The piano music activates the orchestra, which takes off in episodes of lush strings, quizzical bursts of winds and brass and fidgety rhythmic riffs.
He pumped the Steinway's foot pedals like mad, blowing air up through tubes and valves to smaller bellows near the keys that powered a series of chains, gears and springs that activated the piano keys.
After closing one night, Jimmy Ferrozzo, a bouncer, was with his girlfriend, Theresa Hill, on top of the piano when the lift was accidentally activated.
Some of them are absurd, like the assistant manager at a San Francisco club who activated a lift under a piano he was having sex on and was crushed to death between the instrument and the ceiling in 1983.
Some of them are absurd, like the assistant manager at a San Francisco club who activated a lift under a piano he was having sex on and was crushed to death between the instrument and the ceiling in 1983.
The latter study shows that the premotor cortex of non-musicians is more activated by listening to musical excerpts that they have recently learned to play on the piano than by music they have never played.
For example, does the total number of keys on a piano provide the complexity to create music, or is it the combinatorial fashion in which the keys are activated by the pianist's fingers.
David Behrman, an other charter member, played a melodica piano 26, Which is a tiny organ (it sounded like a reed organ), about an octave in range, which was activated by Mr. Behrman's blowing into a tube.
The limbic and prefrontal areas, Dr. Boecker said, are activated when people are involved in romantic love affairs or, he said, "when you hear music that gives you a chill of euphoria, like Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3".
Cruise control is activated.
