{"id":2477,"date":"2013-04-02T22:19:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2013-05-08T17:14:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:14:27","slug":"piano-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/piano-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very happy to report that my old piano has been sold, though for a fraction of what I think it was worth, to an instrument shop in Wiltshire. I hope that the eventual owners have lots of fun playing it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Made by Witton, Witton &amp; Co, London, probably c. 1920-22.<\/li>\n<li>Restored by Courtney Pianos, Oxford 1991. As the invoice puts it: \u201cfully restrung &amp; re-pinned, action &amp; keyboard renovated, tuned to A=440 Hz (modern concert pitch) and regulated\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Iron frame, 88-key (7-and-a-half octave), overstrung, under-damped upright.<\/li>\n<li>Approx size 62&#8243;x52&#8243;x28&#8243; \/ 157 x 132 x 71 cm (Note &#8211; deeper than many, so check your door sizes!)<\/li>\n<li>Originally a pianola, alas the roll-playing mechanism is long gone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6yN6wbOX_eo\">Video on YouTube<\/a> and MP3 Sound file: <div id=\"haiku-player1\" class=\"haiku-player\"><\/div><div id=\"player-container1\" class=\"player-container\"><div id=\"haiku-button1\" class=\"haiku-button\"><a title=\"Listen to \" class=\"play\" href=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Piano_Demo_mono.mp3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listen to \" class=\"listen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/plugins\/haiku-minimalist-audio-player\/resources\/play.png\"  \/><\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<ul id=\"controls1\" class=\"controls\"><li class=\"pause\"><a href=\"javascript: void(0);\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"play\"><a href=\"javascript: void(0);\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"stop\"><a href=\"javascript: void(0);\"><\/a><\/li><li id=\"sliderPlayback1\" class=\"sliderplayback\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t<\/div><!-- player_container-->\n\t\n<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2477 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/piano-for-sale\/fry_witton31661_002\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Fry_Witton31661_002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" 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I hope that the eventual owners have lots of fun playing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/piano-for-sale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}