Continuing with our Frank Lloyd Wright series, have I got a surprise for you! Last week I posted a photo from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Children’s Playroom
The above photo is at the ‘other end’ of the room! Can you see the choir-like area at the top? The family used to have ‘concerts’ in this room, with an accompaniment of a Steinway piano (yes, that’s the one in the photo)!
Since Wright was, by all accounts, a very ‘particular’ sort of gent, he wanted to ensure the acoustics in the room were perfect. Are you ready for the surprise?
Heading down a flight of stairs behind the children’s playroom is the back of the Steinway seemingly ‘floating’ in mid-air! Mind your head as you proceed back to the main floor lest you end up with a piano punch on your noggin! Wright was so specific that the sound be nothing less than perfect in the playroom, he had a hole cut out in the wall behind the piano so it could ‘hang’ to provide perfect pitch in the curved ceiling room.
I have no words.
The Chicago Files 
Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
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How cool is that? A suspended piano!!!!!!
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Isn’t it cool? I couldn’t believe it when I saw it! That’s how much of a perfectionist Wright was! Wow! Cher xo
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You Got Me – I Am Speechless – WOW! – Genius!!! Happy Week – Enjoy 🙂
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I quite agree my dear!! Happy week to you too; thank you! Cher xo
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At first you don’t see the piano is a grand. Imagine being in the choir loft!
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Hi JoAnn! And there is the surprise! *LOL* Oh yes, I thought that very thing when I was in the room! What a wonderful experience it would be! They don’t let anyone go up into the choir loft; such a shame, as I’d love to have a little look around! Cher xo
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I thought I loved the room before, I love it even more now!!! Thanks Cher!
Big hugs xoxox
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Hi dear Donna! Isn’t it cool? What a room! And to have a Steinway piano ‘balanced’ for maximum acoustics! My goodness!! Big hugs to you my dear! Cher xoxoxo
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I feel like I’m there with your pictures, Cher, you manage to put so much of your own wonderful personality in them they make me smile…and I don’t care how balanced that piano is, it would still sound funny if I played it.
Hope this week is treating you well, lovely, best wishes for your week. Big hugs xoxo
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Ah, bless you dear Donna! Thank you so much! If you come to Chicago, I will personally take you there!! 🙂 *LOL* You and me both regarding the piano my dear! And it’s a Steinway which is an extremely well-made piano. Well, it wouldn’t matter about that for my playing ability (and the balancing act as you mentioned); I’d have people running for the exit! And to you as well my dear friend! Thank you, Donna! Big hugs, Cher xoxo
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Wow. Thanks for bringing that to us.
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My pleasure! Thank you! Cher xo
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I have no words either!! Xx
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*LOL* You see what I mean, Lynn! cher xo
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🙂
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Nor me!
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🙂 *biggest grin* Cher xo
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wow.. very nice shots 🙂
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Why thank you, Leyla!! Cher xo
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Leyla, I have been doing a Frank Lloyd Wright Series; did you see the other pics of the FLW “Children’s Room”? http://wp.me/p4doQv-10L
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A fascinating architect. Many thanks to Cher for this series on Frank Lloyd Wright!!
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How interesting. I have a similar plight…a great Western style piano in our basement will be there forever! The previous owner has moved the basement steps to accommodate a small bathroom underneath the stairs. That piano is staying put, it was made in Guelph, Ontario in the early 1900’s!! Worth a pretty penny but it’s not going anywhere soon!!
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Oh that must be quite the piano! Wow, so it’s at least 100 years old! I bet it weighs at least a ton! *LOL* Cher xo
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