Broadwood Baby Grand

spick · Post by **spick** » 26 Jun 2006, 15:12

I am buying a 51" long Broadwood baby grand with serial number 357109. I can't find this serial no. or this size piano on the Broadwood website. The seller dates it at around 1930s. Is it likely to be genuine?

Post by **Bill Kibby** » 26 Jun 2006, 22:40

4'3" isn't unusual in the thirties. If it has a proper name on it, then there is no reason to think anyone would bother to fake it, it's not a valuable, rare antique. A Broadwood double-overstrung 4'3" Baby Grand (owned by Roy Symonds) is typical of the good-quality small grands they made in the thirties and forties, but although the case parts are imprinted in the usual way with what appears to be the last 3 digits of the main number, 750, the whole number has yet to be seen anywhere! It could be 255,750, which would be 1938, or it could be...
1943 256,750
1946 257,750
1949 258,750
See
http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-gen/piano ... mbers.html