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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Ron, you slay me.

But, that's exactly what it looks like!

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"The Veiled Male"
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Or quite an altar!

Wow, that thing looks like it has everything except a French Horn section.

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"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

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I see someone's been visitng John Tuttle's site...

I got an exact reprint of my Hamilton Manualo manual from him.

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...if you move your fingers, I might be able to see...

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Heaven:

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This piano was made for Harriet Beecher Stowe. The images on the panel above the keyboard are from Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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1904 Erard upright:

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OT, you've outdone yourself. Great haul.

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During a smallpox epidemic in 1746, this instrument was brought to the Whitefield House in Nazareth, Pennsylvania to aid in comforting the patients from the girls' school who were being attended to there. It reportedly has been in the building—now the Moravian Historical Society—since that time. It is not known whether the instrument was made in Germany and brought to America by the Moravians, or whether it was made in the American colonies.

Fewer than ten of these instruments can be found today in the United States.

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Upright Piano designed by William James and George Ashdown Audsley for W. M. H. and G. H. Dreaper, piano makers. c. 1878. Height 48 inches; width 58 1/2 inches; depth 25 inches.

Awarded a medal the Exposition Universelle International de 1878 at Paris.

Zorba, dude! Check it out! Sphinxes on the arms!

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Absolutely gorgeous (and probably very pricy)example of ebonized Egyptian Revival. An upright lends itself very well to that treatment having that "temple carved into the sandstone" shape anyway.

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That's definitely very cool! I think I'll post it over at one of the Belly Dance forums - they'll go nuts!

I don't understand the "Whitefield house" piano above. It looks like would fall over (to the left). Is that a hinged lid of some kind?

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1918 Hobart M. Cable
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I think it's a hinged lid and fallboard-type cover combination.

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Originally posted by OperaTenor:
More on the Egyptian theme:

Cool! I like the guys in skirts.

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-Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
http://www.doubleveil.net
1918 Hobart M. Cable
"No-one would knowingly provide Franz Liszt with a mediocre piano." -E. M. Good

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