Foot Piano at Otago Museum NZ

Piano-Mann strikes a long chord

It took 12 people to move it from the back of a truck, on to a forklift and through double glass doors into the museum foyer.

"It was a bit of a challenge," he said.
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town...n-strikes-long-chord

Alexander Piano Pics

http://alexanderpiano.yolasite.com/

There must be very few pianos actually designed to have NO keyboard lid.


That is not a pinblock you're looking at, but Plate Steel about as thick as your wrist...! So how are the pins secured?



Here is the 18feet 9inches business end of the Alexander - a challenge to anyone in the world to post a photo of a piano with NOT ONE wound string to it's name, indeed does such a piano even exist...?



New Zealand Rimu makes a lovely wood to finish the piano, however all this silly gadget does is block the view of the considerable Real Estate otherwise on view:-)



If a large shed is your bedroom then this is a suitably large bedside mirror! But a musical one of course...

Grey Squirrel at the piano
Kathy sets up various scenes by strategically placing peanuts and peanut butter among toys.

http://kevindayhoffart.blogspo...uirrel-at-piano.html

The installations exhibited in the dungeon of the Curfew Tower...
http://www.michaela-nettell.com/threads2006.html

...the cultural clash of break dancing with the classical music of Johann Sebastian Bach in Copenhagen, Denmark
Gengis "Lil Ceng" Ademoski (L) and Khaled "KC" Chaabi (R) of the four time world champion Berlin dance troupe Flying Steps strike a freeze on a piano played by muscian Jia Lim (C) of Singapore at the 17th century waterfront area of Nyhavn during the build up to the Red Bull Flying Bach European Tour

transformer grand piano 1
"this fascinating piano has two kinds of appearance: Grand Piano and Cupboard."
http://www.bornrich.com/entry/...sformer-grand-piano/

John Cage (1912-1992), tweaking piano strings for "prepared piano," ca. 1940?
http://www.historylink.org/ind...put.cfm&file_id=9423

Piano Store Johnstown Flood - 1936
Large Pic:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zm3L...PHEGM/s1600/1444.JPG

Horo - When a Piano and violin meet... combines a miniature grand piano and a violin bow
It is also nothing that $41,000 cannot fix...
http://www.horomusic.com/en/
http://www.bornrich.com/entry/...flects-your-panache/

Although it is missing some black keys, the foot pedals don't move and the extreme ranges are quite out of tune, it still plays pretty well.

The Peter Behrens Piano
In 1899 Peter Behrens was invited to design and build his own house...
...The musicroom was designed in the symbols of crystal-sun-eagle. The crystals on the body of the piano, the sun on the notedesk and the wing of an eagle on the top lid...
...It is a wonderful design and the inlay with mother of pearl; lapis lazuli and malachite are unique and breathtaking. The brass inlaid Schiedmayer decal is made in his own typography; the "Behrens Letters" were designed in 1900...
Read the remarkable story here:
http://www.behrens-piano.de/en/history.html


Peter Behrens designed notedesk - made from hammered bronze.

Bronte Sisters Piano
http://kleurrijkbrontesisters....9_09_27_archive.html

"while an increasing hail of pianos rain upon our heads."Virtual Fluxus: Piano Drop w/Bibbe Hansen

Steingraeber carbon fiber soundboard