THE PERIOD PIANO COLLECTION

 Performing - Studying - Exhibiting - Conserving

A 501(c)3 Non-Profit Corporation    email contact

        Bill Shull, RPT, M.Mus.  Founder and President

       610 Amigos Dr C,  Redlands, CA  92373  909 796-4226     PERIOD PIANO CENTER SINCE 2006                       

We seek to rediscover the art of the piano as the composer heard it on the instruments of the time;  to collect and study the instruments themselves, conserving many for history, and performing on many, so we might rediscover history’s magic.  We exhibit and curate instruments, tell the great stories of piano and society, and study the history of the piano, its technology and its builders.

Nunns and Clark Square 2534

Chickering 121 “Quarter-Grand” #108810

Chickering 122 “Quarter-Grand”

Steinway and Sons Monitor Grand #31102 1875

1858 Steinway 8’ Concert Grand #1396, flat-strung, one of the earliest “fancy” grands. 

Klemm-Babcock Square ca. 1830-1835

Chickering 8’4” Concert Grand scale 33E #45535

Chickering 7’8” scale 84 “Semi-Grand”

Steinway “Parlor Grand” Style A,  6’  1886

Chickering 7’8” scale 19 “Semi-Grand,” #33485

Mason and Hamlin Early “A” 6’3” Screwstringer Grands #9509

Schomacker 6’ Grand,  Gold-stringed copy of Steinway A1

1858 Chickering Concert Grand #20961

John Tallmann Square ca. 1830

Chickering 141 Concert Grand #15451- former piano of the LA Philharmonic

Chickering 67 Vertical ca. 1885

J&C Fischer Cabinet Grand, ca. 1875

J&C Fischer Boidoir Vertical bichord, 1870s

Nunns and Clark Square ca. 1835

Chickering “Cocked Hat” Grand 7’, Rosewood, 1858

Steinway “C” Grand 7’4” 53804, Rosewood 1885

Steinway “G” Vertical 57” 42279 3/4 plate, Rosewood

Steinway “M” Vertical 57” 61354 Full plate, Rosewood

Chickering 8’4” Scale 33B Concert Grand, built in 1875, flatstrung, This piano was used in the November 13, 2016 Gottschalk concert with Frank Franch

 Mason and Hamlin 7’5”  “Style “B” “screw stringer” Grand #8940 - 1895. 

 1858 Hallet and Cumston Cocked Hat Grand #6742

1859 8’2” Chickering Concert Grand #22163, flatstrung

1867 Chickering 8’4” Concert Grand #30036

1847 Chickering Square Grand case #8141

1880s (undated) Chickering 110B 7’6” Grand case number #1782 (loaned)

1887 Chickering 106 6’4” #73240

Chickering 109C 6’4” #78875

Heintzmann #27374 Transposing Vertical

1868 Steinway 8’6” Rosewood Concert Grand #16681

1871 Steinway 7’2” “Style 2” Rosewood Grand #24681

1870 Steinway 7’2” Rosewood Grand #20500

1867 Steinway 48” Style 1 Double-Iron Upright #15225

1871 Steinway 52” “Style 3 2” Double Iron Upright #20905

 1879 Steinway “E” 48” Rosewood Upright #40731

 1881 Steinway “F” Ebonized #47263  Early Full Plate Vertical 

ca. 1857 Steinway Square #1301, 6 3/4 oct.

1875 Steinway Square #30846, 7 oct.

1878 Steinway Square #38043, 7 1/3 oct. with duplex and sostenuto

1880 Steinway Square 42972 similar to 38043 above (no picture)

ca. 1850 Wilkins and Newhall Square Grand #1210

Hallet Davis and Co. 7’4” Grand #38241

ca. 1825 Dubois and Stodart Square Grand #218

1890 Mason and Hamlin Screwstringer Vertical Style 5 #2196

1890 D.H. Baldwin Vertical #76

1892 Valley Gem #2920 Vertical

Foster and Co. Vertical #30350

J&C Fischer bichord Vertical

Knabe 6’ Grand #39056 Oak

Steinway Square #29672 (No Picture)