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.

JS Bach

CPE Bach

Josef Haydn

Video recording soon!

Coming Soon:  The First Great American Piano Builder, Chickering

The “Vignette” Exhibits will review pianos from the earliest period to the 20th century in successive brief vignettes.  Chickering is arguably the most historically important American piano company.

Recent Acquisitions

JB Streicher 8’ Grand ca. 1880

1858 “cocked hat”  grand and 1874 concert grand Chickerings from the Period Piano Collection.

 Support Our East Coast Collection Visit

Review our past concerts here

Hear Public Radio Interview - Margeret Worsley with President Bill Shull on Musically Speaking, which aired in October 2022 on KVCR radio and National Public Radio

 Historical Steinway pianos?  Please support history and send photo documents to ensure a complete account of the production of this most famous and successful builder.  Here’s how.

We also systematically study the historical production of other great makes, including Chickering, Mason and Hamlin and Knabe.

ALL DAY SEMINAR

Review our collection, current exhibit, online database, piano history consultation and other projects.

Exhibit Ticket $30 - group discount (4 or more), regular ticket $50.  By appointment. click here for more information and ticket purchase

Visit our exhibits to view and hear the Broadwood “Beethoven Piano”

Arrangements by appointment, complying with Covid protocols

Consultation service for vintage Knabes, Chickerings, Steinways and Mason and Hamlins is provided based both on our expertise in the history of these pianos and our possession of digital archives of many of the production and sales catalogs of these makes.  A minimum donation is requested.  Click HERE to learn about this service.