This video compares a $175,000 Bösendorfer with a $13,000 Hallet & Davis baby grand, testing whether listeners can hear the difference between luxury and budget pianos in a blind sound challenge.

The Mason City Athletic Hall of Fame will honor its 2020 and 2021 classes during halftime of the Mason City-Charles City football game on Sept. 10. Class of 2020: Dick Adams, Jennifer (Welch) Farrell, ...

Nearly 70 years after the meet-cute between legendary crooner Bing Crosby and Kathryn Grandstaff on a Hollywood studio lot, the Hollywood couple’s partnership will be on display come December. Sotheby ...

Newly released hostage Alon Ohel, a musician, has played the piano for the first time since October 7, 2023, in his hospital room at the Beilinson Hospital in Tel Aviv, his mother Idit Ohel tells ...

There was a time when pianos were a fixture in many American homes. Gathering around the instrument to sing and dance was a family tradition, undoubtedly altered by the spread of streaming services ...

On a visit to the Hailun piano factory in China, Peter Paul Kainrath observed a room full of 100 pianos being played simultaneously by machines for quality control before being shipped off. “Of course ...

Upright Brewing, widely considered among Portland’s very best for the length of its 16 years in business, will stop brewing beer and close its original location by the end of the year, owner Alex ...

One of Portland’s landmark breweries is calling it quits. Upright Brewing, long known as one of Portland’s highest-quality craft beer purveyors, announced on social media Sept. 30 that it would cease ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mozart composed concertos for two and three pianos; Liszt (with the help of Chopin and a few other virtuosi) ...

If your backlog wasn't already groaning under the weight of dozens of unplayed but revered games, then the last few months probably haven't helped things. This year's slate of newcomers is astounding, ...

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The officials ruled that the Ravens made a field goal in the fourth quarter on Monday night, even though it wasn’t clear that the kick, which went over the left upright, was actually good. That ...