The lid, look along the top front area of the plate. Here are the TOP FIVE places to locate the serial number of your spinet, console, studio, or upright piano:ġ) On the piano’s cast iron plate. Serial numbers may also include a letter as well. Piano serial numbers usually have five to seven digits, but may haveįewer or more, depending on the manufacturer and age of your piano. Bach gave thousands of concerts on his favorite square, and one was even kept in the White House for a period of time.Piano Serial Numbers: Location, location, location. Square pianos were the original standard of american pianos in the 19th century, because they are bulky and weren't designed to fill a concert hall they have been marked as junk which just isn't true they play with a feather touch and with modern technology they can fill up a concert hall with a beautiful tone no mater what the size of the room.

Younger Steinway squares fully restored from the late 1800's sell between the 20 and 30 grand mark online, unfortunately few squares as old as ours have made it to the store front once again. The oldest existing Steinway grand piano is from the same year and sold for over 20 million online, so we don't feel bad asking for so much after all this is a beautiful piece of history. The only way to experience her sound to the fullest is to stop by and play her but to give you an idea just by hitting one note the whole piano lights up with that sound as the piano gives just enough natural reverb to support the note while keeping the tone pure and never muddy with too many overtones. This beauty has a very unique and enticing full sound. Not that many 160 year old pianos play like they were built yesterday, but this one does! No Steinway sounds as beautiful and reverberation as this classic and our restoration master has played on hundreds. (one of the oldest Steinways in existence .)

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