User:RevDocMarcia/sandbox

RevDocMarcia is my sing in name! I am wanting to add as well as find information on my Baldwin Studio Grand Piano. It won the Gran Priz at the World's Fair in 1929. It is an extraordinary instrument! I could find no mention of any kind of awards for pianos at the World's Fair ANYWHERE! I know it was purchased by Lily Pons, the Coloratura Soprano at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC, NY, and was used as her rehearsal instrument in her studio. My mother was a gifted pianist, having played in Carnagie Hall at the age of 7, but did not have any help to pursue a professional career. My grandfather, her teacher (and an incredible pianist in his own right) not only taught many students, including myself, but also wrote music. Unfortunately, in the 1930's when he was trying to get anything published his music was too difficult for most people. My parents, when they got married in 1929, had no furniture, but my father purchased this Baldwin Studio Grand Piano as a wedding gift to my mother. It is an incredible instrument, although it is in need of some repair (new felts, etc.). I realize this is not confirmed, except by what is on the piano itself (the inscription on the plate across the top of the sounding board where the strings are secured). However, I do not want this instrument "lost". I too was a pianist until I had a bad car accident in 1974. I still play, not like I used to, and I also have MS which keeps me from practicing 7-8 hrs a day they way I once did, as my mother and grandfather, and so forth back in our family line. Is there some place that this information can be verified? It is also important to the artistic community to know that at the World's Fair it was not just popular songs, or singers, but piano's themselves that were judged. I'm not sure if this is important beyond my own desire not to see this wonderful instrument with an accelerated action get lost. I am sharing this in the hope that someone will have information to help me confirm what I heard all my life and what is, in fact, on the piano itself.