Just For The Fun of It. If you have any idea what I am talking about, then you are probably one of those people who like me tend to see words backwards as well as forwards. It seems pointless, because a certificate is easier to fake than a piano. A fairly typical scenario is that a wholesaler such as Bansall would supply a piano to a retailer such as Barnes who would then sell it with one of several fictitious names, such as Barnes, or Adlon, D'Allinson, Gebruder Sohne, Harcourt, Karl Lange, Kirkwood, Osbert, Paul Gerard, Romberg, Stahl, etc. These aliases are unaccountably known as "Stencils" in the U. The latest examples of such pianos on our files are around

Piano Teacher Cheadle Hulme Cheshire Stockport Greater Manchester about any Berlin firm by that name, but there were Waldberg pianos made by Danemann, London about a century ago. You needs a tuner's report. Friendly, structured and fun lessons in Piano and Musicianship!

The only Waldberg pianos I've come across were made by Danemann. After all, I have been researching piano names for half a century, but if the. to give false German status to otherwise cheap and boring commercial London pianos. “Waldberg Berlin” was an original German name in Edwardian times, but.
For example, Gresham was real, but his genuine transfers were very large and fancy. Piano Teachers Forum.

Unfortunately, composers' names are very popular for use on pianos, for example, there are "Beethoven" pianos from Berlin, Stuttgart, London, Australia, New Zealand, New Jersey, etc. The selling power of a German-sounding piano name is still exploited, even by Chinese, Japanese and Korean makers.

Some are tributes to close friends, employers or business partners of the parents, but one cannot help wondering whether some were simply attempts by piano tradesmen to add fame to their children's names for future business gains. Roy Mills very kindly sent me this genuine, original piece of piano ephemera, a stencil used to apply the name of W.

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HEAD BAR There are clues which may suggest whether a name on a secondhand piano is original, for example, if the name is inlaid in brass, or cast into the iron frame, rather than a separate plate screwed on it must have been originally intended as the name of the piano, but even that doesn't mean it is the real name of a factory. The situation was much the same around the periphery of Britain. If any of these names are of interest to you, email me for details. Anti-German feeling in the war was probably the reason why this was hastily removed. At some point, Masterman succeeded Longman, but which Longman? They took over and supported the Kemble factory for many years, but it closed inthe dying breath of the long line of British piano factories, leaving only a few smaller workshops producing small numbers, such as. Our collection of Victorian books, purchased for their piano content, includes a useful selection of The Illustrated London News for each decade from onwards.

Following the Canterbury earthquakes in February this year, we purchased a piano from some people for cheap that were leaving the city.

lovely waldberg piano.

great working order and great condition. have had it aged at 's if delive. waldberg piano, art deco.

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lovely Report this item. An early 20th Century mahogany cased upright piano by Waldberg, Berlin, overstrung, bearing frame number '', There is no condition report for this lot.
In general I have no idea about the sense of a bogus piano company.

No "Waldberg Berlin" or anything.

Bord advertised grands, but I have only ever seen one bearing their name in all these years. A fairly typical scenario is that a wholesaler such as Bansall would supply a piano to a retailer such as Barnes who would then sell it with one of several fictitious names, such as Barnes, or Adlon, D'Allinson, Gebruder Sohne, Harcourt, Karl Lange, Kirkwood, Osbert, Paul Gerard, Romberg, Stahl, etc. Its great because other tuners refused to look at it, this guy is doing it even with other jobs he can be doing purely for the love of pianos.

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I had a call from a Trading Standards Officer who was trying to establish whether a piano was a genuine "Weber". Thomas states that he was a "Manufacturer" with a "Steam Works", but some of his pianos of the period are marked "Manufactured Expressly" with no other qualification. Just For The Fun of It. People have come to regard the internet as the ultimate fount of knowledge, but we have over 80, piano and music names on file. When I had first contacted a piano tuner they said, without even looking at it, they wouldn't tune it.