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Fan System Duo-Art Performs in Godowsky Movie
By Bruce Grimes

If anyone is interested in hearing how the fan-system Duo-Art can
play, go to  http://www.theartofthelefthand.com/  and them click on
"The Buddha of the Piano: Leopold Godowsky".  At the home page, click
on "Media".  At the bottom is a perfectly dreadful picture of myself
at the 1910 Steinway we lengthened some 40 years ago and in which
we installed a fan-system Duo-Art.  Click on the picture and it will
play.  It's slow coming up, but there is a selection from a Chopin
Ballade.  Thursday evening is the movie's world premier here at the
Rialto in Santa Rosa, Calif., at 7:00 P.M.

Also, I have information on both a pedal-operated Steck grand and
a Weber Duo-Art which are available in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I own neither and am asking no commission.

Bruce Grimes

 [ Visit http://www.theartofthelefthand.com/ 
 [   http://www.theartofthelefthand.com/media.html 
 [   http://www.theartofthelefthand.com/images/video/Gm_Ballade.mov 
 [
 [ The video clip is the Duo-Art roll of Leopold Godowsky performing
 [ Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G-minor.  I was startled to hear (and see)
 [ the theme playing in A-minor; Tockhwock explained that's because the
 [ video clip is from near the middle of the piece, not the beginning.
 [
 [ The Godowsky movie and the concert grand Duo-Art are described at
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/201002/2010.02.17.03.html 
 [ An interesting biography by Jeremy Nicholas, author of "Godowsky -
 [ The Pianists' Pianist",  is presented at
 [ http://www.godowsky.com/Biography/bio.html 
 [
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Tue 23 Mar 2010, 17:53:15 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Duo-Art, Fan, Godowsky, Movie, Performs, System

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