Piano picture of the day

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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

26 November 2007, 03:58 PM

Zorba

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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

30 November 2007, 12:12 PM

Zorba

A Whurly 73 note butterfly grand on eBay right now:

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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

01 December 2007, 02:19 AM

rustyfingers

Pittock Mansion, Portland Oregon. 1988.

03 December 2007, 12:41 PM

rontuner

That picture reminds me of a story that a client told me.....

Before I was the tuner, she called her previous tech in a panic. Her daughter had just come home from college and brought her harp. They put them roughly in the configuration of the picture because they had some duets they were going to play. The reason for the call? Before they were practicing together, the mom was going over her part and realized that the dampers must not be working on the piano.... the sound just kept ringing on and on!

Of course when the tech came out, he found out that it was the HARP strings that were ringing in sympathetic vibration to the piano!

That story saved me once when I got a similar call about a single note that wouldn't damp. It turned out to be a little folk guitar-type instrument propped up in the corner under the piano...

I think this looks like a fun place to play!

03 December 2007, 01:45 PM

rustyfingers

Hey ron, that's an interesting story. Here's a question for you. My CW upright is too loud. It's sitting perpendicular to my open 1864 Steinway square grand. Is it possible that the second piano's soundboard is vibrating, making everything louder?

03 December 2007, 04:34 PM

Zorba

Disclaviers are for wimps:

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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

04 December 2007, 06:09 PM

Zorba

It may not be real Ron, but don't you wish it were?

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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

06 December 2007, 03:14 PM

OperaTenor

quote:
Originally posted by Zorba:
Steinway:

"Yarhhhgdy blech" about covers it for me.

06 December 2007, 04:41 PM

Zorba

Now this one is just exquisite - 1927 S&S 'B' originally built for F.W. Woolworth.

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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

06 December 2007, 04:49 PM

rustyfingers

quote:
Originally posted by Zorba:
Or this 1866 S&S:

Now yer talkin'

11 December 2007, 03:58 AM

OperaTenor

It turns out the "Feelin' Groovy" piano is part of their Exotic Piano collection.

American Flag Vertical:

Glitz & Glamour:

Purple Passion:

The Princess:

(PINK keys?!!

)

The Tuxedo:

The Zebra I think we've seen before:

Tropical Sunset:

Baroque(check out the lid):

French Quarter:

BB King Signature:

There are more...

11 December 2007, 06:46 PM

Zorba

I like a lot of those!

With apologies to Ron and other tuners:

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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