Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Knabe grand piano There were two grand pianos in Elvis Presley's life. One was the 1912 Knabe grand piano that Presley purchased for $818.85 in 1957. He had this instrument painted white and kept it in the music room at Gracelands. This piano featured in two stories we ran back in August and September 2017.
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Read More »There were two grand pianos in Elvis Presley’s life. One was the 1912 Knabe grand piano that Presley purchased for $818.85 in 1957. He had this instrument painted white and kept it in the music room at Gracelands. This piano featured in two stories we ran back in August and September 2017. Elvis Presley’s white 1912 Knabe grand piano Elvis Presley’s white 1912 Knabe grand piano Presley also purchased a 1928 Kimball grand. This had been the house piano at the Dixon-Myers Hall in Memphis. Presley bought the instrument for his mother Gladys, but she found it rather too large and cumbersome for her house. Gladys Presley died in 1958, and the piano was put into storage. But in 1968, Pricilla Presley decided to rescue the Kimball and had it completely covered in gold-leaf. Initially, the piano had a walnut finish. Pricilla proceeded to present the instrument to Elvis as a first wedding anniversary gift. The white Knabe was now consigned to the storage facility, and the newly refurbished gold Kimball took pride of place at Gracelands. Elvis Presley’s gold piano with matching stool Elvis Presley’s gold piano with matching stool The discarded Knabe had several subsequent owners. But in 2017 it was sold on eBay for $375,190 to an undisclosed buyer. This turned out to be the Gracelands estate, and the piano is now back on display at its “spiritual home”. Following Elvis’ death in 1977, Russ Kemppel , an Ohio businessman and collector, reputedly purchased the 24-karat gold leaf Kimball grand piano for $2 million. Subsequently, and rather generously, he leased it to Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame for some 20 years, charging just $1 per year.
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