King Piano

PMcGeough · Post by **PMcGeough** » 17 Apr 2004, 19:39

I have an upright piano with the name 'King London' on it. It has a Herrburger, Brooks, Ltd. London action Serial No. 51332
Base of Piano 'British Made' - 910
It is around 35 years old. Do you have any information on this make? I can find nothing on King pianos. Thanks.

Post by **Bill Kibby** » 17 Apr 2004, 23:05

I know of several London firms named King, there's King Brothers, King & Adam, John King, etc., but "King, London" is difficult to identify. Herrburger Brooks puts it after 1920, the "British Made" marks tended to appear in the thirties, but I have no dates for 910 frames yet. No numbers are published for King, and it may just be an alias, press www below.

PMcGeough · Post by **PMcGeough** » 18 Apr 2004, 20:12

Thank you Bill for your information.

Post by **Bill Kibby** » 04 Nov 2005, 08:15

King Brothers were around for a long time, but the only thing of "note" I know about them is that Elton John learned to play on one. I don't understand what you mean about "took out the case", or "if it is in a case"? Case means the outer woodwork of the piano, you can't remove all of it, and all pianos have it. I imagine that, over here, it would be considered to be an ordinary London upright, and perfectly simple to tune. See
http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-gen/reports.html