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A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.
Book Synopsis The Piano Tuner by : Daniel Mason
Download or read book The Piano Tuner written by Daniel Mason and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.
It is 1886 and piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office - he must leave his wife, and his life in London, to travel to Burma to tune a rare Erard grand piano. The piano belongs to Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll, an enigmatic British officer whose unorthodox methods are attracting suspicion.
Book Synopsis The Piano Tuner by : Daniel Mason
Download or read book The Piano Tuner written by Daniel Mason and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1886 and piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office - he must leave his wife, and his life in London, to travel to Burma to tune a rare Erard grand piano. The piano belongs to Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll, an enigmatic British officer whose unorthodox methods are attracting suspicion.
A remarkable first novel by a young author who is also currently a medical student: the extraordinary adventure and delicate love story of a British piano tuner, sent deep into 19th Century Burma to repair a rare Erard Grand. In the murky haze of a London morning in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a letter that presents to him a challenge certain to change his life forever. Accepting the post offered to him by the Burma and East India Division of Her Majesty's Army, he leaves wife and work to embark on a three month mission across the seas. But Edgar is not going to be fighting for his country. His travels are the direct result of a request by highly respected Major Surgeon Anthony Carroll, secured in the Shan States. He has asked that a specialist piano tuner be paid to travel from England and mend his Erard Grand. But why?
Book Synopsis The Piano Tuner by : Daniel Mason
Download or read book The Piano Tuner written by Daniel Mason and published by Picador. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable first novel by a young author who is also currently a medical student: the extraordinary adventure and delicate love story of a British piano tuner, sent deep into 19th Century Burma to repair a rare Erard Grand. In the murky haze of a London morning in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a letter that presents to him a challenge certain to change his life forever. Accepting the post offered to him by the Burma and East India Division of Her Majesty's Army, he leaves wife and work to embark on a three month mission across the seas. But Edgar is not going to be fighting for his country. His travels are the direct result of a request by highly respected Major Surgeon Anthony Carroll, secured in the Shan States. He has asked that a specialist piano tuner be paid to travel from England and mend his Erard Grand. But why?
Provides all the information needed for restoring and maintaining pianos, both for professionals and amateurs.
Book Synopsis Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding for the Professional, the Student, and the Hobbyist by : Arthur A. Reblitz
Download or read book Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding for the Professional, the Student, and the Hobbyist written by Arthur A. Reblitz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides all the information needed for restoring and maintaining pianos, both for professionals and amateurs.
In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets. Often in these stories, what seems a safe, comfortable environment turns suddenly threatening. In the title story, a writer's quiet existence amid his antiques and books is dismantled, piece by piece, by a demonic, beer-bellied piano tuner. In "The Ponoes," a man recalls how, as a young boy living in Brooklyn during World War II, he became a collaborationist in the brutal pranks of two Irish bullies. In "The Twisted River," the sedate collegiality of a Polish university is disrupted when an American on a Fulbright grant attempts to blackmail two faculty members. And in "The Bracelet," a young anthropology student doing field work in Africa finds herself drawn further and further into the role of a priestess of Oshun, into a life dictated by the configuration of cowry shells cast upon the floor. Meinke writes of a world where our control over our lives seldom exists across a border, and often extends no further than our fingertips. Attempts to bridge two cultures, two lives are sometimes successful, as when an actor finds love in the arms of a tough-talking barmaid, but more usually lead to disillusionment, as when a hard-drinking salesman's career is shattered after he is drunk under the table one night by a Polish engineer, or when an English father struggles to find common ground with his American son. Riveting, almost terrifying, the stories in The Piano Tuner tell of decent men and women caught in events that they could never have predicted, would never have chosen.
Book Synopsis The Piano Tuner by : Peter Meinke
Download or read book The Piano Tuner written by Peter Meinke and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets. Often in these stories, what seems a safe, comfortable environment turns suddenly threatening. In the title story, a writer's quiet existence amid his antiques and books is dismantled, piece by piece, by a demonic, beer-bellied piano tuner. In "The Ponoes," a man recalls how, as a young boy living in Brooklyn during World War II, he became a collaborationist in the brutal pranks of two Irish bullies. In "The Twisted River," the sedate collegiality of a Polish university is disrupted when an American on a Fulbright grant attempts to blackmail two faculty members. And in "The Bracelet," a young anthropology student doing field work in Africa finds herself drawn further and further into the role of a priestess of Oshun, into a life dictated by the configuration of cowry shells cast upon the floor. Meinke writes of a world where our control over our lives seldom exists across a border, and often extends no further than our fingertips. Attempts to bridge two cultures, two lives are sometimes successful, as when an actor finds love in the arms of a tough-talking barmaid, but more usually lead to disillusionment, as when a hard-drinking salesman's career is shattered after he is drunk under the table one night by a Polish engineer, or when an English father struggles to find common ground with his American son. Riveting, almost terrifying, the stories in The Piano Tuner tell of decent men and women caught in events that they could never have predicted, would never have chosen.
Ingrid Silvian has written a memorable story for children that will help them understand what it was really like to live through events of WWII, how children just like them adapt and survive. Through vignettes in the lives of two young girl friends, one Jewish, one Christian, we experience how everything changed when the Nazis came. Silvian provides a child's eye view of war, both mundane and profound a shift from marbles to shrapnel as the treasure of choice; racing to catch the last train carrying evacuees out of the city and ultimately, who was saved and who was sacrificed. At a time when many of the first hand witnesses of this chilling chapter of history are passing away, Silvian's story provides a valuable link that reaches across generations that will live on in the hearts and minds of a new generation of children. Pam Spence, editor, Ohio Jewish Chronicle, Columbus, OH
Book Synopsis The Piano Tuner's Daughter by : Ingrid Silvian
Download or read book The Piano Tuner's Daughter written by Ingrid Silvian and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Silvian has written a memorable story for children that will help them understand what it was really like to live through events of WWII, how children just like them adapt and survive. Through vignettes in the lives of two young girl friends, one Jewish, one Christian, we experience how everything changed when the Nazis came. Silvian provides a child's eye view of war, both mundane and profound a shift from marbles to shrapnel as the treasure of choice; racing to catch the last train carrying evacuees out of the city and ultimately, who was saved and who was sacrificed. At a time when many of the first hand witnesses of this chilling chapter of history are passing away, Silvian's story provides a valuable link that reaches across generations that will live on in the hearts and minds of a new generation of children. Pam Spence, editor, Ohio Jewish Chronicle, Columbus, OH
Book Synopsis The Craft of Piano Tuning by : Daniel Levitan
Download or read book The Craft of Piano Tuning written by Daniel Levitan and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Welcome to the humourous and adult world of Mr. D'elia, the Piano Tuner, as it leaps from the imagination of creator Ignacio Noe.
Book Synopsis The Piano Tuner #1 by : Igancio Noe
Download or read book The Piano Tuner #1 written by Igancio Noe and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the humourous and adult world of Mr. D'elia, the Piano Tuner, as it leaps from the imagination of creator Ignacio Noe.
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Book Synopsis Complete Course in Professional Piano Tuning, Repair, and Rebuilding by : Floyd A. Stevens
Download or read book Complete Course in Professional Piano Tuning, Repair, and Rebuilding written by Floyd A. Stevens and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find out more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Glenn Gould was famous for his obsessions: the scarves, sweaters and fingerless gloves that he wore even on the hottest summer days; his deep fear of germs and illness; the odd wooden "pygmy" chair that he carried with him wherever he performed; and his sudden withdrawal from the public stage at the peak of his career. But perhaps Gould's greatest obsession of all was for a particular piano, a Steinway concert grand known as CD318 (C, meaning for the use of Steinway Concert Artists only, and D, denoting it as the largest that Steinway built). A Romance on Three Legs is the story of Gould's love for this piano, from the first moment of discovery, in a Toronto dept. store, to the tragic moment when the piano was dropped and seriously damaged while being transported from a concert overseas. Hafner also introduces us to the world and art of piano tuning, including a central character in Gould's life, the blind tuner Verne Edquist, who lovingly attended to CD318 for more than two decades. We learn how a concert grand is built, and the fascinating story of how Steinway & Sons weathered the war years by supplying materials for the military effort. Indeed, CD318 came very close to ending up as a series of glider parts or, worse, a casket. The book has already been lauded by Kevin Bazzana, author of the definitive Gould biography, who notes that Hafner "has clarified some old mysteries and turned up many fresh details."
Book Synopsis A Romance on Three Legs by : Katie Hafner
Download or read book A Romance on Three Legs written by Katie Hafner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenn Gould was famous for his obsessions: the scarves, sweaters and fingerless gloves that he wore even on the hottest summer days; his deep fear of germs and illness; the odd wooden "pygmy" chair that he carried with him wherever he performed; and his sudden withdrawal from the public stage at the peak of his career. But perhaps Gould's greatest obsession of all was for a particular piano, a Steinway concert grand known as CD318 (C, meaning for the use of Steinway Concert Artists only, and D, denoting it as the largest that Steinway built). A Romance on Three Legs is the story of Gould's love for this piano, from the first moment of discovery, in a Toronto dept. store, to the tragic moment when the piano was dropped and seriously damaged while being transported from a concert overseas. Hafner also introduces us to the world and art of piano tuning, including a central character in Gould's life, the blind tuner Verne Edquist, who lovingly attended to CD318 for more than two decades. We learn how a concert grand is built, and the fascinating story of how Steinway & Sons weathered the war years by supplying materials for the military effort. Indeed, CD318 came very close to ending up as a series of glider parts or, worse, a casket. The book has already been lauded by Kevin Bazzana, author of the definitive Gould biography, who notes that Hafner "has clarified some old mysteries and turned up many fresh details."
