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Glen Gould and his dog:

Grandest piano of them all - Largest concert grand piano ever built
For Sale - US$3,000,000.00

"This piano is 18’9”, 5.7 metres in length and one of a kind. I have not put it in the Guinness Book of Records. Other strange pianos may be gimmicky but this is not." (q. Adrian Mann)

Spare Cash? Visit the website and bid:
http://www.bigvaluedepot.com/G...ZEALAND-p140275.html





The Keys are a little under a metre long!

The Alexander Piano - A Record of Construction

This 33 page booklet written by retired piano technician Stephen Newman is a record of one of the most unbelievable events where a young man built a piano at the age of 20.
Not just any ordinary piano, Adrian Mann built the largest grand piano ever with no professional help and arrived at the targeted goal from quite a different angle pursuing sound rather than a record.

A piano that experts said wouldn’t work!

Buy the book here:
http://www.bigvaluedepot.com/s...sthash.O7NjrYTB.dpuf

Brian! So good to see you back here!

And thanks for the link to the book!

Edit to add: I just bought it!

And now, winner of the Prettiest Plates in the Industry award goes to Gaveau:









One of the techs on PW came across a Yahoo group devoted to Gaveaus.

The Gaveau Swan Piano, An Important Neoclassical Painted and Parcel-Gilt Piano
Gaveau, established in 1847, was one of Europe's most pre-eminent piano manufacturers known for its technical innovation and quality of production. The world famous ‘Salle Gaveau’, commissioned in 1905, is still used for piano competitions and concerts today.
Gaveau was particularly renowned for its finely crafted art cases, and the present example was almost certainly created as an exhibition piece or a special commission.

If you want it it appears to available from Adrian Alan
http://www.adrianalan.com/Gave...=116939&categoryid=0
large pic:
http://axsoris.com/uploads/asi...ell=563,750&cvt=jpeg

Ooooooh! Pretty!

This is a type of organ, not a piano, but I thought it was kinda cool.



Tipu's Tiger

David Jacques Way Flemish double, 1988
http://historicfortepianos.blogspot.co.nz/

Hi Brian!

quote:

Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
The Alexander Piano - A Record of Construction

This 33 page booklet written by retired piano technician Stephen Newman is a record of one of the most unbelievable events where a young man built a piano at the age of 20.
Not just any ordinary piano, Adrian Mann built the largest grand piano ever with no professional help and arrived at the targeted goal from quite a different angle pursuing sound rather than a record.

A piano that experts said wouldn’t work!

Buy the book here:
http://www.bigvaluedepot.com/s...sthash.O7NjrYTB.dpuf

I received my copy, with a nice inscription from Adrian Mann.

One of our former Taiwanese houseguests, who is now in a Master's internship in Vermont, just tagged me in this photo on Facebook: