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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.


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ART CASE STEINWAY 7’5” 1890s Hamburg STYLE C

Gilded and Painted by P. Juette of Paris in opera scenes

Once Gifted by President Mateo Lopez of Mexico to his wife Angelica Gutierrez Sadurni Roberts

More recently used by many Long Beach Symphony artists who visited Elise’s Tea Room


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	From Anita Spinell via Elise Benavidez, Los Alamitos, CA

Bosendorfer 7’

While most Viennese pianos with modern overstrung plates and Viennese actions have a difficult, heavy touch, this action is facile and friendly. This piano is evidence of how the Viennese action with modern, heavier hammers is capable of a high level of performance. Tonally this piano meets all expectations of Bosendorfer lovers.

Identification details forthcoming

From Irene Rafael, Rancho Palos Verdes, California


		BOSENDORFER 7’ WITH RESPONSIVE VIENNESE ACTION



			JB STREICHER 7’6” ca. 1880

The third iteration of the great firm of Stein/Streicher, JB Streicher built pianos favored by Johannes Brahms

From Karen Peterson Kramer/The Lawrence E Peterson Family Trust

The first American production iteration of the Steinway “B” (then called the Monitor), of a scale begun in the early 1860s in Braunschweig by Theodore Steinway. This has his unique single escapement action, one solution to the problem with weight and inertia which plagued Steinway actions

From the Tangs of San Diego, CA


	1875 STEINWAY MONITOR GRAND WITH THEODORE STEINWAY PATENT ACTION


		One of the more significant builders of quality pianos in the 19th century, and famously the employer of Steinway family members before the start of Steinway and Sons. See also our #1904 From Spencer Reynolds of San Lorenzo, CA

	The great Alpheus Babcock left the Boston Piano Manufactory when Jonas Chickering purchased it, and went to Philadelphia, where he built pianos for Klemm before returning to work for Chickering. From Karen Burgess of Santa Cruz, CA




					NUNNS AND CLARK SQUARE #2534





						KLEMM-BABCOCK SQUARE 1830s


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