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Beatification Candidate |
This should be a zorba-approved one!  Sorry for the size, but I've lost the ability at "this location" to resize and post pictures. I can't even see the stuff from imageshack or any file-sharing place anymore!
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| Beatification Candidate |
Way back on one of the first pages I linked to the world's largest piano, an upright. Here's a new entry - a 12 footer:  read about it here: http://www.la-ptg.org/rubenstein/
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly  |
Wow. Water jet cut, mig welded STEEL plate. Very cutting (no pun) edge, very cool. Extra bass notes. Can't say I care for the finish, but I'd suffer none the less. He actually could have made a mild cocked hat case without changing a thing ('cept some "unused" plate area), or a symetrigrand with little change.
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| Beatification Candidate |
Just to show how big that plate is:  Rick, you've got some room to spare, dontcha?
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| Shut up and play your guitar! Minor Deity  |
Holy Carp! Look at the action!  I wonder how much that baby weighs! | |||
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| Beatification Candidate |
Yes, key flex becomes a real issue with bigger pianos. Look at the longer key buttons and the 'shoe' on the bottom, both of harder wood to provide a more ridgid key during louder playing.
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
An 1884 Emerson: 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
I rather like this one (1959 Knabe 40" Console): 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
Oh. My. Goddess. That square's plate is beautiful, I don't think I've ever seen one before, certainly not like that! They don't make 'em like they used to! Here's a curiosity I ran across that I don't think has been posted before: 
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate  |
That one reminds me of those old-fashioned church organs. Maybe it was designed for such an environment, maybe so it could nicely complement the organ so many churches also had at the time.
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| Revenant Beatification Candidate  |
A lot of nice antique German pianos and harpsichords here. In German but a picture is worth a thousand words. http://www.mirkoweiss.com/index2.htm
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| Revenant Beatification Candidate |
\ Now that you mention it - -
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| Beatification Candidate |
I'm often amazed at how well some of these old beauties can come out after a restoration - before and after pictures:   Much better than dumping them in a landfill! (Now after looking a little closer, I'm not convinced that these are the same instrument!!!!)
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
Even if it's not the same piano...and as PJ noted, it probably isn't...I wonder about the leaded-glass treatment. Were old uprights ever made with such large glass panels originally? They look like such an afterthought, like something to match the overhead stained-glass lamps in the local fern bar. Of course, there could be many photos of such in this very thread...which I confess I don't view every day.
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| Beatification Candidate |
Somehow, I can't see this fitting in MY living room: 
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