Centennial Steinway?

[Greg Anderson]

Interesting coincidence, here's an eBay ad I just read for a similar piano: 

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=482493923

The seller claims: 

"Model M serial number 281032, extremely rare. Only three cases were made in this model. The piano was built in 1935 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Henry Steinway's "Biedermeyer Style" design of 1835. "

The seller's email is zabore@aol.com.  You might ask them where they got their  info. ;-)

Regards,
Greg Anderson


At 11:30 AM 10/31/00 -0500, Philip Jamison wrote:
>I recently acquired a mahogany Steinway Model S, the serial number of
>which dates it to 1938. It has Empire-like styling with octagonal,
>turned legs, a pedal lyre with a real "lyre" shape, and open desk, and
>an ivory oval "Steinway & Sons" nameplate screwed to the fallboard. I
>checked Radcliffe's "Steinway" book and was surprised to see "The
>original Steinway fortepiano" from 1839 (pg. 171) had a very similar
>case (save the inlay). This causes me to think Steinway made a
>"Centennial"
>model to commemorate the first Steinway grand. Am I correct? Thanks,
>
>Philip Jamison Pianos
>West Chester, PA
>

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