Can you ask this to a private seller?

Josephine · 2025-09-20T13:35:37+00:00

I'm going to look for a grand piano next week!! Or for two different grands actually. But I'm so nervous for playing. I only know one complete piece which...

twocats

Josephine it's beautiful!!! Can't wait to hear how it sounds!

Josephine

keff

That's strange. I uploaded the pictures here.

keff

Josephine Hello Josephine. Perhaps you loaded your image to imgur which is no longer available in the UK. It is something that is not in our control.

Simonb

Hi Josephine

Congratulations.

Likewise, I'm in the UK and your photos show as "Content not viewable in your region".
Are they your own photos?

Cheers

Josephine

keff

Oh, yes, when I upload here it goes to imgur automatically.

keff

Rubens Thank you very much.

Josephine Looks absolutely fabulous. I have the same plants in the window next to where my piano is going although mine are much smaller because I had to take cuttings.

Rubens

For our friends who can't see images from Imgur:

Simonb

Thanks Rubens

That looks fabulous @Josephine

You must be thrilled with it.

Cheers

Josephine

keff

My plant is quite old already, and I'm not even good with plants. So I think the trick is to forget it on a regular basis 😄 It also flowers at least once a year when I forget to give it water for a while.

keff

Josephine I forget to give it water for a while.

I over-watered mine and the roots started to decay. This is why I had to take the cuttings but when these plants regrow from cuttings they do not develop yellow edges.

Rubens

Friends,
Josephine just recorded a random snippet of the newly acquired Blüthner for me to listen to. I immediately said we should post it here. Permission granted😆, so here it is:
https://youtu.be/SYL5cRuEXdA?si=kJddTOMC7OtrhACg
My sweetheart plays beautifully, doesn't she?

Jane

Rubens My sweetheart plays beautifully, doesn't she?

Both your sweethearts play like a dream! (Josephine and the Blüthner).

Josephine

Jane

😆😄

Josephine

Simonb

Yes, super happy!!

ShiroKuro

@Josephine and @Rubens oh my thank you for more photos and the recording!

It sounds dreamy indeed!!

And I just can’t get over how lovely the piano looks in your room with the black wall! The classic lines and warm wood coloring of the piano with the modern interior coloring and wall texture is just gorgeous.

Josephine

ShiroKuro

I'm so glad you like that wall. It was a lot of work to make it, and people often think my ideas are a bit weird.

ShiroKuro

Josephine I'm so glad you like that wall.

I LOVE it!!!

It was a lot of work to make it, and people often think my ideas are a bit weird.

"People" can stuff it! 😃

Rubens

Friends,

Here are a few more clips of its sound, played by a colleague of Josephine. Sorry for the many cuts, that's when they were talking.
https://youtu.be/jlgLN-q9QMs?si=DpPjQ5C92dmffy_Q
https://youtu.be/bMpwIIrR3q4?si=PDVO5vYj4F-Eq0V6
https://youtu.be/oYN_jit9XHw?si=GOiUd3gitb6LYohZ

Sorry for the bad recording quality (smartphone), and the Chopin was recorded from inside the piano. But the clips do show a bit more of the tone, and perhaps the action (some fast passages at the end of the third clip, repeated notes, etc).
I really like the purity of its tone, in particular. It seems to me that a number of century-old Blüthners tend to have a tone that I would call "wobbly" (well maybe not just Blüthners!) but this one doesn't. And when they don't, then I find the tone to be magical, like that "opium" sound that Cortot famously strived for. I'm probably exaggerating😅 but let's just say I really like what I hear.

cheeeeee

The piano both looks and sounds beautiful! Congratulation!

rogerch

Congrats @Josephine on a lovely new piano. It sounds wonderful!

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