Full name: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier

Author: Thad Carhart Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Travel Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780099288237 0099288230

Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign -- Desforges Pianos -- he enters, only to have his way barred by the shop's imperious owner. Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands the proper introduction, and a world previously hidden is brought into view. Luc, the atelier's master, proves an indispensable guide to the history and art of the piano. Intertwined with the story of a musical friendship are reflections on how pianos work, their glorious history, and stories of the people who care for them, from amateur pianists to the craftsmen who make the mechanism sing. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is at once a beguiling portrait of a Paris not found on any map and a tender account of the awakening of a lost childhood passion. Similar books: Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod Paris, My Sweet by Amy Thomas Paris in Love by Eloisa James The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino True Pleasures by Lucinda Holdforth Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik A Paris Year by Janice MacLeod Piano Lessons by Noah Adams L'Appart by David Lebovitz Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard Grand Obsession by Perri Knize Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon Our Paris by Edmund White Roadshow by Neil Peart Traveling Music by Neil Peart Big in China by Alan Paul My Life in France by Julia Child The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn