How Much Money Would You Pay for a Beatles Piano?

The Beatles Piano used to record Hey Jude as well as many other Beatle songs went up for auction last month (November 2008) and, according to Pianoworld.com, sold for $353,000. The same piano was also used on classic George Harrison (All Things Must Pass), David Bowie, Elton John, Queen, Carly Simon, Supertramp, Genesis, and Peter Gabriel recordings. Sounds like a reasonable price to me.

Beatle Engineer Ken Scott raved of the famed instrument, “THE piano sound. It was an amazing piano”. Of course anyone today would be buying the piano for it’s place in rock history, not it’s sound.

The piano remained at the Trident Studio in London for many years, but was later sold and moved to the United States. The recent auction didn’t indicate if the new buyer would be moving it out of the US.

Want to buy it? FameBureau.com still has a notice to “Email Enquiries”. However, it’s unclear if that was a pre-auction web page that wasn’t updated or a current offer. But if you buy it, you have to let me play Hey Jude on it just once since you heard it hear first.

Hey, who put that dirty ashtray on my $353,000 Beatles Piano?!

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One Response to “How Much Money Would You Pay for a Beatles Piano?”

  1. Piano says on June 25th, 2010 at 3:51 am :

    Hi! This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing this information.

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