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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Disklavier
"This is a piano that I had in my possession for awhile. I decided I would like for others to see the internal operation of the Disklavier as well as allow more sound to come forth, hence the music rack design. I used shelf material, aluminum 1/2" bar? and Dampp-Chaser plastic clamps to mount it."

Wow, a "Birdcage"!!!!

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Birdcage Piano
"My friend put an old "Birdcage Piano" in his front yard. "Birdcage" refers to the way the strings are mounted inside."

I SO would have put that front panel and vaneers to better usage!

Chopin by the Lake ...
The above sculpture is located near the Symphony Lake, in Singapore Botanic Gardens. The sculpture is a gift of the people of Poland to Singapore, in memory of music's greatest tone poets.
http://terencecollections.blog...0_05_01_archive.html

Wall Piano
It's a pub in Dundee's Whitehall Crescent. I think it's called MacDaniel's.

Grand Piano in Emerald

A Pic from the devastating Australian floods

"Citrus farmer Bindi Pressler sits on her grand piano in Emerald. This is the second time she has had to clean mud out of her home."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ne...frf7l6-1225980757557

Wall Piano

Stuart MegaGrand - What to do when you are 102...
It is hoped a Newcastle-built piano being played publicly in Australia for the first time tonight, will inspire composers to write more expansive works.
The Stuart and Sons 1.75 metre wide piano has 14 extra keys, so it can cover the full range of human hearing.
Builder, Wayne Stuart says composers have been stuck with the same 88 keys for the past 200 years and he wants to encourage them to push the envelope.
http://cjmoore.blogs.exetel.co...-Ultimate-Piano.html
http://cjmoore.blogs.exetel.co...ded-range-piano.html
http://www.smh.com.au/entertai...-20101020-16ucx.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...10/10/22/3045311.htm

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:

PET PIEVE

I can't stand when artists can't even copy the flag correctly on 8th notes! They are not just 'upside down'!

Chopin Statue In Shanghai's Zhongshan Park
197th anniversary of Chopin's birth March 3, 2007 in Shanghai, China...
The Chinese Association in Poland and the Polish Research Institute of Chopin commissioned the building of the statue in 2003. Some 100 music fans play pianos during the unveiling ceremony. Shanghai's Zhongshan Park in the city's downtown area, is planning to build an open-air concert hall to go with the statue of Chopin.

6m high - The two-and-a-half-tonne bronze sculpture was designed by the Chinese artist Lu Pin, a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland.

Dewing Piano
Nice big pic here of this astounding instrument:
http://americanartmuseum.wikis...6113/Picture_001.jpg
http://americanartmuseum.wikispaces.com/Dewing+Piano

Piano Gallery room of paintings by Thomas Wilmer Dewing at Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington DC
large pic here:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com...350_f8921232e8_o.jpg



Maryland State Seal on piano commissioned by Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 for the East Room of the White House. It was made by Steinway & Sons of NYC, and decorated with patriotic motifs and the seals of the first 13 states. The painting America Receiving the Nine Muses by Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) is inside the lid.


The painting on the lid is: America Receiving the Nine Muses by Thomas Wilmer Dewing.
Large pic here:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com...509_44b71a9451_o.jpg

The Piano by Thomas Dewing
Dewing was a member of a small group of elite painters in the New York/Boston area known as the Ten American Painters (referred to mostly as "The Ten").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dewing
http://www.mahalo.com/thomas-dewing/images/
large pic here:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com...374_3cdf808b78_o.jpg

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:

A Chopin Tribal tat! Wow.