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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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Steinway & Sons 8’ “Fancy Grand” #1396 first sold in 1858
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1395 and 1396 were among the first production fancy grand cabinets  built by Steinway and Sons

 
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 Flatstrung, like nearly all of the first three years of Steinway grand pianos (1856 to 1858).  Production pair #1395 and #1396 were  begun in the factory September 26, 1857.  Period Piano Center’s #1396 was sold in March 1858.
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