Selling this beautiful piano for a customer who has inherited this 1890 Steinway Model D 9' Concert Grand Piano but hasn’t enough space in her house to take it. We have given this instrument a thorough clean, fitted a few missing strings, a hammer reshape, and full factory spec action regulation. Plays smoothly with a brilliant top end.
Some history:
Muriel Kayser (nee Boldt) learned from a pupil of Clara Schumann and Dr Paul Weingarten at the Conservatorium in Vienna in 1925-1928, after studying at the Melbourne Con with a Polish teacher called Edvard Goll. She boarded with an Austrian family in Heiligenstadt where Beethoven lived. She performed at soirees and concerts in Bendigo where she had 40 pupils and was a great friend of Buntie (Margaret ) Schofield in Melbourne. Muriel lost her father aged four, at which time her mother bought a piano for her.
This Steinway piano was once thought to be the best piano in Australia and was bought by the 'Quartz King' of Bendigo George Lansell according to Steinway records. There is a statue of him in Bendigo. His daughter Edith was a great friend of Muriel’s and gave her the piano.
