Sentence examples for open piano from inspiring English sources

She won first prize in the 1969 Open Piano Competition of Radio Ceylon.

During one extended passage the violinist (Mr. Wiersma) performed facing the open piano, as the pianist (the excellent Margaret Kampmeier) played eerie harmonies with the pedal down, so that violin tones mingled with the sustained soft piano sounds.

Klezmer-style music in the opening portrait of the author was lively, but most effective was the last, Joseph's Execution, the tension steadily ratcheted up and the sound of the trumpet, using the open piano as a resonating chamber, melding with cor anglais to become horribly chilling.

The gentleman, as if by chance, struck the keys of the open piano, beside which they were sitting, gradually began to run over one of Beethoven's own compositions, made a thousand errors, and speedily blundered one passage so thoroughly, that the composer condescended to stretch out his hand and put him right.

In 1937 Ferrier entered the Carlisle Festival open piano competition and, as a result of a small bet with her husband, also signed up for the singing contest.

In banging a soundboard -- one of Steinway's best-kept secrets, often referred to as the "soul" of the instrument -- in an open piano, feeling both the power and energy, and then lightly tapping a single pin that will one day anchor a piano string and feeling that soft vibration anywhere on the soundboard, Bill Youse drove home the point that Steinway is the Rolls Royce of piano manufacturers.

On recognising that opening piano flourish, everyone started dancing.

In act two, meanwhile, her Almaviva, Juan Diego Flórez, narrowly missed being clobbered by the lid of an open grand piano.

In one gallery oscillating fans move table-tennis balls around the strings of an open grand piano, producing softly dissonant arpeggios.

The house appears to be haunted: Grace hears laughter and weeping through the walls; Anne insists that she has seen a little boy and a mysterious old woman; locked doors spring open; a piano plays itself.

Open the piano roll and place the notes as such in the next picture.