Get the picture! Get the music?

3 ton concrete piano
Carolyn Lee at her 3-Ton Concrete Piano outside her Piano, Organ, & Teaching Facility in MA.
http://www.carolynleeshow.com/lessons.html

Piano lounge and bar at Formosa Gardens holiday villa.
http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/p431397

Piano with no Pin Block
http://ptg.org/pipermail/piano...010-July/026879.html

If you have a Wegman, DO NOT sell it. It is worth keeping just for the tuning pin arrangement.


Wegman Piano - hand carved

Anyone have any idea about this amazing looking piano?

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Anyone have any idea about this amazing looking piano?

Well, THAT is one hunky massive piano!

Looks Deco but I bet it is earlier. They surely made artwork out of the casing back then of both of these last two pianos. An era long gone with the current look of a rectangular shiney black box!

KRAKAUER 1934 ART DECO PIANO

Schönbrunn Palace Music room in the Empire style with a giraffe piano

The pictorial wallpaper in the adjacent music room conveys the illusion of the Brazilian jungle. This type of panoramic wallpaper with depictions of imaginary landscapes superseded the fresco as wall decoration in the first half of the 19th century. The "giraffe" pianoforte made by Martin Seuffert in 1812 is an indication of the flourishing musical instrument-making trade in Vienna at the time of Beethoven and Schubert.
Large Pic:
http://www.hofmobiliendepot.at...r/06_Musikzimmer.jpg

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Schönbrunn Palace Music room in the Empire style with a giraffe piano

The pictorial wallpaper in the adjacent music room conveys the illusion of the Brazilian jungle. This type of panoramic wallpaper with depictions of imaginary landscapes superseded the fresco as wall decoration in the first half of the 19th century. The "giraffe" pianoforte made by Martin Seuffert in 1812 is an indication of the flourishing musical instrument-making trade in Vienna at the time of Beethoven and Schubert.
Large Pic:
http://www.hofmobiliendepot.at...r/06_Musikzimmer.jpg

What an absolutely elegant and warm music room.

I went out to the website and zoomed the picture, 125, then 150, then 200 percent with no distortion, to be able to view closeups of the mural. Gorgeous, as is the giraffe piano and period (1820's) furniture.

“Dreams Of The East” - is one-of-a kind, all hand-carved concert grand exhibited at Music China Fair in Shanghai.

The special edition concert grand with its images of Chinese landscapes carved in rosewood will be the centerpiece of Hailun’s exhibit at the show. Voicing specialist Sibin Zlatkovic is making his final adjustments to its exposed strings while the rest of the team looks on.

“We did this kind of work at Bösendorfer,” says Basilios Strmec, an Austrian who is now president Hailun USA. “This is a gorgeous piano, all hand-carved. It took 19 months to build.”

The showpiece piano represents a first step into the luxury piano market for Hailun, whose mid-priced instruments have taken hold throughout North America and Europe as well in as the domestic Chinese market.
http://www.hailun-pianos.com/blog/

Zorba like. Zorba want!

I wonder if all those extra notes on the Stuart actually get played or are the strings just there for sympathetic overtones?

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
“Dreams Of The East” - is one-of-a kind, all hand-carved concert grand exhibited at Music China Fair in Shanghai.

That is incredible. I so appreciate all the intricasies, but they are not needed so much on an instrument. I wonder what the wood is and where this will end up.

"In 2009 Hailun entered the market for luxury-case instruments by commissioning a one-of-a-kind concert grand. Named "Dreams of the East," the instrument's rim was created from a single piece of Chinese rosewood. After the Music China Fair, Hailun’s hand-carved concert grand, called Dreams of the East, sold to a Chinese businessman for $347,000"

http://www.pianobuyer.com/pages/183.html
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/...estic...-a0217814047
http://www.hailun-pianos.com/blog/
http://hailun-pianos.com/press...c_Trades_Article.pdf
http://www.hailun-pianos.com/engineers.php
http://www.hailun-pianos.com/company.php