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| Shut up and play your guitar! Minor Deity  |
That's not the proper orientation for a piano on a stage. Photographic/Artistic license? Bad, very bad. | |||
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly  |
Naw, its a double sided stage - the main seating is behind you (the photographer)... 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
Isn't this "rebuilt" Bluthner just GORGEOUS?!?  It can be yours for 85K...
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Beatification Candidate |
I don't think there's enough room on the platform to play that Chickering... 
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| Nobody's $hillbot Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I'd dedicate a room to that piano. | |||
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| Beatification Candidate |
Here's another backwards to the stage picture. 
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate  |
This one (in the Liszt Museum in Budapest) is not nearly as ornate as the other Chickering Liszt owned (also in that museum, in another room), but both were a bit more ornate than the usual issue of this model. The other has a positively unsightly music desk with carvings rising like stalagmites from the music rest, where this one has just those stalagtite-like carvings (grapes?) hanging from the cheeks. A very decent rebuild candidate of this same model sold yesterday on Ebay for about $4500, with much of the work already in progress and new bass strings and hammers in the box ready to put on. A rebuilder had over-committed himself. I gave it serious thought, though I only noticed it in its last minutes before auction close. Rebuilt or well-preserved examples range from $65,000-165,000. Surprisingly, there's a fair number of them on the market on a regular basis.
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| Shut up and play your guitar! Minor Deity |
Last I checked I was real. Or is this reality I live just an illusion?   | |||
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
Look at that Mural! Looks like something one of my dance sisters (The ever talented Lana) would paint.
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| Nobody's $hillbot Has Achieved Nirvana |
At least the piano's oriented properly. | |||
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| Beatification Candidate |
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| Nobody's $hillbot Has Achieved Nirvana |
Why do you suppose they never caught on? | |||
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
Maybe Ron or someone else knowledgeable will chime in - I'd suspect hidebound conservatism myself. They were reputedly hard to restring. So what? Here's another failed idea, a very rare 1860s Chickering Cocked Hat:  It can be yours for $9,500!
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
That off-centered music desk would drive me nuts. I realize it's a result of keeping the sliding mechanism simple, but really, I'd rather some engineer had spent an hour of his day figuring out how to get the same movement while still centering all the way to the left side.
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| Beatification Candidate |
Screwstringers probably failed because they were too different... Different tools needed, different techniques? I don't really know - just guessing. Here's a Broadwood with an interesting music rack. 
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