Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoners try to escape, and 1826 almost gets blown to smithereens by a mine. Young Seaman Peter Carlyle is hauled up before a general court martial for carrying Navy supplies to his Italian sweetheart. Lieut. (j.g.) Matthew Barclay falls head over keel with an Army nurse who plays the piano. Finally, there is a chilling climax that shows that Brinkley has not been writing a situation comedy at all but a situation tragedy. Even so, the reader's interest is likely to reach deep six well before the 1826 does...
...unfortunates in a shoe-factory town where the girls outnumber the boys 16 to 1. To boost morale and expedite production, the factory manager gets some foot-slogging soldiers assigned to the area, most of them doggy, dumpy and married. The blonde succumbs by default to a callow young piano player (Vladimír Pucholt) who has all but forgotten her when she shows up, a week or so later, at his parents' apartment in Prague...
...eminent piano has been the Steinway, which at its best has a soar ing, singing tone and a delicately responsive action...
Make It Sexy. It was inevitable that one day Baldwin would get tired of being second in the concert halls and would try harder to improve its instrument. The result is the piano that sounded so good that day at Town Hall: Baldwin's new model, SD-10. Guided by such consultants as Leonard Bernstein and Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Max Rudolf, Baldwin's experts worked for ten years revamping the instrument's inner parts to increase its reverberation and enhance its timbre. They altered the length, size and layout of the strings, redesigned the bridge, which transmits...
Finally Baldwin produced a satisfactory prototype, placed it alongside two standard models identical in appearance, and invited pianists to play a musical game of "Will the Real SD-10 Please Stand Out?" It worked. Abbey Simon, a performer and professor of piano at the Indiana University School of Music, tried all three instruments, then told Baldwin executives: "My God, you could have 50 pianists here and they'd all know...