Prepared piano
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prepared-piano-174-7619519
title:
Prepared piano
text:
A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings. Its invention is usually traced to John Cage's dance music for Bacchanale (1940), created for a performance in a Seattle venue that lacked sufficient space for a percussion ensemble. Cage has cited Henry Cowell as an inspiration for developing piano extended techniques, involving strings within a piano being manipulated instead o
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Musical instrument
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_piano
date created:
2002-09-16T00:44:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T18:36:27Z
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