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| Incognito Beatification Candidate  |
Maybe it's a combo piano/church pew you play with your ass? 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly  |
It looks like maybe the "false front" lays down as a cover when you're not playing it?
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
Judging from that groove in the cheek, I'd guess it must slide down so that the music desk becomes the key cover, probably with a narrow strip hinged to join the keyslip to cover the key fronts. That would give it a kind of sleek look all closed up with that lid perfectly following the lines of the cheeks to the top, with all of it fitting flush.
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
1911 Ivers & Pond, very pretty: 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
And a '96 Bechstein (not 1996!): 
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| Gadfly |
Spectacular August Förster 190 with inlays, pics I took on saturday at Altenburgs in NJ. THis is a one of a kind veneer job done for the Frankfurt show this year, Fred bought it after the show.     
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| Gadfly |
August Förster vertical from behind. This is how they finish the hidden part.   
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| Shut up and play your guitar! Minor Deity  |
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Does the August Forester grand play as beautiful as it looks? That is one very beautiful piano. | |||
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| Revenant Beatification Candidate  |
I'm really impressed with the way that BACK is finished. That's really painstaking.
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| Gadfly |
Yes, they are incredible pianos.
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Christopher's pictures of the August Förster upright's back gave me an idea. Would some one please post pictures of a Schulze-Pollman upright's back? It has a rather unique construction in that the back posts are actually part of the back frame and the whole thing is made out of many layered plywood (much like pin block). The AF upright's back, while beautifully finished with a rather thick coat of lacquer, really is not that unusual in construction. The Schulze-Pollman, the X-backed (or, rather, the '*'-backed) Yamahas, and the Petrofs (no backpost!) are more unique in construction, IMHO. But, returning to the AF upright, the short wooden bars that you see screwed between the soundboard ribs are special. The bridges are probably screwed to these short bars as well as the ribs. And, about that stunningly inlayed AF grand, how much would it sell for?
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| Gadfly |
I never saw the back of an S-P, but the big Grotrian Verticale (best vertical I ever played) have something similar to what you are describing. The fancy AF is about 5-6k above the normal 190. Not bad for a such a unique piano, it is one of a kind I believe. The short wooden bars are called "counter bridges" or so I was told.
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
Those were the thing that caught my eye. At first, their placement and fit looked a bit haphazzard to me. I realize the ends must probably avoid touching the ribs, leaving that gap, to allow for expansion and contraction with temp and humidity. But their meandering pattern made me wonder what the bridge looks like.
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| Shut up and play your guitar! Minor Deity |
Have we seen this one?  | |||
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