1900 Emerson $995

Background:
Emerson Piano Company began making pianos around 1850, continuing production for almost a century. The name made several mergers, including ones with the United Piano Corporation, the American Piano Company and the Aeolian Piano Company. Besides the Emerson name, the company also made the Gramer piano.

This hand carved, turn of the century instrument exudes originality and displays a quality that is becoming more and more rare.

Dimensions: Width: 61 inches, Height: 54 inches, Depth: 26 inches.

1974 Hallet Davis & Co., $695

Background:
Among the oldest American pianos and one whose career has reflected credit upon the American art industries. Hallet, Davis & Co. can trace its origins to the year 1835. It was among the oldest of the historic Boston piano companies. Many world-famous pianists have chosen Hallet, Davis & Co. as their favorite piano. The world-renown composer Franz Liszt played on one at the great Paris exposition in 1867. In 1911, His Holiness, Pope Pius X selected a Hallet, & Davis & Co. piano for the Vatican, and awarded the Hallet, & Davis Company a gold medal in recognition of the beautiful qualities of the instrument. In November 1925, the Hallet & Davis Piano Co. was acquired by the Premier Grand Corporation of New York, which continued the manufacture of the famous grand piano which so long came from Boston. Building a piano is a demanding and precise art. It is a task based on knowledge and experience, and on the devotion of the builders to an unswerving ideal - never to compromise quality.

Matching bench & 5 year warranty

Dimensions: Width: 57 inches, Height: 36 inches, Depth: 22 inches.

1942 Wurlitzer, $895

Background:
In 1935, Wurlitzer introduced the tradition breaking spinet piano, proving that a piano only thirty-nine inches high could replace the bulky instruments traditionally produced. Upon the design of this piano is based all modern piano production. Through science, research, and ingenuity, Wurlitzer has developed such exclusive features as Tone-crafted Hammers, Pentagonal Sound Board, Augmented Sound Board, and many others to provide a greater volume of rich, resonant tone.

Matching bench & 5 year warranty

Dimensions: Width: 56 inches, Height: 37 inches, Depth: 24 inches.

1978 Kawai, $1095

Background:
This Kawai grand will make a fine instrument after it has a few thousand dollars of work put in to it. While the Kawai brand is a close second to Yamaha, this piano illustrates perfectly what happens to woods that are not seasoned for extreme dry climates. The last owner of this piano recently traded up to a Yamaha.

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Dimensions: Width: 60 inches, Height: 40 inches, Depth: 61 inches.

2008 Yamaha C3, $25,895

Background:
Yamaha pianos - the choice of many top pianists, is loved by families all around the globe. The superior quality of our pianos reflects leading edge technology, an advanced design philosophy, and the quality craftsmanship resulting from more than a century of piano maing experience.

Transparent reverberation and lush harmonies enable the C3 to fullfill the stringent requirements of the professional performer for fine expressive control.

Matching bench, two free tunings, & 10 year warranty

Dimensions: Width: 60 inches, Height: 40 inches, Depth: 73 inches.

1950 Haddorff, $895

Background:
The career of the Haddorff pianos is by many in the art world regarded as phenomenal. These famous instruments encompass every form and attainment, including the Artistic Grands, Reproducing Pianos, Grand Reproducing Players, Player-pianos and uprights every phase of high grade piano manufacture, and the name of Haddorif is always the symbol of musical attainment. The attainment of power in a piano's name is a matter of such complexity of elements that to describe the way to that result in words is almost impossible. Haddorff pianos have so long stood as representatives of fine achievement in pianos that to refer to the evenness of tone, the responsiveness of action, and the charm of expression possible to the performer, would be to repeat that with which the piano world is already familiar. Haddorff pianos are recognized as models of piano artistry. They are instruments whose workings out have been, as is always the case with ambitious instruments, gradual and progressive through the years. The Haddorff scale is so finely shaded, and its tonal results so graduated, that there is no ear so acute as to detect where the dividing lines occur. And that is one of the triumphs of the scale draftsman work. It is the work of a master acoustician whose entire life has been devoted to piano development and the finest attainment of inborn skill and experience has found a culmination in the instruments that bear his name. Mr. C. A. Haddorff designed and created the first Haddorff piano.

Matching bench & 5 year warranty

Dimensions: Width: 58 inches, Height: 40 inches, Depth: 22 inches.

1972 Story & Clark, $1595

Background:
Few piano industries can claim to have a larger distribution among music lovers of the highest discrimination. The house of Story & Clark is one of the oldest in the history of piano manufacturing in the west, and it has from the first stood unchallenged for integrity and ambition. Quality, since 1857.

Matching bench & 5 year warranty

Dimensions: Width: 58 inches, Height: 41 inches, Depth: 23 inches.

1971 Yamaha, $2195

Background:
Considered to be one of the finest pianos made, this Yamaha combines 100 years of precision engineering with sturdy cabinetry that's simple and functional in appearance. Solid spruce soundboard, V-PRO plate, and individually led weighted keys are some of the many high quality features found in this model. The highly acclaimed Yamaha touch and defined tone are quite evident particularly in this 40" series. Without a doubt, this used Yamaha console is one of the best pianos on the market today.

Matching bench & 5 year warranty

Dimensions: Width: 59 inches, Height: 40 inches, Depth: 24 inches.

1921 Wm. Knabe, $3495

Background:
The distinguished and time-honored instruments which bear this celebrated name are manufactured by Wm. Knabe & Co., Inc., one of America's oldest industries. Knabe pianos have an artistic record dating back to the year 183, when the instrument was founded by the late Wm. Knabe, in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Knabe had been working in different factories before he established his own instrument, having arrived in this country in 1832. His earlier knowledge had been acquired in the famous factories of Germany. Re was a man of great mechanical ability and possessed of ideals which mark the man of genius. These ideals have been sustained and imbedded in the Knabe piano to this day through all of more than eighty two years since the first instrument bearing the name appeared in Baltimore. In the succession of practical workers in the factories of Wm. Knabe & Co. has been generations of experts, descendants of the original workmen and members of the Knabe family. These skilled men gained their training in the Knabe factory and it is not long since a census of the Knabe employees proved the interesting fact that more than one third of the men have been employed by Wm. Knabe & Co. for from fifteen to more than fifty years, an average for the entire force of eighteen and a half years. When Wm. Knabe died in 1864 his two sons, Ernst and Wm. Knabe, Jr., and his son-in-law, Chas. Seidel, came into practical control of the rapidly expanding industry. Branch houses were opened in several cities, including New York and Washington. At the death of Ernst Knabe, who had become one of the most popular and able piano manufacturers the industry has ever known and later of his brother, Wm. Knabe, Jr., the direction of the business fell to Chas.

Matching bench & 1 year warranty

Dimensions: Width: 60 inches, Height: 40 inches, Depth: 63 inches.

2008 Yamaha GB1, $8495

Background:
The GB1, Yamaha's most compact and affordable grand, is a popular choice for locations where space is somewhat limited, with full resonant tone comparable to that of many substantially larger models.

Matching bench, two free tunings & full 10 year warranty

Dimensions: Width: 60 inches, Height: 40 inches, Depth: 59 inches.