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Book: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
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  1. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    emerged with a shared sense of the exultation that great music can bring.
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  2. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    The teaching of music in France is taken very seriously; while admirable enough in itself, very often it veers toward an overly formal and academic approach.
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  3. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    a "mélomane," the French word for music lover;
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  4. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    A voicing apprentice came to work at the Steinway factory one day to find his master, a man of great reserve, in tears. The master was standing before the disassembled action assembly of an old Steinway grand that had been sent back to the factory to be reconditioned. "What's wrong?" asked the apprentice. "How can I help?" The master then explained that when he had removed the action assembly from the piano, he had found the name of another Steinway technician hidden on the inside, the signature of his late father.
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  5. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    On a visit to the Steinway showroom in New York, I saw Henry Steinway, the last member of the family to be connected with the company, take out a felt-tip pen and sign the painted metal frame of a piano for an enthusiastic customer. It was like watching a baseball player sign a ball, or an author his book, and seemed in keeping with our age of celebrity.
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  6. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    Religions at least give hope; that's something, even if it's based on dreams. But those who promise heaven here on earth, whether it's Communists or Masons, they're the worst of the worst.
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  7. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    It's a world with its own traditions and lore, some of which are hidden within pianos themselves.
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  8. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    Etre patient avec soi-même!" {"Be patient with yourself!"}
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  9. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    On ne fait pas de musique contre quelqu'un" {"One does not make music against someone else"}."
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  10. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    Luc explained that the woodworking tradition was firmly established in Germany from the Middle Ages, and that guilds and families regularly replanted trees in order to provide the right kind of wood for their descendants.
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  11. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    Remember, too, that the trees for the wood that was used to build this piano were most likely planted in the late sixteenth century.
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  12. Thad Carhart _ The Piano Shop on the Left

    Motionless, he held the final chord for a long moment and we felt-I could almost say watched-the harmony rise into the light-filled cold of the atelier.
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