there in mid-August, December, or June.
For my heart sings a wonderful tune as long
as you can go for me.
Thank you.
Thank you very, very much, everyone.
It sure is nice to be with all of you again.
Today, my show is based on one of my favorite subjects, pianos.
I'm going to show you some of the pianos of the past,
and I'm going to have you listen to them as well.
But to kind of get you in the mood for our piano show,
how about we take a look at some of the pianos
that have been in the works for a long time?
How about a little Felix Arntz Nola?
It's a modern-day arrangement especially made
for our modern-day piano you see here.
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Thank you.
I'll be back in just a moment, ladies and gentlemen, to show you and play for you on
a piano from the 17th century.
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And now, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to tell you about one of the earliest keyboard
instruments, the predecessor of the piano.
It was called the clavichord, and it originated in Germany.
It was triangular-shaped, as you can see, and that was derived from the fact that the
strings, the longer the strings, the deeper the sound, the shorter the strings, the higher
the sound, thereby giving it that triangular shape.
The famous composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach was among the first of the great composers
to write for the clavichord.
I would like to play for you now Bach's Gigue.
Bach's Gigue.
Thank you, thank you very, very much.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to tell you about a more elaborate instrument
of the 17th century, the harpsichord.
And I'd like you to come with me now and meet a composer who wrote especially for the harpsichord.
His name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The harpsichord had one very distinct advantage over the clavichord.
It had further sets of strings offering greater tonal contrast to the music.
Here is a composition that Mozart wrote especially for the harpsichord, and it's called Rondo
a la Turque.
Rondo.
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The harpsichord remained the most popular keyboard instrument throughout most of the
18th century, but there were still many improvements to be made, and most of them were developed
by a man named Bartolomeo Cristofori.
He developed what he called the piano forte.
Piano meaning soft, forte meaning loud.
Later on, it was simply called the piano.
It had many shapes and sizes, but the most popular was the square shape, or the spinet.
The spinet was very popular during the time of Chopin.
Chopin used to play this kind of piano in all the fashionable salons of Parisian musical society.
I would like to play an excerpt of his famous Polonaise, and also the modern day song that
was adapted from it called Till the End of Time.
Here it is.
Till the end of time.
Till the stars are in the blue.
Long as there's a spring to hurt the sting, I'll go on loving you.
Till the end of time.
My love for you will grow deeper with every passing day.
I'll care for you, care for you through laughter and through tears.
So take my heart in sweet surrender, and tenderly say that I'm the one you'll love and live for.
Till the end of time.
Thank you.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to show you still another piano that was used by one of the contemporaries of Chopin's time.
And here it is.
Isn't it beautiful?
It's a piano that was played upon by Franz Liszt in one of his concerts in Budapest.
He was perhaps the greatest pianist of the 19th century, but more than that, he was the first of the great showman pianists.
He was the first to give a solo concert with just the piano.
He also revolutionized the type of performance in that most pianists before him either faced their audiences or had their backs to the audience.
Franz Liszt turned his piano in profile, which showed not only his hands on the keyboard, but his very handsome profile,
which all the ladies in the audience enjoyed as much as his playing.
I would like to recall that wonderful era in music when Franz Liszt played his dream of love, his own composition, Liebestraum.
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Well ladies and gentlemen, there you have a kind of a brief resume of the development of the piano as we know it today.
Now I'd like you to listen to a piano that was very, very popular around the turn of the century.
♪♪♪
♪ Ragtime Joe played an old piano in a haunted conch shell place.
When anyone would listen a brand new tune, here's what Ragtime Joe would say.
There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.
There'll be no boogie woogie or none of that jazz or any other kind of new ragtime jazz.
Now think about the swanee, the old folks at home, the wide open spaces where the buffalo roam.
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play.
There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.
♪♪♪
There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.
Wise up, you radio songs, write sweet ad-libs.
My melancholy baby and the valley of wine, the song of a mixed seed and old mellow bee.
I'm soul-like and that's a set with property.
There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.
♪♪♪
There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.
There's something about the old songs that bring back the days
when Jerry, Jake, and Marla were strictly the same.
I go to a party, I play for the guests,
I hear what I tell them when they make their requests.
There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.
There's something about the old songs that bring back the days
when Jerry, Jake, and Marla were strictly the same.
I go to a party, I play for the guests,
I hear what I tell them when they make their requests.
There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.
There's something about the old songs that bring back the days
when Jerry, Jake, and Marla were strictly the same.
There's something about the old songs that bring back the days
when Jerry, Jake, and Marla were strictly the same.
It's been wonderful being with all of you again,
I'd like to thank you for letting me take this opportunity
to discuss my favorite subject, piano and music, with all of you.
I'll see you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you once more
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you once more
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you once more
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you once more