John Ficarra was the editor of Mad magazine from 1985 to 2018. It took all of 90 seconds for two workers to load my old Baldwin upright piano onto a dolly, roll it out my front door and position it on ...

Pianos, for decades, enjoyed a central place in the lives of American families and organizations. But if you were going to try to sell your piano now, you'd be hard-pressed to find a buyer. Pianos ...

Kenneth Rexrode’s mother is a pianist, but he never had any real interest in playing an instrument. After being strongly nudged to try the piano and trombone when he was younger, he was finally “set ...

With a focus and patience he honed remodeling historic homes and learning woodworking beside the Amish in Pennsylvania, Foglia painstakingly dismantles old pianos as well as other broken-down ...

I inherited this antique upright piano marked “R. Gors and Kallmann, Kaiserl. U. Konigl. Hoflieferanten, Berlin.” I believe it dates from approximately 1913 or 1914. The black finish was polished but ...

Sure, you’re a good Pacific Northwesterner because you recycle your beer cans, cardboard boxes and plastic milk jugs. But what about that dust-collecting piano you have long wanted to unload? It doesn ...

Deputy Head of School, Lecturer in Piano, School of Music, Australian National University While restructuring a collection of historical keyboard instruments at the ANU School of Music, I’ve been led ...

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FARGO – While he was waiting to meet a friend on Broadway downtown, Joseph Brauer took a seat at the old upright piano in front of Uptown Gallery. He played a few Coldplay tunes, some jazz and “What a ...

When officials at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library approached artist Violet Jaffe with the opportunity to turn an old piano into a work of public art, her mind went to her grandfather, who died ...