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Post Moderne Baldwin:



Okay. That one's just plain ugly. Looks like one of those fat-calved women crammed into shoes four sizes too small. Or Popeye after eating his spinach.


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Isn't my style either. Perhaps a "BUP"? Butt Ugly Piano? It certainly has an obese air to it!


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"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

 
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Yep, I do like that one, although the cheek blocks seem narrow for a transposing piano.

Now THIS is just plain weird:



And if a male Belly Dancer thinks its weird, it's WEIRD!! Big Grin But then, weird's a GOOD thing! ThumbsUp


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1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

 
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Serenading runners at the Big Sur Marathon:


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1918 Hobart M. Cable
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I think it's time to add a little color here:


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And one more, just for fun.


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Automatic mistake corrector:


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-Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
http://www.doubleveil.net
1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

 
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Here's a great one - you'll have to go visit the site...

http://www.ugoto.com/pictures/thepianodriver.html


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1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

 
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Nice upright piano for sale. Purchased new 5 years ago and was only used 3 years by our children before they lost interest. We'd like it to go to a loving home that will appreciate and use it. Played when stored, should only need tuning. $1,250/offer. 555-1212


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"The Veiled Male"
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1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

 
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Now THIS is what a grand SHOULD look like:


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1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

 
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That rosewood "Steinway 2" is a dead ringer for the rebuilt Steinway D at Faust Harrison right now. Can't tell if the pictured model is 7' or 9' though.


The one at Faust Harrison is finished with a bit more red in the rosewood. It has the best shade and grain pattern of any rosewood I've ever seen, though there's a Chickering in LA that very closely rivals it. To me, rosewood should be finished quite red, like bubinga, though one often sees it in the more drab browns. If I had $187K, I'd want it just to look at everyday. (But for that, I could do the Chickering and buy a nice summer home.)

That Bechstein above is very nice. My other pet favorite for grain pattern is quite similar in circassian walnut, an old one-off Bauer that was for sale for $1.5 mil and sold for an undisclosed amount. Another that I'd have loved just to look at. I love nice wood with good contasting grain patterns and there's nothing more beautiful to show off that pattern than a piano. Who needs to collect statues if you could collect pianos?

I have a CD with about 600 MB of various pianos including that Bauer. I suppose it's about time I dug it out and started contributing. I'll look for the CD tomorrow.

Meantime, here's the nicely-red rosewood Chickering 8'2" that I covet in LA.





Here's a picture of detail of the Bauer I was able to retrieve from my e-mail to a friend who is my supplier of fine woods I never have the courage to cut after I get them. I sent it to him to see if he could scrounge me some pieces of this stuff:


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I'd love to get my hands on that CD! Is it something that can be copied? I'd be happy to pay costs...

Or trade the above "lightly used" upright... Big Grin


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"The Veiled Male"
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1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

 
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1902 Broadwood at the V&A Museum, London.

Fugly if you ask me...


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1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

 
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Now THIS, on the other hand, is "Phat"!


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1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

 
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I like the "Phat" one. It reminds me of a very dignified and ornate toad, a positive burgermeister of toads.


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