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there in mid-August, December, or June.

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For my heart sings a wonderful tune as long

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as you can go for me.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very, very much, everyone.

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It sure is nice to be with all of you again.

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Today, my show is based on one of my favorite subjects, pianos.

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I'm going to show you some of the pianos of the past,

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and I'm going to have you listen to them as well.

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But to kind of get you in the mood for our piano show,

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how about we take a look at some of the pianos

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that have been in the works for a long time?

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How about a little Felix Arntz Nola?

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It's a modern-day arrangement especially made

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for our modern-day piano you see here.

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♫

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Thank you.

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I'll be back in just a moment, ladies and gentlemen, to show you and play for you on

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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

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instruments, the predecessor of the piano.

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It was called the clavichord, and it originated in Germany.

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It was triangular-shaped, as you can see, and that was derived from the fact that the

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strings, the longer the strings, the deeper the sound, the shorter the strings, the higher

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the sound, thereby giving it that triangular shape.

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The famous composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach was among the first of the great composers

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to write for the clavichord.

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I would like to play for you now Bach's Gigue.

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Bach's Gigue.

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Bach's Gigue.

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Bach's Gigue.

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Bach's Gigue.

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Bach's Gigue.

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Bach's Gigue.

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Bach's Gigue.

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Thank you, thank you very, very much.

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And now, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to tell you about a more elaborate instrument

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of the 17th century, the harpsichord.

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And I'd like you to come with me now and meet a composer who wrote especially for the harpsichord.

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His name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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The harpsichord had one very distinct advantage over the clavichord.

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It had further sets of strings offering greater tonal contrast to the music.

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Here is a composition that Mozart wrote especially for the harpsichord, and it's called Rondo

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a la Turque.

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Rondo.

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Rondo.

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Rondo.

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Rondo.

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Rondo.

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The harpsichord remained the most popular keyboard instrument throughout most of the

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18th century, but there were still many improvements to be made, and most of them were developed

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by a man named Bartolomeo Cristofori.

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He developed what he called the piano forte.

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Piano meaning soft, forte meaning loud.

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Later on, it was simply called the piano.

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It had many shapes and sizes, but the most popular was the square shape, or the spinet.

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The spinet was very popular during the time of Chopin.

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Chopin used to play this kind of piano in all the fashionable salons of Parisian musical society.

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I would like to play an excerpt of his famous Polonaise, and also the modern day song that

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was adapted from it called Till the End of Time.

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Here it is.

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Till the end of time.

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Till the stars are in the blue.

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Long as there's a spring to hurt the sting, I'll go on loving you.

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Till the end of time.

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My love for you will grow deeper with every passing day.

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I'll care for you, care for you through laughter and through tears.

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So take my heart in sweet surrender, and tenderly say that I'm the one you'll love and live for.

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Till the end of time.

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Thank you.

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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.

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And here it is.

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Isn't it beautiful?

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It's a piano that was played upon by Franz Liszt in one of his concerts in Budapest.

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He was perhaps the greatest pianist of the 19th century, but more than that, he was the first of the great showman pianists.

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He was the first to give a solo concert with just the piano.

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He also revolutionized the type of performance in that most pianists before him either faced their audiences or had their backs to the audience.

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Franz Liszt turned his piano in profile, which showed not only his hands on the keyboard, but his very handsome profile,

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which all the ladies in the audience enjoyed as much as his playing.

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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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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Just three short minutes is all that it takes, just three short minutes is all that it takes,

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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.

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Now I'd like you to listen to a piano that was very, very popular around the turn of the century.

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♪♪♪

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♪♪♪

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♪♪♪

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♪ Ragtime Joe played an old piano in a haunted conch shell place.

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When anyone would listen a brand new tune, here's what Ragtime Joe would say.

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There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.

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There'll be no boogie woogie or none of that jazz or any other kind of new ragtime jazz.

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Now think about the swanee, the old folks at home, the wide open spaces where the buffalo roam.

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Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play.

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There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.

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♪♪♪

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There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.

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Wise up, you radio songs, write sweet ad-libs.

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My melancholy baby and the valley of wine, the song of a mixed seed and old mellow bee.

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I'm soul-like and that's a set with property.

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There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.

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♪♪♪

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There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.

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There's something about the old songs that bring back the days

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when Jerry, Jake, and Marla were strictly the same.

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I go to a party, I play for the guests,

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I hear what I tell them when they make their requests.

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There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.

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There's something about the old songs that bring back the days

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when Jerry, Jake, and Marla were strictly the same.

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I go to a party, I play for the guests,

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I hear what I tell them when they make their requests.

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There'll be no new tunes on this old piano, this old piano will fly.

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There's something about the old songs that bring back the days

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when Jerry, Jake, and Marla were strictly the same.

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There's something about the old songs that bring back the days

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when Jerry, Jake, and Marla were strictly the same.

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It's been wonderful being with all of you again,

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I'd like to thank you for letting me take this opportunity

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to discuss my favorite subject, piano and music, with all of you.

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I'll see you in the morning sun

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And when the night is new

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I'll be looking at the moon

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But I'll be seeing you once more

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I'll be looking at the moon

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But I'll be seeing you once more

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I'll be looking at the moon

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But I'll be seeing you once more

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I'll be looking at the moon

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But I'll be seeing you once more