Erard pianos : 8 results priced between £2.00 and £25,000.00

Description: Satinwood case and inlaid boxwood stringing detail. Price includes full rebuild.

All pianos from BiggarsMusic are delivered and prepared by our specialist delivery team. This ensures that they are handled carefully, set up and adjusted correctly. We make a charge of £145 to cover ground floor delivery for upright pianos, and £195 for grand pianos. There is an additional charge of £50 for a post-delivery tuning.

An Erard grand piano with an inlaid, mahogany case. Cabinet features stunning flame mahogany panels accented by satinwood crossbanding inlaid with diamond ebony detail. Piano has six tapered, octagonal legs with stringing inlay and brass finials. Piano lyre has claw and ball feet. A replica of Marie Antoinette's piano.

Centaur CRC3071 : Transcontinental Piano Duo / Elaine Greenfield / Janice Meyer Thompson / Claude Debussy / Georges Bizet / Maurice Ravel / Petite Suite (Claude Debussy). Jeaux d'enfants opus 38 - Children's Games (Georges Bizet). Ma mere l'Oye - Mother Goose (Maurice Ravel). Six Epigraphs Antiques (Claude Debussy). Dolly Suite opus 56 (Gabriel Faure). /

It is 1880s London, and piano tuner Edgar Drake has been asked to meet with two senior army officials. A highly decorated although somewhat eccentric officer has requested that a specialist piano tuner be sent to the eastern reaches of Upper Burma to repair a rare Erard grand piano. Initially taken aback by this strange request, Edgar discusses it with his wife Katherine and comes to the conclusion that it is the very least that he can do for his country. The journey from London takes more than two...

Quick Overview In 1886 London, married piano tuner Edgar Drake is requested by the War Office to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erard grand piano which belongs to a Surgeon-Major who is credited with making peace in the war-torn Shan States. So begins a tale of myth, romance and self-discovery.

All this enabled the full magic of a historic event to be captured in both image and sound. Playing an Érard piano dating from 1849, the pianists Nelson Goerner, Kevin Kenner and Janusz Olejniczak, alongside the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen, each performed each of the six works which the young Chopin composed in order for them to be displayed before the demanding public of his own country. With such works Chopin's fame as a great piano virtuoso was to become established elsewhere...

Background: 'This recording raised the same question as all previous ones: should I use an authentic or a modern piano? At home I have a Steinway, on which I learnt to play, and it is a wonderful instrument. When I was about twenty I was fortunate enough to get to know authentic instruments: romantic grand pianos by erard and Pleyel and older ones by Graf, Streicher etc. This was a new world of timbres and expressive potential. Naturally, I took the inspiration and revelations provided by these instruments...