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Rogers usually stamped their serial numbers into the top treble end of the soundboard - no guarantees though! Your piano appears to be a model from around 1920, so serial number should be around 30000....

Probably built sometime around the first world war. It would have been modernised during the late 50s - 60's. Modernising the casework of the piano involved removing any original character the piano would have had, and making it look as plain as was humanly possible!

I would be interested too, if anyone does know. Why is it always mentioned by trade and public sellers alike that they are the better, sought after Broadwoods? Is this complete nonsense, or is there any truth to it? I remember hearing years ago one way or another, that gold paint was hard to get hol...

Mock away collegues, but as has been said before, the pianos themselves were fine, the materials were not fine. I remember reading somewhere, not long ago,about a French guy with an engineering business, who rebuilt a Lindner using newly machined parts that he manufactured to replace the ones that r...

Hi - The "Harrods Special" doesn't really look any different from any other British upright of that era, the main difference was inside...... The main visible discerning features were the Renner action and celeste rail. I think the scaling was also redesigned too and they do tune and sound...