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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.
At the time it was the world's most expensive initial purchasing price for a piano, however it has since been overtaken by at least two other Steinway grand pianos: the Fibonacci Piano in 2015 and ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ in 2017, both of which cost roughly twice as much as Sound of Harmony. [2]
They built a full line of upright pianos, player pianos, and grand pianos. It was acquired circa 1910; went out of business in the Great Depression. Beale Piano: Sydney: Australia 1893–1975 Becker Brothers: New York: US 1892–1940 They Also built pianos under the Bennington name, and player pianos under the Mellotone and Playernola name as well.
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In 1979, Fazioli started designing the first prototype for a baby grand piano. He was assisted by a small team consisting of Professor Pietro Righini, an expert in musical acoustics, [citation needed] and Professor Guglielmo Giordano, a wood technologist, as well as Virgilio Fazioli and Lino Tiveron. The prototype of the F183 model was ...
Imperial Bösendorfer in the Music Hall of the University of Bamberg. The Bösendorfer Model 290 Imperial, or Imperial Bösendorfer (also colloquially known as the 290 [1]) is the largest model and flagship piano manufactured by Bösendorfer, at around 290 cm (9 ft 6 in) long, 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) wide, and weighing 552 kg (1,217 lb). [2]