Piano picture of the day

16 November 2005, 04:40 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ill-Tempered Forum:
...But, returning to the AF upright, the short wooden bars that you see screwed between the soundboard ribs are special. The bridges are probably screwed to these short bars as well as the ribs...

Those were the thing that caught my eye. At first, their placement and fit looked a bit haphazzard to me. I realize the ends must probably avoid touching the ribs, leaving that gap, to allow for expansion and contraction with temp and humidity. But their meandering pattern made me wonder what the bridge looks like.

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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

16 November 2005, 10:54 PM

markj

Have we seen this one?

16 November 2005, 11:38 PM

ChickGrand

quote:
Originally posted by markjpcs:
Have we seen this one?

I think I would remember that one. As someone who works with wood and makes odd bits of furniture here and there, that's quite a remarkable piece for contemplation of what it took to create it. I wonder if they make it in bubinga?

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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

17 November 2005, 10:34 AM

markj

Here is the web site:

http://www.macleay.cncfamily.com/new_page_1.htm

17 November 2005, 11:32 AM

Zorba

quote:
Originally posted by markjpcs:
Have we seen this one?

Kinda, back on page 28, but a different color:

And the back is just as cool:

In whichever color, the driftwood theme is way cool!

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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

17 November 2005, 10:28 PM

ChickGrand

quote:
Originally posted by Zorba:
...In whichever color, the driftwood theme is way cool!

I perceived it as sort of "driftwood". I have a huge piece from the Oregon beach that resembles that form that the cat uses as her scratching post. I especially like that the back is finished. As weird as it is, I could perhaps live with that one, though I like that other sort of anthropomorphic gnarly beast Mark posted ca. Pg. 8 just a tad better. When I first saw it some years ago, I seriously wanted it. It's truly my favorite of the weird ones.

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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

18 November 2005, 10:32 AM

RealPlayer

Note on the recent piano pics:

With all those sinuous curves, the flat row of 88 keys looks like a design mistake!

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18 November 2005, 08:55 PM

Frycek

Liberace way back when seated at an "early 1800's" Pleyel grand in the Pleyel Museum in Paris. Supposedly Chopin played on this piano at Versailles. If he did, it probably scared him to death.

21 November 2005, 06:54 PM

kathyk

quote:
Originally posted by Zorba:
1911 Ivers & Pond, very pretty:

I know where someone can pick one of these up REAL cheap. It's in the abandoned building across the street from my office building. I snuck in a month or so ago while a realtor was showing it, and tagged along. There was a spinet on the first floor, and I was astounded to see this neglected beauty on the second floor. The building's not bad either with a little TLC - any takers who are interested in beong my neighbors?

Here's the building.

See the 2nd floor window peaking out. It's in there. In the attic, there was a vintage child's piano.

I've been drooling over that house since I first moved in across the street in terms of the potential (I love fixer-uppers with good bones), but after I saw all those pianos, my fantasies have gone rampanat.

21 November 2005, 07:31 PM

Frycek

quote:
Originally posted by Zorba:

This is so sad and so cool, so evocative. It's so goth. Look at its legs. They appear to be sphinx. It looks like some little prairie town just vanished and this was left to tell the tale. I'd love to adopt it and turn it into a sideboard or something.

22 November 2005, 11:34 AM

Zorba

quote:
Originally posted by kathyk:
Here's the building.

What a beautiful old house. Maybe you can buy the pianos and get the house for free! Or something like that...

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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

23 November 2005, 07:46 AM

Frycek

c1804 Gibson & Davis piano, made in New York
A real cutie-pie. 66 Keys. Love the legs - all six of them.
Its home, an interesting small site with some piano construction history:
http://www.oldpianos.com/