The Story of the Piano

Author: Luo Qin
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: In this story, the piano becomes a super star with countless personas. Its story is the story of a super star. Its birth, growth, development, success, loss, nobility, superficiality, what it brings to people, what people lose because of it, and all the interesting anecdotes and "gossip" about it dazzle and mesmerize us. In the second half of the 19th century, the piano became a social "piano flu" spreading across Europe and America. Old soldiers with wine bottles, drunk on the piano music in cheap bars, lived a life of oblivion. Noble ladies, pampered and elegant, whispered intimately in the piano music of refined salons. Talented soloists poured all their efforts into dancing before the piano on the concert hall stage, while tender and sorrowful poets poured their grief and sighs into the melodies of the piano—those beautiful yet unspeakable notes. Just as the once-famous song "I Love the Piano," which captivated the United States and the world, sang: "I love standing by the upright piano, or even better, a small grand. I love running my fingers over the keys, I love listening to others play the piano." But today, the piano is everywhere. Where there is music, there is a need for the piano. The piano is the "god of music" and has become a fashion, a lifestyle, and a culture. The piano in our homes is not just an instrument; it has become involved in every aspect of our lives, including material and spiritual, secular and religious, tangible and intangible, concrete and abstract, as well as individual and general. The piano has existed for three hundred years, which is also three hundred years of human culture. The greatness of the piano lies in its being a symbol of our three hundred years of sweet and bitter experiences. The Story of the Piano is precisely the "microcosm" of this symbol.