Stained Glass Piano

Stained glass piano at Music House Museum in Traverse City, Michigan.

Aeolian Gold Piano

Gosh, the manufacture of this piano is the same one that made mine, Aeolian. But mine sure does not look anything like this. This one has gold all over it, while mine is French Provincial pecan with caning. And somehow, I bet it cost a tad more than mine did, too.

Link Piano

This is a Link piano that uses a continuous loop of paper to play fifteen songs. The loop is a permanent repertoire of songs and the loop continues to play the songs in the same order. These little feet at the bottom of the white paper help advance the paper when needed. I am amazed at how well it sounds.

Mahogany, Glass, and MIrrored Player Piano

This is a piano that was made of mahogany wood and beveled glass and mirrors. A player piano like this would be found in hotels and were quite an expensive item. By this time, they had ditched the idea of having pedals to power the playing, and those in charge of the aesthetics of it thought it looked too ridiculous to have the keys of piano going up and down when no one was sitting there, so the keys were just for looks and the playing of it was engineered to play completely inside.