Men, Women and Pianos Readers of all ages will

Readers of all ages will delight in following the exuberant child as he sets sail in a boat built by thrushes from an island in the Serpentine to the enchanted Kensington Gardens

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Men, Women and Pianos Readers of all ages willAs the "social anchor" in middle class homes of the nineteenth century, the piano was simultaneously an elegant piece of drawing room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, and a means of introducing the young to music. In this admirably balanced and leisurely account of the popular instrument, the late, internationally known concert pianist Arthur Loesser takes a "piano's eye view" of the recent social history of Western Europe and the United