Piano 30

The piano at the Church of St. Giles, in Chideock, Dorset, with St. Giles being a Greek vegetarian, once domiciled in the south of France, where he did lots of miracles. His abbey is still to be found at Saint-Gilles-du-Gard in the Gard department in southern France. Clearly not just the Farmer Giles of whom so many stories are told.

An elaborate upright piano from Gebharf of Berlin. About whom I can find out very little. An entry in a chat forum about pianos, suggesting that the firm went out of business long ago, that the old pins might well not stand the strings being properly tuned and that the piano is probably worthless. An entry in a piano seller in Tel Aviv, the Hebrew of which the Google translator struggles with. An entry in a sale catalogue for 2016 from an auction house in Launceston (the one in Tasmania that is). And that is about it. Apart from some piano players called Gebhard.

PS: the entry in question reading: 'A C.J. Gebauhr-Gebharf grand piano - housed in a stunning burr walnut case and in very sound condition'. I think Gebauhr might be the chap who actually makes the Gebharfs - with Facebook turning up a piano from Edinburgh, looking very much like that above, but named for Gebauhr. And worth a good deal more than nothing, maybe a couple of thousand.