Art Deco Story & Clark

Not many pianos are also works of art...

Plate heaven

Cosmic vision for a piano
Erin Johnson plays a piano he painted for his senior art project at the Ringling School of Art and Design.
Months in the research, planning and design, it still took three all-nighters for Ringling College of Art and Design student Erin Johnson to finish his senior thesis project: an art-case baby grand piano covered from keyboard to legs with images ranging from medieval to New Age.

The Beckwith piano, about 100 years old, is detailed with 18-karat gold leaf and painted with a combination of acrylics, colored pencil and pen-and-ink. A bare-breasted angel heralds the coming cosmic events.
Better view with larger pic: http://www.heraldtribune.com/a...tNo=906141015&Ref=AR

Also this supercloseup: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tFt9...s1600-h/100_1864.JPG

More backstory: http://www.heraldtribune.com/a...-vision-for-a-piano#

A real Piano, not an illusion
What's the big deal I hear you say? Take another look at the pic. Get it?

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Sweet Patooti


Here is the surrounding around the piano:
http://www.jkeen.net/Linton%20at%20Akaroa/index.htm
http://www.linton.co.nz/default.asp?page=gard

Also link to large pic:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com...691_edf4c26908_b.jpg

I really enjoyed her art and gardens and of course the piano enlarged to see the details. Josie must be quite a character - take a peek at her as well!

Loved the ballerina table and pool!

B&B rather expensive. 350 for one night.

Piano must be cement as other scultures are.

So glad you posted Brian!

Lilylady - Yes , here is the artist-in-crime right here!
http://www.linton.co.nz/default.asp?page=josie
but what is your comment on the piano 'illusion' above;-)

Geza Loso and the Bluthner Left Handed Piano and the Left Hand Music Notation

Video for Geza playing Left Hand Piano: http://www.gezaloso.de/media/7_geza_chopin.wmv

Backstory and other videos: http://www.gezaloso.de/en/
Also Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20zNHp_2uI

Prince, a Pegasus and a piano
Neat how the Perspex sheet which serves as a leg makes the instrument appear to hover in the air unsupported. http://bossip.com/104928/princ...es-with-purple-rain/

Peacocks and pianos
Not sure if I like one more than the other...
Could not find any story for these pics, this first one I'd especially like to know more about the piano.






Linderhof castle - music room peacock and piano
Must be one of the most amazing Artcase upright pianos in the world. From the little I can find out about it, the description is an Aeolodion (an instrument combining piano and harmonium)

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:

Isn't that Graceland?

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Not many pianos are also works of art...

Methinks that is not a piano. No plate. Methinks that are a harpsichord.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Some of my best friends are harpsichords.

I think Zorba will find the ultimate piano of his dreams in this one:

Yes it does look like it from the results of more searching:

Elvis Presley's piano room at his Graceland home in Memphis, Tennessee

Piano playing - a dancer's guide
A break from a dance class across the road.