BRIAN HOLDEN PIANO TUNER

BSc.  Dip. A.S.P.T.  S.C.P.T.   Established 1980.                                                  Telephone 07 3481123  Fax 07 3481028
                                                                                                         E-mail bholden@wave .co.nz   Mobile 025 729992                                                                                                        

67 MONCUR DRIVE
BOX 1296
ROTORUA                                                                                                                                              

SERVICE REMINDER AND NEWSLETTER,  FEBRUARY, 2001

Dear 

Your                                    piano was last tuned on                    so will shortly be due           for its      monthly tuning.  I will phone you in the next few days and arrange an appointment, should you wish to take advantage of this service.       The fee is $80.00.      

The world’s most expensive piano?

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Is this the world’s most expensive piano?  This Alma-Tadema Steinway sold at auction in 1998 for US$1.2 Million!  It was sold  to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts USA.  The auction took place at Christie’s in London and was said to be the highest price ever paid for a piano.  The piano originally sold for US$1200 in the 1880s, which wasn’t exactly a give-away price even then!

From an article in the winter 1998 edition of Lyra, published by Steinway & Sons  www.steinway.com