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Prince Ahmed, wearing furry slippers, a pair of boxer shorts with Snoopy on them, and a frilly bathrobe, sits miserably on the silk sheets of his huge canopy waterbed, while his portly, graying American lover, RICCI BAOLONI, cardigan sweater and cotton briefs, plays softly at the white baby grand piano nearby
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We had never been able to give much to our kids but the piano had been an exception
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I don't care about the savings and the piano, they can all go if they need to, but we have to try something else first, before we just give in to them
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My daughter was in tears on the floor next to the remains of her piano
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"Where's my piano gone? What happened to it?"
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"That bloody piano was the only thing I had
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Isn't the piano or some other instrument an expedient? Not at all
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I wanted to learn to play piano at the age of five when I heard a
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For six years I had been told I had to practice the piano for as
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my classical piano teacher would have had a fit! I was ruining
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Been writing it for years on the piano
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JayJay still hankers after his piano and I believe there is an idea in the offing to send someone across to look into how this and other instruments requiring a fixed venue are manufactured
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the sounds of violins and piano fugues
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Was I dreaming or was someone, somewhere close by, struggling with piano practice and having a hard time
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‘Still, at least you have a piano
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’ Sally! You could have put that better! ‘I’m phoning about Abi – I gather that Alastair has suggested that she could have piano lessons with him
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Have you got a piano, Sally? She’ll need to practice
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It’s quiet here in the cottage … I can just hear the hint of a piano coming through the wall from next door … it makes me smile knowing that Jo’s happy
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One of his habits, sitting at the piano and just playing for hours on end, is wonderful
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As I nestle into his shoulder, I go on to tell him how much I love hearing him play the piano
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My eyes go straight to the piano; Shit! Alastair’s looking tense
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‘Perhaps you could ask her about the piano as well, Sally
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… I’m tied up two days a week with ‘Mack & Mabel’ at present so they’re out … how would Tuesdays be? I’ve got Abi here for a piano lesson at 4
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As I open the front door, I hear the sounds of the piano – as always it makes me smile
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Probably be too large for the dining room, especially now we have to make room for a piano, but you’ll have to see
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He does not really care if the boy learns piano or not, but feels it is immoral taking the money and not giving the lesson and it bothers him
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Abi was nervous before her piano lesson tonight, not surprising really - after all it’s over a month since she last had a lesson, but when she came back she was okay
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That was the easy bit … once we start note bashing the Mozart, with Alastair on the piano, I realise just how difficult a task I have set myself
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Alastair is sitting at the piano practising; clearly this wild display of bohemian life throws Tilly
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I heard Alastair play in a recital once – he plays organ and piano, you know – bloody fantastic what he could do with that organ
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There was regularly music and singing around the piano later in the
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We were seated a couple of tables away from the piano in the main room
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He rose, nodding, and advanced to the piano
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The piano stood at the front of the rehearsal area and, as you do, I got chatting to the pianist, Alastair
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He rambles on about his day while I eat my curry, telling me about his piano pupils and how they vary from the keen and able to the keen and totally useless
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He tinkled on the piano trying it out, ‘Yes, that should work
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’ He replied, sifting through the heap of music on the piano
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Meanwhile, some time later, in Quadrant 7, Kamon was playing the Grand Piano that he
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“Oh, let me fix that; I used to teach Piano,” Hadley said, bending over and
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head down, crushing Hadley's head, spurting blood over the Piano
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‘Oh no, quite the opposite, I know several parents whose children learn piano with him and hear comments occasionally, but they are always perfectly innocent and verge on the ‘how nice it is for you to have someone to share your music with’ variety
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I was in a fog, amazed that Roman was playing the piano
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But the sound of the piano did not cease, nor did the singing
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The voices in the crowd fell silent, but the notes of the piano still pounded
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don’t get that insurgent off the piano
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Both of the young men spoke together; ‘Please don’t tell my mum that I’m a soldier, she thinks that I play the piano in a whorehouse
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Someone, a young girl it seemed, was playing a piano in the corner
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9 in A for Violin and Piano
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It is when the instructor sits down at the piano, calls out the first name of one of the students, and pushes down on one of the piano’s eighty-eight keys
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brought the handset and cradle across to the stool of the unused piano
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As we got more into the swing of things and the ale flowed the piano started up and the pub started to get more and more crowded and rowdy
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The small sitting-room was now stiflingly cramped with four adults, their nerves stretching like piano wires
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I looked over them and saw Sam Brown who had played the piano in the Intack Inn that Christmas in 1914 he was a member of the 2nd Battalion
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He can play the piano but isn’t a prodigy
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While I was working on a Stephen Foster tune on the piano the other day, I noticed that the word ―darkie‖ was conspicuously absent from the (original) lyrics
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A couple o' tents, some bloke playing the piano, and a few young 'uns prancing about
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“This floor is the piano nobile, Ms
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tree of a child and a piano and the thought about helping children
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A Mozart piano concerto came softly from corner speakers
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The airframe was covered in the finest Irish linen, and it was framed up with spruce spars, hickory and ash, braced with piano wire internally and braided aircraft cable externally
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At some point the younger daughter began to practice on the piano
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She hadn't practiced for a while, the piano was dusty
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The sound board from the piano was nestled in the remains of our second car, three stories below it
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You can see the car and piano parts in the right side of the garage in this photo
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Aches and Pains: I used to get aches and pains from riding my bike (and also from playing the piano)
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You can add more resistances in increasing order and more push buttons to extend your piano keys
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Also you can experiment with the existing resistances which will change the sounds of piano
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Yet, for Enrique to end up garroted with piano wire by someone in the back seat of his car was ghastly
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Enrique Segovia, he claimed, was one of the persons responsible for the court’s refusal to hear his request for bail: a little fine-tuning with piano wire was exactly what he needed
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traded off on the piano and I belted out one tune after another
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Before Colling could respond, Elizabeth asked, “Do you have someone who can teach my daughter the piano?”
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The piano player started doing her thing and the curtain opened to reveal 10 other children lined up choir style
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He was wearing this white ruffled collared shirt, you’ve seen the kind, it was the kind that you’d picture Beethoven wearing when he was putting on his piano concerts in the days of yore
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in the back near the grand piano where an elderly gentleman was playing
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The thing about old Edith Piaf was that she’d been singing those songs so damned long that some of them would have probably been better if she’d just been accompanied by a piano player, a drummer, and a base rather than by a big full orchestra and a choir
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“I think I mentioned before that I like playing the piano
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“What, you think I’d have this nice a piano in my house and be bad?”
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The place was gorgeous and even had a piano
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To eliminate the bill we remembered a piano that was in stor-
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The stories abound about the person, who is mentally defective in most things, but can draw pictures of what they have seen in amazing detail, or play a piano in a way that is a marvel
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To understand how the innovative Coordenational Structure operates, imagine that this new structure is a piano, whose keys of the piano represent the Areas of Activities with its musical notes that represent the interaction of thousands of organizations to compose the score of an event or the music
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Here, a row of sound-proofed cubicles, with a piano in each, allowed girls registered with the music school to practise for a fixed time on a roster basis
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After my husband left for work in the morning, I did the housework, practised singing for at least an hour (the discipline I’d learned with piano lessons served me well), did shopping, went to rehearsals (if any), then started dinner
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Improvising on the piano – I’d insisted on having one in my classroom, I played honky-tonk versions of little kids’ songs (Afrikaans and English), making up words or adapting them to my purpose
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“Only thing I can think of is a grand piano
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I’ve always wanted to own a proper grand piano
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“We’ll continue at your place!” At the door of our house, Nic carried me over the threshold while our friend Mike thundered out Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” on my grand piano
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Mandy played and taught piano
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She arranged concerts in which I was the featured soloist: a Handel tribute at a venerable theatre in Pretoria where I sang a succession of arias; another concert at the university itself where I sang a programme with her at the piano and a colleague (Yvon Syx), soloist on guitar
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hosted many guests with its grand piano and private bar
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One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons is of a father jerking his thumb toward his young son who is seated at the piano and saying, ―Van Cliburn he‘s not
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and two partners bought 196 acres of land near PIano, Ill
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He lifted the lid of the piano and caressed the keys
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Once again he played the piano, safe in the knowledge that it was still early evening, and he wasn’t likely to disturb anyone, even though he had opened the door to the balcony
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counterbalance on one side, and a grand piano on the other
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’ She tried to imagine a piano in her mother’s house, but the picture failed to come