Grand Piano

Hi I am downsizing and looking for a good home for a grand piano. It needs a bit of tlc (there is sun damage in one corner as can be seen in the pictures) and a retuning. It is an Érard piano, I believe walnut, and was a beauty in her day and could be one again with a bit of love and attention. I’m not looking for any money (unless you want give some 😉), instead am looking to give this piano a new home. It needs to be collected by the 15th June 2026 and is located in Howth. (About the Maker: Sébastien Érard (1752–1831) was a French instrument maker who specialised in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and pioneering the modern piano. Érard's grand piano action (English patent no 4,631, 1821) is the predecessor to those used in modern grands. The repetition lever in these "double escapement" actions allows notes to be repeated more easily than in single actions. It is just one of many Érard innovations still found on modern pianos - for example, Érard was the first maker in Paris to fit pedals on the piano, and his instrument had several pedals. There was the usual sustaining pedal, an action shift, a celeste, and a bassoon pedal (which put leather against the strings to make them buzz). A knee lever moved the action farther than the action-shift pedal, making the hammers strike only one string. Other Érard piano patents deal mainly with technicalities of the keyboard action, soundboard, and tuning mechanism; virtually all of these innovations are retained in modern piano design. Érard's pianos were also widely appreciated by the foremost musicians – Charles-Valentin, Alkan, Beethoven, Chopin, Faure, Haydn, Herz, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Moscheles, Clara Schumann, Wagner, Verdi, and Ravel are just a few of the famous composers who owned Érard pianos.)