Hi, and welcome Brian!

Take your time, there's no rush...

Couldn't resist this one - Piano Keyboard Controls Hockey Game!

That's great! I can think of countless kids who would be inspired to practice if they had a hockey piano!

My Piano

I'm sorry, I'll be off my piano picture binge shortly I hope, this is a decidedly unusual piano, to a novice it appears to have a gearstick! But the soundboard!?

Cool pictures, Brian!

Welcome!

Digital Kawai Piano with real wooden soundboard

The caption says "A grand piano sound board outside the Steinway Haus in Berlin." But that looks like a frame - no?

One use for an old Upright I had not thought of.

Looks like a piano, but... I've often thought I'd love to have an ordinary piano but inside the strings are replaced with tuning forks, I suspect this is a version of that.

A modern Hammered Dulcimer? But it is really just an upright piano eh!

Pleyel Double Grand - I have the DVD and it is a terrific disc, especially watching them take the piano up a flight of stairs with a little tractor machine! - then the recital...

Charles Wheatstone - 1821: Enchanted lyre. (Acouryptophone) According to W.H.Preece, this could really be considered to be the first telephone. This was one of Wheatstone's early experiments in acoustics; he suspended the lyre by a thin steel wire from the soundboards of pianos and other instruments in the room above. In this way it appeared to play 'of itself' by sound conduction and sympathetic resonanceof its strings, causing quite a stir.

1. Mahogany and maple rim is lacquered to give a metallic look
2. High-tensile cables looped over the metal suspension tower support the piano’s 500kg weight
3. Soundboard carved from finest Austrian spruce
4. Plexiglass lid allows you to see the intricately designed action at work
5. Like most grand pianos, the Suspension has 88 keys, which means it’s capable of reproducing the entire spectrum of notes played by an orchestra

Maybe this one outdoes the famous adrian mann 5.7m piano?