I do know a certain amount about harmony already; I have been mugging it up for the last three years. But I must do something as well as learn something, and, as I told you, I'm going to take up the piano seriously."
Falbe was not attending particularly. "A fine instrument, the piano," he remarked. "There is certainly something to be done with a piano, if you know how to do it. I can strum a bit myself. Some keys are harder than others--the black notes."
"Yes; what of the black notes?" asked Michael. they're black. The rest are white.英文原著 · 《Michael》
"Do you?" He thought a shade of pallor showed itself on her ash-colored cheeks. Yet she smiled a little at the idea of her playing. "There is no piano," she said, and she put an enigmatical emphasis to the words. "Nonsense," cried Boyce, indignantly. "I heard a piano being played in this very house for hours last night!" "You may enter," said the old woman, with an accent more vicious than hospitable. Boyce almost burst into the drawing-room. It was a dusty and forbidding place, with ugly furniture and gaudy walls. No piano nor any other musical instrument stood in it.英文原著 · 《The Shape of Fear》
I should like to know every person in this audience. But the ones I should most appreciate knowing are the ones who have known the most of these knocks--who have faced the great crises of life and have been tried in the crucibles of affliction. For I am learning that these lives are the gold tried in the fire. The Sorrows of the Piano
See the piano on this stage? Good evening, Mr. Piano. I am glad to see you. You are so shiny, beautiful, valuable and full of music, if properly treated.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier's spinal column. It was not the first time she had heard an artist at the piano. Perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
One of these days America is going to be the musical center of the world. When that day is fully come, and men sit down to write about it, I hope they won't forget to give due credit to the reed organ, Stephen Foster, and the Sabbath-school. The reed organ had a lot to do with musical culture. It is much decried now by people that prefer a piano that hasn't been tuned for four years; but the reed organ will come into its own some day, don't forget. Without it the Sabbath-school could not have been. Anybody that would have a piano in a Sabbath-school ought to be prosecuted.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
I trembled; it seemed to me that this visit was to have a great influence on my life. I was still more agitated than on the evening when I was introduced in the box at the Opera Comique. As we reached the door that you know, my heart beat so violently that I was hardly able to think. We heard the sound of a piano. Prudence rang. The piano was silent. A woman who looked more like a companion than a servant opened the door. We went into the drawing-room, and from that to the boudoir, which was then just as you have seen it since.英文原著 · 《Camille》
With forcing our child to start taking piano lessons at age three, with forcing our child to start taking piano lessons at age three,演讲 · 《How I hacked online dating ~ Amy Webb》