Footnotes, Notes, Convergences Table of Contents
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Steven Shapin The Critics: Books: What Else is New? How uses, not innovations, drives human technology. A review of David Edgerton The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900, Oxford: NY, 2008. The New Yorker, 14 May 2007, pp. 144-148, 1961, Pa-Pi (Pianos);
p. 148 " . . . In 1817, Thomas Broadwood, a vastly successful English piano manufacturer, visited Beethoven in Vienna and, shortly after, sent the composer a top-of-the-line instrument. Which of these two men understood the piano better-the craftsman-entrepreneur whose product adorned drawing rooms throughout Europe or the deaf genius whose works are the glory of piano repertoire? Or, for that matter, Liszt, who later owned the piano, and could do things at the keyboard that no performer previously could, or the curator in the museum where it resides today? The piano is one thing to a pianist, another to a piano tuner, another to an interior designer with no interest in music, and yet another to a child who wants to avoid practicing. Ultimately, the narrative of what kind of thing a piano is must be a story of these users . . ."
Donald M. Cleland A History of the Santa Monica Schools 1876-1951, Santa Monica Unified School District, February 1952 (Copied for the Santa Monica Library, July 22, 1963). 140 pp., 1952, 1908
"The boys, by some prearranged signal among themselves, had formed groups to rescue all the art objects, the encyclopedia, and even the piano," Fire Drill Rehearsal, (Said by the Teaching Principal, Miss Elizabeth Hamlin, after the 1908 Washington School Fire, 1952, 1908
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The Disposable piano is explored in Busby Berkeley's Golddiggers of 1935, as an industrial accessory to the marginalized and discarded chorus girl.
The generalized Cagian piano arises out of this meaninglessness.
[p. 48] Chapter V. The Depression of 1864-Arrival of William Sharon-Civil War Spirit-Nevada Becomes a State[1864]-Stewart Elected United States Senator.
[p. 52] Stewart Elected United States Senator
[p. 52] "The year 1865 opened with a new State of Nevada fully organized, including the selection of two United States Senators. The domininating personality of William M. Stewart overshadowing all other candidates. He was not only the foremost lawyer, but an all-round dictator, including the leadership of the Republican party. When the first State Legislature met on December 13, 1864, he was promptly elected. Former Governor James W. Nye was chosen as his associate. Thereafter, during bonanza days, those honors were sought by men of great wealth and became bargain-counter affairs."