Gene Simmons said he could play that piano "no hands'". No pictures, so probably didn't happen.
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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I SAW IT!
There was a clip online of him playing it with his nose and ears, but he couldn't figure out how to monetize the clip so he had it taken down.
There was a clip online of him playing it with his nose and ears, but he couldn't figure out how to monetize the clip so he had it taken down.
No, the piano was invented when the harpist for King Louis the 1st of France, once again showed up drunk. During the concerto, he fell over, but never stopped playing. The king was so impressed, he then ordered all harps to be played while on their side. This nearly caused a revolution among the harpist's union. Bloodshed was avoided when one enterprising harpist, attached tiny hammers to his fingers.
The Grand Piano was invented this way. The upright piano evolved from the xylophone.
No, it was when Monsieur Keith de Emerson decided to add some verve do his performances of Bach pieces for later French Kings by wrestling with the grand piano, sticking rapiers in it, etc. At one point it just balanced in an upright position and Herr Bosendorfer in the audience liked the idea.
de Emerson later died in a tragic accident when Herr Bosendorfer's first design toppled over and killed him which is why the modern upright has evolved. Not that Emerson's habit of leaving half-a-dozen rapiers sticking out of his pianos helped.
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Duke Ellington, by the way, wasn't his real name. He gained the name by being the 'Duke' of the piano, being an Ellington one. Ray Ellington, who played on the Goon Show was related to the makers of Ellington pianos, but obviously no relationship to Duke Ellington, whose real name was Earl Steinway.
John Lord also wasn't a real name. He was actually a peer of the realm, Lord John Farquarr-Hill, Second Baron Chilselhurst, but he changed it when he was in a band with Screaming Lord Sutch to avoid there being too many lordy Lords in one band, but he did form the Baron Knights before also moving on.
Lord Rockingham's XI, featuring young organist Cherry Wainer, was also fronted by a lord, Lord Rockingham, and originally grew as an offshoot of his cricket team which just happened to comprise a number of saxophonists, etc.
The KEY thing to remember is that it was at this juncture in time that King Louis' harp player damaged the keys of his harp(sichord) when he and the harp(sichord) fell over, and so in his drunken furvor he continued playing the strings by hand — as noted, the monarch was impressed, so much so that part of King Louis' decree concerning Harps(ichords) being played on their sides was that they were never again to be played using the keys — the Harp as we know it was born.
However, Louis' rival Charles IV, with the support of Pope Clement VI, became king of Luxembourg and was known to tinkle the ivories of harpsichords himself — with great disdain for the trendy keyless "Harp", Charles IV forever banished the keyless players (granting a reprieve to the above-mentioned enterprising harpist who had attached the tiny hammers to his fingers), and so both the harp and the harpsichord have endured through the ages, albeit the harp winning over the harpsichord of late.
I, IV, VI. The French were missing something with their attempt at early Status Quo, there. (Late period Status Quo was when they discovered the fourth chord on page seven of their Burt Weedon guitar tutors, having managed a 25-year career from pages one to six up to then).
There is a best banjo for metal and it is this one.
John Paul Jones was actually born in Scotland, a Highlander, in 1747.
He's often misquoted from his early naval days as saying "I have not yet begun to fight", but what he really said was "I have not yet begun to play bass!".
Being a true Highlander, he has hid his age through the ages and most recently recast himself as "John Richard Baldwin", re"born" in 1946 in Sidcup.
Why he came out of hiding behind the "Baldwin" and resumed his original name when he joined Led Zeppelin, only he knows for sure.
I believe it's because he is the last of his kind, and no longer needs a pseudonym to live under, after all...
There can be only the one.
He's often misquoted from his early naval days as saying "I have not yet begun to fight", but what he really said was "I have not yet begun to play bass!".
Being a true Highlander, he has hid his age through the ages and most recently recast himself as "John Richard Baldwin", re"born" in 1946 in Sidcup.
Why he came out of hiding behind the "Baldwin" and resumed his original name when he joined Led Zeppelin, only he knows for sure.
I believe it's because he is the last of his kind, and no longer needs a pseudonym to live under, after all...
There can be only the one.
Worry over instruments being bored when not played lead to the development of a board to fret over, or fretboard.
Just joined, and only got to page 133 of this thread, so sorry if this has already been done. Anyway ...
Rush were never the same after Geddy Lee stopped wearing trousers that were too tight.
Rush were never the same after Geddy Lee stopped wearing trousers that were too tight.
