10/15/2026
Are you a fan of the HBO series, The Gilded Age? The new season premiers on November 1st. We know everyone's favorite character is Mrs. Astor ;)
This 1810 John Geib & Son square piano currently on display at Sigal Music Museum in Greenville, SC was once part of the Astor family in NY and was later owned by Doris Duke to be restored for her show house in Delaware. The restoration never occurred, and the piano languished in the hands of the caretaker for nearly fifty years until 2014, when it entered the collection and an exterior conservation was undertaken.
It is a fine example of the "New York Style" high Federal period, the classical Grecian carved legs with turned and reeded plinth, forms the setting for the piano on top that features wide radius front corners and elaborate applied reeding, low contrast veneer, and brass ormolu, along with a 5.5 octave piano with a working 'nags head' swell.
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