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Same thing I noticed. And look at where the stick ends up at the plate. I don't think it's real, either. If it is, I want to see the una corda shift the keybed to the right and what happens when the secundo didn't want it then.
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  This inlaid beauty has some connection with Franz Liszt. (The site was in long dense French which I didn't care to tackle). Note the two extra music racks for your accompanists. Cool.
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That is definitely a way cool pie-anna! I love wood like that!
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Here's a non-butterfly symetrical grand... 
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Kinda a cool S&S:  
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Someone posted this on PW:  The more I look at it, the more I like it!
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| Revenant Beatification Candidate |
I know that red is probably paint but it look almost like tortoiseshell.
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
That piano is by Boisselot, the same maker as the grand Frycek posted above with the mini-music stands for accompanists. I happened on that one about 4 years ago. Amazing work on a case for an upright. Here's a closeup of the inlay work on it: 
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| high maintenance What Life?  |
That is a gorgeous piano!
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
We've covered the ground for most types, including the unusual, but one type I don't think we've covered is the "cycloid" variety, made by only a couple of American manufacturers briefly during the same time as squares. This Lindemann from the 1870s is typical of the form. It's mechanically pretty much the same as a square, but the cabinet form is continuous bend into a curve, and with three legs, like a grand, instead of the four for a square.   The non-butterfly symmetrigrand Zorba posted above is a Knabe from the 1920s.
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| Shut up and play your guitar! Minor Deity  |
The new Estonia Concert Grand as shown at NAMM 2006    | |||
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Here is one I could kick myself for not having bought, as I recognized it later and knew where it belongs:  It is the grand piano originally in the Verandah Grill, the most popular restaurant of the R.M.S. Queen Mary when she sailed. The room was more popular than the much larger main dining room as it offered casual intimate atmosphere, fine food, music and incredible views. It was stripped some years ago by one of the string of owners of the ship in at its Long Beach berth. The current owner is doing extensive work to restore as much of the ship as possible and rounding up furnishings that were sold off. The latest restoration effort was the Verandah Grill itself. When I saw this one, I knew it looked familiar but could not quite place it. It went for a song. Shortly later, I realized it was the one custom made for the all-art-deco Queen Mary. I wished I'd purchased it and donated it to the Queen Mary Foundation for the restoration. The piano as seen above is finished a little darker than its original finish. It can be seen (though not well) in these two pictures:  
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I took this picture inside a Canadian Heritage House in Kelowna, BC. Talk about a gilded lily! 
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Pretty!
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I like it.... 
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