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The Banshee (Cowell)

1925 string piano composition by Henry Cowell

The Banshee (1925) is a piano composition by American composer Henry Cowell (1897โ€“1965). It was the first piano piece ever written to be performed entirely free of the keyboard, using only manual manipulation of the strings within the instrument to produce sound via the flesh and nails of the finger.

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