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. Music For Bowed Piano

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Stephen Scott has been using his Bowed Piano Ensemble for two decades.
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The Bowed Piano Ensemble consists of 10 players.
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Liane Hansen speaks with composer Stephen Scott. For wo decades he's been eliciting very UN-pianolike sounds from concert grands ith the help of his Bowed Piano Ensemble. 10 players huddle around the nstrument, creating surprisingly soothing music with nylon filaments, picks, nd rosinated sticks. His new CD is titled "Vikings of the Sunrise - Fantasy on he Polynesian Star Path Navigators" (New Albion NA084CD).

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