Piano picture of the day

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16 May 2006, 05:19 PM

EHpianist

Piano picture of the day

Although not the same time period, I can just picture Louis XIV playing that thing with in puffy white wig and little silk slippers...

Very fru fru!

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16 May 2006, 05:27 PM

Frycek

Or Mozart in the power blue suit and fluffy wig from Amadeus

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16 May 2006, 06:13 PM

piqué

quote:
Originally posted by Frycek:
Or Mozart in the power blue suit and fluffy wig from Amadeus

hm, this is the first i've heard they had power suits in the 18th century. you learn something new every day!

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16 May 2006, 06:17 PM

kathyk

A blue one, no less.

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16 May 2006, 06:18 PM

kathyk

quote:
Originally posted by Zorba:
1884 Hamburg Steinway:

I'd *KILL* for this piano!

Barbie had a piano, very much like that one. Anyone else remember it? I believe it's in JF's sisters' collection at his family home.

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16 May 2006, 08:19 PM

Frycek

quote:
Originally posted by piqué:
quote:
Originally posted by Frycek:
Or Mozart in the power blue suit and fluffy wig from Amadeus

hm, this is the first i've heard they had power suits in the 18th century. you learn something new every day!

Now you see what happens when I get too laid back to edit my posts.

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17 May 2006, 08:32 AM

Zorba

Great....

I post a pix of a pretty piano and the conversation degenerates to suits! Next it will be the bane of western civilization, the necktie!

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17 May 2006, 08:44 AM

rontuner

Or if you prefer t-shirts:

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17 May 2006, 08:45 AM

rontuner

Here's the real deal

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17 May 2006, 08:52 AM

kathyk

Okay, back to pianos. This is the last one I snapped at the Smithsonian, and darned if I can't remember what it was. Any takers?

PS: I think it was an Ibach, could that be right?

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17 May 2006, 12:07 PM

piqué

it looks like a cristofori original. do they have one there?

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17 May 2006, 02:47 PM

Zorba

Nope, Christfori's didn't have lyres to the best of my knowledge. Regardless, this one was most likely made by Conrad Graf of Vienna, probably c. 1830.

(I found a virtually identical one in "Piano", by David Crombie. Pg 27, upper right hand corner. This one has flutes on the legs, Kathyk's does not.)

The poor guy who made it probably had to wear a necktie!

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17 May 2006, 02:50 PM

kathyk

Ah, that's right. I was hoping that one could read the sign in the photo, but no such luck.

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18 May 2006, 10:53 AM

rontuner

Anderson piano covers - they stay in place, you can lift the lid! (Ok, I only saw one at a convention...)

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18 May 2006, 03:12 PM

LJC

quote:
it looks like a cristofori original. do they have one there?

There is a Christofori at the metropolitan in nyc right next to it in a glass case is a Strad. Next time I go I'm going to reach over and hit a few notes.