Men, Women and Pianos One of the world's most

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A pioneer in the promotion of interfaith dialogue

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000 illustrations

Readers of all ages will delight in following the exuberant child as he sets sail in a boat built by thrushes from an island in the Serpentine to the enchanted Kensington Gardens

Men, Women and Pianos One of the world's mostAs the "social anchor" in middle class homes of the nineteenth century, the piano was simultaneously an elegant piece of drawing room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, and a means of introducing the young to music. In this admirably balanced and leisurely account of the popular instrument, the late, internationally known concert pianist Arthur Loesser takes a "piano's eye view" of the recent social history of Western Europe and the United