Instruments for Sale

Modern Instruments

• IBACH Grand Piano [Photo], manufactured in 1911 in Barmen, German. 5' 10" long, 88-note keyboard, beautifully refinished in black French polish. Meticulously restored with new strings and a rebuilt action. $15,500.


• MASON & HAMLIN, Model D upright piano in mahogany [Photo]. Manufactured in Boston in 1913. Serial No. 25184. 52" high by 63" wide. Completely restored and refinished. $6,000.


• WEBER & Co., New York. Concert Grand [Photo], Serial No. 39400. Manufactured in 1893. Restoration in progress. Perfect for a church or small concert hall.

Historical Fortepianos

• Jan Lodewijk Dulcken (attributed) 18th-Century Fortepiano [Photo]. For the first time in more than thirty years we can offer a rare Mozart-period fortepiano. This instrument is characteristic of the instruments from the workshop of Jan Lodewijk Dulcken. Length 220 cm, width: 102 cm; corpus height: 30 cm, keyboard range: EE-g’’’; Case: cherry veneer, paneled lid, four square, tapered legs. The music desk extends across the entire width of the instrument, 2 knee levers lift the dampers, double-strung through eb’’, triple strung from e’’ to g’’’, one wooden gap spacer. Action: Viennese or South German Prellmechanik with wooden kapsels. Signatures: on the damper rack: “ No. 1870”; on the treble side of key # 1: “Rep.[aratur] 24.III.14 B.[?] Zöllner." Most of the original wire sizes are still marked on the pin block. A curious geometric design on the pinblock may be a reference to the builder's name, the string scaling or the tuning temperament. Fully restored in our workshop and concert ready. $100,000 or best offer.


• SOLD: JOHANN BAPTIST STREICHER (1796-1871) [Photo]. Concert fortepiano, serial number 3705/7 in pyramid mahogany. Vienna, 1843. Inscription in engraved brass letters within a floral design: J. B. STREICHER/Kaiserl: Königl: Hof- [Austrian double eagle] Fortepianoverfertiger/Wien /Goldene Medallie 1835 Goldene Medaille 1839. Inscription on the soundboard: 3705/ J. B. STREICHER/ vormals N. Streicher geb. Stein und Sohn/Wien/1843/7. 7' 11" long by 52" wide. A rare Streicher fortepiano with English action. The number 7 under the date indicates that this instrument was the seventh in the series of instruments with English actions. This rare fortepiano, probably the earliest extant Streicher with an English action, has been completely restored and is concert ready. Restoration just completed. $39,000 SOLD


• SOLD: DANIEL DÖRR (c.1789-1837) [Photo 1], [Photo 2], [Photo 3], [Moderator/Dampers]. Viennese concert fortepiano Serial number 1243. This magnificent Beethoven-period fortepiano was manufactured circa 1825. Signature Daniel Dörr in Wien/ Wieden No. 49. Six-octave range (FF-f4). 232cm long, 127 cm wide. Walnut cabinet refinished in French polish. The restoration of this fortepiano was completed in February of 2008. $45,000 SOLD
  

  Daniel Dörr was born in Sonnenberg (Hessen) circa 1789 and he died in Vienna on 4 Jan 1837. In 1817 he applied for a permit to build fortepianos in Vienna and he received his license the same year. His workshop was located auf der Wieden, Haupstraße Nr. 242. Daniel Dörr had a very successful business that was continued by his son Wilhelm Dörr and his grandson Karl Dörr, who continued to make instruments into the 20th-century. This instrument is triple strung throughout the scale and the lowest strings are brass. The same configuration is used by Conrad Graf for his six-octave instruments. In its scaling and construction with double gap spacers the instrument shows the influence of the grand fortepianos built by Nannette Streicher. Two fortepianos by Daniel Dörr are preserved at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

  
  
• IGNAZ BÖSENDORFER (1794-1859) [Photo] K.K. Hof & Kammer [Double eagle] Piano-Vertfertiger/ Wien. Number 3881 Seven-octave, Viennese action, concert fortepiano. Perfect ebony over ivory keyboard. Spectacular book-matched burl-walnut cabinet restored in French polish. The orginal hammers, dampers, and tuning pins have been retained in the meticulous restoration of this rare instrument. This fortepiano is featured on the Harmonia Mundi (France) recording of Johannes Brahm's Horn Trio ,op. 40 (HMU 907037). Provenance: Austrian Benedictine monastery at Lambach. 7' 8" long, 47" wide.


• LUDWIG BÖSENDORFER (1835-1919) [Photo] concert grand fortepiano, series number 6241, Vienna, circa 1865. 7' 8" long and 55" wide. The cabinet is mahogany with the maker's name inlaid in brass on an ebony fallboard. Inscription on the fallboard: Bösendorfer. Inscription on the soundboard: L. Bösendorfer/Kais. Bras. Hof Clavier-Macher/ Medaille/ General Excellence of Pianos/1862 Londini/Honoris Causa/ 6241. Provenance: Purchased from a castle near Udine in Northern Italy. The inner rim is in maple. Simple, elegant mahogany cabinet with elaborate music desk. This very solid, unrestored instrument still has its original action, dampers, and strings.


• KARL KUTSCHERA [Photo] (Flourished in Vienna 1862-1900), concert fortepiano in walnut, opus number 185 , manufctured circa 1867. 7' 6" long; 54" wide. Nameboard signature in inlaid pewter: C. Kutschera in Wien/Auszeichnung in DJA/Wien 1863; Wien Medaille/Ranges/ Linz 1864. Soundboard signature: Carl/Kutschera/Fortepiano Fabrik/ in Wien/Gumpendorferstraße No. 91; Auszeichnung Jahre/ 1863 in Wien/Preis Medaille 1864/ in Linz/ Opus No. 185. 85-note keyboard. Perfect ebony and ivory keyboard. Provenance: Villa Rezonico in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, where Wagner, Liszt and Hans von Bülow played the instrument during documented visits to the villa. For sale restored or as is.


• JOSEPH SIMON, STUDENT OF CONRAD GRAF, Viennese concert fortepiano, circa 1835. An important, original instrument in need of complete restoration.

Square Pianos

• WILLIAM GEIB [Photo] Square grand piano. Date: ca 1825. Signature: Improved Patent/W. Geib/3rd Avenue & 201 Broadway/New York. This instrument is still completely original and unrestored. The magnificent mahogany cabinet has reeded legs and pedal foot with gilt stencilling. $2,000


• SOLD - [ADAM] STODART(c. 1800-c. 1875), New York [Photo]. American square grand in rosewood, serial number 8608. (circa 1840). 31" wide by 6' long. Signature on a silver rectangle above the keyboard: Stodart/New York. Perfect ebony over ivory keyboard. Excellent, original condition. Six-octaves, two pedals (moderator and damper lift). Metal hitch-pin plate. Excellent original, unrestored condition.


• SOLD - FIRTH & HALL, New York [Photo 1], [Photo 2]. American square grand in mahogany. Serial no. 323 Signature on the fallboard: Firth & Hall/No. 1 Franklin Square/New York. Date of manufacture: c. 1835. Turned and fluted mahogany legs and a pedal foot. 68" long, 27" wide. The firm of Firth and Hall was located at 1 Franklin Square after 1832. Unrestored, original condition. $1,000

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