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.

Steinways in Public Places

Below are museums which include early Steinways in their collections.  Instruments may be in storage; always check availability before visiting.

Smithsonian Institution, American History Museum, Washington, D.C.: Steinway 1857 8’ concert grand #1199, flat-strung, retrofitted action from 1860s era Steinway;  Steinway 8’10” “D” concert grand, 1892.  http://www.si.edu/

National Music Museum, Vermillion, S.D.: 1867 8’5” Concert Grand #15395;  1867 Double Iron Upright #14334

Cantos Museum, Calgara, Alberta, Canada: 1876 8’6” Concert Grand (misnamed “D” by museum, but probably a Style 3) http://www.cantos.ca/

Fredericks Museum, Ashburnham, MA: 1866 Steinway 8”5” concert grand http://www.frederickcollection.org/index.html

Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven, CT:  1867 Steinway 8’5” concert grand #13457.

Below are public places which house early Steinways:

William Seward House, Auburn NY: Steinway Monitor Style 1 Grand, #26608 www.sewardhouse.org

Sprague Mansion, Cranston, Rhode Island: 1880 Steinway Centennial “D” Concert Grand   www.cranstonhistoricalsociety.org