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The world's most expensive grand piano sold at auction is a specially designed D-274 named Steinway Alma Tadema; [38] it sold for $1.2 million in 1997 at Christie's in London, [39] breaking Steinway's own 1997 price record of $390,000. [40]
Ivory trade in Ghana, 1690. Elephant ivory has been exported from Africa and Asia for millennia with records going back to the 14th century BCE.Transport of the heavy commodity was always difficult, and with the establishment of the early-modern slave trades from East and West Africa, freshly captured slaves were used to carry the heavy tusks to the ports where both the tusks and their ...
Ivory for piano keys came from India and Africa. Wool for the hammers came from Australia. Rich wood veneers were imported from Mexico, South America and the gold coast of Africa. In return, Cable distributed its pianos all over the world and had dealers in Spain, Italy, British East Africa, Japan, Australia and other key foreign places." [40]
This is the way the music ends. An unwanted piano sits in the driveway of Nate Otto's Anoka home, awaiting its fate. It was headed to the landfill, but ended up with Otto, a player piano restorer ...
Most View-Master reels, even old ones, are very affordable today — even the more "valuable" three-reel sets generally sell in the $10 to $50 range — but some of them are far pricier.
These are the items Americans lose most. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most commonly lost items were also among the most ubiquitous and important: phones and keys.
Some of Steinway's most notable art case pianos are the Alma-Tadema grand piano from 1887, the 100,000th Steinway piano from 1903, the 300,000th Steinway piano from 1938, and the Sound of Harmony from 2008. The Alma-Tadema grand piano was designed by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and received great public acclaim when it was exhibited in London. [126]
Company Place Country Years active Acquired by Notes Atlas [1] [2]: Hamamatsu→Liaoning: Japan→China 1943–1986 2004–present. Atlas Piano and Instrument Manufacturing (Dalian) Co. Ltd is a musical instrument manufacturing company that Japan atlas piano manufacturing Co., Ltd. whole moved to China and invested and registered in Dalian Free Trade Zone.