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Editor’s Note: This article was updated with the final sale price and other details following the auction’s conclusion. A baby grand piano that once belonged to Freddie Mercury sold for over ...
The world's most expensive grand piano sold at auction is a specially designed D-274 named Steinway Alma Tadema; [38] it sold for $1.2 million in 1997 at Christie's in London, [39] breaking Steinway's own 1997 price record of $390,000. [40] The D-274 was built in 1883–87 and designed by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
UK 1767–1929 Cunningham Piano Company: Philadelphia: US 1891 Pianos are made in China by Hailun Pianos. Currier Piano Co. Boston and Marion, NC US 1823–1969 Danemann Pianos: London: UK 1893–1994 Also made a Waldberg brand however 'Waldberg Berlin' may be a different company. Decker Brothers: New York: US 1862–1900 Ed. Westermayer ...
Finchcocks is an early Georgian manor house in Goudhurst, Kent. For 45 years it housed a large, visitor-friendly museum of historical keyboard instruments, displaying a collection of harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos, square pianos, organs and other musical instruments. The museum was run by the owners of the house, Richard and Katrina ...
Freddie Mercury ’s prized piano that he used to compose “Bohemian Rhapsody” and other hits by Queen sold for more than $2 million Wednesday as some of the late singer’s massive collection ...
The instrument he used to compose the seminal track “Bohemian Rhapsody” in 1975 has been estimated to fetch £2-£3 million at auction later this summer. Freddie Mercury’s piano revealed as ...
Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century ...
Colt Clavier Collection. The Colt Clavier Collection was a collection of historical keyboard instruments located in Bethersden, Kent, England. Consisting mostly of 18th and 19th-century pianos, it also included a few harpsichords and a few unusual keyboards which defy standard categorisation. It was thought one of the most important collections ...