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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly  |
I'd love to get my hands on that CD! Is it something that can be copied? I'd be happy to pay costs... Or trade the above "lightly used" upright... 
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate  |
I'm not sure how copyright issues would work. I compiled the disc myself, which is perfectly okay for my own use, but if I distribute further, it might be inappropriate (because some of the images may be copyrighted and while they were freely given to me for my use, they were not explicitly given for further distribution), though I think that's not too likely to get me in hot water, you never know. If I post any I think are questionable, I'll likely link to the original site. If you could spit and polish that slightly used upright just a little, I might overlook those ethical issues.
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
rick, when were you at faust-harrison's?
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
Editing self as too long and off topic for the thread. Edited version: about 3 years ago.
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Isn't this a pretty music desk? 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
A very pretty music desk! Cool! This is a "Marco-Polo" by Fazioli: 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
1902 Broadwood at the V&A Museum, London. Fugly if you ask me... 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
Now THIS, on the other hand, is "Phat"! 
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
Yes. I like that very much.
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| Revenant Beatification Candidate  |
I like the "Phat" one. It reminds me of a very dignified and ornate toad, a positive burgermeister of toads.
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
That's 1902? It has such an art deco look. I would have pegged it as much later. A designer ahead of his time?
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Hmmm... it just occured to me that you could have put "Pearl River" on it and it would still be as fitting. 
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
Er, um, so is someone going to tell the rest of us whose grave that is back on page 37? Or am I the only one who doesn't know?  BTW, I absolutely love this thread!!! I sometimes go back and look at the earlier pages and dream. Pianos are such amazing things!
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
That is such an apt description of that one! Shiro, that grave is Kimball's, one of the largest volume makers in American history. Owned or still owns Boesendorfer as a division of a large conglomerate now, but the company is into cabinets and furniture more these days than in pianos. Many of their pianos of their later years were regarded as mediocre (when everyone in the U.S. was, at best, also mediocre--a period that saw the demise of many of the last survivors of thousands of American makers that had gone out of business decades earlier during "The Great Depression". Few remember their early Kimball production included some really decent pianos between 1890 and 1915. (I still have one among my group from 1896. Everyone who has ever played it has said, "What a gorgeous tone!" I've been offered very interesting trades for it, but I have no interest in parting with it, even while several others have come and gone.) It's because Kimball produced such a manufacturing empire on the back of the piano production that I said I could understand the extravagance of that gravesite. Anyone can argue about the success of their designs, but few would argue about the success of the company. They delivered decent pianos for the home and schools quite consistently, even if their best might never be ranked in that Tier One category. Nothing wrong with that business model. And nothing wrong with enjoying an old Kimball. Some truly justified it.
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We have a Kimball 9' here at the school that sits in a piano lab. The poor girl had an unfortunate "rewhatever" that wasn't ever finished before it was donated. I keep it going, but haven't ever been interested in re-doing the re-do. I've been mostly replacing jacks as they break in addition to tuning.  Most of the Kimballs I see are of this variety:  Though I've seen a few of these: 
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