Lights, Camera, Yamaha! amaha acoustic and Disklavier® pianos have been a regular feature on both big and little screens in recent months, with artist appearances on television programs, cable networks and a major motion picture. TriStar Pictures' acclaimed film, As Good As It Gets, prominently featured a Yamaha DA1II Disklavier grand piano provided by David L. Abell Fine Pianos of Los Angeles, CA. Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt earned Academy Awards for their performances in the romantic comedy. In the film, Nicholson portrays Melvin Udall, an acid-tongued romance novelist who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Hunt plays Carol Connelly, a waitress willing to stand up to Melvin's sarcastic tirades. Greg Kinnear is Simon Nye, a talented contemporary artist who has the distinct misfortune of living across the hall from Melvin in a downtown Manhattan apartment building. All three discover their fates intertwined because of a fourth complicated character, Verdell, a tiny Brussels Griffon dog. On television, Yamaha pianos have appeared over the past few months with Yanni on ABC's The View, Ray Charles on QVC, Stephen Schwartz on ABC's Good Morning America, Kelsey Grammer hosting the 1998 Grammy Awards, and the cast of Two Pianos, Four Hands on ABC's Rosie O'Donnell Show and Good Morning America. As Good As It Gets Online Resources Official Site from Sony Pictures - The official word on As Good As It Gets.

Grand Quotations "The Yamaha piano responded with gratifying clarity to the crisp energy of the [Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467] two outer movements and blended delicately in the trance-like andante with its accompaniment of ever-present triplets." -- John S. Sweeney, music critic of Greenwich Time, commenting on David Buechner's February 1998 performance on a Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand piano. "This baby is just something else. It's a pleasure to play- it's the best." -- Frank Hughes, pianist, commenting on the Yamaha grand piano he performs on regularly at Le Canard Enchaine restaurant in Kingston, NY.

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