Just thought I'd share a photo I took today with my iPhone.


Feel free to share your own.

That piano is missing a string!

In Conjunction with Period Piano Center this is an image I took a few years ago documenting pianos. I did drop out the background and add the name of the piano.

I love the shadow and light play on those first two.

Woah. Eagle eyes. I didn't even notice. Good catch.

Good thread. Here are three of my own piano.

What happened to the Umlaut over the U in Blüthner?

That's a very interesting question, and I would love to know. I have never seen another like that!

Hello David,
I believe you have the 4mm brass inlay style decal. Here is a sample of that one new. It is almost an identical copy of yours without the flares on the sides of the font. As one can see the dots to complete the umlaut are separate from the rest of the decal, so one can elect to use them or not. In your case there, without the dots, could be quite collectable.

Blüthner decals

Dan,

Collectable, perhaps, but as a German speaker, I don't like the sound of "Bluthner" at all (besides the fact that it's simply spelt wrongly).

"Blüthner" could be translated as "Blossomer", while "Bluthner" would probably best be translated as "Bloodner"...

(Somewhat off-topic:
I see I can no longer comment your photos without joining Google+. Ugh - what an irritation!)

Here is my beloved Grotrian-Steinweg 189




















more pictures here
http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1533990/My%20new%20Grotrian%20pictures!.html

Gotcha day!

What an interesting picture. Does that piano have trichords in the bass or is it double overstrung?

Here's one I took today of a Yamaha C1 in a practice room.

Larry,

That is an awesome picture. Is that from your trip to Belgium?

This is fun. I have 2 I can add easily. Here is an overhead view of a rosewood three piece rim "Centennial" concert grand piano by Steinway.



The next one is a very bad shot of one of our new Cunningham pianos in our showroom... with Andre Watts discussing a piece he just played on it.

Pics i never got around to sharing

Here's a couple right after mine was freshly restrung.

Estonia Concert Grand

1923 Steinway "L" (Restored)

That Steinway "L" photo is stunning!

That kind of photo always looks scary to me

And I love your photos! I wish I could play on a real piano (not sure I would appreciate it enough however... because dummy)

Thanks for the comment Charles. The answer is neither. There is a separate tenor bridge carrying wire strings, from D2 to Ab3. The picture shows these crossing the treble strings, which start rather high up the keyboard at A3. The tenor strings run alongside and parallel to the bass wound bichords. The bass itself is scarcely overstrung, up to E2 it is not overstrung at all. Possibly for this reason the bass has a pleasantly incisive tone. This was the standard Bluethner design for a number of years around 1880.

Some photos of my pianino!

Some details of my piano

Lluis, real ivory?

Are the keys ivory or something else?

Tried to simulate tilt-shift photography on my phone:

Yes, this is real ivory !

[quote=ChibiSF]Tried to simulate tilt-shift photography on my phone:

And I think it worked. Looks good.

Mmm, isn't it.

Larry,

What IS all that metal under the 1869 Erard?

Wow! That's a beautiful piano!

I'm loving this one! Beautiful finish.

[quote=giuseppe]Some details of my piano




Guiseppe, Lovely pictures of your piano! And I couldn't help noticing, one of my second loves, is that a lever harp there in the reflection? Do you play harp, too?

Regards

Collyermum

who plays an Irmler 5'3" and a Triplett 36 lever harp :-)

My Grotrian:

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well, it's really not about the Grotrian, is it.

I worked out my new Canon T3i today with Photoshop and came up with my "Psychedelic C7":

very cool BGJ! Best looking C7 I've ever seen! (just kidding)

I have a Canon T1i - Wonderful camera to take pictures with, RAW is awesome, but not very happy with conversion to jpeg via camera or software.

BGJ, very cool looking C7 have for there!

I'm enjoying this thread a fair bit. Should I post some pictures of my piano?

Of course, you don't have to ask!

Ok. I'll see.

EDIT: I can't figure it out!

Rotom, not sure if this is the best way, but this is how I do it

1 - Upload your picture to Photobucket
2 - For that picture under "Share/link", copy the "Direct link"
3 - In the PW reply, click "Switch to Full Reply Screen"
4 - In your post, place the cursor where you want the picture placed.
5 - Click on the "Enter an image" icon on the top of the post. I use "Insert a non-floating image"
7 - Paste the link in the text box.

If you use the "File manager" it just shows up as an attachment as you can see at the bottom.

I've posted enuf piano pictures so I'll post this one that I took of my late sweet neice Breanne, 1990-2008.

BTW, if anyone considers this off topic I'll glady remove it.

Is there a piano somewhere in this picture?

Yes, I am learning the lever harp by myself from about six months. It is a 34 strings Salvi Donegal, wonderful instrument!

Wonderful picture MrMagic

@ MacMacMac, yes there probably is a piano in the picture if you look faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrr enough!

Yea. It just fell over the cliff...

Mr Magic, wonderful picture! I am so very sorry about your niece.

David

Thanks David, she was my favorite neice.

Merlin

Chickering122

Jim Ialeggio

I have had my Grotrian Charis for one year today. I am trying to include a photograph of it.

I see that I was not a success in submitting the photo . I hope I play piano better than my use of the computer

If I remember right there are instructions how to post pics here somewhere hidden deep down in the FAQ

Cool, thanks! Never seen a real close up of ivory like this. You have some more pics like that?

Grotrian Grand

GORGEOUS!

Steinway & Sons Concert Grand Style III #38.xxx built 1878. A late example of the "other" concert grand which once were built from 1875 to 1878 parallel to the Centennial D Style IV/V. The "other" concert grands (8 ft. 5 in.) have a 3/4 plate w. open pinblock. Photograph taken in Speyer, Germany, in the Technical Museum, dept. of Automated Musical Instruments





Steinway & Sons Concert Grand Centennial D Style V (plain), #35.xxx, built Sept. 1877, 8ft. 9 in., full plate






Rear Duplex System of the Centennial D

On sunny mornings, during a few weeks in early spring and late autumn,
for a brief moment the sunlight touches a small part of my piano
and finds a way to create a gracious golden reflection.

An amazing effect, and beautiful photographs! And thanks for reawakening this excellent thread. Perhaps we will have some further photographic contributions to admire.

Hi

Here's my piano. It's a restored 6 ft 9" August Forster. Snuggles nicely into the dining room, which is also sometimes the drawing studio...

Forstergirl

I'm not Larry, but I can tell you that the gizmo built into the Erard is a Patent Resonator, which was all the rage then if we are to count the famous pianists who associated themselves with it.. paderewski, Patti and many others..

it was connected via rods to the soundboard and the bars were tuned..

I imagine it is a sort of cross between a Plate Reverb and a steel drum..

1936 Mathushek




Handed down from uncle
Supposedly less than fifteen made.

Dan, Piano Tinkerer

I've serviced a piano with an identical action -- but IIRC, it had a Story and Clark name on it.

Very Cool!

A friend in rehearsal with NY Steinway & Sons D: Lawrence University, Appleton, WI (2009)



Bösendorfer in the finishing process: Bösendorfer Factory, Wiener-Neustadt, AT (2009)



Steingraeber-Phoenix 212 with carbon fiber soundboard: Atlantic Music Center, Melbourne, FL (2010)



Inside a Stuart & Sons 2.9: Hurstwood Farm, Borough Green, UK (2009)



An early bridge agraffe system in mid-19th century Pleyel: Steingraeber & Söhne Factory, Bayreuth, DE (2010)

great pictures, Beethoven986 !

Thanks!

Woowww, great pics.

Just remembered about some b/w pics I took some 30 years ago while at high school. I took this photography course and one of my subjects was my piano.

Have to look around and find them.

Heart Strings

Nancy - that is simply beautiful.

I am telling you now that I am stealing this!

Great post guys, there is nothing better then some good piano pictures....

Kwartvleugel, that shot is amazing!

You know what?

I´m going to steal all pics and assemble a great screen protector.

Beautiful pictures.

Tuning my Baldwin.

This makes me want to get up and go to the piano and play. It's like when you watch a TV show about how popcorn is made, and they have gorgeous images of popping corn; it just makes you want to have some. Mmmmm . . .

Thanks, Rich! Steal away, just give me credit when you use it. I'm a very amateur photographer & I'm constantly asking Bruce to "move over" or "wait a sec" on some piano he's restoring in the shop so I can get just another picture or two. He's starting to cringe when he sees me coming with the macro lens. Lol!

Please don't remove this picture. It's not only a beautiful shot, but quite a memorial to your niece.

Totally Mr. Magic! Do not take that down.

A view from the keyboard at a local Philly concert venue.

"Hmmm... so that's what it looks like in there."

Cunningham staff instructing at the Hailun assembly plant - 2011



Andre Watts hanging out.



My customer, also an avid painter, sent me this impression of his piano shopping experience.



Piano anarchy

Thank you!

That's a stunningly beautiful piano! Wow!

Tuning a Yammy C3

First experience of tuning a Hamburg S&S D.

A favorite shot of mine.

My favorite spot...

This is obviously a finishing room. I'm puzzled why the piano has the pedals and strings masked but the keyboard is still in place. Isn't that normally removed prior to finishing?

Nice pic Rich.

Thank You!

Do the shanks whistle???

Awesome pics, wouter! Those pins look like shiny little soldiers on parade.

Uploader didn't work

Try hosting (uploading) your picture at a photohosting site (I use www.postimage.org) and then in your Pianoworld post use the "enter an image" icon at the top of the Pianoworld (full reply) response window and enter the link to the "direct link" that postimage.org gives you.

Thanks for the tip, Sparky! I was trying to insert a floating image (no particular reason), non-floating works much better. This is a high iso, high contrast, monochrome experiment. Great thread!

Nice to finally see a pic of your baby Metalman! Congratulations!

It doesn't look quite as nice inside as yours, but it's still a keeper. Maybe I'll post more pics after I get the keytops redone. Some type of Kluge whites and real ivory sharps. Can't wait!

Lovely B&W photos MM.

Hey thanks! Being from Victoria, you might not be acquainted with the white stuff outside the window in the first image . Can you believe it's still there!?!?

Found this on the job, yesterday:

I dunno what to say- either "epic fail" or "oh deary me". Did you fix it up? Its like, wow

Well, it made it to my "piano fail" album on facebook.... And yes. All better.

What's so bad about that - the string terminates eventually, right? It's sort of like a maze...

Well, it looks to me like the string termination loops are definitely not right, or at least not “orthodox” or the norm (sloppy might be a good description). However, as Terminaldegree stated, the strings do terminate somewhere. I doubt the tuning stability on those particular notes would be very good.

On some high end pianos, all the plain wire is twisted/tied off individually and not looped. That is certainly more time consuming and laborious. The advantage of that (single tied wire) is perhaps some added tuning stability and the fact that if one string breaks, you don’t lose two as a result.

There is no excuse for sloppy work.

Rick

Yeah! hate when that happens. How are things at the tuning pins?

I should have thought to take pictures of that, too. Total s&%t show; some pins have 5 coils, others have one or two, and they're not neatly done, either (except the original strings, and the ones I replaced). This piano was an absolute nightmare to work on (I even tuned it to a lower pitch as a precaution).

Fun photo of 4 Steinway D's and 2 Bosendorfer Imperials currently in our shop.

I have some other photos on our Facebook page, but I was able to get up on a catwalk for this one.

Wow!

Good thing it never rains in Atlanta.

Wow placing 6 of these on the parking lot outside! Was that to get the dust out of the pianos? ;-)

http://www.weirdomatic.com/wp-content/pictures/2011/07/lady-gaga-piano1.bmp
(I can't insert this image.)

OMG!

Dear Sam,

The Imperial that is second from the right - it looks beautiful, but somehow there is something missing. I cannot quite put my fingers on it. I am sorry to dampen your photo, but I wouldn't want you to string us along.

There are more things missing, also from the front one ;-)

I think the shop is missing!

Lluis, this is just beautiful! I hope you don't mind if I save this off.

I am new to the site and ran across these beautiful photos. I can say for certain that it has given me a case of piano envy! I am searching for the right one (for me) and wake up at night thinking about it! Thanks for sharing your love for your instruments, as it surely shines through!

2-year-old SK-3

Ofcourse not !! ;-)

My piano "Red October" [img]http://s017.radikal.ru/i405/1209/3c/a5afcf4331f3.jpg[/img]

My piano "Red October"

This thread brought back memories of my post from January 30, 2007. Dirty Pictures! True piano porn (warning: not suitable for persons of delicate sensibilities).



http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/256034/1.html

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