Legit piano phone or Frankie?

antique1973 · Post by **antique1973** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:45 pm

This does not look like a Columbia. Any ideas? Maybe a well made frankie in a piano case?

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/at ... 17952.html

estott · Post by **estott** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:58 pm

It is what the ad says- a home built machine using case parts from a mid 19th C. melodeon organ - those legs are too small to be from a piano. The guy went to a lot of trouble but to me it looks clumsy. I suppose it could qualify as a piece of folk art.

Retrograde · Post by **Retrograde** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:07 pm

Rubenesque!

antique1973 · Post by **antique1973** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:22 pm

estott wrote:It is what the ad says- a home built machine using case parts from a mid 19th C. melodeon organ - those legs are too small to be from a piano. The guy went to a lot of trouble but to me it looks clumsy. I suppose it could qualify as a piece of folk art.

Thanks Estott. It looks kind of cool but I could not justify the floor real estate for a frankenpiano.

operabass78s · Post by **operabass78s** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:06 am

How odd and gaudy. I love to see "creations". I have a portable in the basement that was made from the guts of an old Wurlitzer upright phonograph put into a homemade carry case. Hardly as creative as this.

Post by **Roaring20s** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:20 am

How about a 1970's end table victrola...

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Post by **Lucius1958** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:22 am

From the inscription inside, it's certainly a home-built.... I wonder what the other three looked like?

Bill

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