The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Registered by Annimanni of Espoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on 4/24/2008
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
"At first glance, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is simply an autobiography covering the author's blissful years in Paris. This is actually something much rarer and more original: an extended love letter to the piano. One day, Carhart was walking through the back streets of Paris in the early morning--a place and a time he evokes beautifully, the street sweepers out cleaning the hidden alleys, and
...the smell from la boulangerie du coin. And then he noticed a small truck, unloading a piano ... It turned out to be delivering to the atelier of Monsieur Luc Desforges, a piano repairer of the old school. 'Desforges Pianos: outillage, fournitures.' On the small, red felt-covered shelf in the window are displayed the tools and instruments of piano repair: tightening wrenches, tuning pins, piano wire ... the entire facade has a sleepy, 19th-century charm about it.
One could say the same of Carhart's book. It doesn't move fast, and it doesn't depend on powerful emotions or dramatic reversals for its effect. It is a quiet and loving meditation on the piano, as it features in French life, and in Carhart's. He recalls his early days back in Virginia with equal vividness, when at the age of eight he took lessons from Miss Pemberton, playing a Chopin ballade or a Mozart sonata "in the warm Virginia evening, with the soft murmur of crickets in the surrounding woods". The whole book is suffused with just this softness, slowness and dreamy eloquence. For piano lovers, an absolute must. For others, a book of tremendous charm and pleasure." --Christopher Hart
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This was an absolute delight to read, charming and atmospheric.
"At first glance, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is simply an autobiography covering the author's blissful years in Paris. This is actually something much rarer and more original: an extended love letter to the piano. One day, Carhart was walking through the back streets of Paris in the early morning--a place and a time he evokes beautifully, the street sweepers out cleaning the hidden alleys, and
...the smell from la boulangerie du coin. And then he noticed a small truck, unloading a piano ... It turned out to be delivering to the atelier of Monsieur Luc Desforges, a piano repairer of the old school. 'Desforges Pianos: outillage, fournitures.' On the small, red felt-covered shelf in the window are displayed the tools and instruments of piano repair: tightening wrenches, tuning pins, piano wire ... the entire facade has a sleepy, 19th-century charm about it.
One could say the same of Carhart's book. It doesn't move fast, and it doesn't depend on powerful emotions or dramatic reversals for its effect. It is a quiet and loving meditation on the piano, as it features in French life, and in Carhart's. He recalls his early days back in Virginia with equal vividness, when at the age of eight he took lessons from Miss Pemberton, playing a Chopin ballade or a Mozart sonata "in the warm Virginia evening, with the soft murmur of crickets in the surrounding woods". The whole book is suffused with just this softness, slowness and dreamy eloquence. For piano lovers, an absolute must. For others, a book of tremendous charm and pleasure." --Christopher Hart
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This was an absolute delight to read, charming and atmospheric.
On its way to a sweepstakes winner somewhere in Europe ;)
...and arrived safely in Switzerland, thank you very much for sending! Thanks for the bookmark and the card too. Really, there are as well piles of books around me! :-)
An 5kiana7 in Buchs, Aargau CH, weitergegeben.
Is it four years ago already, dear pfiffigunde2, you brought me this book? And why didn't I begin to read it earlier?
I enjoy every page. And I stand in awe of the piano in my livingroom (I don't dare to call it _my_ piano).
But now, there are 200 pages more to read and I will tell you about later.
June 2019: A wonderfull book. I bought two more copies to give to a friend, a cembalo player, and to my piano teacher.
I read it month age an still kept it on the piano to look at it every day (mostly).
I enjoy every page. And I stand in awe of the piano in my livingroom (I don't dare to call it _my_ piano).
But now, there are 200 pages more to read and I will tell you about later.
June 2019: A wonderfull book. I bought two more copies to give to a friend, a cembalo player, and to my piano teacher.
I read it month age an still kept it on the piano to look at it every day (mostly).
Journal Entry 6 by 
5kiana7
at to a helpful friend, to a friend -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, June 18, 2019
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Ich hoffe, das Buch macht Dir auch Freude - und Deiner Frau auch.
Und vielleicht gefällt Dir die Idee von Bookcrossing auch?
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Du hast ein "reisendes Buch" gefunden!
Die Regalhaltung von Büchern ist Literaturquälerei, deshalb schicken wir BookCrosser Bücher auf Reisen. Damit ich weiß, wie es meinem Buch weiterhin ergeht, freue ich mich, wenn Du hier einen Journaleintrag hinterlässt. Schreib bitte auf, wo Du das Buch gefunden hast, wie es Dir gefällt und was Du weiter damit machen möchtest. Einträge kannst Du gerne in jeder Sprache und auch anonym machen, wobei mir natürlich lieber wäre, Du würdest dich bei uns registrieren. Weitere Informationen in deusch auf http://www.bookcrossers.de/
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