Question
This company’s large 290 model, the Imperial, featured 97 keys at Ferruccio Busoni’s request, and Victor Borge (“BOR-guh”) dubbed it the Rolls-Royce of pianos. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this maker of costly hand-built pianos, one of the last to adopt cross-stringing and use Viennese action. Acquired by Yamaha, this Austrian brand sells ornate pianos named for Liszt, who endorsed its sturdiness.
ANSWER: Bösendorfer [or Boesendorfer]
[10e] Piano makers in this country like Burkat Shudi and John Broadwood replaced Viennese knee-operated levers with modern foot pedals. Muzio Clementi built pianos in this country where J. C. Bach and Abel held subscription concerts.
ANSWER: England [accept Great Britain, the United Kingdom, or the UK; accept Scotland]
[10h] Clementi’s 110 sonatas and Charles Avison’s concerti grossi were products of the “Scarlatti cult” in England promoted by Thomas Roseingrave. In the 1980s, this harpsichordist reached cult status by recording all 555 Scarlatti sonatas while dying of AIDS.
ANSWER: Scott Ross
<OL, Classical Music and Opera>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 11 | 10.91 | 82% | 18% | 9% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Les Missourables | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| We Need New Names | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Jeam Team | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| BHSU B | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |