Roger Waring recently wrote in 001229 MMD, " ... I can honestly
recommend 'The Piano Shop on the Left Bank'".

I concur -- I snapped up a copy when it was hot off the press last
year.  It's all very enjoyable, aside from the digression about
temperament and tuning.  Carhart manages to get it hopelessly wrong,
and *someone* should have caught it.

On the other hand, I've recently acquired a cheap copy of Sidney
Grew's "The Art of the Player Piano", Dutton, 1922.  This 333 page
book carries the perfection of pianolist's technique to the extreme.
It's just the book you need to learn about 'catalectic foot',
'anapestic rhythms', and perhaps 'antispastus, molossus-measure'.
I'm not making any of this up, as Dave Barry would write.

Colin Hinz
Toronto, Canada