Weber John Lennon urban art baby grand piano by Ben Kealey
It is titled -Real is Love- and is fashioned in Satin Black and Metallic Gold spray paint with John Lennons self portrait sprayed in Black inside the main lid and psychedelic doodles penned in Black inside the keyboard lid.

J C Neupert Upright
Serial No. 7697, Year made 1903

Ron, that upright is gorgeous! I've seen candlebras before but not the balcony above except on organs.

A Charles Smart upright piano with a figured, burr walnut case and ornate carvings.

Love it Brian!
And the rounded black keys.

Slave Piano
Penalogical Pianology: The Timbers of Justice

PIANO FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITIES

SYDNEY, 12 MAY 2010 - As part of the 2010 Biennale, performance artists, Slave Pianos, invite the public to witness the brutal arrest of a piano which is found guilty of treachery and sentenced to execution by hanging.

Hanged By The Neck

Slave Pianos present a surrealistic allegory of convict transportation in which a piano is absurdly found guilty of treachery and to be hanged by the neck until dead at the penal establishment of Cockatoo Island. The audience is invited to witness a recital by virtuoso pianist Michael Kieran Harvey.

As part of the 2010 Biennale, performance artists, Slave Pianos, invite the public to witness the brutal arrest of a piano which is found guilty of treachery and sentenced to execution by hanging.

Entitled The Fatal Score or The Spectacle of the Scaffold (The Way Up and the Way Down are One and the Same), the piece opens with a recital by virtuoso pianist Michael Kieran Harvey. The recital is interrupted suddenly by the arrival of the Royal Australian Navy, led by actor Richard Piper, who arrest the piano for ‘crimes against humanities’, and transport it across the island to Building 142. On arrival, the unlucky piano is sentenced to ‘be hanged by the neck until dead’. A chamber music concert is given as the piano ascends the scaffold, and a wake held once the execution has been carried out. For the duration of the exhibition the gallows is the resting place for the now mechanically operated piano. The gallows, itself a meta-mechanical musical instrument incorporating an auto-lyre and archival auto-icon counterweight, is designed to operate in a continuous cycle of execution and redemption. Titled Penalogical Pianology: The Timbers of Justice, the installation looks at colonial and musical history, continuing the group’s exploration of avant-garde practice in art and music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifd4XOmbBkw
http://www.culturekiosque.com/...nos_ckiosque501.html
http://kerryjiayilin.wordpress...ney-cockatoo-island/

“Slave Pianos” - the last play

Yes I posted this piano with the only explanation I could find at page 247
http://well-temperedforum.grou...3/m/9600093343/p/247
- I quote the text - "The photo above comes from the Spaarnestad collection in the Nationaal Archief – the National Archive of the Netherlands. The image is sourced to Great Britain and dated 1935, but carries no explanatory text other than “Piano especially designed for people who are confined to bed.""
I always think it is nice to quote the story as far as it can be found, it adds to understanding of the photo.

Old Piano
It looks like a piano, but it is really a theatre!

Mammoth Piano - The piano is 7ft2in, the creation of piano builder Chris Chernobieff
Remember the post a while ago now - here it is with the case on. Also follow the link to see still slideshow that shows closeup photos of his custom built action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq1pa3oBOIM
Builders website:
http://mammothpiano.com/

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Mammoth Piano - The piano is 7ft2in, the creation of piano builder Chris Chernobieff
Remember the post a while ago now - here it is with the case on. Also follow the link to see still slideshow that shows closeup photos of his custom built action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq1pa3oBOIM
Builders website:
http://mammothpiano.com/

That post/leg from the foot to the keybed on the right front certainly looks crooked, though the left one does not. What's with that?

I like the style of the front cover, being semi-open.

Interesting to note in the vid they've used Ronsen Wurzenfelt hammers on their Mammoth piano as I've done on my simply mammoth piano.

Oh, and it sure looks like it'd be about as fun to tune as a square, what with the keybed way down there and the pins way up there.

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Interesting to note in the vid they've used Ronsen Wurzenfelt hammers on their Mammoth piano as I've done on my simply mammoth piano.

Oh, your mammoth piano, pray do tell, and post!

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Originally posted by lilylady:
Love it Brian!
And the rounded black keys.

I agree - Just look at the casework, the heart aches for wishing all this kind of stuff was made a lot more these days...

1912 Vose and Sons
an American made grand piano that has been beautifully refinished with custom wood inlay.
http://www.erwinspiano.com/pia...9/1912-vose-and-sons