The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier - Hardcover

Carhart, Thaddeus

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ISBN 10: 0375503048 ISBN 13: 9780375503047

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2001

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Book by Thad Carhart

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The author passes a little storefront in Paris every day and finally enters to find a shop filled with dismantled pianos where, on Fridays, local people gather to discuss music, love, and life over a glass of wine.

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never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental introduction finally opened the door to the quartier’s oddest hangout, where locals ― from university professors to pipefitters ― gather on Friday evenings to discuss music, love, and life over a glass of wine.

Luc, the atelier’s master, proves an excellent guide to the history of this most gloriously impractical of instruments. A bewildering variety passes through his restorer’s hands: delicate ancient pianofortes, one perhaps the onetime possession of Beethoven. Great hulking beasts of thunderous voice. And the modest piano “with the heart of a lion” that was to become Thad’s own.

What emerges is a warm and intuitive portrait of

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375503048
• ISBN 13: 9780375503047
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 271