I'm sorry, I'll be off my piano picture binge shortly I hope, this is a decidedly unusual piano, to a novice it appears to have a gearstick! But the soundboard!?

Cool pictures, Brian!

Welcome!

Digital Kawai Piano with real wooden soundboard

The caption says "A grand piano sound board outside the Steinway Haus in Berlin." But that looks like a frame - no?

A modern Hammered Dulcimer? But it is really just an upright piano eh!

For me the Ultimate piano - without pianist, NOT an option, it is a Graf fortepiano. That's it for now, bye

lilylady, that painting, that is a real stunner, just imagine the reality of it - it used to happen - Liszt and friends, including Paganini! What was it about those times that inspired that music? Rather than be the back of a 3000 seater hall one can be swooned by this kind of concert. Pity there are not more just like this:-) I wish the ethos of our times was so different....

Actually I just found this site that describes the detail:
http://www.mozartpiano.com/articles/liszt.php

Better View of the 5.7m Adrian Mann piano in New Zealand. Called the Alexander piano it weighs about 1.2 tons. Page here www.youtube.com/thealexanderpiano

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:

Looks like a piano, but... I've often thought I'd love to have an ordinary piano but inside the strings are replaced with tuning forks, I suspect this is a version of that.

I think this is the innards of an electric or electronic piano.

It's a Rhodes electric piano, or at least, part of one. Looks like some's been playing with the weight of the action - note the grey thingys just inside the pivot point on the keys. That's definately not a stock item.

This photo of Phoenix showing bridge agraffes and also the adjustable hitch-pins

Steingraeber A-170 Piano showing the new Carbon Fibre Soundboard and adjustable hitchpins.

Piano with no Soundboard - the Neo Bechstein electric Grand Piano from the 1930 era - notice how the strings are bunched together for the pickups. It features 18 humbucker pickups, each covering 5 strings. Much like an electric guitar its acoustic sound is very soft due to the missing resonance board.

A Monarch Butterfly! by Wurlitzer

New meaning to Music at the beach!

It looks so plain, except the pedals...