This post has nothing to do with guitars!

[László]

I love great pieces like that! Very cool.

 

[Lewguitar]

I love great pieces like that! Very cool.

Being a furniture maker, I'm thrilled to have it!

In all honesty, I suspected it was something special but until I got out my books I wasn't sure.

Looks to be at least 200 years old.

 

[Troubador222]

That is beautiful!
Back in the 1970s, my father noticed an old organ stored in a chicken coop on a relatives farm up in Kentucky. It had belonged to my great grandmother and was from around 1900 or so. My dad got a U Haul trailer and took it back to Florida and restored it. It had an ornate top piece with a mirror and shelves that was mostly intact. He had to replace the bellows and straps for the pump mechanism. And it plays! I dont know how they determined it, but my dad said it was made of black walnut.

My brother still has it.

 

[Lewguitar]

I love things like that. I have a beautiful 120 year old upright piano that I bought for $500 many years ago. The harp inside is hand painted with flowers and the keys are ivory. Sounds wonderful but it's a little squeaky and creaky. Doesn't bother me. So am I!

https://imgur.com/iIs6N48

 

[aphantomvaper]

When I moved last I had to leave my 1927 Kimball. It wasn't a museum piece but there isn't anything like an acoustic piano when you're sitting at the keys and playing!

 

[Lewguitar]

When I moved last I had to leave my 1927 Kimball. It wasn't a museum piece but there isn't anything like an acoustic piano when you're sitting at the keys and playing!

Absolutely. I'm not much of a keyboard player. But I love to sit at it and write songs. I don't get inspired sitting at an electric keyboard. I get bored quickly.