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  2. Charles Stieff - Wikipedia

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    Charles Stieff. Charles M. Stieff (1805–1862) was a 19th-century American industrialist and piano manufacturer, based in Baltimore, Maryland. Although his company went out of business in 1951, Stieff pianos are still highly regarded. They are often referred to as "The poor man's Steinway ".

  3. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Wikipedia

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    Maurizio Masi. Alessandro Papotto. Website. bancodelmutuosoccorso.it. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (English: Bank of Mutual Relief) is an Italian rock band. A popular progressive rock band in the 1970s, they continued making music in the 1980s and 1990s. They were still active, playing live in 2001 and 2008 at NEARfest.

  4. Social history of the piano - Wikipedia

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    The piano was a symbol of social status, and the ability to play the piano stood as a testament to a woman's marriageability. [5] Emma Wedgwood Darwin. Women who had learned to play as children often continued to play as adults, thus providing music in their households. [6] For instance, Emma Wedgwood (1808–1896), the granddaughter of the ...

  5. List of piano manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Acquired in 1907. Also manufactured brands Channing, Alden, Bellaire, Schubert and Leonard. Company manufactured and sold pianos under the names of M. Schulz, Walworth, Bradford, Irving, and Maynard, and Aria Divina. They were also sold under the names Brinkerhoff (from teens until about 1950s) and Schriver & Sons.

  6. Piano - Wikipedia

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    The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a chromatic scale in equal temperament. A musician who specializes in piano is called a pianist.

  7. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena - Wikipedia

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    Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbaŋka ˈmonte dei ˈpaski di ˈsjɛːna]), known as BMPS or just MPS, is an Italian bank.Tracing its history to a mount of piety founded in 1472 (552 years ago) and established in its present form in 1624 (400 years ago), it is the world's oldest or second oldest bank, depending on the definition, and the fifth largest Italian ...

  8. Jankó keyboard - Wikipedia

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    A Jankó keyboard. The Jankó keyboard is a musical keyboard layout for a piano designed by Paul von Jankó, a Hungarian pianist and engineer, in 1882.It was designed to overcome two limitations on the traditional piano keyboard: the large-scale geometry of the keys (stretching beyond a ninth, or even an octave, can be difficult or impossible for pianists with small hands), and the fact that ...

  9. Dino Kartsonakis - Wikipedia

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    Biography. Dino was born in New York City and attended Glad Tidings Tabernacle. He began playing his grandmother's piano at the age of three. The first song he learned was At the Cross. He enrolled in piano lessons at age five and developed a love and passion for playing the piano. This love and passion was cultivated as a young boy at his home ...