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“Grand Feel”: A Mechanism for Making an Upright Piano Sound Like a Grand
This may be rather remarkable: “Grand Feel,” developed by Fujii Piano Service in Kagoshima. A grand piano has a repetition mechanism, enabling it, in 1 second, to repeat the same n…
API Days Berlin 2017 Presentation
On November 8, I gave a presentation in Berlin, Germany, at “APIDays Berlin 2017: Banking APIs and PSD2 — The finish line for PSD2 and Open Banking.” Here are the slides from…
I Went to Hamburg to Eat Hamburg Steak
Hamburg steak is an extremely common dish in Japan, and its name means “steak from Hamburg.” So, to find out what it is really like, I went to Hamburg to eat Hamburg steak on a day…
Visiting C. P. E. Bach’s Grave: St. Michael’s Church in Hamburg
Because I was traveling from Berlin to London on Sunday and had Saturday free, I went to pay my respects at the grave of C. P. E. Bach, whom I greatly admire. His grave is in St. M…
In the City of Love, Paris, the Night Is Bella Notte: I Lazzari—Italian Dining in the Latin Quarter
My lodging this time is right beside the Sorbonne, and a 7-minute walk from there, after passing the Collège de France and turning right onto a nearby street, is an Italian restaur…
The Donkey Church (Nodame Cantabile) Belonged to That Famous Person… Who Was Lucas’s Grandfather?!
This spring , I visited the Donkey Church featured in “Nodame Cantabile (13)” . It is the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde (La Basilique Sainte-Clotilde et Sainte-Valère) on the Left Ba…
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