Looking for Kimball Console - Worlds Fair Model

Farrell mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com
Mon Apr 23 18:15:42 MDT 2007


I got the following email from someone in distress. Apparently she wanted to have her grandmother's piano refinished and tuned for her birthday.

Anyone know of the where-abouts of such a piano? (Besides the landfill....)

Thanks.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
> I read somewhere on the Internet that you may know where I can find the
> following type of Piano.  I had one picked up by a local piano repair
shop
> in Chicago --- Classic Piano Repair Services ---- to have it tuned and
> refinished and now they don't know where the piano is.  It was a family
> heirloom, and I have to get another one to replace, before the family
finds
> out that this repair shop has either destroyed our family's piano by
> mistake or worse sold it.
>
> Please let me know if you know who or where I could contact someone or
some
> piano store to find this type of Piano:
>
> It's a 1965 Kimball Console that has an antique off-white finish.  It was
> like a French Provincial style with Antique White or light beige Color.
> Also, the legs of the Console were like a scroll type.  It was featured
in
> the "Dorothy Draper Dream Home in the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair"
and
> it had a "decal" that said it was in the World's Fair that was placed
under
> the top lid of the piano.
>
> Again, please let me know as soon as possible who I could contact to find
> this piano.
>

Terry Farrell
Farrell Piano

www.farrellpiano.com
terry at farrellpiano.com
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