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Tune It review

Written by klsound on February 22, 2012
Categories: pianola Player Piano

I should say up front that Tune it is nowhere as ambitious as the commercial Tunerific, which I reviewed back in 2011. rather than try and sample a guitar’s audio output and produce interactive animations to show the pitch, Tune it goes altogether more old school, simply producing reference tones that you then use to [...]

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Little Admiral: Robinson growing into football star, Renaissance man

Written by klsound on February 8, 2012
Categories: pianola Player Piano

with excellent size (6-5, 190), speed (4.6 in 40) and athleticism, Corey Robinson is developing into a top-flight wide receiver.Courtesy of Trudy Gately/San Antonio Christian The emerging portrait of 16-year-old Corey Robinson — athlete, musician, scholar — combines the light and shadow of two eras. He is a mass of Renaissance brush strokes on a [...]

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Sam Rivers obituary

Written by klsound on January 7, 2012
Categories: pianola Player Piano

The multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers, who has died aged 88, was one of the last messengers from the 1940s bebop era and the classic decades of jazz. Accomplished on tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, piano and viola, he wanted only to remain at the sharp edge of music-making. Rivers included Miles Davis, BB King and Wilson [...]

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SRJC piano hits sour note

Written by klsound on December 7, 2011
Categories: pianola Player Piano

Music instructor Leslie Dukes helped select the vintage piano from a Texas dealer after hours spent testing the piano and several similar to it on works by composers like Mozart, Schubert and Granados. “the piano we ultimately chose just worked on everything,” she said. But it has hit a sour note since arriving in Petaluma [...]

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Westminster alum Ed Helms returns to Buckhead – Neighbor Newspapers

Written by klsound on November 25, 2011
Categories: pianola Player Piano

The last time Westminster alumnus Ed Helms played piano on the Kellett Theatre stage, he performed Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” as part of the Buckhead school’s talent show. Tuesday, Helms regaled students with a performance of “The Tiger,” a song from the $467 million-grossing, 2009 box-office hit “The Hangover,” in which he starred as dentist [...]

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Peter Gammons: Major League Baseball deserves kudos for getting labor deal signed

Written by klsound on November 24, 2011
Categories: pianola Player Piano

Some of us remember all too well baseball’s longest winter. the walkout and the cancellation of the World Series; Major League Baseball Players Association chief Donald Fehr playing the piano at 2:30 a.m. in Rye Brook, N.Y.; the attempted intervention by President Bill Clinton; replacement players; and finally, the thankful and rightful ruling by Judge [...]

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Tim Grobaty: Saturday’s Soundwalk is art for the ears

Written by klsound on October 2, 2011
Categories: pianola Player Piano

DO THIS: We have been writing about the annual Soundwalk event every year since it began back in aught-4, and we’re still at a loss for words when it comes to describing it. the barest-bones description of Soundwalk, we guess, is that it’s a thing where you walk and hear sounds. But it’s loads more [...]

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Best Romantic Restaurant

Written by klsound on September 25, 2011
Categories: pianola Player Piano

1. Orange Hill Restaurant 6410 E. Chapman Ave., Orange, 714-997-2910 theorangehillrestaurant.com Most men, we’re told, aren’t very romantic. and with the prices at so-called romantic restaurants, who can blame them? Views and chandeliers and waiters in cummerbunds don’t come cheap, but I submit that romance most certainly should be, and can be, eminently affordable. And [...]

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Sonic boom – FT.com

Written by klsound on September 24, 2011
Categories: pianola Player Piano

A workshop testing of Andy Cavatorta’s Gravity Harps What images come to mind when you hear the phrase “musical instrument”? A string quartet filing neatly around a grand piano? A drum kit emerging from a cloud of dry ice, cymbals shimmering? Polished brass belting out carols on a frosty day? Viewers tuning in to this [...]

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Chili Peppers unrecognized by fans – The North Wind

Written by klsound on September 21, 2011
Categories: pianola Player Piano

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have conceived a new definition of groove in only a way that they could invent. if you are a sole patron of all that is older Chili Peppers, this may not even be your cup of tea. This is a completely new band that almost took a turn for the [...]

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