Sentences with phrase «old piano keys»

Rightfully banned in 1989 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and condemned by anyone with a conscience, ivory is now mostly relegated to dusty china cabinets and old piano keys.

Not exact matches

The clanging way the old piano used to sound, muffled just so by the side doors as those keys were pounded each night.

The elevation of the found object and the devotion to chance, key procedures in the work of both those artists, unexpectedly achieved an apotheosis in the tinkling piano of Tinguely's own Homage to New York, 1960, a piece that, at its premiere in the gardens of the old Museum of Modern Art, New York, famously collapsed into flames — the

I have made piano keys into sunburst mirrors and old crusty metal / wood trowels into sconces.

I have screws through my rocking chair, an old desk with finish that flakes off (which I love so much I don't want to refinish it), the initials of my children carved on my piano keys... no not by me and not with permission, and a kitchen table with dents and chips in the finish... it was the table my husband grew up with....