Buck House piano

[Openwood]

I see from today's Times that Brenda is delivering the annual Headmistress' Speech from the Imperial Music Room. Hang on though, surely she's got something more upmarket kicking around the old place than a crappy Broadwood Boudoir grand? What a let-down; if she had any sense of national pride she would have followed Victoria's example and got her hands on something German.

[PianoGuy]

Broadwood used to give her the things regularly. The newest were placed in Buck house and the older ones rotated down the line via Sandringham, Windsor Castle, Balmoral etc. The final resting place was the Royal Yacht Britannia, and one can assume that the ones retired from there ended up overboard. The last Broadwood grands were revolting, so Buck House's example must be a real heap.

I'm sure Phil and Brenda wouldn't know one end of a decent piano from the other anyway, since the most cultural they get is listening to Lloyd Webber. The cheesy one, not the cellist.

[joseph]

Both the Lloyd Webers are cheesy! and I';m jealous of them and would swap places in an instant!

Since the royal family changed their names from Saxe-Coburg Goethe to Windsor in the run up to the first world war, why not just buy a Steinway and label it Broadwood!??!

[vernon]

Why not get a 1920's Bechstein signed by Adolf Hitler and his bankroller, Frau Bechstein?
The Nazi connection never seems to get mentioned on the Bechstein website

[Barrie Heaton]

When one give out a Royal Warrant one gets saddled with the goods the good the bad and .........


Barrie,

[crispin]

Madam Rice from the US came and performed recently for Brenda and her corgi... and somehow they had found a Yamaha for her to play on... maybe the better class of piano were reserved for a better class of visitor

[Openwood]

and somehow they had found a Yamaha for her to play on

Crikey, I trust nobody told Phil where THAT was made?

[Tenor1]

Shame on you - where is your christmas spirit!!! Wait for it (prob on the kitchen table!!)