Piano Lovers

What's a grand concert hall without a concert grand piano? So goes the thinking of the Community Foundation of Upper St. Clair about the theater at the district's high school.  

Elmhurst Elementary School kindergartner Jennifer Harris has never had piano lessons before.  

Elmhurst Elementary School kindergartner Jennifer Harris has never had piano lessons before.  

Piano lessons in your home. Recent college grad with major in music composition & piano performance is seeking new students. Experienced in teaching all ages, daytime or evenings.  

SPIKE Milligan fans will be able to bid for the comedy star's Goon Show scripts, 19th-century grand piano and war-time diaries at a memorabilia sale this month.  

By Jonathan E. Coleman Sounds from the ever-popular High School Musical — among other songs — filled the auditorium at Hickory Ridge High School last week as about 50 students, teachers and parents smiled and cheered with approval. But the music wasn’t coming from a CD player or television...  

It's easy to take for granted the technical ability, background knowledge and sheer willpower needed to turn a concert grand piano – a gleaming, 500-kilogram lump of wood, metal, leather and felt – into a musical instrument.  

NORTH CANTON The boxes are loaded and ready to go, sitting where furniture once sat in the living room of Tim and Rosemary Baley's apartment. Only the grand piano and keyboards — so vital to Tim Baley's life — haven't been packed.  

Click to enlarge Winning photo … the Majestic Dance Band, featuring Jimmy Olin (saxophone), Lottie Duckworth (piano), Neill Bamford (drums) and Tom French (double bass), at Worcester Street’s Mayfair Lounge, which boasted Christchurch’s only white grand piano, in the 1950s.  

Ben Person #63 Immense, burly, unintelligent meatheads: These words collectively represent the stereotype of an offensive lineman. Piano-playing Ohio State right guard Ben Person certainly does not fit the bill  

Some children aren’t too keen on piano lessons.  

Isabel Douglas Sparkman looks back on "many wonderful years," she says, of nurturing piano students through musical training and development. This Lower Richland resident has presided over her Yamaha grand piano for 40 years and has seen many of her students go on to success in the music world...  

Hamburg - US-based piano maker Steinway & Sons unveiled Wednesday the most expensive grand piano it has ever built: a 1.2-million-euro (1.5 million dollar) instrument with inlays of 40 different woods. The 150-year-old company, which has a main works...  

Trinity United Methodist Church of Toledo is sponsoring a special CD release event to help raise funds for their new grand piano. Sean McKenney has recorded a second album of original faith music, with individual members of the Methodist choir performing.  

Thursdays: Ladyfingers, 8:30 p.m. Grand Piano Bistro, 506 E. Grand Ave.