BUICK RACER Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10200856911199579" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0"></iframe>'>http://<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10200856911199579" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0"></iframe> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BigDogDaddy Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Pretty Cool ! Thanks for sharing. Where is this ? Is it privately owned or is this in a public place ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUICK RACER Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 Good question, Leroy Cole donated Billy Durant's piano to the Durant Dort Office Building today. It was moved today by Red's Moving and we hope to have it tuned and someone to play it on August 17 during Back to the Bricks.The piano was a wedding present to Billy and his first wife Clara from Clara's father Ralph S. Pitt who was the ticket agent for the Flint and Pere Marquette railroad station. The piano was moved to the family cottage at Pentwater on Lake Michigan and later used in the community hall in the gated community. Frances Willson Thompson gave the piano to Richard Scharchburg around 1980 who later gave it to his friends Leroy and Cora Cole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BigDogDaddy Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Wow ! Interesting history. I wish we lived closer, my Dad plays period correct music on the piano. Or could have a 4 or 5 piece band to play along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Glad it has been saved. So many old pianos have been smashed apart and scrapped for the cast iron in the harp, and brass parts. The wood has been thrown in a heap and burned. Sad that most of these beautiful old instruments are not worth much today and folks just do not want them taking up space. Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booreatta Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 This is very cool, I would think that an old upright piano from that time would have been fairly rare, I thought most pianos from that era would be a grand. Just guessing.Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BigDogDaddy Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Grand pianos were always expensive. Uprights were the most common. Think of all the old saloons, they were uprights. My father had restored many an old upright, most of which were players, and many were from the 1800s and early 1900s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 The Studebaker family donated their piano to the local union hall in South Bend during the war. It is still there to this day: https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-forum/general-studebaker-specific-discussion/6582-south-bend-self-tour-1-uaw-local-5 Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Shaw Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Our son now has the family's 1875 Upright Grand Piano from my wife's great Aunt Ida. It has a beautifully hand carved walnut case and cost around $1500 to get mechanisms restored and tuned over a dozen years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 You folks sure dug this out of the archives. First posted Aug, 20, 2013. Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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