The piano shop on the Left Bank
Subtitle: the hidden world of a Paris atelier
By: T. E. Carhart.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Carhart, Thaddeus -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Paris.; Piano.; Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.; Rive gauche (Paris, France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: The story of a musical friendship and a mutual obsession, intertwined with reflections on how pianos work, their history, and the people who care for them, from the most amateur pianists to the tuners and craftsmen who make the mechanism sing.