Thanks!

Johann Schmidt Grand piano, ca. 1790 with pedal board
This extraordinarily rare piano from about 1790 has a pedal board with eighteen notes that are played like pedals on an organ. Pedal stringed-keyboard instruments were not uncommon in the eighteenth century. Johann Sebastian Bach is known to have owned a pedal harpsichord and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's piano by Anton Walter supposedly had a pedal mechanism at one point. Mozart's D-minor piano concerto, K. 466, requires the use of a pedal mechanism as it cannot be performed with the range of the manual alone. This example is attributed to Johann Schmidt of Salzburg, a friend of the Mozart family, whom Leopold Mozart (Wolfgang's father) helped to secure the job of court organ and instrument maker in Salzburg. Indeed, cleaning done in the 1980s revealed the initials of Wolfgang Mozart scratched inside long ago. It is possible that Mozart played this piano in Salzburg.
http://12.151.120.44/toah/works-of-art/89.4.3182

This kid has the right idea - but he really needs to lose the silly jacket. At least he isn't wearing a necktie!

What!? Not even this...

or this?....

I don't usually post in this thread, though I often look at the really cool pics the regular posters have found.

I'd like to contribute this Dale Chihuly work:

I found a little more info about the piano, take a read!

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07334/837912-42.stm

http://funfurde.blogspot.com/2...e-chihuly-piano.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Chihuly

"having played the chihuly piano when it was on display in salt lake, the piano is beautifully made, and the lid has an exquisite glass inlay "

Miles & Monk In The Sky – Jazz Legends Autographed Piano Art Piece
read the story here:
http://analogburners.com/analo...hed-piano-art-piece/

I've never seen tuning pins at an angle like this one!





Weinstein pianos were made in the Philipines. The slanted pinblock model was marketed as a piano that would need less tunings! Other models have 2 steel strings for the tenor section.

How was it to tune, Ron?

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Originally posted by OperaTenor:
How was it to tune, Ron?

Wondering the same. Looks like that angle would offer some advantage for turning the hammer.

Piano bar:

ChickGrand, any backstory?

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
ChickGrand, any backstory?

None. It's one of those things that pops up and just leaves you to wonder, found randomly stranded on the internet with no attribution.

Beaded Piano
At Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen, Downtown Disney, Anaheim, California

Oh - bummer! I knew I shouldn't have pulled it up to pitch!!!