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THE PERIOD PIANO COLLECTION

 Performing - Studying - Exhibiting - Conserving

A 501(c)3 Non-Profit Corporation    email contact

        Bill Shull, RPT, M.Mus.  Founder and President

       610 Amigos Dr C,  Redlands, CA  92373  909 796-4226     PERIOD PIANO CENTER SINCE 2006                       

We seek to rediscover the art of the piano as the composer heard it on the instruments of the time;  to collect and study the instruments themselves, conserving many for history, and performing on many, so we might rediscover history’s magic.  We exhibit and curate instruments, tell the great stories of piano and society, and study the history of the piano, its technology and its builders.

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Mathushek Orchestral Grand #10886

The square grand in the late 19th century was still very popular, and some builders wanted to take it to the next level.   Mathushek built the closest thing to a “concert grand.”   This is a large-voiced, powerful instrument which is robustly built (note the plate’s substantial cast iron bracing and three planes of strings.)

 

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