Antique Rosewood 1883 Weber Concert Grand Piano

Description

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Antique Rosewood 1883 Weber Concert Grand Piano
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http://www.pianoappraisal.com/app/112220_RossWeberGD.html
Manufacturer's Name:
Weber Piano Co., New York, NY.
Serial Number:
17758
Date of Manufacturer:
1883
Piano Style:
Concert Grand
Country of Origin:
New York, NY.
Customer Comments:
Weber Rosewood Concert Grand Piano (9 foot!) could use refinishing, but is still absolutely beautiful. The piano was completely restored in the early 1980's and plays beautifully.
Finish:
Rosewood
Dimensions:
(9')
Condition:
Tuned Regularly
ALBERT WEBER, founder of the Weber piano, possessed many exceptional qualities. A fine musician and skilled craftsman with the imagination to dream dreams, he had the initiative to make his dreams come true. Born in Bavaria in 1828, Albert Weber was early acknowledged a musical genius. At the age of sixteen he had attained a notable place among the musicians of his country. He received an enviable appointment as organist in one of the great churches, and as a teacher was widely sought by student musicians. Young Weber felt keenly the limitations placed upon his art by the inadequacy of existing instruments, but it was not until he came to this country that his imagination and inventive abilities began to bear the fruit that has so enriched the world.
Landing in New York in 1844, Albert Weber found prompt recognition of his musical genius; even so his music provided but a scant livelihood. And too, he had seen the possibilities of a great career in the building of really fine musical instruments.. To learn the technique of construction he entered the service of Holden, a master piano builder of that day, and later he was associated with Van Winkle, another celebrated piano maker. It soon developed that Albert Weber combined to an extraordinary degree the qualities of artist and artisan. And when the artist-artisan combination is that of a pianist and piano maker the art of piano playing and the science of piano making must benefit materially.
IN 1852, when he was only twenty- four years old, Weber opened his piano shop. It was a small plant, but it marked the beginning of a world famous piano. In creating his new instrument, Albert Weber made a transformation in the existing methods of piano manufacture. He built into his piano what he was always proud to call "Weber tone." His strong personal magnetism and unbounded enthusiasm were so reflected in the spirit of his craftsmen that they became almost as exacting as Weber himself under his influence machine-like workers. Were changed into craftsmen and piano building was lifted into the realm of art.
The Weber piano was the product of time and individuality. It was constructed strictly in accordance with his original conception of what tone-quality should be. In building the first Weber piano, and in all the thousands that have followed, whether built under the personal super vision of Albert Weber or of his successors, his original ideals have been strictly adhered to. The subtle touches of workmen enthused with their art have made it possible to maintain the Weber piano on the high plane where it was conceived by its founder.
To crown this new development in the famous Weber fittingly, they determined to accomplish what builders of superior pianos had striven for from the beginning - to bring about a refinement that would practically eliminate the percussion of hammer on string. It was desired to have the voice of the new Weber flow from the instrument almost as from an organ. So impossible did these refinements appear that any manufacturer had never given them serious consideration; nor had artists eager for a means of fuller pianistic expression hoped them for. After ten years of research and experiment, success was achieved. The untiring work of the largest staff of musical instrument experts ever assembled produced a new Weber; a piano progressively refined to a sheer beauty of tone and flexibility of action that defies mere description.