Brian, I was just teasing you.

I very much look forward to seeing what you've found. I say you just go ahead and hog the thread!

ANTIQUE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PIANO WITH 2 CHAIRS
Check here for some wonderful closeup photos:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-RU...Z37975QQcmdZViewItem

It's an Organ but it is like a Piano on the Feet
Cameron Carpenter performs the Revolutionary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbEEhee3GU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQxyQktNFwc

Tribute To Earl Wild

http://mrdproductions.com/video/flvplayer3.html

According to his official website, the great American virtuoso pianist, teacher, and raconteur, has died at 94.

http://www.earlwild.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01...ts/music/24wild.html

"Earl Wild's 90th birthday concert, and a more elegant evening of patrician pianism I could hardly wish for.
Throughout the evening, I was struck again and again by Wild's still-generous virtuosity at 90, "

http://nightafternight.blogs.c...11/back_to_work.html

Interview: http://www.shumeiarts.org/article_wild.htm
Review: http://www.shumeiarts.org/latimes_earlwildreview.html






Born in 1915, Mr. Wild has been a legendary figure performing throughout the world for seven decades, and has the singular honor of having performed at the invitation of six Presidents of the United States. " In 1997, he received a GRAMMY award for his brilliant disc devoted entirely to virtuoso piano transcriptions entitled, "Earl Wild - The Romantic Master."


He wrote some wonderful Transcriptions

Earl Wild's cover for Rhapsody In Blue

Up on ebay

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Glad that you were able to post it!

That's my childhood Wurlitzer in there!!!!

You don't often see grand pianos from this angle...
It is a Steinway, 1868

The amazing Ithaca "Duplex" double frame piano
The complete duplex system of the Ithaca Piano. The strings resonate in sympathy with the strings struck by the hammers in the front.

"Piano Man" by sculptor Allen Christian
See his weird sculptured world: http://houseofballs.com/

Another Alurip
All Aluminium piano

»School of Velocity«, 1995, by Rodney Graham,

One hell of a long Opera

"»School of Velocity«, 1995, by Rodney Graham, combines the piano exercise of the same name with Galileo’s equation of the acceleration of falling objects. The result is the piano piece progressively slowing down, with longer and longer pauses between notes. Based on a few bars of music cobbled together out of the score of Wagner’s Parsifal by Engelburt Humperdinck, Wagner’s assistant, to compensate for a problem the opera company was experiencing in synching up its music and scenery. Graham adds a progression of repetitions, whose durations are determined by the prime numbers between 3 and 47, for each of the fourteen instrumental sections that would be playing Humperdinck’s interpolation. The result is an opera that doesn’t end until the year 38,969, 364,735."

Those moths are really creative!

Schimmel Pegasus Grand Piano - - Only 14 were made ten years ago...
Professor Luigi Colani reimagined the traditional 88 keys and gave the classic grand piano a futuristic organic shape with some virtuoso upgrades. The Pegasus features a ergonomic curved keyboard ( i. e. the keys exhibit a slight curvature ) that encompasses 7 1/4 octaves, a electrically operated hydraulic lid that allows you to control the specific amount of projection desired, a fallboard "soft close" system, the original Schimmel Triplex Scale "CAPE" precision soundboard tri-dimensionally curved and formed with a "high performance" back assembly with tension collector, a Sostenuto pedal (middle pedal), a fully-adjustable integrated black leather upholstered stool extendible in width, height, and distance to the keyboard, and a hard-wearing professional lacquer finish resulting in a grand piano of breathtaking elegance.

From the new, above, to the very old

Stodart 1820