Thad Carhart Quotes

Remember, too, that the trees for the wood that was used to build this piano were most likely planted in the late sixteenth century.

The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys.

I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.

The exuberance of the moment drowning out all other sensations but that of music’s delicious momentum.

Life is a river,' he once told me, 'and we all have to find a boat that floats.

It’s a world with its own traditions and lore, some of which are hidden within pianos themselves.

Emerged with a shared sense of the exultation that great music can bring.

Music isn’t music unless we share it with others, she told me, but even then that sentiment seemed unsatisfactory to me.

I sat down on the bench and started playing, instantly lost in the perfection of the moment; I was elsewhere.

Religions at least give hope; that’s something, even if it’s based on dreams. But those who promise heaven here on earth, whether it’s Communists or Masons, they’re the worst of the worst.

Natural movement is riskier, he acknowledged, but life is risky and music is an element of life, so it is risky, too!

On ne fait pas de musique contre quelqu’un (One does not make music against someone else).

A mélomane, the French word for music lover;

I particularly liked the rationale it advanced for renouncing the tradition of competitive concours: On ne fait pas de musique contre quelqu’un (One does not make music against someone else).

This pronouncement suggests how France differs from America in this respect. In the United States, private institutions—schools, conservatories, hospitals, universities—are very often the richest and...

The teaching of music in France is taken very seriously; while admirable enough in itself, very often it veers toward an overly formal and academic approach.

A voicing apprentice came to work at the Steinway factory one day to find his master, a man of great reserve, in tears. The master was standing before the disassembled action assembly of an old Steinw...

There is no such thing as music note by note just as there is no such thing as a book word by word. We have to accept that things are ambiguous, Sebök said to one of the students on the last day of th...

Should I tell them of my lifelong love of pianos, of how I hoped to play again after many vagabond years when owning a piano was as impractical as keeping a large dog or a collection of orchids?

On a visit to the Steinway showroom in New York, I saw Henry Steinway, the last member of the family to be connected with the company, take out a felt-tip pen and sign the painted metal frame of a pia...