A Steinway Grand Piano represents excellence in the world of music. Musicians, opera singers, and prestigious schools rely on the quality of sound produced by the Steinway, and in many performances, is a requirement by the artist. Steinway and Sons has achieved worldwide recognition. Decades later, due to the craftsmanship and stability, there products remain in demand. Steinway’s vision, leadership and management styles are what catapulted his company to the forefront of the musical industry. Notwithstanding that other companies have entered the market, Henry Steinway’s accolades in creating this one-of-a-kind, unique work of art is still held in high regard, as one of the finest instruments in the achievement of musical perfection; the Steinway Grand Piano.
Case Study Analysis: Some Keys to Making a Steinway
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One important subsystem of the Steinway includes “raw” specialized materials used to handcraft each one. Secondly, a key factor is the meticulous and varied skills of the craftsmen employed as part of this subsystem. Lastly, the lack of assembly-line machinery, is what makes a Steinway unique and sought worldwide.
If there were a breakdown in one of these sectors of the subsystem, such as mismanagement, it could lead to a loss of revenue, affect any marketing strategies and cause a decrease in profits. I would characterize the event in the text wherein an employee was injured and out of production for several weeks, a result of poor management. The manager should have immediately started seeking a replacement or substitute employee once made aware of the circumstances. He did not give this situation his full attention, until it became a realization that the craftsmen’s absence was causing a decrease in
The next problem is poor morale. Morale is the job satisfaction, outlook, and feelings of an employee. Right now, employees do not feel secure within the business and are rebelling against it. They do not have a positive outlook for the future of the business and feel betrayed because of all of the people getting let go. The employees right now have a poor morale due to all these factors.
Antonio Stradivari, a man known by many as on of the greatest luthiers of all time. The question at hand is why? From as early as the early 1700’s Stradivari was well known in the music world and still is. His instruments are reproduced in order to fool consumers into buying an instrument that has the same design as a Strad. There are also luthiers that try to replicate Stradivari’s beautiful design for their own satisfaction. Antonio Stradivari’s instruments have become socially and technically popular over time due to his superior craftsmanship, and for others, its large price tag. Stradivari’s life, affecting how his instruments were made, changed the perception of his instruments technically and socially.
Next we come to a point in time where a great leap had to be made. Musicians had made positive steps forward in the way of pitch and time but of only one or two notes at a time. What was needed was an in instrument that gave players control of many pitches simultaneously. The mechanism ...
“Player Piano,” by John Updike is an example of light verse poetry focusing specifically upon the thoughts of a player piano. Updike effectively allows the reader to explore 'player piano's thoughts through personification, meter, rhyme, and diction. The poem commences with assonance which is the lack of vowel sounds in order to create rhyming phrases or sentences. The three-stanza poem, mostly in dactylic tetrameter, describes the player piano in creative diction, allowing the reader to experience the ‘mind’ of this mechanical device. The speaker of the poem is the player piano itself, tracing the steps of a player piano while playing tunes already recorded on its paper rolls. Equally cheerful and entertaining the poem gives the reader a fascinating perspective into the humanistic qualities of this machine. Although the player piano is performing a normally human type task without the assistance of a human, the playing of piano composition is usually composed and played by a physical human. Therefore, the machine’s perception of its tasks are unique in comparison to an actual human musician.
As the piano started to sound in the Four Season Theater, the crowd would turn silence in just a second. That was the impression that piano gave me when I attended to Richard Clayderman’s concert last month. The power of the piano is not just shown by the sound itself but also the unshakable social standing as the “King of the instruments”.
When considering the versatility of a synthesiser as a keys player it can widen one’s oeuvre immensely. With its ability to imitate existing sounds and instruments to create beautiful polyphonies and to contrastingly emit haunting, dissonant soundscape’s from previously non-exiting timbres makes it not only a useful tool but and essential piece in a composer’s instrumental repertoire.
...nication and documentation of employee absences will improve absenteeism, employee productivity, and customer service. Improving communication between employees and managers is an important practice that improves employee attendance. Managers can decrease absenteeism by make enforcing clear attendance policies and have proper documentation of employee absences. Managers must keep accurate and consistent record keeping of absences. Employees must report absences immediately so managers can properly document in the records. Readings from the sources also indicate that absenteeism not only affects productivity and customer service, but absenteeism also affects employee morale. Employee morale will diminish if managers ignore the abuse of absenteeism among employees. Both absenteeism and employee morale can have a negative effect on productivity and customers service.
Music has shaped the lives of people throughout history. Even in its earliest forms, music has included use of instruments. One of the oldest musical instruments known is a variation of the flute; the original flute is thought to date back nearly 67,000 years ago. Tonight we are going to move throughout the eras with a history of instrumental music. This concert will begin with the Renaissance Era and continue through time until we have reached modern instrumental music.
Fredric Chopin was a 19th century composer of piano music, he wrote twenty-four preludes which are a set of short pieces made for the piano, and each one was wrote for each key on the piano and they were originally published in 1839. The piano is described as an instrument of great beauty. Originally known as the pianoforte, which is Italian for “soft-loud.” This means that the piano has a wide dynamic range and the capacity for nuance. The piano is unable to keep tone like string and woodwind instruments. The piano has the capability to have brilliant scales, arpeggios, trills, rapid passages and octaves. The pianos range spans more than seven octaves. In the hands of a good
Bie, Oscar. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players. trans. by E. E. Kellett
As Frederic Chopin’s musical profession progressed, he successfully created improvements to the way the piano is played. One of these modifications was Chopin’s use of the damper pedal, a pedal on the piano that is used to sustain the tone of the strings. He used this pedal to enrich his music and produce a unique sounding harmony. According to Franz Liszt, Chopin used the pedal more frequently than anyone else. Since this modification, the damper pedal has become an essential to playing the piano (Kelley 25). This technique is one that pianists everywhere continue to use. Chopin’s other clever addition to the piano was his creation of various harmonics or musical tones. His new harmonic progressions created a dynamic function and melodic role when playing the p...
Edgard Varèse’s Density 21.5 for unaccompanied flute was composed in 1936 (revised in 1944) at the request of George Barrère for the première of his new platinum flute.Inspired by the flute’s capabilities, Varèse sought to showcase the platinum instrument’s full range of sound and explore its timbral capacity. Density is a monophonic work that is characterized by extreme dynamics, angular motives, timbral variety, and complex rhythms. During the span of sixty-one measures, Varèse exploits the flute’s full range of sound and color and almost every pitch on the instrument is realized.
Music and the relationships of music have changed drastically in our society. The course of studies and the evaluations of the applications of the technology of music, the making and the listening of music have changed in the way we listen to music, the styles of music in our society and in the media. The importance of the technology in music today, has, over the past century been charted through the study of musical examples and through viewing how human values are reflected in this century's timely music. There are very many different types of music that are listened to. There are readings, writings, lectures and discussions on all the different types of music.
According to Adler, the collaborative pianist “must make sure that his tone lives, sings, mourns and jubilates, caresses and beguiles.” Besides referring to the pianist playing the words and having an equal voice in the Lied duo, the concept of my project, “The Voice of the Piano” also encompasses this search for a variety of tone, to make the piano sing and
Music Appreciation has broadened my view to listen to different eras of music that I was not accustomed to. It was pleasant listening, reading, and learning about different periods of music. This course has given me an exceptional amount of knowledge on different styles of music, identifying different elements in music as well as learning about legendary composers who have influenced music throughout history. Not only has music been around for decades, it has developed a history of great composers who have left an imprint in history by their extraordinary compositions of music they developed during their times of glory, like Ludwig van Beethoven. In this essay I will discuss how Beethoven is known as one of the greatest, ingenuity composers of his time and how the classical period is so fascinating to listen to and learn about. In addition, I will also discuss how Music Appreciation has reshaped the way I perceive and listen to different styles of music that have been created throughout history.