What Brand name pianos do you all have?

[perc-o-prince]

Hey Brandon

Thanks for the nice words. I can't realy play the piano-forte as the action needs some work. Some keys play but not enough to play it. I'm very excited to restore it. Now i just need the $$$. For now I just enjoy looking at it and just wondering if someone like Haydn or Mozart may have played on this instrument....one can only fantasize

I do hope that you get your dream instrument sooner than later. I waited for more than 30 years to find the piano-forte.

From what I was told the Tadashi was a hand made japanese piano using some of the best elements of the higher end pianos. The inside looks just like a Bosendorfer. They used natural wood inside with black on the outside of the case. There is also a lid lock on the side as well as a 3 position lid prop. The smallest comes in handy when someone is singing. Allows the pure tone to be heard but keeps the volume down. I love the Tadashi not only for its quality but because my grandparents gave it to me and they are both gone. Tadashi went out of business a few years ago due to (I was told) making a very good piano but not charging enough.

I saw your youtube vid. Sounds great!!!!

Rich

 

[lordkenmore]

"For now I just enjoy looking at it and just wondering if someone like Haydn or Mozart may have played on this instrument....one can only fantasize "

I'd fantasize, too...although with my luck, I'd probably end up with an instrument used in the 1800 equivalent of The Lawrence Welk Show.

 

[washernoob]

perc-o-prince

I see!

Thanks for sharing about the Tadashi. It does look like a Bose! Exceptional craftsmanship. The rim with the natural finish is really beautiful. Dont see that much. I have seen Hailun do that, as well as Stuart and Sons, and both also very high end good pianos. Looks like you have a gem!

Good luck with the resto on the Forte-piano. I am sure it will turn out great!

 

[ksdaddy]

Apartment Upright

Here's my little piano. I could have gotten any number of old uprights for free, but I chose this one because I have a very small house. It's an apartment sized upright, 66 key. Two of us put it on the back of my '82 Ford pickup and I off-loaded it here myself. It moves around great. I paid the princely sum of $75.

It says Edward W. Powers New York on the frame. The frame has pencilled "EP 5-26-41 440" and there is a business card stapled inside the cabinet of W. Dean Howell with various writing including "Feb 13 1966".

It appears to have originally been white, then Chinese Red, now an awful copperish color, probably done with one of those 'antiquing' kits.

I bought a tuning wrench (why do they call it a hammer anyway?) and some mutes, and got it close. It likely hadn't been tuned since 1965 and sounded it. It was such a dramatic change that it didn't stay in tune long. I need to go back and do it again, I'm just not in piano mode I guess. I don't even really play. I don't read music, I just know enough from playing guitar about chord construction and scales that I can attempt some single note stuff with the occasional three finger chord thumped in to make it sound like I'm playing on purpose and not by accident.

I'm more of a guitar freak. My website is www.ksdaddy.com.

The people who owned this piano were moving and I'm sure it would have gone over the dump if I hadn't backed my truck up to their porch.

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www.ksdaddy.com

 

[whirlcool]

Geesh have piano prices gone up!

We paid $2500.00 for our Walter Studio Console (42") back in 76'. This was when similar Baldwins were going for $1800-2300.
I checked the price on very similar Walter to what we had and a new one would set us back around $6,000, minimum.

It appears that Walter is one of the last piano manufacturers in the US that still makes a totally hand made piano. Just this year they are first starting their grand piano line. The pin block on a Walter piano is 29 layers deep and they use all solid wood, no chip board in the piano at all.

They sign each and every piano that leaves the factory.

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www.walterpiano.com

 

[washernoob]

I heard

That there are only 3 US based piano companies anymore. It was in an advertisement for some old steinway on youtube I think.

Charles Walter uprights are some of the best made pianos made! I fell in love with a console model at a local store. But it was $6,500... used! But sure was impressive.

 

[dnastrau]

Baldwin Acrosonic

We have a 1960 Baldwin Acrosonic console upright that my grandfather bought new for my father when he was in college.

My parents now have a turn of the century Hallet-Davis baby grand that they had restored - that is how I got the Baldwin. I honestly like the sound of the Baldwin better!