Richard Lipp & Sohn

Sjoerd · Post by **Sjoerd** » 13 Nov 2005, 16:23

Hello, I am new to these forums. I have a question about my piano, here it is: I have a piano which has 2 names on it, one is "Phonola Hupfeld" that is on the left side of the front of the piano. the other is "Richard Lipp & Sohn" which is on the right hand side of the piano. when I open the top of the piano and look inside I see 2 "crests" with a number under it, the number is: 38651 also on the right hand side inside the top of the piano the name Richard Lipp & Sohn is in it. i can post pictures if needed... I was wondering how old this piano is, and if it is special / rare and if you could give me an estimate of what it would be worth now. Looking forward to your response!

Post by **Bill Kibby** » 13 Nov 2005, 23:28

The piano was made by Lipp, and Hupfeld made the "Phonola" player piano action - to play music from paper rolls. Is it still in there? You don't mention it. The number suggests 1923. It would have been mass-produced, but no archives survive to tell us about individual pianos. See

http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-gen/valua ... ianos.html

http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-gen/archives.html

Sjoerd · Post by **Sjoerd** » 15 Nov 2005, 16:01

thank you very much! unfortunatly it does not play those music rolls anymore, i think that function was removed.
i will check out the sites!