Opera Piano

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Farstryder
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Opera Piano

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I'm not exactly sure what I have here: http://www.SmallWebsites.us/Opera_Piano.html
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I am sorry I didn't answer the email you sent me. The link didn't work, and because you didn't explain, I thought it was MORE junk-mail selling websites. I have no knowledge of "The Opera Piano", where in the world is it likely to have been? It looks like something made in America around a century ago.
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From what I've been able to discover so far, it was built sometime between 1850 and 1890 by Peek Manufacturing (later Peek and Son, Manufacturing) in New York City. The serial #33563 is the only other identifying mark I've found. Looks like something out of an American old west ballroom.
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I would be surprised if it is as early as 1890.
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