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A Mathuscheck "Square revival" of the 1930's:  
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I don't think we've had a look at this particular giraffe piano: 
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 When I was very young, I remember hooking one of these belonging to my sister up to a hair dryer on cool air at low speed, voila - an organ!!! I remember the hair dryer blower case was powder blue and puck shaped, about the size of a dinner plate, and about 3 or 4 inches thick. Not unlike this one...  You were supposed to lay it on a table or your lap, and a hose from it went to this bag like thingy you put over your hair to let it dry. I just taped the hose to the mouthpiece of the melodica, hooked it up to the dryer, turned on the power (making sure the heat was off)and pretended I was Rick Wakeham. Jamie
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I've seen several styles of Mathushek square grands from the 30s. Seems they'd started calling them "spinet grands" by that time--perhaps to distance them from the reputation "square" grands had gotten with techs that resulted in that big bonfire in NYC in 1900 of a 1000 square grands. I'm curious what Mathushek was thinking by reverting to that style at that particular time so soon after the depression and after thousands of makers had already gone belly-up. Truly an odd anomaly in the market to see that particular re-emergence. Somewhere I have pictures of a nice red mahogany Mathushek "spinet grand" from the 30s I contemplated buying for my collection. Listening to some clips from a PW link a couple of days ago that were from a recent CD made on an old Chickering square from the 1860s, it struck me how "authentic" the sound of the square was for certain types of music--not quite "honky tonk" but leaning that direction. Those were sounds appropriate to the genre of music on that CD that simply could never be replicated on a grand nor very easily on most uprights. What surprised me most was that while I thought the treble end too "nasal" for my tastes, the bass was quite nice. That was quite the opposite of what I'd have expected from string lengths and soundboard area.
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
Thanx for the added background info, Rick. I read in one of my piano references about the "Square revival" of the 1930's, so your added info fascinates me!
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From another forum, a Steinway:  
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Whoa! What forum? Is that that Yanni of the piano guy who people at PW's Pianist corner were That square one could easily double as a sideboard - serve your buffet, clear it, on on to a final course of caberet.
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
I "think" it was Piano Street. You could dance on top of that square grand too! 
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Here's a way to keep an active spine and core during those long practice sessions: 
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This is what my wife uses when she sits with my boys to practice with them!
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
i'm sitting on one of those right now. but it isn't going to do her any good. look at the way she is hunching up her shoulders. she's going to pay for that!
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