Vintage Piano.

Vintage antique pianos and tips how to find a good instrument.

“Vintage Piano” as the very word suggests is “old world “in its connotation and takes you back to a scene out of Shakespeare’s plays or a scene from Jane Austen’s novels where the hero or the heroine are seated at a piano invariably.

”Vintage” refers to any old fashioned or dated object, which although old, remains of continuing interest .

Generally speaking, any piano manufactured before the mid-twentieth century would be termed as a vintage piano. Although pianos are not much in vogue in the present day and have been replaced by other modern day musical instruments in the nineteenth century.

Even in the early twentieth century before the advent of radios, TVs’ and computers, in the West, the focus was mainly on piano’s especially as a means of entertainment and almost every family of repute and standing, possessed a piano. Some of the oft quoted piano manufacturers were Steinway, Mason & Hamlin, Chickering, Bechstein etc

After the mid-twentieth century these priceless vintage pianos went into cold storage as it were and found their place in attic’s and storehouses and little or no importance was given to them. But lately there has been a turnabout and more and more users and lovers of antiques have evinced  considerable interest in such pieces, as research  shows that there is a history behind each of these priceless vintage pianos which makes it worth investing in. Such priceless vintage piano’ are now restored and refinished and brought back to their original glory.

Although pianos are manufactured in plenty in the present days too, they do not in any way compare favourably with the vintage pianos. The materials used are mostly cheap and these piano’s are manufactured in bulk and are machine made and not with the care and craftsmanship that had gone into producing the antique pianos. As against the quality of the ivory keyboards and the soft and mellow tonal quality of the old vintage pianos, what we now get is plastic in place of ivory and jarring notes in place of dulcet ones.