Film: Piano to Zanskar [update]
Piano to Zanskar is an award-winning documentary film. It tells the remarkable story of a 65-year-old English eccentric, Desmond Gentle, and his perilous mission to transport a piano from North… Read more »
Tag: Broadwood
John Lennon’s Broadwood Piano For Sale by Auction
Not all the pianos attributed to John Lennon were actually owned by him — but this decorated 1872 Broadwood upright certainly was. And it is on this piano that Lennon… Read more »
New Film: Piano to Zanskar
Piano to Zanskar is a somewhat unusual feature-length documentary. It has just premiered at the 2018 Edinburgh Film Festival, and tells the story of an unlikely mission to transport a… Read more »
Beethoven’s Broadwood Bicentenary: 1818-2018
Two hundred years ago Ludwig van Beethoven received the gift of a Broadwood grand piano. This instrument, now known as Beethoven’s Broadwood, was much loved by the composer and is… Read more »
The Broadwood Manxman
A Broadwood Manxman upright piano is one of the more attention grabbing instruments at Piano Auctions Limited’s spring sale (London, April 12th, 2018). But what makes this piano so significant?… Read more »
Queen Victoria’s Broadwood Piano for Sale
It’s not often you can buy a piano once owned by Royalty, but in January 2018 a Broadwood grand piano once owned by Queen Victoria, is being put up for… Read more »
The Beethoven Broadwood Celebrates Two Anniversaries
Exactly 200 years ago John Broadwood and Sons built a grand piano, chosen to be the finest of the time, as a present for Ludwig van Beethoven. This instrument, still… Read more »
Piano Brands and Trade Marks – What’s in a Name?
Newly formed company “UK Broadwood Group Co., Ltd” has applied for the trade mark “Johannes Broadwood Cum Filiis” (trade mark no. UK00003225055). The application is in Class 15 and covers… Read more »
Update: There’s Gold in them there Broadwoods…
Back in January we ran a piece about the discovery of a hoard of gold coins found in a piano. This find turned out to consist of 913 gold coins (sovereigns… Read more »
There’s gold in them there Broadwood pianos…
A family in Shropshire, England has found a substantial amount of gold “treasure” hidden away in their family piano – a Broadwood upright piano made in 1906. The “find”, in… Read more »