| 单词 | piano |
| 例句 | “A fig for Rizzio!” cried she, tossing her head with all its curls, as she moved to the piano. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I’d never had lobster or cottage fries before, or had a white man play the piano just to make my meal go down easy. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The rug being out and the draperies down, the piano sounded tinny and alive. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I kept my rock collection behind the house, next to Mom’s piano, which was getting a little weathered. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Lady Constance had crawled atop the piano for safety. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Some of the neighbors helped Alice bring out her piano and set it down near the banana trees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Scared Aunt Loma might switch from Miss Effie Belle’s piano playing to my camping trip, I asked, “Why didn’t Miss Love play?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But he got up from the piano bench too restively for it to have been a real gesture of dismissal. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Last week I sent a tuner over to my parents’ apartment and had the piano reconditioned, for purely sentimental reasons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The rent was due Friday mornings on the ledge above the piano keys. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The chattering and whistling birds were still at it Two young girls, the Farival twins, were playing a duet from “Zampa” upon the piano. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother is teaching piano lessons again and she and my father are beginning to discuss what they will do next. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He pauses, then adds, “It was your mom’s idea, that first little toy piano....” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “I still need to know which young man hid frogs in my piano! Jojo, was it you?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Becky is really talented. She even plays the piano,” Uncle Max continues. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hinton said my piano and voice were coming along just fine. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her face has been smiling for the past six years that I’ve been pounding on the yellowed keys of the Tony Fritz Music Center’s piano every week. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Step one is to learn how to play the piano. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Studying had been positively excruciating, like trying to read while someone bangs out an annoying tune on a piano—and with fingers on the wrong keys, at that. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I’m trying to save up for piano lessons and a keyboard.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Sitting at Robbie’s upright piano, I was quick to pick up the scales—that osmosis thing was real—and I threw myself into filling out the sight-reading work sheets she gave me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Figure 1.29: D sharp and E flat look very different when written in common notation, but they sound exactly the same when played on a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I want to become a composer, and all composers know how to play the piano. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She recorded a piano song about a cathedral engulfed by the seas and sent it to me, full of dim, chiming bells and green gloom. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I sit next to her on the piano bench and harmonize. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “At the Grand Hotel there’s a piano bar that serves chow. I seem to remember a pretty good T-bone. And I know they got a nice martini.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Then, pretty soon, the guy that played the piano for old Valencia, this very wavyhaired, flitty-looking guy, came in to comb his golden locks. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The piano was right next to the bar where I was sitting and all, and old Valencia was standing practically right next to me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z By then, my parents had saved up enough to buy me a secondhand piano, a black Wurlitzer spinet with a scarred bench. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone was playing the piano in the parlor. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After my lesson I walk Madame Rubenstein to the door, then go back to the piano room. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Lily had perched herself on the piano bench and looked prepared to be amused. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z As we enter the choir room, Mrs. Spitz plays heavy chords on the piano. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z They used to have these two French babes, Tina and Janine, come out and play the piano and sing about three times every night. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The Señora set the bird on top of the piano. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I assumed my talent-show fiasco meant I never had to play the piano again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a piano, too, and Charles was playing, a glass of whiskey on the seat beside him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A piano tuner works by listening to and timing these beats, rather than by being able to "hear" equal temperament intervals precisely. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And even Duke Ellington half raised up from his piano stool and bowed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He invented, for example, a player organ: an organ which, like a player piano, automatically played music according to the information conveyed by pins on a turning drum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She runs on stiff legs past the sofa draped with the faded mantilla, past the water-bleached walnut piano, past the dining-room set missing a chair, and waits in front of the house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She placed it in Edna’s hands, and without further comment arose and went to the piano. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he thinks I was checking out the piano? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She obeyed, her gaze fixed on the golden wedgies that slapped the bottom of the woman’s bulging feet as she led the way through a curtain of colored beads to the piano. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Which gives rise to the thought that maybe he’s hiding in the last place we’d expect; the place he despises more than cauliflower and piano lessons combined—Meadow Creek Elementary School. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He seemed to regard the button panel, madam, as some sort of typewriter or piano or I.B.M. computer. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes I swear I hear someone playing a piano. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She looks through the arched window above the piano as if searching the waves to find the precise spot. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But Ophie could hardly focus on the screen, even as a colored woman sat down at the piano and played a rousing opening and the lights went down. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It was “furnished” only with a table, benches, and two pianos, and they had to stay out during the day, when the teacher gave lessons. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The eejit choir was lined up like mechanical toys, and someone was sitting at Matt’s piano. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Saving for my piano and lessons is all I have right now. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z No happy drunk—a friend of the family, with a fat neck, unmarried, you know, but God how he eats!—had sat at the piano and played “You Are My Sunshine.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a lectern in the middle and a piano in the right-hand corner. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Shoshana had wandered over to the piano and was banging notes out with a crab claw in each hand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When we fix the piano, I know what I’ll play first. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Elisha picked out the song on the piano, his fingers seeming to hesitate, almost to be unwilling. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Bloomberg was now sitting under the piano, on an island of sunshine, rather picturesquely washing his face. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Jeet leaned down and placed a toy piano on the floor in front of him. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But there was something old-fashioned and unfamiliar about this Chaya Abramowicz, something haunting, like one of the old photographs on Grandma Belle’s grand piano. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She twirled around on the piano stool, facing me, and I saw her eyes were glistening with tears. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Trotter came over and leaned across Gilly, who was sitting on the piano bench. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The keys on Robbie's piano had a subtle unevenness of color and shape, places where bits of the ivory had broken off over time, leaving them looking like a set of bad teeth. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “They still have a piano in their apartment, and Mr. Hollins says you can use it to practice.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you go have a talk with him? I’ve got to pick up your sister from her piano lesson.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He was playing a piano concerto at Lincoln Center. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Using a piano/keyboard, pitch pipe, or some other melodic instrument, find the correct starting pitch for the range of students in your class. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Franny at that moment was gazing at a sunlit faded spot in the carpet over near the piano, her lips very discernibly moving. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z As he became more serious about music, he took up the piano, organ, and recorder. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They splurge on their children’s sports and tutoring and piano lessons and deny them computers and televisions in their rooms and cellphones. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Together we recited the words “Hello, I am your American mother. Hello, I am your American father. You have three American brothers. Their names are Adam, Erik, and Teddy. Teddy plays the piano.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma also played piano for the children—a special galloping tune that made them run around the parlor. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She studied piano, too, until her mother, impatient for her favorite songs and frustrated with Claudette constantly practicing scales, stopped paying for lessons. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Together they chose a record with a picture on the front of a man named Duke Ellington playing the piano. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Garrett quickly pulls down the lid over the piano keys, and the fact that he’s worried about the piano makes me like him better. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z For after our struggle at the piano, she never mentioned my playing again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Grayson walked over to the piano and started lifting the lid. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Shortly after we moved into the depot, Mom decided that what we really needed was a piano. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “This is the church where Aimee played piano for me,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Our parents had no reason to doubt us, and now I’m one step closer to taking piano lessons again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He took piano lessons and had a public recital. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z That Saturday night he took the chain off the piano strings and played something he had been remembering and practicing in the morning, something called “Moonlight,” a piece by Beethoven, Cotton Eye thought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Though she was a member of Farmville’s Beulah AME Church, it was the First Baptist Church that enjoyed her esteemed piano playing come Sunday morning, because they had hired her as their pianist. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was pretty convinced I already had learned piano, in fact, through straight-up osmosis—all those hours spent listening to other kids fumbling through their songs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I open up the piano cabinet and start to play a compilation of pop songs from the 1960s that Ms. Holly gave me to practice on Friday during music class. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But Stuart liked it just the same: it was exciting inside the piano, dodging about, and the noise was quite terrific. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “Like singing or writing. Do you paint or anything like that? My Micah is a beautiful painter and Ezra is learning piano.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The harpsichord’s heyday lasted from this period until the piano gained popularity in the mid-eighteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And when Uncle played the albums Cecile had left behind—the ones with piano, bass, drums, and smooth-voiced Sarah Vaughan—in my mind, smoke still filled the house. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She taught me how to play piano, to make each note distinct from the others yet part of the whole. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can pay for ballet but not piano?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “But I guess he never had time to study. Where he lived, they chopped up pianos for firewood.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The piano had been left there by the previous tenants who could not afford to pay to have it moved. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The piano strings had been removed, and in their place were more books. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z "Haw, but look me up sometimes, I'm a piano player and a rounder, a whiskey drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em. Good luck," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Push the grand piano into the centre of the room,’ Mr Tibbs whispered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone was playing a piano nearby, and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z To my amazement, he spoke, very faintly, and the first thing he said was: “You played the piano.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Kate went over to the piano and tried to play it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z A number of well-dressed men and women were gathered in groups, some beside a grand piano, the others lounging in the pale beige upholstery of the blond wood chairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, the bearded piano dude finished his melody with wobbly, dying chords. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Tonight’s dinner has no scheduled entertainment, not even the standard piano accompaniment, but entertainment arrives unannounced at the door nonetheless. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Why in the world would you want the piano, Loma? You don’t play!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I imagined her as a lovely colorful bird that could fly if she chose when she played the piano, and her voice soared in the most hypnotic tones. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z You didn’t finish a month of piano lessons.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She looked behind her and saw the piano sitting in the backyard. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings, Emma read to Charles and played piano for him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat perfectly still before the piano, not touching the keys, while Robert carried her message to Edna at die window. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in the parsonage, sitting in a cane-bottomed chair near an upright piano and drinking homemade whiskey poured from a mayonnaise jar, it was real. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind made a racket in the treetops, but I didn’t hear Miss Willis or her piano. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She stopped in the middle of the living room, looked back at me as she placed her bag on the coffee table, and said, “Let's start with the proper way to sit at the piano.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The seats were made of polished wood, most of them still empty as people filed in for the showing, and Penelope wasted no time sitting right in the front row nearest to the piano. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z My mother also reminded me to invite Mr. Chong, my old piano teacher, who still lived three blocks away at our old apartment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the first things that had to be given up were Caroline’s mainland voice and piano lessons. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing on it was a painting of a dark brown girl sitting at a piano, her back to me, her arms spread across the keys. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Since I loved music, learning to play piano seemed like a good choice, even though I’d never actually seen a piano, let alone had any idea of what it took to play one. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Mom signed me up for piano lessons at school. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z With each pound of the piano keys, a sharp stab was driven through my chest. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z For me, it was a throwback to the way I’d been raised—the jazz at Southside’s house, the piano recitals and Operetta Workshops put on by my great-aunt Robbie, my family’s trips to downtown museums. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There was a final plunk from the piano, and silence. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Even if I were able to make seven dollars an hour, it’d take me forever to save up, and by then, this piano would probably be gone. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I saw my name then, “Sophia's piano recital,” penciled into yesterday’s square. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Occasionally, she’d whisper something to the senior piano player or Mr. Watras, but other than that, all she did was listen and listen to the music she wouldn’t be able to play. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally she stopped and squinted and aimed her ear at the piano as if this helped her to listen better. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z They had got my parents doing things like taking bus trips to factory outlets and playing a dice game called “bunko” and hanging around the piano bar at the Ramada Inn. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Fine. But have you done your piano practice yet? Miss Brown comes tomorrow.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Dicey heard the faint notes of the piano. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several pianos, only one of which looked playable, and a television the size of a dining table. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Setting it firmly on her head, she deliberately pounded the piano keys, producing a hideous, tuneless sound. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The Athena Parthenos lay sideways along the tops of the columns like a nightclub singer sprawled across a piano. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Through the headphones, she can hear him turn a crank, switch on something, and then, as if positioned directly in the center of her head, a piano plays a sweet, simple song. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She was too different—took seriously things that even girls ought not to take very seriously: paintings, poems, the music she played on the piano. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When you're little, a piano can look like it has a thousand keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “How else can you explain these houses, the iron deer, the pianos, the music?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But she looked over and saw the bishop’s daughter, Julie, tucked between the edge of the wall and the piano, sobbing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Matt was an excellent piano player and thought it wouldn’t have hurt the man to say “Good!” now and then. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can you hear yourself? The house, the piano? We’re talking about our lives.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “So...how did they end up in my piano?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Their mother played Mozart the night before the piano left. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There was a big old piano up there, all covered with cobwebs. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “But if you live in California, Daddy, you won’t be here for my piano recitals or...or...my soccer games! You won’t ‘always be here’ for me!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z And maybe one of these days she might be able to set aside a little for a secondhand piano. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Since the Fischers didn’t own a piano, Nigro began giving Bobby accordion lessons, lending him a somewhat battered “twelve-bass” instrument so he could practice at home. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t like it when my feelings got tangled, so I ran downstairs and played chopsticks on the piano. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I won’t be able to work to save up for a piano or lessons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The only other book I noted—or reading material of any sort—was a paperback mystery standing upright between two Oriental bookends on top of the piano. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She also encouraged her daughter’s natural musical talent by enrolling her in piano lessons. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Harry followed, gazing around, half-scared of what he might see hidden behind the wreck of the piano or the overturned sofa, but there was no sign of a body. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She loved music and had talent, and she played the piano, sang, and performed, in school and at home. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When I unlocked the door I saw that she was sitting on the piano bench, on the same side as the previous evening. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Steady Eddie started snapping his fingers real soft, in time with the piano and the drum, his toothpick jumping right along with his fingers. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She even let Harry and me skip our piano lessons for two weeks. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In the corner of the parlor I saw a grand piano with its top down, piled with papers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Friday morning, when my first week’s rent was due, I went to the piano in the parlor to place my money on the ledge. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Oh, and I made a piano bench. Still no piano, but at least I’ve got the bench. Do you remember what you made?” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He and Jordie stayed late into the night singing songs while Margit played the piano, their big silver dog thumping its tail in hapless rhythm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For food, a night’s lodging, and the use of our piano, he tuned it and gave Caroline and me free lessons. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed unnecessary to make her get up and walk all the way to the piano. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z At the piano sat a young girl with glasses on, studying some sheet music in the not quite adequate light from a single overhead bulb. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “So. Um, maybe we could start with ‘Consider Yourself or ‘Pick a Pocket or Two,”’ he says, shuffling his foot against the leg of the piano bench. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Georgie and I shared the same piano teacher, and his mother knew my mother. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then she sat down at the old piano, and her fingers seemed to glide over the keys. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My father turns from the piano and looks up at me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We have this old piano, and on Friday nights we’d sing and eat beans on toast and watch telly all together and have a laugh. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Do you play?” she asked, inclining her head toward the piano. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He took his hands down from his head and tapped on the table like he was playing the piano. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Remembering that he had liked my playing music, I asked: “When you were young, did somebody in your family play the piano?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A mode can be found by playing all the "white key" notes on a piano for one octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And next thing I know, Mrs. Walton’s heels are click-clacking their way over to the grand piano below the stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A few years ago, she offered to give me the piano, for my thirtieth birthday. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z An even more radical rejection of complexity can be heard in the piano miniatures of Erik Satie, Faure’s eccentric, half-English contemporary. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Mama says you missed your piano practice today.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They gathered in the drawing room around the piano. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The distance in form, intention, mood and expression between Schubert’s songs for voice and piano and those of, say, Adele is remarkably short, considering they are separated by two hundred years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She tiptoed out, and in a minute there came to my ears—and to Grandpa’s, I could tell—the sound of piano music. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He's a terrific snob and he won't hardly even talk to you unless you're a big shot or a celebrity or something, but he can really play the piano. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I’d heard the piano played countless times before, to accompany hymns, but when Mary played it, the sound was nothing like that formless clunking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was a piano at the audition but not at the show, so he got up onstage and sang a Brian McKnight song a cappella. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He tapped out a one-hand piano tune on the wall, and then he punched the air in silent triumph. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z At the very least, maybe I’ll be able to start my piano lessons again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I went to the semicircular bay window behind the piano and looked down onto Seventy-second Street to watch the police load up their vans with my parents’ belongings. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Like piano music with a few strings in the background. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, Ji-yun had not done very well at her piano lesson. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was appallingly little and flimsy—an open cockpit biplane with wooden struts, tied with piano wire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Far away, from the direction of the house, came the faint sound of a piano. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She’s trying to teach me the piano, but mostly I like to listen to her play. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Holly also gave me blank sheet music and encouraged me to compose original songs on the piano. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the town someone was playing the piano and the music came and went, came and went, softly, drowsily. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Could you use the piano lid and tap out the tempo you’d like?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I’m getting ready for a huge piano recital called Pianopalooza—I wonder if the person who thought of that name had too much coffee that morning. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z His old Spanish guitar spat out a series of warm, labyrinthine phrases that wrapped melodic vines around Gordo’s fierce piano hits. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Matt went to the music room and played the piano to calm his nerves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I miss getting in my car and just driving without anybody telling me what to do or how loud I can play the radio or asking if I’ve practiced piano.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “You should play the piano, anak. You could play in Madison Square Garden with fingers like that. I have no doubt!” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I shift on the bench, and my elbow strikes one of the piano keys. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Before my father went to prison, they played music together, my father on the piano, my uncle on the guitar. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A young pianist sat on his piano stool, relaxed, smiling, smoking. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Emma played the piano, Frank the bassoon, and Elizabeth, who was unmarried and also lived at home, shouted. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They put the piano in the small back room, where, even though it was cramped, they spent most of their time, for it looked out on their garden. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Mr. Rice left the piano and stood before us, his arms tense, his long fingers slightly curved. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “With plug-ins, like for guitar or piano. Or you can use a sampler.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Maybe I could even make enough to pay for piano lessons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z His two rooms were furnished only with an upright piano, a straight chair, a small table and an unmade double bed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The piano appeared to be her focal point. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z But maybe it would be true about the piano and turn out O.K. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Pushing the memory away, I burrowed deeper under the covers, hoping to block the sound of the piano. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The day had been worth a thousand extra hours at the piano. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwing grins over his shoulder. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The following afternoon he bought a baby grand piano. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z His sweat-slick face was a mask of anguish, his every muscle straining as he leaned into the big piano, moving it by brute strength inch by inch through the wide doorway. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Soft, serene piano music plays for ten seconds. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z After dinner, as I sit on my piano bench and start to practice, my mind wanders back to the ride home from the Islamic Center. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Figure 1.31: The E flat major and D sharp major scales sound the same on the piano, although they look very different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A Sunday concert is just letting out, and some of the kids are trading pieces on the grand piano. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Carol tells me that her piano teacher hits her fingers with a ruler if she gets a note wrong, and that her mother spanks her with the back of a hairbrush or else a slipper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I guess kids born back in 1752 in Italy had nothing else to do but learn piano and organ, so Clementi started when he was six. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The termites had a startling effect on the piano. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she seemed intent on playing the piano, dodging bill collectors, forcing us into college through sheer willpower, and riding her bicycle all over Queens. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Until puberty Fernanda had no news of the world except for the melancholy piano lessons taken in some neighboring house by someone who for years and years had the drive not to take a siesta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z All the parents are chatting with each other; there’s a cacophony of Oh, Colette, how are Jackie’s piano lessons going? and What do you think about the season they just had? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Tired of living in a piano studio, she scouted out a much better apartment, with five rooms, a fireplace, and a sheltered porch where William could tinker and experiment with radios. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Up on the stage, someone started to play “Chopsticks” on the piano. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z A grand piano stood tightly shut, with a candelabra above, no candle ever touched by flame. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z That piano had once belonged to Pacheco’s wife, who could play it like a nightingale can sing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When a composer writes a forte into a part, followed by a piano, the intent is for the music to be loud, and then suddenly quiet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z If it was a piano, she must send a secret letter to China and tattle to the elders about her infamous piano lessons. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z He laughed, taking my hand, leading me away from the piano. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Playing the piano should have been, in a way, better than reading, since I was reasonably sure that he would at least listen—I knew he had liked it before. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There were green couches, definitely antiques, and in one corner there was even a piano, a baby grand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I climb onto the stage and settle onto the piano bench, feeling instantly relaxed as my fingers rest on the keys. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In Africa she and I had thought that this large object was a toy, because Mama had written on the photo, “Teddy, playing the piano.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They wrote checks to Robbie so their kids could learn piano. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Then the piano keys trilled and the guitar and bass and drums pounced on the downbeat and I forgot all about Vonetta, the record needle, and getting in trouble. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Bible....They know how to play piano but they’ve stopped practicing now. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it was Pacheco’s wife who taught him for free back when she gave piano lessons to any kid in the valley eager to learn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He selected you for a space mission? He’s learning to play ‘Heart and Soul’ on the piano and needs you to play the harmony?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Matt saw the grand piano, stacks of music, and Maria’s black hat sitting on a table. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking selfies at the piano and all that. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Her husband bought her an upright walnut piano and set it by an arched window with a view of the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She was picking away at the piano as I went into the kitchen to make coffee. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z A piano fades in with a slow melody. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I mean, she was in high school going through the things high school girls go through, playing tennis and learning piano, and when Tateh was divorcing Mameh she got lost in all that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z David flickers his fingers up and down, like he’s playing a piano in the air. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Place the four clocks in a rectangle eight feet by four alongside the grand piano,’ Mr Tibbs whispered. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Popper had not played the piano since she had married Mr. Popper, but with a little practice she soon began to remember some of the pieces she had forgotten. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Sammy is closing the lid to the piano and putting his jacket on, and, if I’m not mistaken, beginning to open his umbrella. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The street had to be roped off, the policemen had to keep the crowds back and children had to play hooky from school when there was a piano moving. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Our piano teacher, Miss Brown, looked like a thin, dry stick, but she could swing her ruler with plenty of juice when she thought no one was looking. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Like the guy who hit his head in the pool and could play the piano? The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Father apparently didn’t think piano lessons were a bad idea for me though, if he considered the matter at all. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “We’ll go to the Gardner Museum. And the piano bar at the Ritz.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They even purchased a secondhand piano so they could keep making music together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z During the month each paid twenty cents a week to practice on our piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She was waving her fingernails through the air, almost like she was playing piano. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Grayson exclaimed, staggering backward as two fat frogs leaped from the piano. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After ice cream, Dad takes us to the same thrift store where I saw the piano over a month ago. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z For the first time in history a grand piano was carried up the Lincoln Memorial steps. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The girl was still sitting on the piano stool, the torn sheet of music splayed at her feet like a dead bird. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z These two names look very different on the staff, but they are going to sound exactly the same, since you play both of them by pressing the same black key on the piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She hummed along to Rimsky-Korsakov on the radio; she’d take a moment to sit down at the piano in the evening if she got a chance. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Alex tries not to be in awe of the simple agility of his hands, tries not to think about classical piano or how swift and smooth years of polo have trained Henry to be. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was pretty quiet, though, because Ernie was playing the piano. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z We weren’t playing the piano that day, because even two floors away the sound caused her mother pain. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z As I prized off my trainers I heard a piano, joined by a quiet violin. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I managed to cram my piano punishment in before dinner, playing with a light heart and a sure, spirited touch, if I do say so myself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But they move the harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues from Arles and hang the baby’s almond tree in the most prominent place in their flat, above the piano in the drawing room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Music played from a stereo on the piano and we began to dance, our feet tapping in sequence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When I got home, I lingered downstairs and put in some extra piano practice, after which Mother ordered me upstairs to change my pinafore. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Since I had my little piano, I am perfectly satisfied. I only wish we may all keep well and be together, nothing else.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know you don’t want to sing in the concert, but it would be wonderful if you could play piano and accompany the singers,” she asked with a hopeful expression. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Slightly unwisely, for this was an idea whose time had not quite yet come, Newlands called it the Law of Octaves and likened the arrangement to the octaves on a piano keyboard. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Grace and I sit on the wooden benches in the church basement, watching the illuminated slides on the wall, singing the words to the songs, while the piano plods onward in the darkness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A grand piano is pushed to the corner, and I can’t believe how much I couldn’t tell from the outside how enormous this house is. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The castle itself had 120 rooms—including a ballroom and a piano room. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The piano sounded watery, like it had been left out in the rain more than once. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Zooey put out a hand and stroked Bloomberg’s arched back, once, twice, then quit, and got up from the coffee table and meandered across the room to the piano. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Maybe tomorrow, I will look up the evening’s program and check out the full name of a Lucy who played piano. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I sat on the bench of my piano since all the other seats were taken. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z For days, department stores, electrical appliance stores, the Sherman Clay piano store, even the jewelry store Weisfield & Goldberg had been doing a land-office business selling new Philco 61F Olympic Special cabinet radios. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Surely they could not possibly think this was just Bandit’s scheme to escape the tyranny of piano lessons for the joys of Jackie Robinson! In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Maybe he’s ignoring my texts because he already met an awesome new girl who can sing and play piano and looks like Anna Kendrick. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z She was frighteningly strong, half pulling, half carrying me toward the piano as I kicked the throw rugs under my feet. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about my piano lessons, and the keyboard I’m dying to save up for. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Well, music. I thought I could teach kids who can’t afford lessons how to play piano. Because music is something that brings everyone together, and it’s a language everyone understands.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z When he was eighteen, Dutchy moved to Minneapolis, where he took any work he could find playing piano in bands and bars. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Faint piano music filled the space from the accompanist playing for a different class down the hall. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The diamonds of the backgammon board undulated like player piano keys. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z No matter what the man played, a drowning sound warbled out from the piano’s strings and hammers. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Rex Rollins, eating a Dorito by the piano, looks around and shakes his head, really digging this girl’s answer, and calls to Garret Charles, “I love the simplicity of that.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Many of Wolfgang’s childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra, are largely arrangements of works by other composers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She plopped onto the piano bench in front of the stage and caught her breath. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The piano I didn’t mind, but the bicycle drove me crazy. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They bought a barbecue, and a secondhand piano for the girls. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z That was something at least, and Mace was a big man, strong across the shoulders, and with hands that could have spanned one and a half octaves of the pub piano he said he played. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the top, Lissa drew in her breath at the sight of the grand piano. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z After I had the piano tuned, I opened the lid and touched the keys. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A piano was on its side, its keys strewn across the floor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The scattered noises of gossip and hip-hop rhymes battle it out against the melody Mrs. Waltons playing on the piano. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z When they were finished Elisha sat down at the piano and played to himself. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The floor shined like a mahogany piano—pure black and yet full of light. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Although our house was one of the smaller of the forty or so houses on the island, for several years we owned the only piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Was there time to teach Alexander a simple tune on the piano? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He touched a black key on the piano and it made a dull sound, like a distant drum. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I have my piano lesson in the afternoon.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It’s one of my favorites, and it’s the perfect soundtrack to cry to, since the piano music is so soft and beautiful. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Georgia was getting up at ten every morning and taking piano lessons from Cotton Eye and her nails were clean. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the front room were two sofas, an upright piano, and a tiny artificial Christmas tree which had been there, decorated and dustladen, for two years. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In his last moments, she said, he had run his fingers over his bedding as if playing the piano. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Downstairs, my father is playing the piano—soft, sad notes floating up from the living room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Instead, he’d go to the piano and pound out the one piece he knew by heart, “Napoleon’s Last Charge.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We heard the piano start up in the parlor, a limpid, haunting melody; Harry had been pressed into playing for our visitors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I think I was trying to drown out the sounds of the annoying player piano, which I wanted to kick to death at the moment. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The two of them spend the afternoon at the piano, with Zach teaching Didu a few old hymns that he learned as a kid. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A man with garters on his arms played a piano, and a woman with gloves that came up past her elbows kept hurrying over to light Dad’s cigarettes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Although we had no better success, the other instruments at least were quieter than the piano and, more important, only one person could play them at a time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Ragtime’s syncopation fed directly into an energetic, driving piano style of the 1920s known as ‘stride’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She removed her pearl-gray, skintight kid gloves, blew into each finger, smoothed and folded them and placed them on the piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The teacher was tall and thin, with long fingernails that clicked as they flew across the piano keys. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z By the time I get back to my piano lessons, Ms. Nancy will be impressed by how well I can read music. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She played the piano for him, and though he had a tin ear, he listened with enjoyment and love. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s cute and surprising and weirdly endearing, and now I’m thinking about the fact that Garrett plays piano. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z People at church said Mary could play the piano beautifully. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Because boys need to play sports, not fool around on a silly piano. Right, Turtle?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There are a couple of mentions about me and the piano recital, but mostly they show that photo of me and the blood. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Because the apartment is located right on top of the steakhouse, I can hear the noisy player piano in the bar every night as I fall asleep. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I complain about Madame Rubenstein and her bangles and her snotty attitudes, but she really is a good piano teacher. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In the center of the room is a big wooden upright piano. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My “piano savings” manila envelope is on top of my desk. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Walton made a tape of herself playing “Amazing Grace” on the piano and gave it to me to practice with at home. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Before I fall asleep, I ask Mom, “Will I still be able to play the piano?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Don’t wear it out, except at the piano. political hopefuls. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Church was where we had lessons on how to play the piano. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was about four when I decided I wanted to learn piano. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He loved playing the familiar tune on the ancient piano. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Now Elisha ceased to speak, and rose; now he sat at the piano. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Nellie Maxwell was a piano teacher, the daughter of a no-nonsense Disciples of Christ minister. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They found Mr. Laurence standing before the fire in the great drawing room, but Jo’s attention was entirely absorbed by a grand piano, which stood open. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Mama wanted the piano so Mary Toy could take music lessons. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z To spin and step and reach as the piano notes pinwheel all around you. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Some spit even got on the piano keys. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z My parents said they couldn’t afford a piano, but this is a thrift store, so it can’t be that expensive. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The choir teacher bangs out some French-sounding song on the piano, and Simon steps forward, hand on his heart. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “We were in the same group when we were out looking for Ziggy, and I was telling him more about you and Malia. It turns out his wife used to teach piano. She’s retired now.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He was pushing Nellie’s piano—the only thing of hers he had left from their marriage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All of a sudden Miss Love hopped up like she’d sat on a pin, plopped herself down on the piano stool, and went to playing chords. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When he touched the white and black keys on the piano, music wafted out of the instrument, and Mia’s face lit with joy. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you like me the way I am? I’m not a genius! I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t go on TV if you paid me a million dollars!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It came time for Miss Brown to present her piano students at a recital held every year at the Confederate Heroes Hall in Lockhart. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The aluminum barres, the grand piano in the corner, the squeaky pearl-gray floors. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows about Henry’s parentage, about his older siblings Philip and Beatrice, that he studied English literature at Oxford and plays classical piano. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Every time the cow moves, its huge rib cage shifts between my legs, and my heels slide over the ribs like fingers over piano keys. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Joan was leaning on one corner of the piano and leafing through a new issue of some fashion magazine, and DeeDee smiled up at her as if the two of them shared a secret. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “I think she’s seven or eight, quite musical, and she loves the piano, just like you.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The Littles had a grand piano in their living room, which was all right except that one of the keys was a sticky key and didn’t work properly. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “I like to study. I play all games. I read books. I hate the piano. My father’s an engineer. My mother’s a landlady. I have eight cousins, and we all are Chinese.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “So, Leah, you’re the one with all the romantic intrigue now,” Nick says, and it’s like someone smashing their fist on a piano. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Henrietta, whose desk, like Stella’s, was close to the piano, leaped away screaming. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Plus, I still need to learn how to play the piano. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The finbacks, for example, emit extremely loud sounds at a frequency of twenty Hertz, down near the lowest octave on the piano keyboard. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She set it for six and stood it on the piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat down on the piano bench and moved it forward. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Then she asked what else I was learning besides the piano. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I scoot near the piano, scrunching my legs up in front of me. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The violins pluck over the booming chords of a piano. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I can create any musical combination of sounds on my piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Margit would play the piano, and he could fall asleep by the fire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The television was on; Laurel and Hardy, obscured by a blizzard of electronic snow, were trying to move a grand piano up a great many flights of stairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The film crew can't get enough of her playing her little piano pieces, as though she were some prodigy. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “If she wants to play the piano, let her,” Papi argued, pride in his voice. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The only items that for sure go to both houses are my cell phone, my piano music, and my journal. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I put the lamp near the piano and started on Easy Pieces. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Maybe I should’ve joined band and played piano, gotten some recognition before working my way up to singing in the chorus, then maybe a duet with someone cool, and then maybe braving a solo. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Wow. I didn’t think they’d have a piano here. It looks like it’s in decent shape, too. I love the details.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Taylor and her ball sack are gone, and Garrett’s already left for a piano lesson. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The next night he did not ask me either to read or play the piano. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Now, suddenly, I was aware of people watching me from their chairs as I stared hard at the high gloss of the piano keys, finding nothing there but sameness. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I started playing piano when I was three. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In one far corner an upright piano loomed; in another sat a rolltop desk. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “It’s most useful. He’ll be able to play the piano with his feet.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The melodies are good, but the arrangements are not really meant for the piano, but for singing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “What’s the matter? Are you nervous about playing the piano in front of everyone?” she asks. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Bill came over from the piano and we drank the hot punch and listened to the wind. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The door opened and the crooked little cotton-eyed piano player stood in the entrance, waiting for a sound to tell him where she was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On weekend evenings they gathered around the old upright piano in the club’s parlor and sang for hours as Don Hume tore through jazz tunes, show tunes, blues, and ragtime. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s possible that we might have continued this way, Robbie and I, had I been less curious and more reverent when it came to her piano method. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The instrument commonly called the "piano" by the way, was originally called a "pianoforte" because it could play dynamics, unlike earlier popular keyboard instruments like the harpsichord and spinet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The very small living room incredibly contained—aside from things to sit on—an organ, a piano, a garden of flowering flowerpots, and usually a darting little dog and a large, drowsy cat. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z One girl, an eighth grader who played the piano, was shaking so hard she had to start four times. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Dad can lend Uncle Spencer money, but I can’t get a piano or take lessons anymore. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She practiced the piano every day for an hour. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I play the piano,” I tell him, suddenly feeling kinda shy myself. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z If he had been a piano player instead of a guitarist, one might say bebop grew from the solos of his right hand while rock and roll grew from the accompaniment of his left. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She patted the sounding board of the piano. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z At my first lesson, my legs dangled from the piano bench, too short to reach the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hawkins, sliding onto the piano bench, struck up the chords on the old piano and ended the pageant with, “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mom gives me a hug, and I lug my Casio, my backpack, and my piano music out to John Mark’s truck, which he’s already got running, warming it up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z They even have a fireplace and a giant black piano in the living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The room erupts into applause, but number eighty-eight isn’t done, not by the half of it, calling to Sammy at the piano, “Do you know ‘Slow Boat to China’?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The only thing I can do to distract myself is work on my piano theory workbook, but even it can’t stop me from worrying about what will happen now that everything has changed—again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Your dad and I talked about the piano, and...well...we’re not going to be able to buy one for you right now.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Then I guess she remembered her wedding band was still on top of the piano. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The piano is old—found on the street a few blocks away the day my father moved back home. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He takes piano lessons at the same place she takes voice lessons and their moms know each other. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We walked up Tottenham Court Road and found this shop that sells electric pianos. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z But also, the piano was always just a little off-key. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A woman I recognized as Reverend Richard’s piano player jostled Mr. Fuller. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Now, when I looked at her hands with their swollen knuckles folded together in her lap, I imagined them smooth and slim, striking the piano keys. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He dusted the piano and sat down on the piano stool to wait until Elisha had finished mopping one side of the church and he could replace the chairs. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And Dad’s now probably saying, “Please, Nicole. It’s for Isabella’s piano career.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z They were grouped around a girl at the piano and were singing, “Hello, Central, Give Me No Man’s Land.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The piano looked just like it was waiting for me to sit down and start practicing “Für Elise.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Tendai climbed on top of a grand piano—he shared the space with a stuffed pheasant and a hippopotamus foot hollowed out for umbrellas. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s act out the piano scene from Pretty Woman.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He has long, lean piano fingers like what Amanda wishes she had so she could stretch her hand across one full octave. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Tall, heavy white drapes cover the backdrop of the entire stage, which is ready with microphones, three music stands, and a black baby-grand piano. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The demons call it an upright piano,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The piano’s bench was missing; it seemed to be the one on which the woman was sitting. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z And finally, I have a small black backpack with handles—that one is for my piano music. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I can’t shake the uneasy feeling that has settled on me like dust for days—have I been doing something wrong, or un-Islamic, by spending so much of my time singing and playing piano? Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I grabbed for the piano in the living room. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Every afternoon as soon as she finished playing on the piano in the gym she walked down the main street past the store where he worked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Yo-Yo Ma continues to play, and it’s like the piano and cello are being poured into my body, the same way that the IV and blood transfusions are. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that my feet only work to help me keep time when I sing and press the pedals on the piano. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Riding downtown for the piano recital, I sat in the backseat of the Buick wearing a nice dress and patent leather shoes, my hair in pigtails, experiencing the first cold sweat of my life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There was a snack bar, where Mr. McDaniels was setting up a cake, and an organ in one corner, where old Mrs. Chapman, the piano teacher from down the street, was playing a polka. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z From inside the house came the sounds of Wash’s sister Peggy practicing the piano. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia’s spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “After two years of showin’ off at the piano, your Miss Love has found out the Methodists can do without her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They sit in the living-room where there is a piano. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond which issues the concerted whispers of pianos playing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z ‘First I had a horrid nightmare, then the maid dropped my breakfast and now I’ve got a giant on the piano.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He darted into a closet behind the piano and shut the door an instant before Felicia came into the room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But this time, I ignore the piano and walk to the back corner of the store. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z And in front of the window is an electric piano. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, man, I could play a piano concerto set to the uncomfortable looks on their faces. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z On weekends he worked for his family’s moving business, the Franklin Transfer Company, hoisting sofas and bed sets and pianos in and out of homes all over town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If we were all genetically programmed to play the piano deftly from birth, we might never learn to understand music. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie wanted the green carpet with the big pink roses, the cream-colored lace curtains and the lovely little piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I play piano in the bar here. It’s not a terrible job, if nobody gets too drunk.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The muted laughter and piano playing from the bar could still be heard through the wood-paneled walls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z "It was strange to see in a kid his age,” says Walt, "but he loved Tony Bennett. He’d sing numbers like ‘Tender Is the Night’ while I accompanied him on piano. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She got up, the TV broke into loud piano music. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow we got through an interminable dinner, and then for entertainment Miss Brown sat down at the piano and whipped through her stock party piece, “The Minute Waltz,” in fifty-two seconds by Father’s pocket watch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But when he placed the worms on Emma’s piano—in flower pots—then the worms responded to the vibrations they felt. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mia was less impressed with the pool than she was with the piano in the living room. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A flitty-looking guy with wavy hair came out and played the piano, and then this new babe, Valencia, came out and sang. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He could make a piano talk—so people said—and he was very popular. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The beats are so regular, in fact, that they can be timed; for equal temperament they are on the order of a beat per second in the mid range of a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But getting a chance to sit at a piano was worth any amount of knocks and trouble. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what that meant until one Sunday when Mary played a piano solo for the congregation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She sat down at her piano and began to play “Moon River,” and then she switched to the theme song from one of those new vampire movies. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He keeps hovering when I’m practicing the piano, or saying good night, like, fifty times after I go to bed. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z He worked as a janitor at a one-room school- house not far from the Stanford campus, and throughout the day, Cowell would sneak away from his job and play the school piano. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Here comes the Lord of the Sun and Moon, the Lion that prowls by Night!” they sang to the sounds of hand pianos, iron bells and the shell anklets of the dancers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches--once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The piano, waxed and polished every week, gleams in the sunlight from the curved bay window. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I wasn’t interested in any of the dolls or blocks or tea sets I’d been given, only that piano—plinking and plunking on it nonstop. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Mama slams the lid down on the piano, creating a sickening wooden crack. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When I took her to her piano lesson, I scolded her if she did not play well. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The major feature shared by rock and roll’s prototypes is the swinging triplet of the piano. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z ‘Will they be taxed for possessions I leave, like the piano?’ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When she was Shirley’s age, she had pleaded with her father for permission to take piano lessons. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It looked sort of like an upright piano, and used punch cards. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I thought maybe Dad had taken the information sheets about the blanket to work with him, but they're on the piano bench. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She smiles at me, and her teeth look stark white like the keys of a piano. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Nor did he seem to have any curiosity or interest in me, except once he had seemed to like my playing the piano. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z One day, Wilfred walked in and found me listening to a piano concerto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The piano jerked out of our hands, sending us lurching forward, and bounced into the house, splintering the door frame. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “But look, there’s still room over there to squeeze in a piano, especially if we move the bunk beds over a couple inches.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z One day Felicia didn’t come at her usual time, and Matt hovered behind the potted plants as he worked up his courage to approach the piano. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My only consolation is that at least I don’t get nervous playing the piano in front of an audience. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Suppose she hid the piano under the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When he hears that I can play the piano he fetches his violin and plays. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I took my place as directed, but Mala wandered over to the piano and sat on the bench, which was now positioned where it belonged. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He placed them on the piano as Matt practiced and caught every mistake. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Anna smiled at all the lights, listening to the music from the drinking houses, the pianos, the phonographs, watching people, arm in arm, striding by in the crowded streets. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought I would burst with excitement when the knock came and two men rolled a piano in through the front door. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In time, all three of them learned to play the piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As the summer wore on, I spent more and more time studying Science and less and less time practicing the piano. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When you played the piano, the notes vanished a second later in the air and you were left with nothing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Even the little cellar places with only piano space had fabulous keyboard artists such as James P. Johnson and Jelly Roll Morton, and singers such as Ethel Waters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A piano was meant to stay in one place. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Promise me you’ll find a piano to play at Dragon’s Head,” said his mother. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z An antique piano, topped with lace and weighed down with a thousand little knickknacks, sat against a wall. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Whatever happened to you, whatever else went on in your life, you could look down at your hands and think, I play the piano. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Down in the basement either Gretchen was practicing her piano or the cat was chasing a moth across the keys. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “If you can play the piano, the job is yours,” the telegram read. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Marina stayed behind with the other squadron, entertaining them by playing the village school piano and reading them poetry. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z First, I was tired, and piano playing is harder than reading. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The piano rills through its finishing measures, and then the static wallops back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her father owned the stables, and they could afford piano lessons, and they had a maid but no cook. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was a funny thing—but nearly all the time there was some kind of piano piece or other music going on in the back of her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Abandoning the piano, she gave me a quick hug. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Death by piano doesn’t seem like a high probability.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The weekend of June 1 and 2,1935 My mother calls in sick to her piano students and stays in her room. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I would have liked to have sat across from her when Fats Waller, tinkling the keys of the piano seductively with his thick, powerful fingers, rolled his big eyes at her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A saxophone softly hummed, and was soon joined by a flute and piano. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Elisha sat again at the piano and picked up his mournful song. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Then there’s silence while a grand piano rolls out onto center stage by itself. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It did not look good; the driver’s arms fanned lifeless over the top of the dashboard as though playing an invisible piano. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Then the piano music would start to play, and she’d clap to the beat for us as we would each skip, skip, skip, and leap across the imaginary puddle. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She pulls out the yellow flyer from her folder, laying it on top of the piano. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Others listened as though it were the helpful and defining piano music in a silent movie. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They spent a long time wandering through stores, looking at toys and records and pianos and birthday cards. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z My days consisted of a cycle of schoolwork, piano practice, and cooking lessons with Viola. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Nearby, a group around the piano were singing folk songs with more volume than melody. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I remember that one of my books is a piano theory workbook for practicing, recognizing, and writing the notes on sheet music. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Beethoven’s eighth piano sonata, known as the Pathetique, was written when he was twenty-eight and making a name for himself in Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “My father taught it to me. I can play it on the piano,” he said proudly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They draped over the piano and it was so that some of the chairs stood among the branches. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Journalists told stories, often wildly embroidered, of Osage who discarded grand pianos on their lawns or replaced old cars with new ones after getting a flat tire. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Stella slipped into her own seat, next to the upright piano that Mrs. Grayson plinked out hymns and folk songs and ballads on. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Under Robbie’s rules, kids who took piano lessons were allowed to work on only one song at a time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She reminded me of a little canary back there, her gentle whistle rising above the voices, organ, and piano. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She smiled, her mouth like a piano with only one black key, one front tooth missing. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I looked at the handle sticking in the air, then at T. Ray as he walked around the room touching things, the piano, the hatrack, a Look magazine on the drop-leaf table. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was George who had the idea of stationing Stuart inside the piano to push the key up the second it was played. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z I stare at the Arabic letters on the page, imagining them as musical notes in my piano book. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I’m glad Malia can keep doing ballet, but I wish I could still take piano lessons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z There were always children in the house who took lessons for a few months or a year or two, and shifted uneasily on the piano bench. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Walton takes her place at the grand piano below and plays a single B flat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then, when Dad gets a new job and my parents aren’t stressing about money so much, I can get a real piano like this one. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “But I don’t want to play those instruments. I want to play the piano. You know that.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He sat down at the piano and began to pick out the tune for “God Save the King.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I know whose cat accidentally plays three seconds of Beethoven on the piano. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Airy music is playing, classical piano, floating from speakers in the walls. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama's face crumples, and all the goodwill we amassed during the breakfast and the piano playing disappears. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I liked them both, and I could easily identify the notes so that I could play them on a piano. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Only when he mentioned it did I become aware of the piano music trickling from the second-floor windows. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She got my bathrobe for me, and then she dried my hair with those powerful fingers of hers as gently as she might coax a nocturne from our old piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time we read that, we’d ask each other, “What is a piano? How do you play with it?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They flocked around the piano and started on a sequence of “Smile” songs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He could sit down at the piano, looking as if he had given up on China, but pretty soon his left hand would get the cannon booming and the drums beating. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Goble sisters excelled in school and took piano and violin lessons and practiced diligently. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z By the end of the semester the world felt big, and it was hard to imagine returning to the mountain, to a kitchen, or even to a piano in the room next to the kitchen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The walls are painted pale cream, the carpet is light blue, and sitting in the middle is a black Steinway baby grand piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She also promises to give them a piano for Jo to play. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She had limped out onstage with her crutches while the curtains were closed and planted herself securely by the piano. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Nana was playing show tunes on a weathered piano while a pair of older men—one a gravelly baritone and the other a timeless tenor—sang along. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Claude Debussy was so intrigued by the Javanese dancers and musicians at the 1899 World’s Fair in Paris that he developed techniques for evoking the exotic sounds of the gamelan on a Western piano. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mrs. Walton stops playing the piano, and suddenly I feel a pair of icy eyes hawking me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The door opened, and there was the stooped elderly figure of the piano teacher, with the scent of lavender water about her as he remembered. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the lobby, an elderly gentleman played Gershwin on a grand piano at four each afternoon. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z As much as I love playing piano, it stinks to be stuck in the background while other people shine onstage, a soundtrack no one pays attention to, like the music piped into The Voice. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She sat helplessly by her piano with Baby on her lap. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She is short, and her white hair flies like her hands on the piano keys as she tells us about the four parts of a choir. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z At the wedding, on a brown upright piano in the church, she’d put a big picture of her dad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I played the piano for half an hour, hoping it would penetrate to wherever he was. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Besides, the next day brought my piano lesson, and it was always a good idea to be rested and in top form so as not to provoke Miss Brown. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There’s a grand piano in one and a fireplace in the other. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Sammy, behind the piano, tips a pretends hat and says, “Thanks, kid.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Shortly after the piano recital, danger entered our lives and stalked my family. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The pianist sat down and played the first note and foomp!, all this foam exploded out of the piano. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z One day, after she had rushed off to take Nna to his piano lesson, she called Obinze to say, laughing, “Can you believe I forgot to brush my teeth?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Now, of course, I knew it had to be Annette — she was the only unbelievable keyboard prodigy in the building, and I knew that she had this independent-study piano period. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I could answer, she screeched and started over to the piano in the comer. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Two notes are enharmonic if they sound the same on a piano but are named and written differently. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z ‘Next to a real piano I sure would rather have some place to myself than anything I know.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s funny—his fingers don’t look like piano fingers. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Everyone laughs at the deep thunder she plays on the piano. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z There weren’t any backup singers or elaborate instrumentation; just the gentle plinkity-plank of a piano. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The two girlfriends climb the stairs, led straight to the right place more by the stride piano pouring over the door saddle than their recollection of the apartment number. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The smile on her face is the one she uses when parents of an obnoxious piano student ask how he is doing. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please? A used piano is definitely cheaper than a brand-new one.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Robbie’s piano sat in a small square room at the rear of the house, close to a window that overlooked the backyard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I close the piano and yank a Windbreaker from the front closet. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I want a piano—I want to take music lessons, she said to herself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Her hands stretch like she’s doing piano exercises, but then they crumple in her lap like injured fans. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But as they move over the piano keys, lifting such sweet music out of them, I want to run down and hug him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Francie said, “Mama, if you don’t feel like eating, why don’t you play the piano so it’s like a restaurant while we’re eating.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We both remembered the picture of Teddy playing the piano. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not a problem. I like hanging out with our very own piano prodigy.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z His speech over, the governor retreated to his piano stool, sat down, plinked another note. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, I thought, after dinner we’d go into the living room and sing around the piano. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The plan was for Mom to ease the truck forward, pulling the piano into the house while Dad and we kids guided it up a ramp of planks and through the front door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s a performance-quality piano on the stage—with really loud speakers hooked up to it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She took Stella’s hand and walked from the piano to the front of the church. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She gave the signal to Mrs. Grayson at the piano, then lifted her arms, and the children began to sing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And so they continued; by the end, Raymie had written a letter of complaint for Isabelle, detailing how the Golden Glen janitor played the wrong kind of music on the common-room piano. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z It took my friend Lula Gates a long time to live down the ignominy of getting sick in public at the piano recital. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Sitting with her skirt spread over the piano bench. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “He selected you for a space mission? He’s learning to play ‘Heart and Soul’ on the piano and needs you to play the harmony?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Somebody had gone over the entire parlor with it, a big room with fringed throw rugs, an old piano with a lace runner, and cane-bottom rockers draped with afghans. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He assumed Master would give her his distant yes-and-no answers and she would go back to her piano. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Our family had no piano and we couldn’t afford to buy one, let alone reams of sheet music and piano lessons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His show-stopping performances encouraged piano builders to adopt iron frames to replace wooden ones, because pianos simply broke under the hammering Liszt gave them on stage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He smiles, bends and kisses the top of my head, the first notes of “Summertime” rising from the piano. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It was a big room with a bed beside the wall, a piano over on the far side and a dresser and table. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “I was going to enter your piano recital,” she says, all fake serious, “but I decided it wouldn’t be fair—I’d blow all you kids away with my mad skills!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Soft piano or violin concertos with orchestral accompaniments work well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Then he listened; a faint sound of piano music floated to him from somewhere. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z This made well temperaments particularly welcome for players of difficult-to-tune instruments like the harpsichord and piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The perfect tones of the piano bounce around the room and back into me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I did not feel comfortable putting on a funny skit, so I asked Paul if he would play the piano. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z A soft, tinkling melody rose from the far end of the room, where a figure in white clothes sat hunched over an old wooden piano. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Like not going into Miss Lilian’s house and not touching the piano and not talking with our mouths full and not interrupting. And not, and not...” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “I really, really want to take piano lessons,” I say. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “This is how he starts every audition. He’s not singing yet. He’s playing his recital piece on the piano.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The family then moved back to Britain, where Mack grew up in Aberdeen, and became a scientist, a tinkerer, a great piano player, with a bit of a short attention span himself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Waiting for her husband to leave on his business trips so she could play Debussy on the piano. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The piano music stopped, and the bird let out a long trill of notes. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “We’re going to have to stop your piano lessons,” she says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z When the evening was far advanced, a sound of music issued from the drawing-room, whither the piano had been removed; Adèle and I sat down on the top step of the stairs to listen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z On the right-hand wall between the door and the brown chair stood a black upright piano with a dusty brown bench. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Then she asked how Jeffrey was doing, which I thought was amazing — here she was, with a limb all mangled and her piano career slammed into reverse gear, worrying about my brother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I suddenly remembered my childhood fantasy that, should I ever win a lottery, I would buy a grand piano for my mother. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They acted a little bit the way old Ernie, down in the Village, plays the piano. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Yes, you have beautiful hands. You have the hands of a gifted pianist. We should put you in piano lessons. Li!” she called to Virgil’s mother. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Surprised, she swung toward me on the piano stool, clutching her low dress front with one hand and flipping down the long pink skirt with the other. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The most wonderful thing about the front room was the piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He plays the piano and has an excellent singing voice. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After he had served these last two drinks, the governor sat down on a piano stool before a shiny black Steinway and plinked a single thoughtful note. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as we get inside, I see it—a beautiful, shiny, wooden upright piano. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z When the instrument was together, she took a seat on the piano bench and began to play. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z With eighty-eight weighted keys, it almost felt like a real piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z By now, the piano has become an omen of looming disaster. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I glance at my pile of piano books that have been collecting dust since we got here, and I wish I had a lesson today. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He struck on the piano one last, wild note, and threw up his hands, palms upward, stretched wide apart. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I do know that on the day of my big piano recital, he was already walking with a slight limp, his left foot unable to catch up to his right. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They pay attention to videos of cats playing pianos, or to which movie star is in rehab, or to who stole who else’s boyfriend. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She places the can and brick beneath the piano bench, where she knows she can find them again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z After a little while, the voice gives way to the piano again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We had come to stand near the piano now, where an intense young man questioned me about various leaders of the Harlem community. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Sunday morning service began when Brother Elisha sat down at the piano and raised a song. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z At the piano, a young girl leafed through a few sheets of music, but when she saw me looking at her, she ducked her head crossly and tore the sheets in half. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I don’t need a piano for that, so I quickly come up with a new plan. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z There’s a crash of dissonant piano notes from across the room, and Garrett’s eyes skate past us. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Instead, she spent the next year at home, playing piano for church socials. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He taught himself piano by ear in the back room of a speakeasy, plunked out tunes at night for drunken patrons, saw things no twelve-year-old should see. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z So, lacking the truly perfect response, she lifted her legs and spun around to the piano, where she proceeded to bang out “Heart and Soul” with her left hand and “Chopsticks” with her right. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z It sounded as if someone a long way off were playing a toy piano. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “Sit down. Your uncle always liked this tune. I used to play it on the old piano in the back of the shop. Listen.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Johnny dusted the piano and, while doing so, ran his fingers over the keys. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone in the back of the house was playing the piano. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Being with Jody and Mark and Cal was beginning to weigh on my nerves, like a dull wooden block on the strings of a piano. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z If I were allowed to get a job, I could save up to buy this piano myself. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Sumaiya runs straight for the piano and tries to push the keyboard cover open. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Gilly took one of the pillows off the couch and used it to wipe every trace of dust off the piano bench before sitting down on it. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z He played the piano stinking, if you want to know the truth. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Loubelle and Mrs. Savage drifted over, and pretending I knew what it was all about, I moved to the piano with them. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It looked like she was literally jumping into a disaster, wearing a black scuba suit and a red jacket that a piano teacher would wear for a holiday recital. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She was content to stay at Maer Hall with Elizabeth, playing the piano, reading, doing needlework, and taking care of their beloved mother, who was bed-ridden and very ill. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite warnings that the American public would not accept a white man playing piano for a black singer, Anderson decided to return to America with her Finnish accompanist, Kosti Vehanen. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Hopefully in a couple of years we’ll be in a better place financially, and we can get you your own piano.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “What can you do? Can you play on the piano?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Nobody stopped work to listen, though, because Onofre had always been a lousy piano player, even with two hands, and he still tunked out basically atonal numbers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano and beside her stood a tall, red haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z An older man dropped a coin into the player piano, which pushed out a quick song like the kind from a carousel. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up courage to go to the ‘Mansion of Bliss’, as Meg called it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He followed the sound to the back parlour, where his mother, lit by candlelight, was playing the Mozart piano sonata. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z As she approached him, he smiled at her and something about that portable piano smile, something about the steady gaze in which he held her, made her shrink from him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Always your piano. You only one can play.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But the next week, Shirley’s fingers seemed as clumsy as ever and now there were lessons on the piano in addition to the lessons at school. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She was a really good piano player, and now her teacher and my teacher, Mrs. Virgil, were going to join their recitals together. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Instead, a piano sat in the spot where Cool Papa and the Bluesmen once played. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z And a big shape that’s partly covered by the same blue fabric except its feet and pedals are sticking out so I know it’s a piano. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They tried out the piano and examined the public address system, a battery of six microphones that would broadcast the event to those present at the Memorial and also to the national radio audience. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I thought that later I might also play the piano, something quiet, using the soft pedal. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And Shorty did his band’s date, then borrowed his piano man’s car, and burned up the miles to New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Or what it was like for the little girl who couldn’t perform at the school talent show because her parents received the Death-Cast alert while she was dreaming of pianos. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The implication, although not expressed in so many words, was that we had already mastered the piano and were now branching out along other musical avenues. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Paganini scrambled up from his prone position and hopped to the piano. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z John's right hand played piano on her ribs, and his mouth blew a piccolo on her breasts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Nixon sat at the piano in the family quarters and played a few melodies, including one he’d written specially for Pat before they were married. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Three other footmen fetched a very fine Chippendale mahogany chest-of-drawers and placed it on top of the piano. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I’m a mathematical whiz, and I’m writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I’m gone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe they were both in school already, much less that they could jump rope, and say the rosary, and play the piano. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I earned this, and soon I’ll be able to buy a keyboard and pay for piano lessons all on my own. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When the piano was finally out of harm’s way, Harry Rantz and his family gathered around it and watched, awestruck, as their house burned to the ground. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When I was fourteen, my mother took up two new hobbies: riding a bicycle and playing piano. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an upright piano in the far corner of the room beyond the wooden tables and Bill went over and started to play. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I wrote “piano savings” in big letters on the outside of it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z When we go back into the sitting room, Shorty glances wistfully at the grand piano by the front window. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A number of well-dressed men and women were gathered in groups, some beside a grand piano, the others lounging in the pale beige upholstery of the blond wood chairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier I was belting out lyrics to the Stevie Wonder song I’d been learning to play on the piano before we left home. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Sometimes we went shopping together, and sometimes she would sit at the beautiful white baby grand piano in her living room and play her heart out. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We perched on the piano bench and she showed me a few finger exercises. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They would sit on their father’s knee as he sat at the piano, guiding his hands as they tried to teach him what they had learned on their own. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Years ago, Dr. Bahri did have a guy who, after hitting his head on the bottom of a swimming pool, could suddenly play the piano. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I grasped my brother’s arm and pulled him with me to the piano. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Showy, circus-like turns, though, were only a tiny part of what he could do at the piano in his ‘recitals’ - a term he coined for a solo piano concert. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His wife was playing the piano; Chopin, a prelude. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When they finally removed the piano and pool table that lay on top of him, it was all too clear he was dead. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Cal sits on the edge of the piano bench, stretching his arm back behind his head. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z As soon as I close the window, Mama stands, the piano bench scraping across the floor. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at Dad’s house are piano lesson time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She thought often about Alice, the delicate quality to her smallness and fairness, the incredible strength of her piano playing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But for many instruments, such as piano, organ, harp, bells, harpsichord, xylophone — any instrument that cannot be fine-tuned quickly — tuning is a big issue. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Now I just need to figure out how to learn how to play the piano. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Garrett leaves Nick’s drink with us and joins the girls at the piano. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My experience of the piano came entirely from Robbie’s squat little music room with its scraggly potted plant and view of our modest backyard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She had learned to accompany herself on the piano, and the more she performed, the more calls there were for her to sing in other places. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z To salvage what she could of her standing as a teacher, Aunt Anne used to tell the audience before we went on stage that we had only recently shifted from the piano to stringed instruments. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Debussy, in Paris, cashed in on the popularity of cakewalk piano rags, with his ‘Golliwogg’s Cakewalk’ of 1908 - which incidentally also includes a jokey musical quotation from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Whatever else Mrs. Clarke intended to say was drowned out by the rising wail of a most unpleasant sound—high-pitched, unhinged, emanating from the vicinity of the piano yet entirely unmusical. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Inside the house Onofre had a large library of both Spanish and English detective novels, an upright piano, and the best reception on his mammoth color TV set of anyone in the county. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia played the piano once and still exercises her hands, unconsciously stretching them two notes beyond an octave. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z How your hands look when you play piano. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Most peddlers sold song sheets, two for a penny, and families would buy them and gather about their pianos to sing songs such as "Cherry Ripe" and "In My Father's Garden." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z By now Felicia had stopped playing the piano. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry had also returned from his room and was sitting at the piano with his head in his hands. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z But at the top of the stairs I stop and sit, watching my father at the piano as he lifts his fingers from the keys and presses them down again. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I can play any piece in any key without worrying that the piano, or organ, will sound out of tune when I move from key to key. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z At a memorial service in Carnegie Hall, attended by two thousand admirers, a silent piano stood at center stage, flanked by flowers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Against the wall on one side of the room stands the phonograph, and against the other our piano. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She knelt heavily in a corner near the piano, under the sign that spoke of the wages of sin, and now and again she moaned. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z After I moved them, she got at one end of the piano to help shove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I learned one song in the piano book and then another. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He sat down at his mother’s old piano in the front room and plinked at the keys and floated simple melodies through the dark, empty spaces of the house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She hoped that Blossom would like to sing and that Paul Jones would want to play the fiddle and Little Willie the piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When I'm done, Roza holds the last chord as long as the piano will sustain. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I’d been doing odd jobs for Mr. Smith and his family for years, having been hired to do everything from babysitting his kids and giving them piano lessons to attempting to train their untrainable puppy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Not a piano, please let it not be a piano! In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Papa and Maria by the fireplace, playing viola and piano; a warm dinner, sweet mint iced tea in my glass. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She demanded excellence from every kid who sat on her piano bench. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Chong was a retired piano teacher and my mother had traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for me to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The low piano plays almost as if in warning. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, Olanna heard the piano, something stretched out and slow, and she felt a desire to walk across and open Alice’s door and watch her play. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The silence in the church ended when Brother Elisha, kneeling near the piano, cried out and fell backward under the power of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Schumann was, however, one of a group of composers who between them made the piano the essential nineteenth-century instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the background, Papi sawed and hammered in a rhythm much more musical than what I conjured from the piano. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z If you have trouble keeping track of the notes, use a piano keyboard, a written chromatic scale, or the chromatic fingerings for your instrument to count half steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And he certainly didn’t miss his piano lessons. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I have. Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of pilots had gotten together around the piano of the bar and were singing their squadron song. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If only she could have a real piano! The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The fire crackled and the cat appeared from behind the piano on the other side of the room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Three of the daughters, Lien, Mien, and Johanna, play the piano. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It excited me that being “casi señorita” meant my piano teacher saw me as more than a gifted student. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She really wanted a piano, but naturally she didn’t say anything about that. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Why do you need the right posture at the piano?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z And she wouldn’t let anybody touch this private piano but her—only she might teach George little pieces. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I understand. We know how much the piano means to you. And...I have some good news.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I said, “Would you like me to play the piano?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I hold the last note way past the point of Mrs. Walton’s piano pedal. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Listen to that piano, fast and free, Just like you and JB on the court. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z She thought about a piano, but she did not mention that aloud. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Robbie, my great-aunt, my rigid taskmaster of a piano teacher, passed away in June, bequeathing her house on Euclid to my parents, allowing them to become home owners for the first time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I can play the piano,” he said at last. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were taught piano, penmanship, geography, and arithmetic, the world distilled into strange new symbols. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After all, Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I see the Steinway grand piano, with its lid propped open. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The piano player didn’t know this part as well as Annette did — even though he usually played more than half of the show, this one was rightfully hers — but he rose to the occasion, too. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My ears for taking in the soul of Paradise Valley, the high heels clicking against pavement, pianos being tuned, kind, courteous voices mingling, “Hello, little lady.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The saxophone is the star of this nameless song, with the drums and piano blending with it in perfect harmony. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In a dignified way the Poppers and the penguins walked out on the stage, and Mrs. Popper sat down at the piano. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z He listened carefully for footsteps outside in the hall and sat down at the piano. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I came home each evening, after my hours at the library, and spent a few minutes on the piano bench with Mrs. Croft. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z No one will ever get high with me, no one will be my audience as I play piano, and no one will sit shotgun in my dad’s car after I get my license. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Show me how I told you to sit on the piano bench,” she instructed right off. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z One of them played the piano--strictly lousy--and the other one sang, and most of the songs were either pretty dirty or in French. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Tiny starfish hands, ribs pushing up against her skin like piano keys. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Harry was running his fingers over the piano keys in a dramatic thrumming riff, either Chopin or Liszt—I wasn’t sure which. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Inside, the cover was down on the piano, and the hymn-book was closed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then there was the time they’d given me a necklace after my first piano recital—it was a shiny musical note on a silver chain. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z How the piano and xylophone, the cymbals and drums hold them up like a base color. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I soon found out why Old Chong had retired from teaching piano. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Love had a house, a horse, and a piano—all the things she used to pray for—and now an automobile. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When he sat down at a piano, he always drew a crowd. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was one problem: My math period was Annette’s piano period, so who would bail me out in math? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia carries Ivanito past the sofa draped with a faded mantilla, past the water- bleached walnut piano, past the dining-room table pockmarked with ancient history. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I say in my piano voice, so mad that I can’t look at her. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z And when Dutchy showed an interest in the dusty upright piano the widower’s wife used to play, he got it tuned and found a teacher to come to the farm to give him lessons. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z George Layhe, who had gone up to the third floor, was in the most desperate situation of all, lying flat with both a large piano and a huge pool table on top of him. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z For example, even a beginning piano player can play the highest and lowest keys; and even the best player cannot play beyond these. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Inside is a book of piano music called Boogies, Ballads, and Beats. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Camilla went to the piano and took a sip from Charles’s glass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At the age of six, he played the piano like a European master. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She continued her piano lessons at three in the afternoon. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z After that first day Mia and I often fought over whose turn it was to play the piano. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Beth went to the piano and played the father’s favorite hymn. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z So today, after I practice piano, I decide I’m going to try to make friends with the dog. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I’ve played around on my piano and come up with some original stuff, but mostly simple melodies. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Another time I emptied a fire extinguisher into the school piano, because I knew we were going to have a performance at assembly the next day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Three chandeliers hung from the ceiling, and a grand piano stood in one corner. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The theater owner showed silent black-and-white films, and his wife played along on the piano. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She began to write down pieces for the violin and piano. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At a signal from Annette, who was standing with Renee by the piano, they all whipped off their hats as well. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s forever sitting down at the piano in the pool hall, but it’s a small, boxy thing, always out of tune. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “The piano is much more expensive than those other things,” Mom says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Many cultures have their own styles of arrangement, but adding piano chords or vocal harmony particularly for Asian music, is not typical. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Nearby, a group around the piano were singing folk songs with more volume than melody. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like stepping onstage at your first piano recital and realizing that you’d never played anything but an instrument with broken keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They were still milling around, the juke box baying, the piano thumping, and over at the end of the room, drenched with beer, Supercargo lay like a spent horse upon the bar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was cold in the cellar, of course, so that Mrs. Popper had to learn to play the piano with her gloves on. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z When the piece is performed, a musician comes onstage, opens the piano, sets a timer, and plays nothing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The piano music got closer; it was Chopin, one of the preludes, maybe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I had not meant to start a contest of wills between my parents when I mentioned my dreams of playing the piano to Papi. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z So my big Christmas ask was always for a piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She was Tateh’s favorite and I was always a little jealous of her because Tateh paid for her piano lessons while he wouldn’t allow me to take them and that sort of thing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a chalk-white piano and a refrigerator, a bulk of rust, against the far wall. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter what I was doing, I always stopped when she stood in front of the choir and either raised her hands to direct them or stood at the piano and started to sing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I thought people who played grand pianos already had money.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z For instruments that can tune almost instantly, like voices, violins, and trombones, this is not a problem; but it is unworkable for pianos, harps, and other other instruments that cannot make small tuning adjustments quickly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I fingered the face, wondering at the single-stroke eyebrows; picked at the pearly teeth stuck like two piano keys between red bowline lips. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days later, while Lori and I were sitting at Grandma’s old upright piano trying to teach each other to play, we heard heavy, uneven footsteps at the front door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You told Malia you’d buy us new comforters and curtains. Forget about all that and buy the piano instead. I don’t need new stuff for our room. I only need a piano.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He didn’t fuss at all, and didn’t seem to notice she wasn’t wearing the gold wedding band, which was still on the piano. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Prim and serious, she directed the choir at a local church and was also our community’s resident piano teacher. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He was lying on the crimson sofa, a Bible resting on his stomach, while Kami and Richard played hymns on the piano. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He plays the guitar and the piano a little bit. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I ran my fingers across the smooth wood of the grand piano in the music room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Not a kid, not a student, but a professional piano player, ready for a concert performance. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The stage had a piano on it and red velvet curtains that were always open. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z We had come to stand near the piano now, where an intense young man questioned me about various leaders of the Harlem community. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother not being an islander and the islanders not being acquainted with pianos, no one realized at the beginning the effect of damp salt air on the instrument. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She pats me on the shoulder again and returns to the piano bench. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Abbey takes piano lessons on a portable electric keyboard that my father bought from a consignment shop in Key Largo. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It may also include a piano and/or other keyboard players, more percussionists, and one or more guitar players or other strummed or plucked strings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She had asked a girl at school who owned a piano and took music lessons about him, and the girl asked her teacher. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Farther in, a player piano was playing something that was intended to have been Ravel’s “Bolero.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Now take a look at the piano keyboard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Somebody they have been waiting for is playing the piano. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of things burning that aren’t meant to burn wafts across the city: shoe polish, rat poison, toothpaste, piano strings, hernia trusses, baby cribs, Indian clubs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We play the piece again, piano to forte. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z This was a fairly pretty girl, except that she had legs like an Edwardian grand piano. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Nolans walked into the front room on their first possessive tour of inspection, the piano was the only thing that Francie saw. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembers sitting in their living room, listening with all the other guests to Moushumi play something on the piano. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The next song that comes on is the orchestra arrangement of Beauty and the Beast, and it’s mainly piano and strings. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Her face twisted in anger, and she slammed the piano lid shut. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Putting all these ideas into the music he composed after the Exposition Universelle, Debussy created a new soundscape for the piano. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was something about how you needed all ten fingers to play a piano. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a German organ builder and friend of J. S. Bach, Gottfried Silbermann, to see the piano’s potential and - with help and advice from Bach - to begin manufacturing pianos. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But the next day Melanie had an early-morning piano lesson, so there was no time to talk to April before school. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He hits play, and a thumping bass with some piano melodies on top fills the room. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Indeed, it was thought for many decades outside Italy that Silbermann had actually invented the piano, such was the oblivion into which Cristofori’s effort had fallen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Paul played the piano while I ate a slice of rhubarb pie, which his mother made and left at the church for us every day. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z From the saloon next door, a piano started up. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, indeed: and not only for her beauty, but for her accomplishments. She was one of the ladies who sang: a gentleman accompanied her on the piano. She and Mr. Rochester sang a duet.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I had long been intrigued by the piano, and I could hear a song on the radio and pick the notes out on the piano keys. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Nana sat at the piano, which she hadn’t played since her memory began to fade. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He came by ferry once a month and taught a half-dozen island youngsters, including Caroline and me, on our piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Father, on learning that we would miss our lessons, said, “A good thing, too. A boy needs piano like a snake needs a hoop-skirt.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I sink into a chair at their table, order a gin fizz at the waiter’s suggestion, and concentrate on Dutchy’s fingers, which I can see from where I’m sitting, deftly skimming the piano keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z On evenings when she and William stayed at home, the apartment pianos came in handy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “My mom teaches piano. I got to go back to watch my sister.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I sweep a last look across the piano, the guitar left on his pillow, the baseball posters, and my drawing of Kristi’s house. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She plays piano, vibes, marimba, and anything else she can bang on. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z He dropped the branch and fumbled for it, almost faint from the money smell—the twinkling lights, the piano music. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z There were oil paintings and an ancient piano and expensive china cups. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z All that remain are the piano, the piano bench, and a brand-new Mrs. Walton. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I found out the piano bench doubles as a storage place for some cool stuff. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The apartment is on the fourth floor, four rooms, and there’s a rented piano in it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Midway through the first verse, Mrs. Walton joins in with her thunderous piano playing, and the auditorium is instantly transformed into Cotton Temple. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She also did needlework, played patience and whist, played the piano, and wrote many letters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He sent a glance across the white-lacquered grand piano, which we called “Pegasus” because it looked like it had wings. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z She was in all the accelerated classes at school, got almost perfect grades, kept her room tidy, and always practiced for her piano lessons. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you just teach a crab to play the piano?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s an Xbox Infinity, a piano, some speakers, a map I pick up off the floor for him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A jam-packed four-thirty a.m. crowd at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack or Dickie Wells’ might have such jam- session entertainment as Hazel Scott playing the piano for Billie Holiday singing the blues. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the room on the other side of the foyer stood a grand piano. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t come to the piano when Phillip, the sailor from New Jersey, asked her, even though he was the cutest of the three sailors and I didn’t see how anyone could turn him down. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They even had to send a special van to the middle school just to get me and this girl named Annette Watson, who’s the backup piano player. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Her words bounce up and down as she sits at the piano again. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Nobody seems to remember that I have a piano recital the second weekend of June. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Usually I have a piano lesson at the same time as Malia’s ballet class. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The piano sat neglected in the traditional sense until my father signed Gretchen up for a series of lessons. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In one corner stood an old piano; in another, a marvelous green globe. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “And Diana played the piano every single day.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Dutchy is talking to me through the piano, and, as in a dream, I understand his meaning. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Harry gave me a book of music for the piano, Jolly Songs for Family Fun. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z My inventive mother solved this problem by going to the mainland and finding a Crisfield piano tuner who could also give lessons. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. I had a cousin I used to visit. They had a piano, and his mother played it. I liked to listen to that.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I bet Mom is only offering to take me there because she feels bad that I can’t take my piano lesson. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Here we are again. Whee! I’ve made a little list, the piano organist; all people who eat peppermint and puff it in your face.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I leaned against the piano in the living room, almost needing it to hold myself up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z But when she sits down at the piano, I'm longing to hear her play, too, like she used to. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was impossible to keep the Fifth Avenue drums separate from the belt-buckle tunes vibrating from pianos and spinning on every Victrola. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And Annette’s right hand is pretty important, because the girl is a piano prodigy. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The day was warm, and the breeze which blew from the river was very pleasant She removed her hat and laid it on the piano. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She helped military families and defense workers find suitable places to live, played the piano during the USO’s rollicking singalongs, and coordinated a calendar of Girl Scout troop meetings and military rallies. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But Bachpere was involved in a keyboard innovation that proved equally important to the history of music as the invention of the piano. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There is a famous painting of the two boys together in Florence in 1770, Mozart at the piano, Linley with the violin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman’s smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And an interval of a diminished fourth means something different than an interval of a major third, even though they would be played using the same keys on a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Gretchen's teacher never told her to think of her piano as a boy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z You can also listen to piano performances using this tuning by searching for "CHAS tuning" at YouTube. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Root played impromptu recitals on a rented piano. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Except for the part where Miss Lulu played piano. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I pictured her at the piano, back in the days when its mahogany gleamed and every note was true. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Armistead said slowly, “Last time I saw old Win, we played that, ’round the piano.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't know what she was saying exactly, but I knew I was standing and walking on shaky legs to the piano. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z A couple of girls are sitting on the piano bench, and I guess one of them knocked her elbow into the keys. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z As carefully as she can, Marie-Laure crawls to the piano bench and eases herself up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The next day they had the piano moved down into the basement at one end of the ice rink. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z I would kiss my piano teacher, even if he laughed at me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z This site also includes a pop-up piano and accidental calculator specifically to help users learn and practice their developing musical skills. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “If he does, why don’t you will me your piano?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the Ocean Room, playing the piano. He’s played the piano both nights we’ve been here.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z They snake between dusty boxes, overwhelm a sawhorse; he leads her through a thicket of them to what feels like an upholstered piano bench at the far end, and helps her sit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He visited them nearly every day, played games with them, lectured to them on German history, played their piano, gave them lessons in conversational German. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I invited her over to play piano after school, and we learned a couple of popular duets at our mothers’ request. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Each of these modes can easily be found by playing its one octave range, or ambitus, on the "white key" notes on a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Ugh, god, I’m sorry, but you know how many Deckers make those promises and then pianos fall on their heads?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There were no more piano lessons, for one thing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogany piano—but I am not myself there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And last night she was too upset over not getting the piano. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We didn’t have any idea that a piano made music. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z But even if he was just a young kid he had made up all these beautiful pieces for the piano and for the violin and for a band or orchestra too. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The children sat side by side on the other side of the piano, Katie nervously adjusted and readjusted the seat and the three sat waiting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I have already seen her at diving lessons, another ballet recital, practicing piano, and now I see her running across a field kicking a soccer ball. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z They took off the hats and lined them up on the piano as soon as they came in, so that you wanted to say, What’s the use? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Caroline jumped up from the piano at the sight of me, hair streaming, clothes dripping all over the floor. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though we couldn’t afford a piano, my keyboard was on paper on my dining room table. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I’ll still get to save up for piano lessons and a keyboard. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z A simple cricket, no longer than half my little finger—which is rather long because I play the piano—but a cricket that is able to chirp operatic, symphonic, and popular music. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z But anyway, the key stuck, and was a great inconvenience to anyone trying to play the piano. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Sheet music, surely also the ill-gotten spoils of the Château des Bourreaux—a lot of popular songs from the last decade and some pieces by French composers, scored for flute and piano. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In between disputes, I continued to play the piano and she continued to listen, offering a stream of corrections. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z No piano could be gotten down those narrow steep stairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Granny used to strike as many wrong keys on the piano as Miss Effie Belle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Glass shattered, and the keys of the old upright piano jangled. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And at the front, on a raised stage, were the first two baby grand pianos I’d ever laid eyes on, their giant hardwood tops propped open like black bird wings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She extracted a photograph from the crowded back of the piano, of her daughter with two Indian women, their skin dark and weathered, their smiles showing missing teeth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When she finally became convinced of the hopelessness of teaching us the piano, she shifted us to other instruments. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I can hardly recall a time when Caroline was not playing the piano well enough to accompany herself while she sang. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And I can’t play the piano at all or play soccer. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was around the same time that the piano’s close relative the organ also mastered the art of volume control, thanks to a device called a ‘ratchet swell pedal’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He didn’t seem at all like a man who would play mournful music on the piano. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z A small jazz combo with a bass, a piano, and a drum set providing the "rhythm" background for a trumpet improvising a solo. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She attacked the piano with a fervor completely different from her usual, sluggish self, and Matt liked to hide behind the potted plants to listen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My palms start to sweat thinking about the one last year, where I played the piano and then sang my first solo. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The pentatonic aspect of Debussy’s piano music provided much inspirational fuel for later generations of jazz pianists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Like as if he was a helluva humble guy, besides being a terrific piano player. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z From all the other houses down the street came sounds of music, pianos playing, doors slamming. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They went to plays and operas and concerts in the parks, listened to string quartets and piano recitals in office-building lobbies, attended movie screenings, and visited museums. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z So Mrs. Popper picked out three different tunes to play on the basement piano, one for each different kind of act. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Through the wall the piano player bit into an upbeat ditty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He swooped the feathers over the piano keys and as the dust drifted back down, he told me that Lin Nai-Nai was home. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed a room with a huge piano and another with a dining table, each sight a spectacle, before turning and heading up a set of stairs that made Ophie’s thighs ache. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “I’ll bet you play piano with a lot of pep,” he says. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Beth did look, and turned pale with delight and surprise, for there stood a little cabinet piano, with a letter lying on the glossy lid, directed like a sign board to “Miss Elizabeth March.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Seth moved from the hen cage to a small piano in the corner of the room. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “It’s the same as learning a piano piece, Callie,” she would say, “and you can do that fine. All you have to do is practice it over and over until you get it right.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Her daughter Etty later said that Emma’s piano playing clearly reflected her character: She played with a fine, crisp touch, with intelligence and simplicity. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I love the ice cream here, but my favorite part of the place is the player piano. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z A song arrangement typically means adding voices such as making a choral arrangement or adding instruments to the melody such as a piano accompaniment or Orff accompaniment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I was sitting at a perfect piano, it turned out, with its surfaces carefully dusted, its internal wires precisely tuned, its eighty-eight keys laid out in a flawless ribbon of black and white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And she moved up to the table to select her cake while Miss Lulu played another dramatic roll on the piano, and everybody applauded. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He said: “No. We didn’t have a piano.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z So was the piano playing from the room right next to the kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The pianos plink along softly; it sounds as if a dozen are playing all ar once, as if the sound comes from every point of the compass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I was about even with the Tate house when I caught the first muffled sounds of “Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-de-Ay” on Granny’s piano. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And here, the reality was that they sat ten feet apart, she at the window, crushing geranium leaves in her hand and smelling them, he twirling around on the piano stool, saying: The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z I thought this was the grand finale, but no, June switched over to the piano and banged out a jazzed-up version of “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Stood there while the piano man began another wobbly tune. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z On Sunday afternoon I set off with Papi for my first piano lesson. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I run my hands along the keys, as if I’m playing piano. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I spin around to face the piano, glad to be doing something other than just sitting, listening, and worrying. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Lovelace asked an aide to bring Gloria down front close to the piano. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “Some guitar, a little piano. But I prefer the visual arts,” Joe said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Up he got, groped his way to the piano, laid a kind hand on either of the broad shoulders, and said, as gently as a woman, “I know, my boy, I know.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It was supposed to be something holy, for God's sake, when he sat down at the piano. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z July 5—I dedicated my first piano concerto to Fay. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “How much money do piano players make, anyway?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z One day he bought the family a piano from his brother Harold, who had it in his home where no one used it. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z If you ask me, it’s just a mall but with shinier doorknobs, marblier floors, fancier stores, and a real piano player instead of prerecorded Muzak. 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