Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billy Joel, in his ascent to unrivaled commercial success, never made us dance. In fact, as he carved out his comfy pop niche, he never made us do or feel much of anything. But on Piano Man, The Stranger and 52nd Street he described just enough familiar American experiences with enough pleasing, if not arresting music. We bought his albums and made him popular...
...balance of the first floor is used as studio space by the Visual and Environmental Studies Department. Upstairs are several long hallways' worth of small offices. The University piano tuner has one, so do about a dozen teachers in the East Asian Languages and Civilization Department. At one end of the floor is the Project for Kibbutz Studies, a branch of the Center for Jewish Studies that coordinates research and teaching on Israeli cooperative communities...
...fight back, the company has introduced a new lower-cost model called the Rudolph Wurlitzer. The piano, which has a less intricate and expensive mechanism than the traditional Wurlitzer, retails for below $2,000, in contrast to $3,960 for the company's standard models. In June, the company contracted with a Korean piano manufacturer, Young Chang, to design and build grand pianos, which are now for sale in the U.S. under the Wurlitzer label. One bright spot is the company's European division, which primarily markets coin-operated jukeboxes and vending machines. Revenues have climbed from...
...ALBUM'S COVER-- a line drawing of Jackson at a grand piano, with a dark New York skyline in the background--tells much of the story. Jackson wrote and produced the album in New York, following a tradition of British fascination with the city shared by the likes of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The effect of this extended stop in New York's is evident in vivid songs about paranoid street walkers, sexual deviants and smiling snipers...
...dark and gruesome in Jackson's journey through a night and day in the big city. The music itself is for the most part an upbeat and cheerful combination of Puerto Rican salsa rhythms, Jackson's jazzy piano overdubs, and some xylophone riffs like the catchy jingle that percussionist Sue Hadjopoulos repeats throughout the hit single "Steppin...