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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on pianos, automatic pianos, harpsichords, and other keyboard stringed instruments in the United Kingdom face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying pianos, automatic pianos, harpsichords, and other keyboard stringed instruments to the United Kingdom? How important is the United Kingdom compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of pianos, automatic pianos, harpsichords, and other keyboard stringed instruments vary from one country of origin to another in the United Kingdom? On the supply side, the United Kingdom also exports pianos, automatic pianos, harpsichords, and other keyboard stringed instruments. Which countries receive the most exports from the United Kingdom? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for pianos, automatic pianos, harpsichords, and other keyboard stringed instruments in the United Kingdom. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for pianos, automatic pianos, harpsichords, and other keyboard stringed instruments for those countries serving the United Kingdom via exports, or supplying from the United Kingdom via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where the United Kingdom fits into the world market for imported and exported pianos, automatic pianos, harpsichords, and other keyboard stringed instruments. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for the United Kingdom in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that the United Kingdom is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize the United Kingdom compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes. ... Read more

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A seminal work of extraordinary scholarship
The fifth volume in the outstanding Pendragon Press 'The Historical Harpsichord' series, "Aspects Of Harpsichord Making In The British Isles" focuses on the 18th Century English harpsichords produced by Shudi and Kirckman, and other British Georgian era makers (including Ferdinand Webert who operated out of Dublin, Ireland). The collaborative effort of Darryl Martin (Curator of the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments), Jenny Nex (Curator of the Museum of Instruments, Royal College of Music, London), Lance Whitehead and Grant O'Brien, "Aspects Of Harpsichord Making In The British Isles" is composed into three major sections: The Native Tradition in Transition: English Harpsichords circa 1680-1725; The Stringed keyboard Instruments of Ferdinand Weber; and Criteria for the Determination of Original Stringing in Historical Keyboard Instruments: The Cautionary Tale of a 1785 Longman and Broderip Harpsichord. Enhanced with four appendices (including an extensive bibliography), "Aspects Of Harpsichord Making In The British Isles" is a seminal work of extraordinary scholarship and an invaluable addition to academic library reference collections. Also very highly recommended are the four earlier volumes comprising this superbly composed series: "Reconstructing the Harpsichord"; "The Metallurgy of 17th and 18th-Century Music Wire; "Bartolomeo Cristofori as a Harpsichord Maker/The Identification and Authentication of Italian Stringed Keyboard Instruments"; and "Harpsichord Decoration: A Conspectus/A Fable Deconstructed: The 1770 Taskin at Yale". ... Read more

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A discography and bibliography of music written for the modern harpsichord, this volume features more than 800 mass-marketed recordings of some 600 compositions written after the revival of the harpsichord (ca. 1889). Also included is information pertaining to performances of compositions arranged for harpsichord. Although the modern harpsichord is a much greater part of 20th-century music than one might imagine, it is about to become a relic because of its historical incorrectness. This will leave sound recordings as the prime medium of information for contemporary compositions, most of which cannot be adequately performed on any other instrument. ... Read more

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This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a "borderless world", cities become a more important criteria in prioritizing markets, as opposed to regions, continents, or countries. This report covers the top 2000 cities in over 200 countries. It does so by reporting the estimated market size (in terms of latent demand) for each major city of the world. It then ranks these cities and reports them in terms of their size as a percent of the country where they are located, their geographic region (e.g. Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Latin America), and the total world market.

In performing various economic analyses for its clients, I have been occasionally asked to investigate the market potential for various products and services across cities. The purpose of the studies is to understand the density of demand within a country and the extent to which a city might be used as a point of distribution within its region. From an economic perspective, however, a city does not represent a population within rigid geographical boundaries. To an economist or strategic planner, a city represents an area of dominant influence over markets in adjacent areas. This influence varies from one industry to another, but also from one period of time to another.

In what follows, I summarize the economic potential for the world's major cities for "non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments" for the year 2009. The goal of this report is to report my findings on the real economic potential, or what an economist calls the latent demand, represented by a city when defined as an area of dominant influence. The reader needs to realize that latent demand may or may not represent real sales. ... Read more

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This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments across the states and cities of the United States. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 13,000 cities in the United States. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it's state and of the United States is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-a-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each state and city, latent demand estimates are created for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

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This econometric study covers the world outlook for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-a-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the 230 countries of the world). This study gives, however, my estimates for the worldwide latent demand, or the P.I.E., for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided across the world's regional and national markets. For each country, I also show my estimates of how the P.I.E. grows over time (positive or negative growth). In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on international strategic planning at graduate schools of business. ... Read more

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This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments across the prefectures and cities of Japan. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,000 cities in Japan. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it's prefecture and of Japan is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-a-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each prefecture and city, latent demand estimates are created for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the cities in Japan). This study gives, however, my estimates for the latent demand, or the P.I.E., for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments in Japan. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided and concentrated across the cities and regional markets of Japan. For each prefecture, I also show my estimates of how the P.I.E. grows over time. In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on strategic planning at graduate schools of business. ... Read more

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This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments across the regions of Greater China, including provinces, autonomous regions (Guangxi, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Xizang - Tibet), municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and Taiwan (all hereafter referred to as "regions"). Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,100 cities in Greater China. For each major city in question, the percent share the city is of the region and of Greater China is reported. Each major city is defined as an area of "economic population", as opposed to the demographic population within a legal geographic boundary. For many cities, the economic population is much larger that the population within the city limits; this is especially true for the cities of the Western regions. For the coastal regions, cities which are close to other major cities or which represent, by themselves, a high percent of the regional population, actual city-level population is closer to the economic population (e.g. in Beijing). Based on this "economic" definition of population, comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city's marketing and distribution value vis-a-vis others. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

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This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments across the states, union territories and cities of India. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across over 5,100 cities in India. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it's state or union territory and of India as a whole is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-a-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each state or union territory and city, latent demand estimates are created for non-electronic banjos, basses, cellos, harps, harpsichords, guitars, violas, violins, and other string and fretted musical instruments. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

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The Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning was the first French document to discuss keyboard performance practice in any detail. Jean Denis was both a harpsichord builder of renown and the organist of a prominent Parisian church, and is thus an authority worthy of careful study. The treatise addresses numerous matters of interest to both scholars and performers, including temperament, ornamentation, fugue, and the use of the organ in liturgical practice. Also included in the treatise are a keyboard prelude designed to reveal errors in tuning, and two delightful anecdotes attesting to the power of music. The forthright character of Denis's writing lends a unique and distinctly enjoyable tone to the work. ... Read more

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Amazing and humorous book
To those of us who live in the real world and will thus not be spared encounters with so-called "revival" harpsichords, this is the ultimate guide to the genre. In addition, it introduces and sets the stage for all current trends in the making of harpsichords and clavichords, and is a must for anyone even vaguely interested in the subject. Last, but not least, it is marvelously humorous, full of anecdotes and barbs, most of them so tersely and cruelly accurate that Zuckermann's flight from (at least) The United States, England and Germany was inevitable. One can only hope someone will some day take up the torch and write a similar book to describe the contemporary scene. Meanwhile, get this book and enjoy it! ... Read more

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ScoreSeries: Henle Music FoliosPublisher: Henle Urtext EditionFormat: SoftcoverEditor : Horst WalterComposer : Joseph Haydn ... Read more

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Chapters: Piano, Musical Keyboard, Keyboard Instrument, Celesta, Accordion, Harpsichord, Organ, Melodica, Clavichord, Concertina, Mellotron, Pipe Organ, Toy Piano, Ondes Martenot, Pedal Keyboard, Fortepiano, Harmonium, History of the Harpsichord, Virginals, Claviorganum, Electronic Keyboard, Jammer Keyboard, Chamberlin, Henry Ward Poole, Melodica in Music, Reed Organ, Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ, Keyboard Expression, Keytar, Generalized Keyboard, Flutina, Stylophone, Continuum, Finchcocks, Garmon, Diatonic Button Accordion, Chemnitzer Concertina, Manual, Pedal Piano, Bandoneón, Janko Keyboard, Piano Accordion, Finger Substitution, Isomorphic Keyboard, Free-Bass System, Clavier à Lumières, Orchestron, Archicembalo, Portative Organ, Regal, Hans Luedtke, Schrammel Accordion, Steirische Harmonika, Cajun Accordion, List of Popular Music Acts That Incorporate the Accordion, Contemporary Harpsichord, Aliquot Stringing, Bayan, Positive Organ, Schwyzerörgeli, Clavinova, Enharmonic Keyboard, Katzenklavier, Lowrey Organ, Harmonic Table Note Layout, Organ Tablature, Trikitixa, List of Music Styles That Incorporate the Accordion, Keyboard Bass, Chromatic Button Accordion, Square Piano, Pianoteq, Midi Keyboard, Viola Organista, Organetto, Yamaha P-85, Black Note, Big Piano, Yamaha Ypg-625, Livenka, Array System, Fotdella, Melodeon, Dulcitone, Chord Organ, Bridge Pin, Yamaha Psr-S500, Panharmonicon, Claviola, Saratovskaya Garmonika, Yamaha Dgx-620, Physharmonica, Bowed Clavier, Squeezebox, Orphéal, Glasschord, Yamaha Psr-500m, Gazamba, Dolceola, Bass Piano Accordion, White Note, Seraphine, Wandering Genie. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 475. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through pipes selected ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=149996 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave. Depressing a key on the keyboard causes the instrument to produce sounds, either by mechanically striking a string or tine (piano, electric piano, clavichord); plucking a string (harpsichord); causing air to flow through a pipe (organ); or strike a bell (carillon). On electric and electronic keyboards, depressing a key connects a circuit (Hammond organ, digital piano, synthesizer). Since the most commonly encountered keyboard instrument is the piano, the keyboard layout is often referred to as the "piano keyboard." ... Read more

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A lotta pitures
The book is practically all photos, in black and white. There is no text to speak of, except to identify (sometimes incorrectly) the instruments, mainly as belonging to this or that important personage. The author admits he is no expert as to the relevant mechanisms or styles behind this collection of snapshots. The lack of color is nobody's fault, but in the end it's a gloomy photo-album, not even in any historical or other order. As fascinating as the instruments would be, if we had some insight into their construction and reason for being, the dominance of singularly menacing thick legged square pianos of the late American 19th century amidst the doily-laden living-rooms create a somber and depressing impression that gave me the creeps. This collection would greatly benefit from a re-publication with text and diagrams by some historians and musicologists. As it stands, it's of interest to people who already know exactly what they're looking at. ... Read more

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This is a thoroughly revised and updated version of a standard work of reference, first published in 1956, second edition in 1974. The third edition incorporates the extensive research of the last twenty years: biographical information on more than 1500 makers (including 500 not listed previously) and details of their surviving instruments are now separated into two substantial parts, the second part now including detailed descriptions and remarks on more than 2,000 instruments. The main text is complemented by four tables, a geographical and chronological conspectus of makers, and an enlarged seven-language glossary of technical terms. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard. In a broader sense, "harpsichord" designates the whole family of similar plucked keyboard instruments, including the smaller virginals, muselar, and spinet. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The word "plectrum" is the Latinized form of the Greek ???????? (pléktron), "anything to strike with, an instrument for striking the lyre, a spear point" and that from the verb ?????? (pletto), the Attic Greek form of ?????? (plesso), "to hit, to strike, to smite, to sting?. "Plectrum" has both a Latin-based plural, plectra (from Greek plural ???????) and a native English plural, plectrums. Plectra is used in formal writing, particularly in discussing the harpsichord as an instrument of classical music. However, plectrums is more common in ordinary speech. In vernacular speech the abbreviation pleck or "plec" (plural: plecks) is sometimes used. ... Read more