craftsmen who make the mechanism sing.
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Maintenance and repair, Piano technicians, Intellectual life, Erlebnisbericht, Klavier- und Cembalobauer, Homes and haunts, Americans, Nonfiction, Music, Piano, History, Americans, france, Musicians, biography, Paris (france), intellectual life, HomesPeople
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France, Paris, Rive gauche (Paris, France)Times
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The Piano Shop On The Left Bank
2008, Random House Publishing Group
Electronic resource
in English
1407016946 9781407016948
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The piano shop on the Left Bank: discovering a forgotten passion in a Paris atelier
2002, Random House Trade Paperbacks
in English
0375758623 9780375758621
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The piano shop on the Left Bank: discovering a forgotten passion in a Paris Atelier
2001, Random House
in English
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0375503048 9780375503047
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The piano shop on the Left Bank: the hidden world of a Paris atelier
2001, Vintage
in English
0099288230 9780099288237
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The piano shop on the Left Bank: the hidden world of a Paris atelier
2000, McArthur
in English
1552781712 9781552781715
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The piano shop on the Left Bank: the hidden world of a Paris atelier
2000, Chatto & Windus
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0701168749 9780701168742
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