TY - BOOK AU - Gaines,James R. TI - The Lives of the piano SN - 0030579740 : AV - ML650 .L58 U1 - 786.2/1 19 PY - 1981/// CY - New York PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston KW - Piano KW - History KW - Construction KW - Pianists KW - Piano's KW - gtt KW - Pianomuziek KW - Pianisten N1 - Includes index; The well-tempered revolution : a consideration of the piano's social and intellectual history / Anthony Burgess -- Enlightenment's gift to the age of romance : how the piano came to be / Annalyn Swan -- Of wood and iron wrought : the making of a Bösendorfer / Anthony Liversidge -- Finding the sound : portrait of a master technician / Dominique Browning -- Beyond playing : a composer's life with the piano / Ned Rorem -- Song and dance : the American way of pianism / William Bolcom -- The ordeal of growth : confessions of a former prodigy / Samuel Lipman -- Pianists in their time : a memoir / Richard Sennett; Also issued online UR - http://www.archive.org/details/livesofpiano00gain UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL3785220M ER -