The delicate, tick-tock beat of the aching "Skin" is an elegant jumping-off point for a light-touch, high-impact piano motif.
He ended by apologizing for the weather's impact on the piano, as yet another politician escorted him offstage: his younger brother, Jarvis Tyner, executive vice chairman of the Communist Party USA.
Yet this efficacious magic doesn't actually form part of the piano's aesthetic impact.
It's a courageous start to the set, designed to demonstrate how little her huge voice relies on instrumental support to make its impact; so when the familiar piano chords of "Rockferry" announce the arrival of the rest of her band, it's almost like a bonus.
Co-written by Kiesza, it's a beautifully constructed ballad that's been produced for maximum dramatic impact, all blustery strings, fragile pianos and the sort of electronic touches that hint at impending doom.
And Brahms conceived his D minor Piano Concerto under the impact of Schumann's plunge into the Rhine.
She likens the impact of his training to a piano student progressing from the ability to play a simple tune to performing a concerto.
For the album, Xiu Xiu radically reinterpreted the dreamy, low-impact original recordings, incorporating overdriven guitars, piano, synthesizer, vibraphone, and auxiliary percussion.
This paper presents a novel adjustable impact tuning hammer and a reinforcement learning control system that may allow piano owners to tune their own pianos in the future.
And the visual impact of the piece is diluted by the shine of the piano's bright light just below the stage.
Charles Rosen's new book investigates the piano's cultural history, its repertoires and institutions and its crucial impact on the history of music.
