Tomorrow?

A "tall" Bluthner on ebay:

Patriotic enough?

Waiting for the match:

A Bosie Imperial with 97 keys at George Fox University, in Lincoln City, OR. It's a small, wealthy Quaker college. I almost went there for my sophomore year of school. Here's a link where you can hear it: George Fox Music Department

The Optophonic Piano was an electronic optical instrument created by the Russian Futurist painter Vladimir Baranoff Rossiné (Born in 1888 at Kherson ,Ukraine - Russia, died Paris, France 1944). Rossiné started working on his instrument c1916. The Optophonic Piano was used at exhibitions of his own paintings and revolutionary artistic events in the new Soviet Union, Rossine later gave two concerts with his instrument (with his wife Pauline Boukour), at the Meyerhold and Bolchoi theatres in 1924. Vladimir Rossiné left the Soviet Union in 1925, emigrated to Paris where he continued to hold exhibitions of paintings and concerts of his instrument.

The Optophonic Piano generated sounds and projected revolving patterns onto a wall or cieling by directing a bright light through a series revolving painted glass disks (painted by Rossiné), filters, mirrors and lenses. The keyboard controlled the combination of the various filters and disks. The variations in opacity of the painted disk and filters were picked up by a photo-electric cell controling the pitch of a single oscillator. The instrument produced a continuous varying tone which, accompanied by the rotating kaleidascopic projections was used by Vladimir Rossiné at exhibitions and public events

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Originally posted by OperaTenor:
A Bosie Imperial with 97 keys at George Fox University, in Lincoln City, OR. It's a small, wealthy Quaker college. I almost went there for my sophomore year of school. Here's a link where you can hear it: George Fox Music Department

That's not the proper orientation for a piano on a stage.

Photographic/Artistic license?

Bad, very bad.

Naw, its a double sided stage - the main seating is behind you (the photographer)...

Isn't this "rebuilt" Bluthner just GORGEOUS?!?



It can be yours for 85K...

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Originally posted by markj:

That's not the proper orientation for a piano on a stage.

Photographic/Artistic license?

Bad, very bad.

Uh, Mark, how about they posed the piano for the photo to show it off in the concert hall, and they thought having the house in the background looked better than the backstage?

Are you for real?

I don't think there's enough room on the platform to play that Chickering...

I'd dedicate a room to that piano.

Here's another backwards to the stage picture.