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Steck-Aeolian, Electric Duo-Art Baby Grand Pianola, complete with period piano stool
& piano rolls. c1926.
|PRICE £1500.00
A rare opportunity to purchase one of the most sort after Pianola actions, manufactured by the famous Aeolian Company.
The piano is a Steck Baby Grand with electric Duo-Art reproducing Pianola action.
This system offers the best of both worlds. It allows you to play normal 88 note piano rolls Themodising & Metrostyle systems to assist musical expression and tempo while interpreting and playing piano rolls. Also by moving the function switch to Duo-Art mode it will play special reproducing rolls that offer piano rolls played and interpreted by many famous pianists.
The system offer complete automatic control of piano rolls, just insert the roll, chose mode and select play, then switch on, the roll will play through to the end, rewind and then switch off.
The instrument also offers a transposing tracker bar, this devise moves the tracker bar scale up or down octaves for singing.
There is also a repeat selection switch; this allows a roll to be played continuously, a very pleasant experience to play music automatically in the background while having dinner.
Please note this Pianola is electrically played only, therefore no foot pedals that operate the bellows.
The piano case is in very good condition, it is veneered sapele and fiddle back mahogany and has a very pleasing patina.
The fall board has inlaid brass stringing.
It is 580cm long x 440cm x 99cm high.
A high quality period piano stool is included in the sale.
The piano keys tops are ivory and in excellent condition.
The soundboard is in good order; the cast frame gilding is also good condition.
Therefore a very attractive Baby Grand Pianola that would grace any home.
For quite a number of years the instrument has been kept in tune and played as a piano.
Recently it was moved to our client new home; the piano will need tuning and some adjustment to the dampers.
The Pianola has not operated for some years; therefore it will need repairs and restoration. All the Pianola operating parts are all in place, if requested images of the Pianola action are available.
We can provide help and guidance regarding replacing tubing etc, also complete diagrams of the duo-art system.
As mentioned above, the pianola is offered compete with a period piano stool, also a collection of approx 25 note standard 88 note piano rolls, a good mix of original older style rolls and modern QRS tunes, including Christmas Carols, White Christmas, Love Story, Nat King Cole, Jazz classics etc.
General Pianola Information.
Pianola is the trade name of the Aeolian/Orchestrelle Company for their brands of player piano. They manufactured Pianola in USA, UK, and Germany, the pianos brand names made by Aeolian included Steinway, Weber, Steck, Stroud, Farrand, etc, all high quality instruments.
The term Pianola has over the years become the generic name for player pianos.
The player piano is a self-playing piano, (also a first class piano that can be played manually like any other) containing a pneumatic mechanism that plays on the piano action via perforated paper piano rolls. The rise of the player piano grew with the rise of the mass-produced piano in the house and the sheet music industry explosion of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Many of the piano rolls are authorised copies of actual piano artists, including Gershwin, Paderewski, Scot Joplin and many Jazz pianists. The piano rolls are still manufactured today offering a mix of music from classical - rock & pop, Abba, Beatles, Elvis Elton John etc to-jazz & swing- all the modern shows i.e. Andrew Lloyd Weber's Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserable by Mackintosh.
The Aeolian brands are the true Pianola, offering both themodising and metrostyle player systems, also the Duo-Art reproducing roll playing system.
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Steck Baby Grand EDA 2