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MASON HAMLIN GRAND Piano, Model A Mahogany cabinet Completely Restored Chicago - $14,000.00. This 1907 mason was completely restored from top to bottom in 2015. The restoration included complete refinishing of the mahogany case, it was refinished in a 8 coats of hand rubbed lacquer with a brown mahogany stain, all of the nickel or chrome hardware was re-plated.
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With so many elements included, it is certainly sensible for a person who is uncertain about the audio of the instrument to get the tips of a expert music performer or somebody else who understands how pianos should tone.
Much less knowledgeable buyers soon find out that what they perform not know about a piano would fill up the Great Canyon. If there is definitely a hairline crack in the metal framework, the device is worthy of nothing at all. It is definitely extremely difficult to discover a top-quality restored device that provides an acceptable sound and technical high quality and also looks well.
Mister. Lateiner tested 23 grands at the showrooms of the Baldwin Piano and Organ Business, 922 7th Avenue (at 58th Road); Steinway amp; Sons, 109 Western 57th Road; Sotheby Parke Bérnet's York Opportunity Art galleries at 72d Road and two dealers - A amp; C Piano Art Inc., 149 Wooster Road, and Camilleri Pianos, 121 West 19th Street. In each case, he played the same songs - several a few minutes of Beethoven'beds 'Waldstein' Sonata and Beethoven'beds 'Emperor' Concérto.
At BaIdwin, where there are usually very few used or remodeled grand pianos, the cost when they are usually available is from 20 to 50 percent less than brand-new ones, which vary from $10,000 to $25,000. 'And as soon as we get them we sell them,' stated Jack Roamann, supervisor of Baldwin'beds show and performer department. Even more frequently than not, he continuing, 'our clients sell their grands privately.' Those that are offered by Baldwin, however, bring a guarantee (Steinway also gives a guarantee).
Mr. Lateiner performed two Baldwin grands, the first of which can be a 6-foot 3-inch piano that wás made 16 years ago and was formerly owned by Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Lateiner stated, 'The motion was very loosened, there was no feeling of high quality to the audio and it has been noisy and banging.' The piano was lately marketed for $6,500. The 2nd, a 30-year-old, 5-foot 2-inch grand, 'had án unusually good sóund for a BaIdwin that sizé,' Mr. Lateiner stated. The piano had simply been delivered to the shop and got not long been refurbished. When remodeled, it will sell for about $6,000.
At Steinway, two pianos that have been utilized for concertizing are usually about to become patterns are released and will be accessible for purchase. One, a sevenfoot instrument called a 'C,' about six decades old, will be sold mainly because is certainly for $9,000 to $10,000 as opposed to $17,000 for the same piano brand-new. The second one is certainly a nine-foot grand that is usually 11 yrs older and will be $17,000 or $18,000. Both, Mister. Lateiner said, are usually 'conjunction high quality' and the niné-foot one will be 'an remarkably beautiful device.'
This has been not correct of three óf the five othérs obtainable in the used and reworked section. A 5-foot 10 1/2-inch grand in waInut, called án 'L' for Iarge, is less thán two years oId and has néver been sold. Thát explained why 'it sounds like a brand-new piano - not worked in - it's cottony,' Mr. Lateiner said. The cost is certainly $13,500.
Another great of about the same age group and costed at $13,900 had, he mentioned, 'no high quality.' An ebony keyboard of the exact same size at $12,100 has been 'completely muffled and will probably never open up up,' he remarked. The two he liked were a somewhat used one, again in walnut, ánd a one-yéar-old ebony great at $16,100 that has been the greatest accessible he saw that time.
At A ámp; G, staffed by violin makers formerly utilized at Steinway, there were many more fantastic pianos to choose from - 55 in share, 15 or 20 prepared to play and five that Frank Martira, one óf the four partnér-owners, stated were high quality pianos. The best, based to Mr. Lateiner, can be a 1900 seven-foot Steinway at $13,500 that 'has some heaviness but is certainly completely workable.' A 50-year-old Mason and Hamlin at $7,000 provides, he commented, 'a great tone but I don't think it will use as properly as a Steinway.' Mr. Lateiner was pleasantly amazed at 'the high quality of the shade' of a 15-year-old, 6-feet 3-inches Baldwin. He furthermore liked a 5 feet 10 inches Steinway dating tó 1923 and priced at $9,500.
Samuel Camilleri, a co-founder of A amp; C who can be right now on his personal, was furthermore previously at Steinway. He acquired four Steinways, like the second-best accessible instrument Mister. Lateiner acquired performed that day - an ebony 1896 seven-foot style that is usually $14,000. Two seven-foot ebony Steinways, however, had been not therefore effective. One, he said, which out dated to 1889, 'didn't experience like a Steinway' (it can be $11,000) and the various other 'experienced a smallish bottom and gorgeous treble -it't insane.' The 4th one, constructed in 1889, a six-foot piano at $10,000, 'has a beautiful best and the sleep is O.K.'
At Sotheby's York Method at 72d Street, five of thé 10 pianos that will end up being provided in an public sale next Thursday night were fixed up in advance of the presale exhibit so that Mister. Lateiner could enjoy them. Mark Turner, Sotheby's musical instrument expert, defined the five as representative of the range of high quality for this sale. Not integrated in the choice, he mentioned, are usually two of the greatest pianos - a Knabe courting to 1930 that may market for mainly because very much as $35,000, and a Chickering courting to 1905 that is usually also expected to provide up to $35,000.
The others, he stated, should become judged as furniture - all have exceptional situations, like one 7-feet-2 Steinway dating to 1910 and framed in Coromandel displays that may sell for upward to $120,000. This had been the best of the four -'a marvelous old device - everything will be now there and it just requires to be rebuilt.' The othérs, an 1885 Bechstein, an 1889 Ernst Munck and an 1860 Knabe, are 'unplayable,' he stated.
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The Model AA mainly exists as a size update for the Design A. Its greater length gives it a deeper largemouth bass.
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