“The piano is the only keyboard instrument in which one can grandly vary the effects of the harmonics or overtones of a chord at will by balancing the sonority in different ways.”

Source: Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (2002), Ch. 1 Body and Mind

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American pianist and writer on music 1927–2012

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